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Jazz Musician of the Day: Kurt Rosenwinkel
All About Jazz is celebrating Kurt Rosenwinkel's birthday today! Following a string of three acclaimed recordings for Verve Records that firmly established him as one of the most strikingly original new voices in jazz as both guitarist and composer (2000’s The Enemies of Energy, 2001’s The Next Step and 2003’s Heartcore), Kurt Rosenwinkel returns with an ...
Tony Miceli: Vibes Matter
by Victor L. Schermer
Tony Miceli is a long-time master vibraphonist who, until a few short years ago, was relatively unknown outside of the Philadelphia area, when he started getting requests to perform and teach all over the world. Now, he is in demand in Ireland, South Korea, Argentina, and Australia, not to mention New York and the West Coast, ...
Mark Turner Quartet: Lathe of Heaven
by Karl Ackermann
Saxophonist Mark Turner favors quality over quantity. Lathe of Heaven--his first outing as a leader since 2001--is his first on the ECM label. Turner has hardly been absent from the music scene as the intervening years have seen him as a sideman for guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel and saxophonist David Binney among many others. He's gathered strong ...
Eric Revis: Trajectory From The Tradition
by R.J. DeLuke
The development of an individual voice on the contrabass is important to Eric Revis, one of the strongest players on the scene. His power and musicianship has endeared him to some of the finer musicians, and bands, in jazz. But Revis isn't content to let things lie there. Not that he has to be ...
Newport Jazz Festival 2014, Day 2
by Timothy J. O'Keefe
Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State Park Newport, RI Saturday, August 2, 2014 From the first crushing strike against the drums, Brian Blade's heavy hand and swirling rolls captivated the audience attending a rainy installment of the Newport Jazz Festival. Blade led his Fellowship Band through Stoner Hill," a dour, gray ...
Jeremy Lyons: Vestige
by Ian Patterson
It's been a good year for Jeremy Lyons. In March, the Belfast tenor saxophonist's dectet opened the Brilliant Corners 2014 jazz festival with a resounding set before an enthusiastic home audience. Here, stripped back to the more intimate surroundings of a quartet, Lyons' debut as leader brings together seasoned pros from the UK jazz scene on ...
Tyler Blanton: Gotham
by Dave Wayne
Tyler Blanton is a young vibraphonist and composer whose second album, Gotham, is nothing short of remarkable. The great playing by Blanton and his extraordinarily talented young band aside, Blanton's compositions are really what sets Gotham apart from the vast majority of new recordings by equally wonderful young jazz musicians. One can only guess that New ...
Jo-Yu Chen: Stranger
by Angelo Leonardi
Messasi in luce qualche anno fa con due ricercati lavori in piano trio per la Sony Music (Obsession e My Incomplete Soul) la pianista taiwanese Jo-Yu Chen, allieva di Kenny Barron, Jason Moran e Sam Yahel, pubblica il suo terzo disco confermando i partner ed entrando nella sussidiaria Okeh, storica etichetta molto attenta ai giovani talenti. ...
TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2014, Days 7-9
by John Kelman
Days 1-2 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 Anat Fort / Susanna Torben Waldorff Wah Wah / Norma WInstone Partisans TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 20-July 1, 2014 For the last three days in Ottawa before heading to Montréal for five days of the Festival ...
Jo-Yu Chen: Stranger
by Dan Bilawsky
The title of pianist Jo-Yu Chen's third album refers to strangers of two different sorts: those who were once strangers but became part of Chen's life, and those who took the reverse course. Chen notes that as a Taiwanese artist living in New York, she's often felt like a stranger herself. That may be the case, ...


