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Article: Album Review

Jason Miles/Ingrid Jensen: Kind of New

Read "Kind of New" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush
December 31, 2015

When your first or last name is “Miles" and you play jazz and you make an album dueting with a trumpet player and you call it Kind of New, you're opening yourself up to all sorts of assumptions and expectations. Well, let's get those expectations out of the way. Kind of New is not ...

Album

Afrodeezia

By Marcus Miller

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Hylife, B’s River, Preacher’s Kid; We Were There; Papa Was A Rolling Stone; I Still Believe I Hear; Son Of Macbeth; Prism; Xtraordinary; Water Dancer; I Can’t Breathe

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Article: Top Ten List

Top Ten Guitarists Who Left Us Too Soon

by Alan Bryson
December 3, 2015

Ranking musicians is a hopelessly flawed endeavor. It's about as meaningful as having a list of the top ten best tasting foods. Taste is highly individualized, influenced by mood, familiarity, and the way in which multiple variables interact. One person's escargot is someone else's slice of Chicago style pizza. I just took a break and searched ...

News: Performance / Tour

Chihiro Yamanaka At San Jose Jazz Summer Fest (Aug. 8) & Don Quixote's (Aug. 6)

July 28, 2015

The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will perform August 8, 2015 at San Jose Jazz Summer Fest in San Jose, CA, and will precede the festival appearance with an August 6 concert at Don Quixote’s International Music Hall in Felton, CA. The trio, led by jazz pianist/composer Chihiro Yamanaka, a Blue Note Records recording artist, features bassist Yoshi ...

Article: Live Review

North Sea Jazz Festival Recap: A Moveable, Musical Feast

by Joan Gannij
July 22, 2015

North Sea Jazz Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands July 10-12, 2015 Three days immersed in sounds and sensations. Followed by two days at home in zombie mode, zen silence. Rather than do an exhausting commute from Amsterdam to Rotterdam each day (by train or auto (50 miles / 75 kilometers each way), I ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Oytun Ersan

by AAJ Staff
July 21, 2015

About Oytun Ersan Oytun Ersan is a Cypriot electric bass and upright bassist, composer, instructor and conductor. At the early age of 15, Oytun joined the International Nicosia Municipality Orchestra as a bassist where he is still working for the past 20 years. During his career as a musician, Oytun has contributed to a great number ...

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Article: Album Review

Marcus Miller: Afrodeezia

Read "Afrodeezia" reviewed by Walter Atkins

by Walter Atkins
July 13, 2015

Prominent bassist Marcus Miller's new album Afrodeezia (Blue Note Records) is inspired by his travels and impressions through West Africa, South America, the Caribbean along the Atlantic slave routes, and parts of the United States. The multi Grammy winner and UNESCO Artist for Peace pays homage to the African people forced into servitude and the enduring ...

Article: Jazzin' Around Europe

North Sea Jazz Festival 2015: The Roller Coaster Has Taken Off

by Joan Gannij
July 11, 2015

Jan Willem Luyken, Director of the North Sea Jazz Festival, has a lot to celebrate this year. It is not only the 40th anniversary of the popular festival, it's also the tenth anniversary of their move from the Hague to Rotterdam, and the year that Luyken became director. Described as “the world's largest indoor music festival," ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Aaron Akins

by AAJ Staff
June 23, 2015

Aaron Akins' music is something out of the ordinary. After all, a voice strongly reminiscent of Nat “King" Cole wrapped up in a sophisticated urban beat is not something heard every day. Stir the ingredients, jazz it up a little, and Aaron Akins might be it. Produced by Darryl Swann (Macy Gray), the singer's second studio album ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz this week: Marcus Miller, Jonah Parzen-Johnson, Pamela Rose's "Wild Women of Song," Jazz Edge Big Band, and more

June 17, 2015

There's lots going on in jazz and creative music this week in St. Louis, and so you don't miss out, here's a special early edition of our weekly highlights post... Tuesday, June 16 Tonight, bassist Marcus Miller and his band return to St. Louis to begin a three-night stand continuing through Thursday at Jazz at the ...