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Article: Interview

How to Listen to Jazz: A Q&A with Ted Gioia

by S.G Provizer
June 11, 2016

In How to Listen to Jazz, Ted Gioia has tasked himself with writing a book that asks people to drop their musical prejudices and open up their ears. The challenge in writing a book like is to find a middle path between, as Gioia says, “those who pretend that music is objective science and those who ...

News: Festival

2016 DC Jazz Festival Artists and Venues Features a Diverse Array of International Talent

May 21, 2016

The DC Jazz Festival (DC JazzFest)—the country’s fastest growing jazz festival—kicks off Jazz Appreciation month by delineating the amazing array of 2016 artists and venues, a diverse selection of renowned and emerging artists performing in venues across the nation’s capital, June 10-19. Locally, nationally and internationally acclaimed artists confirmed for the 2016 DC JazzFest include Kamasi ...

Article: Live Review

Big Ears Festival 2016

by Mark Sullivan
April 11, 2016

Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN March 31-April 2, 2016 Since its beginning in 2009, the Big Ears Festival has always been willfully, unapologetically eclectic. Their own self-description is “a dynamic, interactive experience that explores connections between musicians and artists, crossing all musical genres while interfacing with film, performance and the visual arts." ...

Article: Interview

BOOM, tra jazz e elettronica. Intervista a Raffaele Costantino

by AAJ Staff
February 22, 2016

S'intitola When in Rome, è un EP registrato dal vivo dal duo BOOM che unisce il produttore, DJ e seguitissimo conduttore radiofonico per Radio2 Raffaele Costantino e il pianista jazz Giovanni Guidi. Pubblicato dalla factory creativa LBL, è un lavoro in cui i due musicisti cercano di andare oltre i luoghi comuni del binomio ...

Article: Live Review

NYC Winter Jazzfest 2016

by Dan Bilawsky
January 19, 2016

NYC Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 13-17, 2016 If you make the rounds in New York City on any night of the week, during any week of the year, there's always an abundance of quality jazz to hear. But when NYC Winter Jazzfest takes hold, the cup truly runneth over. This massive ...

Article: Year in Review

Mark F. Turner's Best of 2015

by Mark F. Turner
January 5, 2016

The number of artists that continue to produce quality jazz is not slowing and that's a beautiful thing. It's becoming more difficult to differentiate between so many varied releases but here are few that stood out in 2015. Kamasi Washington The Epic (Brainfeeder) Straight-ahead, hard swinging ...

Article: Year in Review

Jeff Dayton-Johnson's 2015 Mixtape

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
December 31, 2015

The narrator of Jean-Jacques Schuhl's 2002 novel Ingrid Caven muses, “I like the connection, the splice, not the things themselves; what's between them, their rapport. Two ideas, images, the bridge between two harmonies for the jazz musician..." It's an interesting esthetic statement regarding jazz: that part of the music's appeal lies not in its components, but ...

Album

The Epic

By Kamasi Washington

Label: Brainfeeder
Released: 2015
Track listing: Vol.1 The Plan: Change of the Guard; Askim; Isabelle; Final Thought; The Next Step; The Rhythm Changes. Vol.2 The Glorious Tale: Miss Understanding; Leroy and Lanisha; Re Run; Seven Prayers; Henrietta Our Hero; The Magnificent 7. Vol.3: The Historic Repetition: Re Run Home; Cherokee; Clair de Lune; Malcolm’s Theme; The Message.

Article: Take Five With...

Kamasi Washington e il Questionario di Proust

by AAJ Staff
November 12, 2015

All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Kamasi Washington: Un'energia libera. La mia musica è molto varia, va in tante direzioni diverse, ma in ogni brano c'è energia e c'è libertà. AAJ: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. K.W.: Mi piacciono i musicisti ...

Article: Live Review

Bologna Jazz Festival 2015

by Libero Farnè
November 10, 2015

Compie dieci anni il “nuovo" festival di Bologna, proteso a rinverdire i fasti dello storico festival che chiuse i battenti nel 1975, al quale seguirono negli anni Ottanta e Novanta vari tentativi di ripresa presto falliti. Organizzata dall'associazione Bologna in Musica, questa edizione consolida la formula avviata negli anni passati, coprendo un intero mese di programmazione ...