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Jack DeJohnette: Time and Space

by John Kelman
It begins with the sound of a resonating bell, followed by a gently cascading piano solo that gradually assumes shape and form, hovering around two chords and creating an inviting ambiance that resolves with another ringing of the bell, segueing gently into the groove-heavy Salsa for Luisito." The track is Enter Here," and the album is ...
Rez Abbasi: Thoroughly Modern Marvel

by Lawrence Peryer
Guitarist Rez Abbasi is part of a generation of jazz musicians who came of age after the conservative backlash of the 1980s. He and his peers are making their mark on America's art form by contributing their rich and varied cultural backgrounds and with an embrace of popular culture that was heresy in some quarters for ...
Take Five With Quentin Angus

by AAJ Staff
Meet Quentin Angus: Australian-born guitarist Quentin Angus is a name to remember. He has performed in Japan, USA, Australia, Europe and New Zealand, including Jazz Hoeilaart (Belgium), and the Adelaide International Guitar Festival. Angus has released one album as a band leader, Retrieval Structure, in 2011, and several as a side man, including recording/ ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: John Abercrombie

All About Jazz is celebrating John Abercrombie's birthday today! Over a career spanning more than 40 years and nearly 50 albums, John Abercrombie has established himself as one the masters of jazz guitar. Favoring unusual sounds (he played electric mandolin on McCoy Tyner\'s 1993 album 4x4) and nontraditional ensembles (recent quartet recordings have included violinist Mark ...
43 Voll-Damm Festival de Jazz de Barcelona: semana 'Umbria Jazz Barcellona'

by Joan Fargas
Giovanni Guidi + Big Band del Conservatori del Liceu dirigida por Jere Laukkanen 43 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona Conservatori del Liceu9 de noviembreConcierto doble en uno de los nuevos e interesantes espacios que el festival de jazz de Barcelona ha descubierto este año, el auditorio del Conservatori ...
Take Five With T. Howard Curtis III

by AAJ Staff
Meet Howard Curtis: T. Howard Curtis III, born in Williamburg, VA, but now living and working in Graz, Austria has been enjoying a multifaceted career as jazz drummer, percussionist and educator for over 30 years. He has performed in jazz and other music festivals all over the world, including Paris, Germany, ...
Mozik: Mozik

by Dave Wayne
Co-led by Berklee graduates keyboardist Gilson Schachnik and drummer Mauricio Zottarelli (best-known for his work with pianist Hiromi Uehara), Mozik's self-titled debut CD features the sort of fusion-tinged Brazilian jazz made popular a couple of decades ago by artists such as Airto Moreira, Azymuth, and Egberto Gismonti. Playing a program comprised largely of classic Antonio Carlos ...
Manfred Eicher: Through the Lens

by John Kelman
It begins in silence, always silence. Since the 1990s, all ECM recordings begin with five seconds of silence, and so, too, do directors Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer open their feature film on the heralded German record label and its enigmatic founder, Sounds and Silence: Travels with Manfred Eicher. As longtime ECM recording artist Keith Jarrett's ...
Vince Mendoza: Nights on Earth

by John Kelman
It's been 13 years since Vince Mendoza last released an album of all-original music with Epiphany (Zebra, 1999); but it's not as if he hasn't been busy. He's a first-call arranger for high profile jazzers, working on guitarist John Scofield's 54 (EmArcy, 2010), now-deceased keyboard giant Joe Zawinul's Brown Street (Heads Up, 2007), and über-trumpeter Randy ...
Marc Copland / John Abercrombie: Speak to Me

by John Kelman
Plenty of artists explore that most naked of musical couplings, the duo, but few have mined its intimate potential the way pianist Marc Copland has. Since 2003, the light-of-touch, impressionistically lithe pianist has put out no less than six duo records amongst the more than 15 albums he's released on half a dozen labels--though since 2007, ...