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Jeff Parker: Reinventing Tradition
by Jakob Baekgaard
Is there such a thing as a Chicago sound? Back in the year 2000, a compilation was released that tried to portray a new and exciting musical scene. The album was called Chicago 2018... It's Gonna Change and it highlighted a brilliant mixture of free jazz, electronica, post-rock, art pop and experimental folk music. Of the ...
Jeff Parker: The New Breed
by Jakob Baekgaard
There are certain artists that you know you can always count on. Whenever they are involved in something, at least it is going to be interesting and often it will be great. Guitarist Jeff Parker is one of those artists. It has been an undivided pleasure following Parker through his many constellations, whether ...
NYC Winter Jazzfest 2016
by Dan Bilawsky
NYC Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 13-17, 2016 If you make the rounds in New York City on any night of the week, during any week of the year, there's always an abundance of quality jazz to hear. But when NYC Winter Jazzfest takes hold, the cup truly runneth over. This massive ...
Amina Figarova: Blue Whisper
by Dave Wayne
Pianist and composer Amina Figarova is truly a citizen of the world. Born and raised in Baku, Azerbaijan, she decamped to the Netherlands in the 1980s to study at the Rotterdam Conservatory, and then to Boston in 1989 to continue her studies at Berklee. Blue Whisper is her 12th recording as a leader, but her first ...
Top 12 "Read" Album Reviews: 2015
by Michael Ricci
All About Jazz tracks how often an album review is read, and the reviews listed below represent our top twelve published in 2015. East River PLS.trio by Karl Ackermann Published: February 22, 2015 The Thompson Fields Maria Schneider Orchestra by Dan Bilawsky ...
Jeff Dayton-Johnson's 2015 Mixtape
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
The narrator of Jean-Jacques Schuhl's 2002 novel Ingrid Caven muses, “I like the connection, the splice, not the things themselves; what's between them, their rapport. Two ideas, images, the bridge between two harmonies for the jazz musician..." It's an interesting esthetic statement regarding jazz: that part of the music's appeal lies not in its components, but ...
In the Moment
Label: International Anthem Recording Company
Released: 2015
Track listing: Exploration Intro; The Jaunt; Slightest Right; First Thing First; Lonely; Gnawa; On the Spot; Butterscotch; TomTom; Three Fifths a Man; In the Moment; Quartz; Just Stay Right There; Untitled; Requests; Time Travel; The Encore; The Drop; Finances.
In the Moment Remix Tape
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Track listing: Spontaneous Intro; Interstellar; Slightest Right (Quiet Dawn remix); Slightest Right (Amin Payne remix); Finance (Maker remix ft. Ruth Ramos flute & Isaias Martinez trumpet); Untitled (Pepin remix); sticky notes (prod. by krushlove); Made up ish; Be Great; 5/5 of a God (prod. by Radius); Spontaneous Composition Outro; Quarter Turn; Tom Tom's Ghost (prod. by Malik Abdul Rahmaan ft. Moment of Inspiration Makaya interlude); Sweet Tooth; Some More; The Quest; The People's Interlude; Shellfish (prod. by Swarvy); Jungle Money; 5 past 3; Drums & Drummers (Mak chop prod. by Moongriffin); The Closer.
Makaya McCraven: In the Moment
by Luca Muchetti
Esplorazione e improvvisazione, ecco le due coordinate lungo cui si muove questo bel disco firmato dal batterista e produttore Makaya McCraven, un album che somiglia a un progetto che somiglia alla fotografia, in parte a fuoco e in parte no, di lunghe serate passate a improvvisare sul palco del Bedford di Chicago, un locale ispirato agli ...
Makaya McCraven: In The Moment
by Mark Corroto
Somewhere in heaven Miles smiles, Miles Davis that is. Beside him, listening to In The Moment by drummer, mixmaster, and organizer Makaya McCraven is Teo Macero. Both men would have given the nod to this project that culled 73 minutes of music from 48 hours of live performance, recorded over a year of performance with an ...
