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Article: Live Review

Jazzahead! 2012

Read "Jazzahead! 2012" reviewed by John Kelman


Jazzahead! 2012Bremen, GermanyApril 19-22, 2012 While folks around the world debate the future of jazz--and, for that matter, what exactly jazz is and even what it should be called--an annual trade show in Bremen, Germany, now in its fifth year, has managed to demonstrate that jazz as a brand may be facing ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Alex Hutton Trio: Legentis

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Alex Hutton TrioLegentisF-IRE Records2012There has been a flurry of activity around screen composers this spring 2012, all of it good. Warner Jazz has released an anthology of movie theme music written by Nino Rota, Collector Nino Rota; British pianist John Taylor is poised to release a tribute to ...

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News: Education

Sligo Jazz Summer School And Festival 24-29 July 2012

Sligo Jazz Summer School And Festival 24-29 July 2012

The best value summer school in Europe! Sligo Jazz Project, an organization run by musicians for musicians ensures all funds raised go towards keeping its annual main event— a six day intensive summer school and full blown jazz festival—as inclusive as possible and open to all musicians from all backgrounds! Sligo Jazz Project's stellar 2012 faculty ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Kenny Wheeler Big Band: The Long Waiting

Read "Kenny Wheeler Big Band: The Long Waiting" reviewed by John Kelman


Kenny Wheeler Big Band The Long Waiting Cam Jazz 2012 While likely not the reason behind its title, The Long Waiting could easily fit for fans of the Canadian expat trumpeter who has lived in England since the 1950s. Since coming to Cam Jazz in 2004 with his duo recording with ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Michael Gibbs and the NDR Bigband: Back in the Days

Read "Michael Gibbs and the NDR Bigband: Back in the Days" reviewed by John Kelman


Michael Gibbs and the NDR BigbandBack in the DaysCuneiform Records2012Jazz may be filled with reharmonizations, reinventions and reimaginings of songs from across its entire history; few artists have, however, made their names solely as composers and arrangers. Relative youngsters like Maria Schneider, Vince Mendoza and Darcy James Argue ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Al Scott

Read "Take Five With Al Scott" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Al Scott: Al Scott has been playing the piano for over 10 years, and first became influenced by the music of Michael Jackson. It must have been the Quincy Jones element that influenced him. Although his main passion is for jazz music, Al has done session work for various producers, and featured live ...

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Requiem for a Dreamer

Label: CAM Jazz
Released: 2011
Track listing: Requiem for a Dreamer; Somebody I Used to Be; Ice 9; Unstuck in Time; So It Goes; Calypso 53; Requiem 2.

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Requiem for a Dream

Label: CAM Jazz
Released: 2011
Track listing: 01. Requiem for a Dreamer; 02. Somebody I Used to Be; 03. Ice 9; 04. Unstuck in Time; 05. So It Goes; 06. Calypso 53; 07. Requiem 2. Tutte le composizioni sono di J. Taylor.

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Article: Album Review

Jozef Dumoulin Trio: Rainbow Body

Read "Rainbow Body" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Belgian pianist Jozef Dumoulin's début release with his band Lidlboj, Trees Are Always Right (Bee Jazz, 2009), revealed this one-time John Taylor student to be something of an aficionado of farting around. This is not meant pejoratively, necessarily; farting around is an honorable activity in some quarters of improvised music, and can give rise to good ...

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Article: Album Review

Marilyn Mazur: Celestial Circle

Read "Celestial Circle" reviewed by John Kelman


Celestial Circle might appear to be a conventional, piano trio-based vocal record on the surface, but it's an impression quickly dismissed with a closer look at its participants. Marilyn Mazur knows her way around a drum kit in no uncertain terms, but it's her more integrated approach, with an oft-times massive array of percussion--gongs, wood blocks, ...


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