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Article: Album Review

Keith Pray: Confluence

Read "Confluence" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

When most people discuss the jazz scene in New York, they're referring to the music that's made in Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs, but the Empire State stretches far beyond the city that never sleeps and jazz is made in many a locale within. The Capital region, for example, has its own burgeoning jazz scene that's ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers

Read "Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

Wadada Leo SmithTen Freedom SummersCuneiform Records2012Trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers is four and a half hours of music, spread over four compact discs. The mind struggles to make coherent sense of so large an undertaking. Smith has said that there are no recurring musical ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Gavin Barras

Read "Take Five With Gavin Barras" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Gavin Barras: Born in Kendal, Cumbria in the UK, bassist Gavin Barras studied music at the University of Manchester, receiving private tuition from Roberto Carillo-Garcia and Corin Long. Whist studying classical music, Gavin continued developing his love for jazz and received lessons from Steve Berry in jazz bass. Gavin is a busy working ...

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Article: Album Review

Gabriel Zufferey: Contemplation

Read "Contemplation" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

Jazz mashups are in the air. First, pianist Robert Glasper artfully wove pianist Herbie Hancock's “Maiden Voyage" together with Radiohead's “Everything in its Right Place" on the his In My Element (Blue Note, 2007). The Jazz Punks' raucous Smashups (Foam @ the Mouth, 2012) mashed up saxophonist Sonny Rollins with guitarist Jimi Hendrix, and Led Zeppelin ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Christian Scott: aTunde Adjuah

Read "Christian Scott: aTunde Adjuah" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

In 1959, when Whitney Balliett, the New Yorker's jazz critic, published a collection of his columns, he titled the book The Sound of Surprise. The promise of the unexpected, wrote Balliett, was jazz's most precious quality. In a year which went on to include the release of trumpeter Miles Davis' Kind of Blue (Columbia), saxophonist John ...

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Article: Book Review

Ted Gioia: The History of Jazz (Second Edition)

Read "Ted Gioia: The History of Jazz  (Second Edition)" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

The History of Jazz (Second Edition)Ted GioiaHardcover; 452 pagesISBN: 0195399706Oxford University Press2011 For the past 25 years, author and teacher Ted Gioia has provided the most succinct and contemporary histories of America's native musics: blues and jazz. He has done this through his ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Release Party For The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story

Release Party For The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story

Author Gregg Akkerman will be launching the release of his new book, The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story (Scarecrow Press, 2012) at a combined reading/live performance in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The release marks the long-overdue biography of a vocalist best known for his eponymously titled album with intrepid saxophonist John Coltrane (Impulse!, 1963) and as ...

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Article: Live Review

Kuala Lumpur International Jazz Festival: 19-20 May, 2012

Read "Kuala Lumpur International Jazz Festival: 19-20 May, 2012" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

KL International Jazz Festival Kuala Lumpur Convention CenterKuala Lumpur, MalaysiaMay 19-20, 2012The 19th and 20th of May, 2012 will long be remembered by jazz lovers in Kuala Lumpur as the day jazz came to town. The 13 acts that performed on the stage of the KL Convention Center made history by ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Michael McNeill

Read "Take Five With Michael McNeill" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Michael McNeill: Michael McNeill has become an integral part of Buffalo, NY's thriving jazz and improvised music scene, performing with bands led by Kelly Bucheger and Ravi Padmanabha, and co-leading a quartet with John Bacon. He's also collaborated with trumpet legend Paul Smoker on projects of standards and of original compositions. McNeill also ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Darmstadter Big Band / Alon Yavnai–NDR Big Band / Red Bank Jazz Orchestra

Read "Darmstadter Big Band / Alon Yavnai–NDR Big Band / Red Bank Jazz Orchestra" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Dartstadter Big BandKentomaniaSelf Published2010 Of all the recorded tributes to the legendary Stan Kenton released during the centennial of his birth (2011), the Darmstadter Big Band's Kentomania (it's spelled that way on the jacket cover and disc) is unequaled for one reason alone: it has former Kenton ...


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