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Article: Rediscovery

Mark Isham: Blue Sun

by John Kelman
August 24, 2016

Mark IshamBlue SunColumbia Records1995 Better-known, perhaps, for his work in the film arena as scorer for movies including 1986's The Hitcher, the 1992 reboot of Of Mice and Men and 1998's Blade, Mark Isham has, nevertheless, demonstrated his instrumental prowess as a trumpeter on albums including pianist Art Lande's Rubisa Patrol ...

Article: Album Review

Manu Katché: Unstatic

Read "Unstatic" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
August 11, 2016

Drummer Manu Katché's career has been a long, circuitous one that began in rock, working for an extended period with Peter Gabriel, Sting and Joni Mitchell. In the cases of Sting and Mitchell, there was a jazz sensibility present in much of their work. Simultaneously, Katché's work on the ECM label was taking shape as he ...

Article: Take Five With...

Airelle Besson e il Questionario di Proust

by AAJ Staff
August 4, 2016

All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Airelle Besson: La melodia. AAJ: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. A.B. : L'impegno, l'ascolto, l'entusiasmo. AAJ: Come musicista, il mio principale difetto. A.B.: L'interpretazione costante nella vita di tutti i ...

Article: Lyrics

I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Marcos Varela

by Vincenzo Roggero
July 28, 2016

01. Kenny Barron -Book of Intuition (Impulse -2016). Adoro questo disco e questo trio che ho avuto la fortuna di sentire diverse volte dal vivo. Barron è uno dei miei pianisti preferiti sin da quando da giovane lo ascoltavo nei lavori di Stan Getz, nel suo disco Live at Bradley's e in duo con Charlie ...

Article: Live Review

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2016

by John Kelman
July 19, 2016

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Montréal, Canada July 3-7, 2016 In many ways, the front of one of the festival's new T-Shirt designs said it all: swing blues soul improvisation latin gospel R 'n' B crossroads silence groove world ...

Article: Catching Up With

Jane Monheit and her Muses...

by C. Michael Bailey
July 14, 2016

When vocalist Jane Monheit blew the music community's hair back with her debut recording Never Never Land (N-Coded Music) in 2000, she was 22-years old, beautiful, sensual, soon-to-be-married and talented with chops to spare. By 2016, Monheit had released nine additional studio recordings, including the well-received Come Dream With Me (N-Coded Music, 2001) and Surrender (Concord, ...

Article: Album Review

Scott Kinsey: Near Life Experience

Read "Near Life Experience" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
June 27, 2016

It's been a full decade since Scott Kinsey last released an album under his own name (the 2006 Abstract Logix debut, Kinesthetics) and, if anything, Near Life Experience manages to trump actually its predecessor in both ambition and Kinsey's significant cast of invited contributors. Near Life Experience also continues to hone the cinematic keyboardist's increasingly expansive, ...

Article: Album Review

Monica Behan: Right Where I Need to Be

Read "Right Where I Need to Be" reviewed by Jim Olin

by Jim Olin
June 6, 2016

Drawing upon the wistful beauty of Joni Mitchell and the confessional ache of Carole King, Monica Behan's voice commands immediate attention. There is an ethereal quality to her singing that illuminates track after track on her new album Right Where I Need to Be. No matter what genre she decides to explore, from vocal jazz to ...

Article: Take Five With...

Camila Meza e il Questionario di Proust

by AAJ Staff
June 1, 2016

All About Jazz Italia: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Camila Meza: Emotivamente piena di colori, diversificata e in perenne sviluppo. AAJI: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. C.M. : Che siano al servizio della musica, con mente cuore e orecchie aperte, e pronti ad offrirsi ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Whirlpool with Ron Miles: Dancing on the Inside / Charles Rumback: In the New Year

by Vincenzo Roggero
May 18, 2016

Whirlpool with Ron Miles Dancing on the Inside ears&eyes Valutazione: * * * * Whirlpool è un trio che nasce nel 2011 in occasione di un tributo alla figura di Paul Motian che era da poco scomparso. Circa due anni dopo avviene l'incontro solo apparentemente occasionale con Ron Miles, idolo ...