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Joshua Redman Quartet with The Knights: New York, NY, June 4, 2013

by Dan Bilawsky
June 12, 2013

Joshua Redman Quartet with The KnightsThe Town HallBlue Note Jazz FestivalNew York, NY June 4, 2013 For a couple of years, it looked like the Big Apple had lost its big jazz festival mojo. New York maintained more than its fair share of jazz gatherings in 2009 and 2010, ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Jon LaTona

by AAJ Staff
May 25, 2013

Meet Jon LaTona:Born and raised in Buffalo, NY. I loved jazz so much that I wanted to go to school for it. Now I have a debut record that I am extremely proud of. It was so thrilling to record because I was working with musicians that I grew up watching and listening to.

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Take Five With Lisa Hilton

by AAJ Staff
April 3, 2013

Meet Lisa Hilton: Lisa Hilton is considered one of the most distinctive composers and pianists in jazz today. Trained as a classical pianist but with a degree in art, she has created her evocative, individualistic and impressionistic “sound paintings" for over a decade as a leader. In the book, The New Face of Jazz, Hilton was ...

Article: Album Review

Lisa Hilton: Getaway

by Dan Bilawsky
April 2, 2013

Pianist Lisa Hilton has made an art out of balancing the simple and complex. Her work speaks with extreme clarity and serves as a benchmark for a less-is-more style of piano playing that appeals to a wide swath of listeners, but it isn't plain-Jane jazz. Hilton has a way of taking a basic idea and stretching ...

News: Recording

Lisa Hilton "Getaway" Release With Larry Grenadier and Nasheet Waits

March 28, 2013

 Pianist/composer Lisa Hilton is one of the most distinctive and individualistic voices in jazz today. Her new album, Getaway (Ruby Slippers, #1016), is her fifteenth as a bandleader. Here she's joined in a powerful trio effort featuring her current all-star bandmates, bassist Larry Grenadier (Brad Mehldau, Chris Potter, Joshua Redman, Pat Metheny) and drummer Nasheet Waits ...

Article: Album Review

Chris Potter: The Sirens

Read "The Sirens" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
March 27, 2013

Saxophonist Chris Potter has consistently shown a deep feeling for jazz tradition and a willingness to modernize his vocabulary at the same time. The lyricism of Lester Young, the fearlessness of Charlie Parker, the keening spiritualism of John Coltrane and the tireless creativity of Sonny Rollins all inspire him, as do funk, electric set-ups and classical ...

Article: Live From Philadelphia

February 2013: Chris Potter Quartet

by RJ Johnson
March 14, 2013

Chris Potter QuartetChris' Jazz CaféPhiladelphia, PAFebruary 22, 2013Although no longer considered the essential destination for working jazz groups that it once was, Philadelphia is still visited by high-level talent from New York that occasionally ventures south to perform in the city's one consistent jazz venue. Despite the current ...

Article: Interview

Jorge Rossy: When Rhythm Becomes Harmony

by Marta Ramon
March 12, 2013

Jorge Rossy arrived at Berklee College of Music in 1990 to study trumpet, despite already being a professional drummer. In Boston, the front line musicians--most of them were his teachers at the school--would hire him to play important gigs. Even with this brief anecdote one can get an idea about the Spanish multi-instrumentalist's special charisma and ...

News: Recording

Nonesuch Releases Joshua Redman’s "Walking Shadows" on May 7

March 5, 2013

Album produced by Brad Mehldau; features Redman on saxophones, Mehldau on piano, Larry Grenadier on bass & Brian Blade on drums; orchestral pieces conducted by Dan Coleman “Joshua Redman is a saxophonist of such intelligence and energy that you could probably place him in any musical setting, and he would find a way to make himself ...

Article: Live Review

Lakeland Jazz Festival 2013: Kirtland, Ohio, February 22-24

by Matt Marshall
March 3, 2013

41st Annual Lakeland Jazz FestivalKirtland, OhioFebruary 22-24, 2013 Scanning the list of guest artists who have appeared at the Lakeland Jazz Festival since its inception in 1973 reveals a history of acts with connections to the Northeast Ohio/Western Pennsylvania/Western New York area, with an internationally recognized name--Clark Terry, Donald Byrd, Kenny ...