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Ottawa Jazz Festival 2010: Days 7-9, June 30-July 2, 2010
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 | Days 10-11 radio.string.quartet.vienna / Tord Gustavsen EnsembleTD Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 30-July 2, 2010 As the 30th Anniversary of the TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival enters the home stretch, it once again provided a day of ...
The Peter Sprague String Consort: The Wild Blue
by Robert Bush
The Peter Sprague String Consort The Wild Blue SBE Records 2009 Guitarist/composer Peter Sprague isn't nearly as well known outside serious musician circles as he should be. Maybe his international profile will be raised since he's been touring with vocalist Dianne Reeves. Twenty-three years ago, in 1987, bassist ...
John McLaughlin & The 4th Diminsion: To The One
by Robert Bush
Iconic guitar virtuoso John McLaughlin has released his most consistently engaging disc in years. What makes it so? Well, his band is the same kind of highly skilled fusion unit as on many McLaughlin dates--nothing new there. The main difference seems to be a renewed commitment to the art of songwriting. Much more care has been ...
Chick Corea and the Freedom Band at Denver's Botanic Gardens
by Geoff Anderson
Chick Corea and the Freedom BandBotanic GardensDenver, COJune 14, 2010The last couple times Chick Corea came through Denver, he was highly electrified. The summer before last, he performed with the reunion tour of Return to Forever. Last summer, he came through with The 5 Peace Band featuring John McLaughlin. Both of ...
Howard Riley: Five Decades in Music
by Maxim Micheliov
Howard Riley gave his performance in Vilnius, Lithuania in September, 2009. It was his first visit to the country in a five-decade career, and one of just a few eastern Europe destinations made at the time, by the British free jazz pianist. The concert was recorded and released in 2010 as the double-disc set, Solo in ...
Jazz at the 2010 Norfolk and Norwich Festival, UK
by Bruce Lindsay
Norfolk and Norwich Festival Norwich, UK May 7-22, 2010 The Norfolk and Norwich Festival is one of the oldest arts and music festivals anywhere, having been established in 1772. In recent years, under the direction of Jonathan Holloway, the Festival has expanded and now offers an ambitious program ...
John McLaughlin & the 4th Dimension
by AAJ Italy Staff
Auditorium - Roma - 19.05.2010 A sentirlo suonare, non si direbbe proprio che McLaughlin sia così vicino alle settanta primavere. Tornato verso un suono più decisamente elettrico rispetto ad altre recenti esperienze, alla guida di un quartetto decisamente improntato al jazz-rock anni '70, il chitarrista si dimostra ancora carico di energia, ponendosi sul palco come protagonista ...
Announcing the Winners of the Abstract Logix "Autographed 4-CD" Giveaway
David Kelber, Orlando Mays, Zachary Zeidner, Chad Callihan and Don Mitchell Congratulations! You're the lucky winners of the Abstract Logix “Autographed 4-CD" giveaway. All About Jazz will contact you about claiming your prize. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the contest, and please visit Abstract Logix for more releases. Enjoy the music! Your Friends ...
Take Five With Amir Perelman
by AAJ Staff
Meet Amir Perelman: Amir Perelman (42) has been playing string instruments since he was 15. He grew up in Israel and partly in the U.S., living in the Netherlands and France for ten years, where as an active musician he performed at various jazz clubs and festivals throughout Europe. He taught music at the Rotterdam Conservatory ...
Alex Machacek: 24 Tales
by John Kelman
It's not the first time guitarist Alex Machacek has composed around drum improvisation--he did that with three tracks on [sic], his 2006 breakout record and first for Abstract Logix--but he's taken the concept even farther on 24 Tales. It's also not the only release to use, as its basis, a 51-minute drum improvisation by Marco Minneman--Machacek's ...
