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Keith Jarrett: Budapest Concert
by Mike Jurkovic
Burdened as it is by the news that, due to two strokes suffered in 2018, Keith Jarrett's glorious art of live composition is all but over, Budapest Concert has some serious heavy lifting to do. Triumphant and transcendent, it rises to the grand occasion and leaves the listener marveling at how any artist, of any age, ...
Keith Jarrett: Budapest Concert
by Karl Ackermann
In October 2020 Keith Jarrett told the New York Times, I don't know what my future is supposed to be." In that interview, he revealed what had been rumored for some time. A 2018 strokeone of two that he had sufferedhad left him unable to walk and, without the use of his left hand, perhaps permanently. ...
Enjoy Jazz 2020
by Martin Longley
Enjoy Jazz Mannheim/Heidelberg, Germany October 17-21, 2020 Enjoy Jazz spreads over many more weeks than most festivals. This German tri-city marathon usually presents at least one gig each evening, in either Heidelberg, Mannheim or Ludwigshafen, starting in early October, and continuing until mid-November. In 2020, the datesheet flowed smoothly for ...
In memoriam: Alessandro Giachero
by Francesco Martinelli
Only with a very heavy heart one can write an obituary for a young friend and great musician who left this world suddenly, prematurely and unjustly, leaving his colleagues and pupils, but above all his family, in mourning. It will hopefully be useful to leave a trace of his musical contributions and a lead for future ...
Cathlene Pineda: Rainbow Baby
by Jerome Wilson
Pianist Cathlene Pineda has a classical background which is reflected in the lyrical music her quartet creates on this disc. Her compositions here came out of a four-year period during which she became a mother for the first time, suffered two miscarriages and finally gave birth to a second child. The resulting work has a calm, ...
Last Dance (for Now)
by Marc Cohn
So, this is our last dance" at least for now, and we hope to have new Gifts & Messages shows in 2021. As many of you know, even this is only a two-hour show, it's almost a full-time job, with listening to new/old music, selecting tunes, doing the program-specific research and lots of reading, in addition ...
A tribute to Gary Peacock
by Bob Osborne
This show is a tribute to the great double bassist Gary Peacock who passed in September this year. With a remarkable career, Gary's legacy is a discography featuring some of the key moments in jazz history. The list of musicians he has played with is impressive but I've focused on his ground breaking work with Keith ...
Rez Abbasi: On balancing picture with music and shifting into Django mode
by Friedrich Kunzmann
To really distinguish oneself in today's vast universe of guitarists, even within the confines of jazz, more and more resembles a Sisyphus task. When so much has been said and done, a specific tone or distinctive vocabulary alone no longer suffice to set an artist apart from the crowd. It is only through the sum of ...
Alexander von Schlippenbach: Slow Pieces For Aki: Piano Solo
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach began recording in the 1950s. Twenty years into the new millennium, he continues to do so prolifically, with twenty-five albums under his own name listed on Wikipedia--a seeming short shrift; his three solo albums on the Intakt Records label from 2005 and 2012 somehow didn't make the list, suggesting there are more. ...
Take Five with TRi/O's Steve Shapiro, Dave Anderson and Tyger MacNeal
by AAJ Staff
Meet TRi/O TRi/O is a collaborative groove-based contemporary jazz & funk outing from three New York musicians: Steve Shapiro on vibraphone and mallet keyboards, virtuoso 5-string bassist Dave Anderson, and drummer Tyger MacNeal. Their combined credits comprise a long list of major jazz and pop artistsincluding Steely Dan, Ornette Coleman, Phil Collins, Spyro Gyra, Whitney Houston, ...


