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Steve Swell/Gebhard Ullmann Live at Leeds, Nov. 1
by John Sharpe
German reed player Gebhard Ullmann is a busy man, splitting his time between Berlin and New York. Like an increasing number of jazz musicians he minimizes the down time by running a series of parallel projects ranging from trios to his ten piece Ta Lam ensemble. Tonight's grouping found him in the front line alongside one ...
Festival Jazzdor 2006
by AAJ Italy Staff
10-24.11 2006 fra Strasburgo e la Germania Alla ventunesima edizione il festival Jazzdor si presenta come un rassegna fatta di superlativi: quindici le sale da concerto coinvolte, due nazioni ed il tutto sparso per tre settimane e condensato in quarantatrè eventi musicali, nomi come Archie Shepp (insieme al gruppo Dar Gnawa di Tangeri) e Charlie Haden's ...
Jack DeJohnette - F. Musa Suso - Jerome Harris "From The Hearts of The Masters"
by AAJ Italy Staff
Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni - Milano - 10.12.2006 La fase mattutina di Aperitivo in Concerto (la rassegna riprenderà nella versione serale lunedì 5 febbraio con l’atteso concerto di Bass Desires), si è conclusa con l’esibizione di uno dei grandi interpreti della batteria moderna, ossia Jack DeJohnette. Il sopraffino interlocutore di Keith Jarrett nel celebrato Standard ...
Michael Blake's Blake Tartare
by AAJ Italy Staff
Avezzano - Castello Orsini - 13.11.2006 Non ci soffermiamo troppo ad illustrare il talentuoso sassofonista di Montreal residente a New York, Michael Blake, ormai ospite fisso ad Avezzano nelle rassegne annuali organizzate dall'Associazione culturale Jazz On. Torna quest'anno dunque per la quinta volta riproponendo il gruppo di esordio, i Blake Tartare, formato con tre ragazzi tra ...
Other Dimensions in Music at the JVC Jazz Festival in Paris, Oct. 19-20
by John Sharpe
The Missing Link. That was the title of a 1990s Fred Anderson session, but it could be applied with even greater veracity to the NYC collective Other Dimensions in Music, for this tour encompassing the talents of William Parker, Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter and Hamid Drake, subbing for regular drummer Rashid Bakr. The quartet members have ...
Russell Malone: Live At Jazz Standard
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Russell Malone played a week-long engagement at Jazz Standard in November, ostensibly to promote the release of this album. Malone was backed on both ventures by the solid rhythm section of bassist Tassili Bond, pianist Martin Bejerano and drummer Johnathan Blake. A lyrical, inventive guitarist, you can almost see Malone thinking out loud on the ...
New Orleans Jazz Orchestra/Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Band at New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, Nov. 25
by Sandy Ingham
Back in the day, this battle of the bands at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark would have been declared a TKO before the first note sounded. In this corner, the heavyweight champions, the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, boasting legendary names--Moody, Heath, D'Rivera, Slide Hampton--playing beloved classics by Dizzy, Monk, Golson et al. ...
Earshot Aural Snapshots: 2006 Earshot Jazz Festival, Seattle, October 27-30
by Bill Bennett
2006 Earshot Jazz Festival Seattle, WA October 27-30 Toshiko Akiyoshi Seattle Asian Art Museum Friday, October 27 It's a shame that economics and logistics decreed the demise of The Toshiko Akiyoski-Lew Tabackin Big Band a few years back, but Toshiko's fans around the world can ...
Sounds of South Africa at the New York City Center, November 16
by Seton Hawkins
On November 16, Sounds of South Africa graced New York's City Center. Featuring performances by legends such as Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim, as well as the American concert debut of the venerable Soweto String Quartet, this evening functioned partly as a South African music showcase and partly as an extravagant commercial by the evening's hosts, ...
Woodstore Quintet
by AAJ Italy Staff
Padiglione Tavolara - Sassari - 10.12.2006 Cattivi e nervosi, nel senso più musicale del termine. Il Woodstore Quintet mette in risalto soprattutto dal vivo la sua energia. Durante la rassegna “(To) be in jazz”, organizzata dall’associazione Blue Note Orchestra di Sassari, il gruppo ha fatto ascoltare un estratto della sua storia, con brani tratti sia da ...

