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Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi
by Mike Perciaccante
When asked about Allen Toussaint, Van Dyke Parks once said, “he's the greatest pianist alive, only no one knows it... including him." High praise from one legend to another. With The Bright Mississippi, Toussaint has finally released a jazz-oriented album. Though jazz-influences can be found on many of his rock/funk sides as well as in many ...
John Zorn: Filmworks XXIII: El General
by Warren Allen
"Los Cristeros," the opening track of John Zorn's twenty-third Filmworks volume, starts gently enough, building from a bass and marimba groove. Then Marc Ribot's electric guitar enters. Brash and distorted, with the cocksure step of a gunslinger, and the frayed edge of a fedora, Ribot's solo keens with the energy and inspiration of the best. Continuing ...
Marc Ribot Plans May Retrospective
Veteran jazz guitarist Marc Ribot will celebrate his 55th birthday this May with a career-spanning, week-long musical retrospective in New York City. Ribot will visit many of his critically acclaimed projects, including the Los Cubanos Postizos, his ode to Cuban roots music; the Young Philadelphians; and his Albert Ayler-influenced group, Spiritual Unity. “It's funny. Maybe it's ...
Marc Ribot: The Lost String
by Jerry D'Souza
Artist Marc Ribot The Lost String La Huit Distribution 2008 Marc Ribot once wanted to sound like jazz guitarist/Blue Note legend Grant Green but, as this film by Anais Prosaic shows, he has gone far beyond jazz in his musical odyssey. His quest, as a player and an ...
Sarah Jane Morris: Migratory Birds
by AAJ Italy Staff
Gli album di cover non sono sempre uguali. Non tutti sono rassegne noiose e calligrafiche buttate giù più per rispettare contratti discografici e assecondare periodi di aridità artistica. No, non sono tutti uguali. Prendete questo CD, ad esempio. Sarah Jane Morris (sta per pubblicare il nuovo CD, Where It Hurts, a maggio prossimo) ha una voce ...
John Zorn, Cindy Blackman, Dhafer Youssef, Jon Hassell, The Necks & Kenny Werner
by Martin Longley
John Zorn Abrons Arts Center February 7, 2009 This is getting to be a habit, as composer and alto saxophonist John Zorn erects his tent at the Abrons Arts Center once more, for two weekend shows, both of them merging older material with fresh compositions, presented by two of his ...
March 2009
by AAJ Staff
Helen Sung and Ron CarterHelen Sung and Ron CarterRubin MuseumNew York City February 6, 2009To hear pianist Helen Sung and bassist Ron Carter in a duo setting at the Rubin Museum (Feb. 6th), in a small theater with no amplification, will surely rank as one of this year's ...
Mateus Starling: Kairos
by Mark F. Turner
Fresh out of Boston's Berkelee College of Music in 2008, Brazilian guitarist Mateus Starling presents Kairos and boldly abandons following in the typical footprints of jazz canons to pursue his own path. With highly developed chops sharpened in varied settings (TV broadcasts/jingles, jazz, rock, gospel, ethnic music), this debut charts Starling and a band of his ...
Lola Danza: Free To Sing Free
by AAJ Staff
Free jazz has wound its way through many permutations since arriving in the early '60s. An important custodian of its new directions is vocalist and composer Lola Danza, of Brooklyn. Danza is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, Boston, and stayed in Boston for a few years after graduating, developing her ...
Jeff Dayton-Johnson's Best of 2008
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
When the world economy entered into a tailspin this year, Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner dubbed the event the “Jazz Effect“ given that it emanated from the United States (she was drawing a parallel, for example, to the 1994 “Tequila Effect" that followed a botched currency devaluation in Mexico). I was so happy that a ...
