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Roberto Dani
by AAJ Italy Staff
Area Sismica - Forlì - 10.1.2009 Un'esibizione in solo è sempre una prova impegnativa, a maggior ragione se il proprio strumento è la batteria. Dover sostenere un intero concerto facendo esclusivamente ricorso a risorse ritmiche induce facilmente a ricercare l'attenzione del pubblico attraverso eccessi tecnicistici. Roberto Dani ha brillantemente evitato questo rischio nel suo concerto, in ...
Fes Jazz Festival: Introducing Swinging Sounds to Moroccans
by AAJ Staff
Fes Jazz Festival 2008Fes, MoroccoNovember 14-16 For various reasons, Fes, Morocco isn't the most obvious place to stage a jazz festival. Unlike Moroccan cities like Tangier, Casablanca and Marrakech, Fes' charms are more ancient than modern or cosmopolitan, as any traveler will discover by visiting the bazaar section of Fes el Bali, one ...
Times Square Ball Drop? Who Needs It? Cookin' at the Jazz Bakery on New Year's Eve.
by Kim Vinson
Kenny Burrell, James Moody, Benny Green, Clayton Cameron, Trevor Ware New Year's Eve Jazz CelebrationThe Jazz BakeryLos Angeles, California December 31, 2008 Kenny Burrell, James Moody, Benny Green, Clayton Cameron, and Trevor Ware sparked a jazz-infused fireworks display bringing in 2009. Thousands may have watched with festive flair in ...
Bill Frisell at the Iron Horse in Northampton, MA
by Lyn Horton
Bill Frisell Iron Horse Northampton, Massachusetts July 13, 2009 When performing alone, a musician has to work really hard, since the sound produced cannot be interwoven within the sounds other band members create. The soloist is virtually right out there in the same space as the audience. The musician's ...
Keith Tippett at the London Jazz Festival
by John Sharpe
Keith Tippett Purcell Room London, England November 14, 2008 Navigating a multi-venued festival with concurrent concerts can make for some difficult choices: Keith Tippett and Stan Tracey? Or Ken Vandermark and Barry Guy? This was just one of the conundrums posed by the ten day, 237-event London Jazz Festival. Perversely ...
L.A. Jazz Scene 2008: Alive and Swingin'
by Chuck Koton
The Los Angeles scene has often been referred to in patronizing terms by jazz lovers, musicians and writers. It has been said that the city's laid-back vibe deprives musicians of the energy that a New York audience can impart to the bandstand. Others complain that the growth of a hip jazz scene has been impeded by ...
The Oldest Jazz Event in the World: Hot Times in Australia
by Ian Patterson
63rd Annual Australian Jazz ConventionLismoreNew South Wales, AustraliaDecember 26-31, 2008 If asked to name the oldest jazz event in the world, you might opt for the Newport Jazz Festival or, if you haven't been around that long, the Montreux Jazz Festival or perhaps the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. But ...
Sonore: Ukrainian Debut
by Alex Martynov
SonoreMaria Zankovetska Drama TheatreLviv, UkraineDecember 14, 2008This year Jazz Bez, one of the biggest jazz festivals in Ukraine, had a final episode that was a performance by one of the most radical jazz projects--Sonore: three saxophonists, each representing his own generation, his own country, his own musical ethos. The ...
Umbria Jazz Winter
by AAJ Italy Staff
Orvieto - 30.12.2008-04.01.2009 Che Stefano Bollani fosse un mattatore, quasi un camaleontico trasformista del pianoforte lo si sapeva. La definitiva conferma è venuta da Umbria Jazz Winter, dove la defezione di Joao Gilberto, bloccato a Bahia per un'ernia inguinale, ha spinto gli organizzatori a riempire due serate al Teatro Mancinelli rivolgendosi in extremis al pianista toscano, ...
Jerusalem International Oud Festival
by Eyal Hareuveni
The Ninth Jerusalem International Oud Festival Jerusalem, Israel November 20--December 4, 2008 The ninth edition of the Jerusalem International Oud festival predated the current, painful Middle-Eastern round of hostilities in a month, but still offered a much better alternative to the local leaders' militant vision for this region. This festival over ...
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