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News: Performance / Tour

John McLaughlin & the 4th Dimension "To the One"

March 30, 2010

With his new album To The One (Abstract Logix/Mediastarz), iconic guitarist and composer and 2010 Grammy Winner John McLaughlin looks backwards and forwards simultaneously. The six original songs are hauntingly evocative - with roiling rhythmic swells, modal expanses, and telepathic group interaction echoing the profound influence of John Cotrane's 1965 spiritual jazz masterpiece A Love Supreme. ...

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Article: Album Review

Cindy Blackman: Another Lifetime

Read "Another Lifetime" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush
March 24, 2010

When Cindy Blackman took an insult from another musician directed toward her and the late, great drum virtuoso Tony Williams, she got even. She decided that the best revenge would not be to snipe back, but instead to put together a band featuring guitarists Mike Stern and Vernon Reid, tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano, and other like-minded ...

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Take Five With Matt Stevens

by AAJ Staff
March 9, 2010

Meet Matt Stevens: Matt Stevens is a musician and composer from North London. An instrumental artist, he uses an acoustic guitar and a sampler to create multi-layered tracks live. This is often called Live Looping. His music is compared with artists as diverse as John McLaughlin and Sigur Ros. He plays live all over ...

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Article: Album Review

Anders Nilsson´s AORTA Ensemble: Anders Nilsson's AORTA Ensemble

Read "Anders Nilsson's AORTA Ensemble" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 9, 2010

Swedish-born, Brooklyn-based guitarist Anders Nilsson unites two of his working ensembles into his dream project. The Swedish, Malmo-based AORTA and the New York-based Fulminate Trio first played together during Kopasetic Productions' KopaFest in Malmo in 2008. Both groups fulfill beautifully Nilsson's vision and create orchestral, open-ended, multidimensional, improvised music that references the great 1970s fusion bands, ...

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Article: Album Review

Nicolas Meier: Journey

Read "Journey" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
March 3, 2010

Swiss-born, UK-based guitarist Nicolas Meier dedicates Journey to his wife Songul, for sharing “this beautiful life journey" with him. Thematically, the eight tunes can readily be viewed as representing such a journey--but it is equally successful in evoking a single day's walk through a beautiful and mysterious landscape, with Meier's band members as fellow travelers.

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Article: Album Review

Nicolas Meier: Journey

by Chris May
March 1, 2010

Turkish music and jazz make compatible bedfellows, so it's curious that congress takes place so infrequently outside Turkey. In the late 1950s, pianist Dave Brubeck combined Turkish 9/8 rhythm patterns with classical rondo form and the blues to create “Blue Rondo A La Turk" on Time Out (Columbia, 1959). In the 1980s, Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel ...

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Take Five With Mathias Claus

by AAJ Staff
February 26, 2010

Meet Mathias Claus:Jazz pianist Mathias Claus, born 1956 in Waiblingen nearby Stuttgart, Germany. Education as jazz pianist at Musikhochschule Hamburg, diploma with excellence in 1989. Further studies at the famous Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA, plus classical studies with Shigeko Takeya and others. Mathias Claus started collaborating on recordings with ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

High Octane Free Improv: Adam Caine Trio & Vinny Golia/Damon Smith/Weasel Walter

by Clifford Allen
February 18, 2010

History paints an image of high energy rock music and free improvisation as having very little to do with one another--which isn't surprising considering the fact that heavily-amplified rock power trios were marketed as improvisation-heavy blues for mostly white audiences (giving saxophonist Albert Ayler short shrift). When jazz musicians like drummer Tony Williams and guitarist John ...

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News: Recording

John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension to Release Its New Album to the One on April 20, 2010

February 16, 2010

(New York, NY) - Fiery yet disarmingly open-hearted, the new album from John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension, To The One, bravely takes on the artistic and spiritual challenges first offered by Coltrane's jazz masterpiece A Love Supreme, while making extensive use of the pioneering musical and technical vocabulary that McLaughlin has honed since the beginning ...

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Take Five With Thomas McElroy

by AAJ Staff
February 15, 2010

Meet Thomas McElroy:Started playing at the age of 16 with classical lessons. Studied at Cornish Institute from 1979-1981. Left Cornish to go on the road. Moved to Dallas Texas and gigged with James Clay Marshall Ivery and Red Garland. Moved back to Seattle and have worked with everyone in town at one point or ...