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SFJAZZ: Decades After, Five Years In
by Arthur R George
Five years after the San Francisco, California organization SFJAZZ created its own building, the SFJAZZ Center, it has proved a raving, even rampaging, success, unrelenting in programming, sales, education, and music production. Its number of concerts has doubled from 248 to more than 500. Its membership has increased by almost 200% to more than 14,000. It ...
Wild Card: Life Stories
by Jerome Wilson
When British youth started picking up on the music coming out of America in the Fifties and Sixties their tastes were widespread. While some kids loved the early rock & roll of Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly or the blues of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, others grabbed onto the jazz played by the likes of ...
Nick Finzer: No Arrival
by Dan Bilawsky
To say a musician has arrived is to create the ultimate paradox. For in that notion is the suggestion of reaching the upper echelon in the art form, but also an indication of the end of a journey and the start of stagnation. With the true seeker and master musician, there is no arrival; there's merely ...
2018 Bergamo Jazz Festival
by Luciano Rossetti
Photos from the Bergamo Jazz Festival 2018, held in Bergamo from 22 to 25 March 2018, featuring Rita Marcotulli, Logan Richardson, Claudio Fasoli, Simona Severini, Maceo Parker, Roger Rota, Louis Sclavis & Vincent Courtois, Pulsar Ensemble, Linda May Han Oh, Chucho Valdes & Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chano Dominguez, Zach Brock & Phil Markowitz, Jeremy Pelt, Silvia Perez ...
Peter Madsen: Never Bet The Devil Your Head
by Mike Jurkovic
Based on pianist/composer/bandleader Peter Madsen's extensive CV: Stan Getz, Stanley Turrentine, Dewey Redman, Benny Golson, Don Cherry, Kenny Garrett, Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, Ravi Coltrane, Maceo Parker, Bill Frisell, John Abercombie and the Mingus Big Band, it's not surprising and often brilliant that on his eighth release for Playscape, Madsen exhibits a nearly prog-rock, anything goes ...
Bergamo Jazz Festival 2018
by Angelo Leonardi
Bergamo Jazz Festival 2018 Varie sedi Bergamo 18-25.3.2018 Ha festeggiato la 40ma edizione --dal 18 al 25 marzo --, uno dei più longevi festival nazionali ed europei, confermando la sua centralità con un ricco e variopinto programma che ha spaziato in vari ambiti senza cedere sul versante della qualità. In ...
Martha High & the Soul Cookers al Blue Note di Milano
by Luca Muchetti
Martha High & The Soul Cookers Blue Note Milano 7.2.2018 Basta un curriculum di 30 anni alla corte di James Brown per raccontare in una riga l'elettricità di un concerto di Martha High? Secondo noi, che l'abbiamo vista sul palco del Blue Note di Milano, no. La storica corista del ...
Yacine Boularès: Coltrane by way of Descartes
by Ludovico Granvassu
Saxophonist Yacine Boularès took the road less travelled to discover and develop his passion for jazz. After graduating in philosophy from the prestigious Sorbonne University in Paris, he felt the urge to put into practice the notions of aesthetics he had researched for his dissertation. Following his studies at Paris' Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique and ...
Takuya Kuroda: Zigzagger
by Luca Muchetti
L'hanno chiamato il nuovo profeta dell'afrobeat, trovando nelle sue origini nipponiche motivo di stupore per un linguaggio e un feel completamente assorbiti e rielaborati in uno stile personale ma ben riconducibile a un filone ormai dalla lunga storia. Il trombettista Takuya Kuroda con Zigzagger, pubblicato dalla Concord Records, arriva al suo quinto disco confermando e ingigantendo ...
BRIC Announces Third Annual BRIC Jazzfest, A World-Class Jazz Festival In The Heart Of The Brooklyn Cultural District, October 14-21, 2017
Acclaimed New Festival Brings Together Globe-Trotting Jazz Legends, Groundbreaking Emerging Jazz Artists From Brooklyn And Beyond, And Grows In Third Year To Include: A Full Week of Programming, Much of it Free, Featuring Performances By Maceo Parker, The Sun Ra Arkesta Directed by Marshall Allen, Vijay Iyer, The Terri Lyne Carrington Band, GoGo Penguin and More ...
