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Why Hard Bop?

by AAJ Staff
This article was first published on All About Jazz on January 1998.When trying to investigate jazz, all the classifications and categories can be a bit confusing. What do they mean when they say hard bop?" How is it different from other types of jazz? Although a definition of the music may not necessarily enhance ...
A Conversation with Don Braden

by AAJ Staff
This interview was first published in two parts at All About Jazz on May 1999. In this interview, we chat with Don Braden about his views on MP3 files, his relationship with Bill Cosby, the impact Kenny Kirkland had on his latest album for RCA Victor, Fire Within, and a host of other related ...
Jacques Schwarz-Bart: The Harlem Suite

by John Chacona
Tenor saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart has lived in Paris, Senegal, and Switzerland as well as his native island of Guadeloupe, but his 18 years in Harlem were crucial to his life and career. It was there that he found himself at an inflection point in the dynamic music scene of the late '90s, playing with such transformative ...
David Borgo: Pathika

by Dan McClenaghan
San Diego's David Borgo, a top-tier jazz saxophonist and an ethnomusicologist with a professorship day job at the University of California at San Diego, says, Ethnomusicology is like the anthropology of music." He puts this concept into practice with his teaching for the Semester At Sea." This educational cruise program takes students to various ...
John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy, Clemens Kuratle & Francois Bourassa

by Maurice Hogue
The original broadcasts of One Man's Jazz on Taint Radio happen about a month before they are posted on AAJ, so back in June I was excited as many others to play the only track we could from the new Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy. I suspect by now, that album ...
Spoleto Festival USA 2023

by Perry Tannenbaum
Spoleto Festival USA Queen Street Playhouse, Sottile Theatre, TD Arena Charleston, SC May 26 to June 11, 2023 Respect for the elders in the jazz lineup of this year's Spoleto Festival USA jazz was gracefully counterbalanced by a hearty welcome to newer generations. It only felt fleetingly like the closing of ...
Leo Genovese, Demian Cabaud, Marcos Cavaleiro: Estrellero

by John Ephland
Leo Genovese's piano can sound like an orchestra. It does as much amidst his voluminous solo work on bassist Demian Cabaud's Arbol Negro," his thick chords, the density of his playing full and ripe. From their new trio recording, Estrellero, which also features the light, sympathetic stylings of Marcos Cavaleiro on drums, are five ...
Tribute recordings for Mahavishu Orchestra, Miles Davis and John Coltrane

by Len Davis
A feature on tribute releases from The Mahavishnu Project, Yo Miles with Wadada Leo Smith and Henry Kaiser. Steve Morse with a tribute to Steely Dan. Steve Lukather pays tribute to John Coltrane and Mike Stern plays Miles Davis. The music of Jeff Beck from Eric Johnson and and the band Trinity pay tribute to Weather ...
Nina Simone: You've Got To Learn

by Chris May
The release of this magnificent album, recorded live at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1966, is headline news for fans of Nina Simone. None of the material, all of it high grade, has been made available before. Newport promoter George Wein donated the tapes of Simone's performance to the US Library of Congress, where they lay ...
Bill Evans: Waltz For Debby

by Mark Corroto
In a very unscientific survey, 9 out of 10 jazz connoisseurs listed Waltz For Debby by the Bill Evans Trio as one of their desert island picks. For more than sixty years it has been a best seller and this reissue, like its companion release Sunday At The Village Vanguard (Craft Recordings, 2023), is part of ...