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Joey DeFrancesco: From Musical Prodigy to Jazz Icon

by Victor L. Schermer
Joey DeFrancesco is a true master of the jazz organ, the one others look up to as the standard bearer, as was his inspirational hero, Jimmy Smith. Arguably, he could be dubbed the Mozart of the jazz organ, since like Mozart, he seemed to have been born with all the music already in him. By four, ...
Mark de Clive-Lowe: Celebrating Pharoah Sanders

by Chris May
It is a curious thing, but among the present day champions of Pharoah Sanders' fundamentally acoustic music are two early adopters of post-production heavy, digitally-enabled, high-tech mutoid jazz: bassist and producer Bill Laswell and keyboardist and broken-beat pioneer Mark de Clive-Lowe, whose Freedom: Celebrating The Music Of Pharoah Sanders (Soul Bank) was released in July 2022. ...
Pori Jazz 2022

by Rob Garratt
Pori Jazz 2022 Kirjurinluoto Concert Park Pori, Finland July 14-16, 2022 If this year's 55th annual Pori Jazz festival had a moment," it was when Immanuel Wilkins invited Shabaka Hutchings to the stage as a surprise guest for a dazzling 14-minute duet that capped the former's spellbinding set, ...
Jazz At The Joint: Nat Reeves

by C. Michael Bailey
Nat Reeves Jazz At The Joint North Little Rock, AR April 11, 2021 The April 2022 edition of Ted Ludwig's Jazz At The Joint" welcomed Hartford, Connecticut-centered bassist Nat Reeves to The Joint's stage in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Reeves has spent the last 40 years performing and recording with the ...
Ken Vandermark & Immanuel Wilkins

by Joe Dimino
We start the 746th Episode of Neon Jazz with Immanuel Wilkins and a song off his critically-acclaimed album The 7th Hand. From there, we hear from veteran Ken Vandermark and explore new sounds from Kansas City saxophonist Stephen Martin. We also get into some new music from David Potter, Parlor Social and Sean Fyfe. We conclude ...
Take Five With Adam Nolan

by AAJ Staff
Meet Adam Nolan Born on August 6, 1993, in Kilkenny, Ireland. Adam Nolan is at the forefront of modern free jazz. Each album is based on improvised concepts and styles forever growing and changing whilst maintaining flow-states achieved from meditation before the sessions and live performances. To date he has released over 15 albums and continues ...
Meet Brian Blade

by Craig Jolley
This article was first published at All About Jazz in April 2000. Musical background I started playing when I was thirteen in church. My father was the pastor. My brother, Brady, who was five years older (he still is) was the drummer. He left for college so it became my duty to take over ...
Dick Hyman, Harold Betters & Bill Charlap

by Joe Dimino
Our 737th Episode of Neon Jazz begins with celebrated NYC pianist Bill Charlap with a cut from his Street of Dreams (Blue Note, 2021). From there, we hear Gerry Mulligan and a story from Bill about his time on the bandstand with the legend. We also get into new music from Elena Macque and hear about ...
2021: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
The jazz world continued grappling and adjusting in year two of the COVID-19 pandemic. International Jazz Day again went virtual for the most part. Singer Tony Bennett put the final stamp on his touring--and likely recording--career after his Alzheimer's disclosure. Trumpeter Irvin Mayfield was headed to federal prison. The National Endowment for the Arts welcomed four ...
Sounds From The Ancestors

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: It's Time To Come Home; Hargrove; When the Days Were Different; For Art's Sake; What Was That?; Soldiers of the Field/Soldats des Champs; Sounds from the Ancestors; It's Time To Come Home (original).