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Abbey Rader Quartet with Kidd Jordan: Reunion

Read "Reunion" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
September 17, 2016

Intrepid drummer Abbey Rader's second release in 2016, Reunion documents a stimulating live session at the, now sadly defunct, Performing Arts Exchange (PAX) in Miami. Iconoclastic jazzman and legendary saxophonist Kidd Jordan joins Rader and his quartet for this exhilarating improvisational set captured at the above mentioned venue on Halloween night of 2012. The ...

News: Recording

Abbey Rader & Kidd Jordan Release First Album Together - "Reunion"

August 2, 2016

In a busy summer, Abbey Rader has released his second recording in as many months. Reunion is a collaboration with saxophonist Kidd Jordan. The album is their first together. It follows the June release of It's Time, a duet session with Abbey and longtime collaborator Peter Ponzol. The chain of events that led to Reunion can ...

Article: Album Review

Kali. Z. Fasteau: Intuit

by Mark Corroto
July 14, 2016

To pigeonhole a musician is to ghettoize a music. But we all do it. Yes, Kali Z. Fasteau is a pianist, but also a drummer, a cellist and a flutist. From her twenty plus recordings she refuses to be fixed with a descriptor. She also performs on the nai, kaval and shakuhachi flutes, is a vocalist, ...

Article: Album Review

John Dikeman/William Parker/Hamid Drake: Live at La Resistenza

Read "Live at La Resistenza" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 9, 2015

The subtitle to Charles Mingus' composition “Gunslinging Bird" is “If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger, there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats," refers to the great alto saxophonist's ability to dominate a bandstand and quiet any and all comers. Parker, who died in 1955, might not have known about automatic weapons, nor the free jazz ...

Article: Book Review

The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000: A Personal Retrospective

by Charles Suhor
May 12, 2015

The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000: A Personal Retrospective Thomas W. Jacobsen 208 Pages ISBN: 0807156981 LSU Press 2014 Full disclosure: I've long been an admirer of Thomas Jacobsen's writing, the catholicity of his musical tastes, and his warm personal regard for New Orleans musicians. The last was evident ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Courtney Bryan

by AAJ Staff
March 26, 2015

Meet Courtney Bryan: Courtney Bryan, a native of New Orleans, is “a pianist and composer of panoramic interests" (New York Times). Her music ranges from solo works to large ensembles in the new music and jazz idioms, film scores, and collaborations with dancers, visual artists, writers, and actors. On April 9, 2015, her new work Sanctum for orchestra ...

Album

A Night In November - Live in New Orleans

By Kidd Jordan

Label: Valid Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Set One: Alto and drums; Drums; Tenor and Drums; Tenor – Wade in the Water; Set Two: Tenor and Drums.

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Trio and Duo in New Orleans

By Kidd Jordan

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: CD 1 – Trio I; Trio II; Trio III (High Altitude); Drums solo; Bass solo; Trio IV; Trio V; Trio VI. CD 2 – Liftoff; Duo Flight; E. Fashole- Luke; Tempest NOLA, 2005; Nameless Sound Duo.

Article: Year in Review

John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2014

by John Sharpe
December 25, 2014

Here are eleven new releases, reviewed at All About Jazz, which stood out from those I heard this year, in no special order. Nicole Mitchell The Secret Escapades of Velvet Anderson (Rogue Art Records) Sonic Projections must be flautist Nicole Mitchell's hardest blowing band. On their second outing she ...

Article: Album Review

Kali. Z. Fasteau: Piano Rapture

Read "Piano Rapture" reviewed by John Ephland

by John Ephland
November 12, 2014

What makes Piano Rapture so engaging has to do with a combination of moods, movements and magic. Pianist Kali Z. Fasteau takes you on a musical journey into both past and present, with sounds that can be lyrical and rambunctious, quiet and rowdy. Featuring some exquisite wailing and sailing from tenor saxophonist Kidd Jordan, with healthy ...