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Absolute Ensemble Featuring Joe Zawinul: Absolute Zawinul
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Few musicians have left a stamp on modern music as indelible as Josef Zawinul. In an artistic life that spanned over fifty years, playing and absorbing the sounds of nearly every continent, Zawinul not only wrote and played beautiful music on the piano but also extended the horizons of the synthesizer in contemporary music. No one--not ...
Paul Keeling: The Farthest Reach
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The cultures of several musical idioms collide in the music of pianist Paul Keeling on his album, The Farthest Reach. There is a distinct channeling of the pulsating rhythm of late-1960s bop, the gospel of which was spread by musicians such as Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard. Keeling also channels the glacial imagery of musicians who ...
"Orchestrion," el gabinete del Dr. Metheny en Madrid
by Antonio Álvarez Barthe
Pat Metheny OrchestrionTeatro Circo PriceMadrid, España18 de febrero del 2010Tiene toda la lógica que el primero de los cuatro conciertos españoles de la gira de presentación del proyecto Orchestrion de Pat Metheny haya sido en el Teatro Circo Price, una sala de carácter multifuncional que, además de actividades musicales, y como ...
The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Meets Fred Sturm
by Jack Bowers
The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra was onstage January 23, 2010 at the University of New Mexico's Woodward Hall for a concert featuring the compositions and arrangements of Fred Sturm, director of Jazz Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. The concert was a part of the New Mexico All-State Band Competition, which was being held at the ...
Orchestrion
by John Kelman
The first question that has likely crossed the minds of many who've heard about guitarist Pat Metheny's Orchestrion is: why? Metheny has already published plenty of information about this unique project at his website, but it still doesn't get to the real heart of the matter. Orchestrion is a solo album in the truest sense of ...
Eberhard Weber: Colours
by John Kelman
As the jazz-rock fusion movement gained ground from its early years in the late 1960s through its glory days in the early-to-mid-1970s—blending the more sophisticated harmonies of jazz with rock music's rhythmic power and high volume—all too often it was about muscular chops and complex writing for the sake of it. Little attention was paid to ...
Acuna/Hoff/Mathisen: Jungle City
by John Kelman
While some accuse the musical innovations taking place in Scandinavia as diluting “America's art form," there's plenty of evidence to the contrary. Many of the artists regularly stretching jazz's boundaries by introducing outside references can play in the tradition; they just choose not to. With Finding Nymo (ACT, 2009), Norwegian trombonist Helge Sunde and his Ensemble ...
Colin Cannon: In Summary
by Ian Patterson
In Summary may seem like an odd title for Colin Cannon's debut recording and the beginning of a musical journey; but as the liner notes attest, this music is the result of his every positive and negative experience of the last five years. To make music any other way would be to leave part of himself ...
Take Five With Ade Ishs
by AAJ Staff
Meet ade ishs: Ade Ishs (IPA: ʌdÉ iʃ) is a songwriter and a pianist currently residing in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in 1978 in Bandung, Indonesia. His playing style revolves around contemporary jazz, classical, and meditative. He has been compared with Lyle Mays, Keith Jarrett, and Dave Grusin.His latest album release ...
e.s.t.: Retrospective: The Very Best of e.s.t.
by John Kelman
Swedish pianist Esbjörn Svensson's accidental death in 2008 shook the jazz world, with AAJ news items surrounding his passing garnering tens of thousands of reads. Already jazz superstars in Europe, Svensson and e.s.t. were still building a North American audience, touring regularly to gradually grow its fan base; clearly it was working. All the more tragic, ...
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