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2012 Tampere Jazz Happening: Tampere, Finland, November 1-4, 2012
by Martin Longley
Tampere Jazz Happening Tampere, Finland November 1-4, 2012 Here's another veteran jazz festival, and one which has been gaining increasing international recognition during recent years. This is a Happening with a personality. A distinct orientation to its programming, and a taste for the more adventurous aspects of jazz. The Finnish ...
Nick Moran Trio: No Time Like Now
by Dave Wayne
Organ trios can be annoyingly conservative. Perhaps the temptation to revisit the heyday of the style--the early 1960s--and recapture the magic that made all of those Blue Note and Prestige LPs so much fun is just too great. Maybe it's because the Hammond B-3 sound evokes so much nostalgia. Don't count Nick Moran among the sentimentalists. ...
Jonathan Kreisberg: From Shadowless to One
by Marta Ramon
Jonathan Kreisberg has filled a gap in the international jazz scene. This New York-based guitarist started with both rock and classical music, but from the beginning he paid attention to his father's great jazz music collection. For Kreisberg, jazz is a pure music based on feelings. He says that he first experienced the creative part of ...
Gareth Lockrane: Doing That Grooveyard Thing
by Duncan Heining
Few musicians have developed successful careers in jazz playing just flute. You might think of Herbie Mann, Hubert Laws and Bobbi Humphrey, but only Jeremy Steig, Paul Horn and James Newton spring immediately to mind as artists who have achieved credibility with both fans and critics in their work. We can now add 36 year-old British ...
Tommy Bolin: The Definitive Teaser Collector’s Edition
by Doug Collette
Guitarist Tommy Bolin elevated the role of journeyman to a high art. After leaving his home in Colorado, where he played with Energy and Zephyr, he worked with fusion drummers Billy Cobham and Alphonse Mouzon, joined a post-Joe Walsh James Gang, and went on to Deep Purple when Richie Blackmore left the group. All of this ...
Medeski, Martin & Wood: Free Magic: Live
by Mark Corroto
Free Magic: Live is the first release of by trio Medeski Martin & Wood from its third decade of existence. Maybe I should repeat that. This disc is by a jazz band that has remained intact for more than 21 years. Like a family, the trio has born musical genres, specifically the infamous jamband phenomena, matured, ...
Take Five With Cameron Turner
by AAJ Staff
Meet Cameron Turner: Cameron was born in 1975 in Hickory, NC. The son of musical parents, he began an early education in music, learning every bit of information he could about artists, songwriters and every instrument he could get his hands on...Instrument(s): Guitars, basses, keys, drums, percussion, synth programming, rhythm ...
Dutch Jazz & World Meeting 2012: October 5-6, 2012
by John Kelman
Dutch Jazz & World Meeting Amsterdam, The NetherlandsOctober 5-6, 2012With Jazzahead! 2012--the annual European jazz trade fair--demonstrating that jazz is, if not exactly big business, then certainly bigish business, it's no surprise to find that The Netherlands' biannual Dutch Jazz & World Meeting is making the same salient point, albeit more narrowly ...
Torben Waldorff: Wah-Wah
by Eyal Hareuveni
Danish-born, Sweden-based guitarist Torben Waldorff takes the leading role on Wah-Wah as main soloist, putting his melodic integrity, and a natural leadership that stresses tight group interplay, up front. All his original compositions feature the guitarist's gift for structuring engaging melodies with rich and sophisticated harmonic patterns and tasteful and economic solos, all varied in moods ...
Duduka Da Fonseca: The Guy From Ipanema
by R.J. DeLuke
The 1950s into the early 1960s was a special period in Brazil, the land of beautiful beaches, picturesque mountains and the home of a warm, inviting and sensuous music called samba that was developed during those years. It was also a time when bossa nova, another sumptuous musical style, was spawned. The music invades the senses ...
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