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Rudresh Mahanthappa: Hero Trio

Read "Hero Trio" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
June 10, 2020

After topping so many best-of-year lists with his extraordinary quintet on 2015's Bird Calls (ACT), alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa has gone into trio mode. His gritty, self-released Indo-jazz-rock album Agrima (with guitarist Rez Abbasi and drummer Dan Weiss) was one of the highlights of 2017, and now he's at it again, this time with bassist François ...

Article: Profile

20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: Chuck Deardorf

by Paul Rauch
June 8, 2020

The city of Seattle has a jazz history that dates back to the very beginnings of the form. It was home to the first integrated club scene in America on Jackson St in the 1920's and '30s. It saw a young Ray Charles arrive as a teenager to escape the nightmare of Jim Crow in the ...

Article: Album Review

Luigi Martinale French Trio: Mercj

by Neri Pollastri
June 5, 2020

Il pianista torinese Luigi Martinale, al quarto disco per Abeat, è qui alla testa del suo French Trio, completato dal contrabbassista francese Michel Molines e dal batterista brasiliano residente a Lione Zaza Desiderio, con il quale interpreta dieci brani, in larga misura di sua composizione. C'è in effetti qualcosa di transalpino nelle atmosfere che ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Three Rounds of Solo Piano

by Geno Thackara
June 3, 2020

Diogo Vida Inner Dance Self Produced 2020 The isolation album has sprung up as a new genre practically overnight—an unfortunate if unavoidable development in the season of Covid-19. If Diogo Vida is one among many in that regard, at least where quantity is concerned, he also stands alone in having a ...

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Musical Travelogues: May 2020

by Geno Thackara
May 28, 2020

Gregoire Maret and Romain Collin w. Bill Frisell Americana ACT Music 2020 The sound lives up to the title; this is a thoughtful, airy yet soulful outing that sounds just the way a wide-open prairie landscape looks. If it seems a bit odd that Americana comes from a European duo, wonder ...

Article: Album Review

Norvald Dahl with Colin Stranahan: The Vision

Read "The Vision" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
May 18, 2020

Norwegian newcomer Norvald Dahl has cultivated his expansive approach to jazz piano since his 2018 debut, Organic Chamber (AMP Music), a trio outing which included saxophonist Jon Irabagon and bassist Mats Eilertsen. That free-spirited release revealed a deeply iconoclastic spirit in Dahl, someone who is as comfortable teasing the contours of a pop-inflected tune as he ...

Article: Interview

Enrico Pieranunzi: Il Respiro Profondo di un racconto in musica

by Paolo Marra
May 11, 2020

Se come scriveva il poeta brasiliano Vinicius De Moraes “La vita è l'arte dell'incontro" allora può succedere che l'intervista con uno dei più apprezzati pianisti italiani, Enrico Pieranunzi, diventi senza una ragione evidente una lunga e piacevole conversazione per parlare della sua lunga carriera artistica scandita da altrettanti incredibili incontri che nel tempo hanno cucito i ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Keith Jarrett

May 8, 2020

All About Jazz is celebrating Keith Jarrett's birthday today! Over the past 40 years, Keith Jarrett has come to be recognized as one of the most creative musicians of our times- universally acclaimed as an improviser of unsurpassed genius; a master of jazz piano; a classical keyboardist of great depth; and as a composer who has ...

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Jetse de Jong: Intercities

Read "Intercities" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
May 4, 2020

Adept at drawing upon all the Nordic shades of prolonged light, Amsterdam-based pianist {Jetse de Jong, drummer Roope Kantonen, and bassist Robert Rebane tell their travelogues while fully bearing witness to ours, resulting in a debut of articulate beauty and restive motion. The seven well-crafted, diligently thought-out de Jong compositions which make up the ...

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Take Five with Bartosz Hadala

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 2020

Meet Bartosz Hadala Bartosz Hadala was born in Stalowa Wola, Poland and started his musical education at the age 7 at the local School of Music. Still as a teenager he participated in competitions, workshops and festivals. He became the youngest finalist in the Mieczyslaw Kosz International Jazz Piano Competition at the age 15. Two years ...