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2008 Contributor Picks
by AAJ Staff
We solicited opinions from all active All About Jazz contributors, and out of more than 1,000 nominations, the following 2008 releases garnered the most votes. New Releases Charles Lloyd Rabe de Nube (ECM Records) Reviews ...
AllAboutJazz-New York Best of 2008
by Andrey Henkin
MUSICIANS OF THE YEARAnthony Braxton Marilyn Crispell Hank Jones Roy Haynes Rudresh Mahanthappa RECORD LABELS OF THE YEARAUM Fidelity Clean Feed Intakt Jazzwerkstatt (Germany) Mosaic VENUES OF THE YEARCornelia Street Cafe (West Village) Jazz Standard (Murray Hill/Gramercy) Roulette (SoHo) The Stone (Alphabet City) ...
Pianist Peter Delano in NY for APAP Showcase on January 10
One of the original New York young lions, pianist Peter Delano, makes a welcome, much-anticipated return to his New York stomping grounds with a special appearance at the APAP Convention on Saturday, January 10th, 2008 at 4:20pm in the Harlem Suite of the Hilton Hotel, in celebration of the 1996 recording with Dewey Redman, just released ...
November 2008
by AAJ Staff
Myra Melford; Henry Threadgill The Interpretations series, which long has been responsible for some of the most consistently adventurous programming in the city, marked its 20th anniversary at Roulette on Oct. 2nd with a double bill of Myra Melford and Henry Threadgill, each presenting newly commissioned works. Melford's “Happy Whistlings" was an exciting suite based on ...
Jazz for Obama: A Concert for America's Future
by Greg Thomas
Jazz for Obama 92nd Street Y New York, NY October 1, 2008 Jazz, to some, is apolitical, a refuge of artistic purity in the midst of a cultural and commercial wasteland. To these persons, art is hermetically sealed from world affairs. Yet there comes a time in the affairs of men ...
"Jazz for Obama" Event in New York on October 1
The Jazz Concert for America's Future Wednesday, October 1st Featuring Dee Dee Bridgewater Dianne Reeves Joe Lovano Roy Haynes Brad Mehldau Roy Hargrove Christian McBride Stanley Jordan Kurt Elling Hank Jones Charlie Hunter/Doug Wamble ...
JD Allen: Notes of Change
by Franz A. Matzner
Volant solos, melodic tapestries, mournful cadences, orphic rhythms. J.D. Allen's extraordinary I AM-I AM (Sunnyside, 2008) sculpts an aural monument to transformation, a musical testament to the power of the mind to overcome itself through introspective endeavor. Each of its ten compositions roils with the intensity and exposition of a soul wrestling with its two halves, ...
2008 Melbourne International Jazz Festival
by AAJ Staff
Melbourne International Jazz FestivalMelbourne, AustraliaApril 30th - May 4th The 2008 edition of the annual Melbourne International Jazz Festival got off to a rocky start before the festival even commenced, with numerous headlining acts canceling for various reasons, up to just a few weeks before the festival's first notes: guitarist Charlie ...
Anthony Coleman: Lapidation
by Kurt Gottschalk
After a recording career given over in large part to shtick and nostalgia, the last few years have seen a well-deserved spike for Anthony Coleman. His last two records for Tzadik showed him (on 2006's Pushy Blueness) as a strong composer and (also 2006, Shmutisige Magnaen: Coleman Plays Geburtig) a remarkable interpreter. Lapidation continues the documentation ...
May 2008
by AAJ Staff
Lock 10 at Joe's Pub Kathy Hendrickson's play Lock 10 is the story of a white guitarist in the 1930s seeking to leave the family business to go on tour with an integrated band. Staged as a period radio play, with actors playing actors voicing roles, it makes for an odd telling. The actors aren't tethered ...
