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2024 JJA Jazz Awards Nominees Announced – 29th Annual Celebrating 48 Categories Of Excellence In Music And Music Media

May 1, 2024

The Jazz Journalists Association, the international organization of writers, photographers, broadcasters and other media professionals covering jazz, has posted finalist nominees for its 2024 JJA Jazz Awards, the 29th annual celebration of excellence in music and music journalism. Active members of the JJA are currently voting for winners of Awards in 48 categories for recordings and ...

Article: Live Review

Julian Siegel Quartet At Magy's Farm

by Ian Patterson
May 3, 2024

Julian Siegel Quartet Magy's Farm Dromara, N. Ireland April 27, 2024 Johannes Weege, co-founder of German jazz club Doubletime had traveled all the way from Hamelin. Apart from Double Time, the medieval town is famed for the story of the Pied Piper, who lured the town's children away with his hypnotic ...

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Song of the Day

Shrini's Dream

March 14, 2024

Album: This Moment
By Shakti
Label: Abstract Logix
Released: 2023
Duration: 06:23

Article: Play This!

John McLaughlin with the One Truth Band: Guardian Angels

by Scott Lichtman
February 28, 2024

John McLaughlin's “Guardian Angels" must be on the ultra-short list of “most iconic jazz/fusion songs clocking in under 1 minute." The song takes us back to the time when experimental fusion artists were exploring jazz/rock, classical and world music. “Guardian Angels" is a nugget of shape-shifting guitar arpeggios and time signatures, unified by L. Shankar's entrancing ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New music from Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale, Cocolite and Work Projekt

by Len Davis
February 18, 2024

New music from guitarist Scott Henderson, from Karnevel, from Italy Lorenzo Ceci with Mohini Dey, French band Cocolite, and a new single from Frank Gambale. Hungarian band Work Projekt, and German guitarist Rafael Trujillo. More from bassist Mark Egan from Cross Currents and Tom Kennedy with New Start. Chick Corea Elektrik Band from The Future Is ...

Article: Album Review

John Surman: Words Unspoken

Read "Words Unspoken" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner
February 16, 2024

Englishman John Surman has been one of jazz's most important reedmen since his debut album on the progressive Deram label in 1969. From the start, on classic albums such as John McLaughlin's Extrapolation, Surman displayed a unique voice on the baritone sax, soprano sax, and bass clarinet, sometimes adding electronics to the mix. Since his first ...

Article: Album Review

John Surman: Words Unspoken

Read "Words Unspoken" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
February 15, 2024

Hypnotic and many of its antonyms--stimulating, arousing, reviving--are old school hyperbole which very often separates the hack from the veteran of critical science. But sometimes those everyday words are exactly what need to be said to tell of music unlike everyday and most others. Words Unspoken is just that. Blowing free and unhindered since ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Mr. Roboto, Meet Mr. Mahavishnu

by Patrick Burnette
February 8, 2024

This episode's title is a wee bit misleading. The boys don't meet Mr. Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, of course) but rather Matt Phillips, long-time listener to the podcast who just happened to write a very good book on the famous fusion guitarist called John McLaughlin: From Miles and Mahavishnu to The 4th Dimension. The book covers the ...

Article: SoCal Jazz

Dean Brown: Global Fusion on Acid

by Jim Worsley
February 3, 2024

In memory of Dean Brown. This interview was first published at All About Jazz on April 23, 2021. From the outset, the equation was simple enough. Jazz + rock = fusion. However, whether it was Miles Davis, Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin, or any of the pioneers of fusion, the music has always been far ...

Article: SoCal Jazz

Leni Stern: The Twenty Year Audition

by Jim Worsley
February 1, 2024

Composer and musician Leni Stern has big news to share. She chose to do so quietly, with her usual cool, low-key and savoir-faire charm. In conversation with only my wife and I, recently at a jazz club in Los Angeles, she left us elated with the kind of news most other artists would be screaming from ...