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Article: Album Review

Slobber Pup: Black Aces

Read "Black Aces" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 9, 2013

Keyboardist Jamie Saft, guitarist Joe Morris, bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Balazs Pandi bring merciless new meaning to the phrase “heavy rock quartet." Saft and Morris first met at the New England Conservatory twenty years ago; Saft and Pani are bandmates in Metallic Taste of Blood; and Saft has worked with Dunn on several projects led ...

Article: From the Inside Out

Six Stops Around the Whirled

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 3, 2013

Fort Knox Five 10 Years of The Fort Knox Five Fort Knox Recordings 2013 “All good things come in five, baby...You can't get around no prime number, you dig?" Some music just makes you feel good. You can't explain it but some music makes you feel like life's a ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Guy Hatton

by AAJ Staff
September 22, 2013

Meet Guy Hatton: I am a guitarist and composer based in Rochester, UK. I've been performing, composing, as well as producing and engineering records for over 30 years. I've worked in a vast range of styles and genres including straight-ahead jazz, fusion, rock, trash, improvisation, and electronica. I have produced records for other artists ...

Article: Album Review

Carla Bley / Andy Sheppard / Steve Swallow: Trios

by John Kelman
September 13, 2013

In a career more defined by memorable compositions than instrumental acumen, it's easy to forget that Carla Bley may not be the most virtuosic pianist on the planet, but she's a far more than capable one, as evidenced on duo recordings like Are We There Yet? (Watt, 1999), with life partner/bassist Steve Swallow, and Songs With ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Dave Holland: Prism

by John Kelman
September 11, 2013

Two instruments that bassist Dave Holland has rarely incorporated into his projects have been piano and guitar, his only guitar-centric album coming sixteen years after his first release as a leader, Conference of the Birds (ECM, 1973), when he recruited Kevin Eubanks for a particularly powerful set on Extensions (ECM, 1989). It took Holland even longer--nearly ...

Article: Profile

George Duke: The Master of the Game

by Jeff Winbush
September 2, 2013

[Editor's Note: The following piece was first published at AAJ contributor Jeff Winbush's The Domino Theory blog, and is reprinted here in tribute to George Duke, who passed away on August 5, 2013]I never caught George Duke live in concert. I never met the man in person. However, he did give me two hours ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Chick Corea: The Vigil

by John Kelman
August 28, 2013

While he's never come close to falling out of the spotlight, there's little denying Chick Corea's two Return to Forever reunion tours and resultant live recordings of the past half decade have been two of the keyboard star's most eagerly anticipated events, considerably raising both his visibility and viability. That The Vigil--the name of both his ...

News: Recording

Dynamic Bassist Tony Grey's New Album Elevation Features John Mclaughlin, Mike Stern, Whitesnake's Reb Beach, Tomoyasu Hotei, David Fiuczynski And Others

August 19, 2013

Los Angeles, CA: Besides being some of the greatest musicians ever known, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Hiromi, John McLaughlin, Branford Marsalis, Zakir Hussain, Mike Stern and Steve Lukather all have something else in common. At one time or another, these legendary artists have counted on the supportive, melodic and propulsive bass playing of the amazing Tony ...

Article: Interview

Billy Childs: Pushing Past Preconceptions

by George Colligan
August 13, 2013

[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth]Billy Childs is simply one of the baddest musicians on the planet. He's a brilliant jazz pianist, having received much acclaim as a sideman with legends as well as from being a bandleader. His Windham Hill recordings--Take For Example, This....., His April ...

Article: Live Review

Molde International Jazz Festival 2013

by John Kelman
July 29, 2013

Molde International Jazz Festival Molde, Norway July 15-20, 2013It may have been his last year as festival director, but Jan Ole Otnæs sure went out on a high, not just because his programming was as impeccable as ever, but because he made it a year with a very specific philosophy. ...