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Bimhuis at 40: Older, Better, Business as Usual
by Joan Gannij
The Bimhuis is turning 40 and is still very much in its prime. Beginning October 1, Amsterdam's venerable jazz club will celebrate this milestone with a variety of concerts, activities and special events. The Bimhuis opened in 1974 after a lengthy search for a suitable venue for improvising musicians. Over the next decades it would become ...
Marcin Wasilewski Trio with Joakim Milder: Spark of Life
by Karl Ackermann
At about the same time Louis Armstrong was “inventing" modern improvised jazz--Poland was already immersed in a jazz tradition that included American influences and an ethnic take on swing. Despite bouts with repressive regimes that sent jazz underground, Poland continued to be a progressive haven for the form. Through the 1950s and 1960s pianist/composer Krzysztof Komeda ...
Orlando Julius and The Heliocentrics: Jayeide Afro
by Enrico Bettinello
Dimmi con chi suoni e ti dirò chi sei. Gli inglesi Heliocentrics guidati da Malcolm Catto, sotto gli auspici dei padri Sun Ra e James Brown, hanno nel DNA la sensibilità per aprirsi alle migliori collaborazioni. Lo hanno fatto con Lloyd Miller (etnomusicologo e musicista di visionaria esperienza), con Mulatu Astatke (non serve vi ...
American Jazz Festiv’Halles at Sunside-Sunset
by Patricia Myers
American Jazz Festiv'Halles at Sunside-Sunset Sunside-Sunset Jazz Club Paris, France July-August 2014 The 23rd annual American Jazz Festiv'Halles at Sunside-Sunset in Paris had another long and strong lineup of concerts during two summer months of 2014. Sunside opened in 1983 on the Right Bank's narrow pedestrian street, rue des Lombards, expanding ...
More from Clifford Brown
by Nick Catalano
Ever since I wrote the biography of Clifford Brown (Oxford University Press, 2000) I've been hoping that someone would come forth with some newly discovered recording, some new photos of Brownie, or some new piece of information about his life that wasn't available at the time the book was published. One of the great bonuses of ...
Jazz on the Screen: A Jazz and Blues Filmography
by AAJ Staff
This article appears courtesy of David Meeker and the Library of Congress. Learn more about Jazz on Screen. Overview of Jazz on the Screen By David Meeker The cultural, sociological and technical histories of jazz and motion pictures have run in parallel, sometimes intersecting, lines ever since both forms emerged ...
Jose James: While You Were Sleeping
by Mark F. Turner
Jazz has always had a soft spot for pop music. Icons like trumpeter Louis Armstrong blessed the masses with his positivity and raspy voice in 1967's “What a Wonderful World" and saxophonist John Coltrane transformed Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1960 musical smash “My Favorite Things" into a swinging affair. Fast forward to 2014 as singer, songwriter and ...
Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties
by Enrico Bettinello
Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties Robert Nippoldt & Hans-Jürgen Schaal 144 pagine ISBN: 978-3836545013 Taschen 2014 Poco più che trentacinquenne, l'illustratore tedesco Robert Nippoldt ha la capacità di fare sognare. Con un tratto semplice e incisivo, ma al tempo stesso profumato di nostalgia, si ...
Avishai Cohen: Family Bonds and Music from the Heart
by Urszula Orczyk
Avishai Cohen is a talented trumpeter, composer, band leader, co-leader and active sideman featured on over 50 records to date. Voted a Rising Star in the 2012 DownBeat Critics Poll, Cohen is also a musician with an individual sound, combining the best of traditional jazz with a modern compositional style. As a player, he demonstrates flexibility, ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Louis Armstrong
All About Jazz is celebrating Louis Armstrong's birthday today! By virtue of the role he played in its evolution during the first quarter of the 20th century, Louis Armstrong is regarded as the most influential jazz musician in history. This distinction is coupled with his stewardship of jazz around the world over the next five decades ...
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