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Article: Interview

Clarence Becton: Straight Ahead Into Freedom

Read "Clarence Becton: Straight Ahead Into Freedom" reviewed by Barbara Ina Frenz


Clarence Becton is a musicians' musician—meaning, someone well-known in musician circles. He belongs to the generation of American jazz heroes who grew up under economically and socially difficult circumstances, and for that very reason, succeeded in gaining a comprehensive education, emancipating himself, and embodying the history of jazz music by directly learning from and working with ...

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Live in Italy 2001

Label: Splasc(H) Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: All Blues; Summertime; Bye Bye Blackbird; Miles; Milestones; Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me; On Green Dolphin Street; My One and Only Love; Parker's Mood.

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Live in Athens, Greece

Label: Harbinger
Released: 2016
Track listing: My Funny Valentine; All Blues; On Green Dolphin Street; Summertime; Autumn Leaves; When I Fall In Love/My One And Only Love; Bye Bye Blackbird; Miles; Milestones; On The Red Clay; Intuil Paisagem/Dindi.

Article: Interview

Francesco Forges, non chiamatelo "vocal coach"

Read "Francesco Forges, non chiamatelo "vocal coach"" reviewed by Rosarita Crisafi


Flautista, cantante, compositore, docente, Francesco Forges è un musicista fuori dagli schemi. Da più di vent'anni è coinvolto nella creazione e direzione di gruppi e progetti in cui la voce è protagonista. Ogni formazione è per lui un'occasione per sperimentare le suggestioni più diverse, dal jazz alla lirica, alla poesia, al teatro, alla coralità contemporanea, alla ...

Article: Album Review

Manolo Cabras Quartet: Melys in Diotta

Read "Melys in Diotta" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Di Manolo Cabras, contrabbassista cagliaritano dalle eccellenti frequentazioni -Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, Toots Thielemans, Marshall Allen, Mark Murphy, Eric Vermeulen -e da oltre un decennio presenza attiva della vivace scena belga, avevamo apprezzato le qualità di ispirato leader nonché di ottimo solista nell'album di debutto I Wouldn't Be Sure registrato con il gruppo Basic Borg. Sempre ...

Article: Interview

Roberto Gatto, un nuovo disco che guarda al futuro

Read "Roberto Gatto, un nuovo disco che guarda al futuro" reviewed by Rosarita Crisafi


Un'anticipazione sul jazz italiano che verrà. Il 2 ottobre scorso abbiamo incontrato il batterista Roberto Gatto allo studio IndieHub di Milano. In cantiere un album che uscirà nel corso della prima metà del 2017 per l'Abeat Records e che vede Gatto leader di un quartetto accanto a giovani musicisti di grande talento: il pianista toscano Alessandro ...

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Article: Out and About: The Super Fans

Meet Francesca "Cha Cha" Miano

Read "Meet Francesca "Cha Cha" Miano" reviewed by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper


A Newport Jazz Festival-New York concert at Carnegie Hall in the early 1970s got Queens native Francesca “Cha Cha" Miano hooked on hearing live jazz--even though, she says, some of the music she heard on the mixed bill that night was way ahead of her at the time. Little did she know that her magnificent obsession ...

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Article: Album Review

The Branford Marsalis Quartet with Special Guest Kurt Elling: Upward Spiral

Read "Upward Spiral" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


To one extent or another, jazz has always maintained a discriminatory dividing line between vocalists and instrumentalists. Instead of being viewed as equals--artists on par with all the rest, possessing the same good sense, skill, and stake in an artistic outcome--vocalists have often been unfairly stigmatized and interned in a separate category. But all of that ...

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Take Five with Boris Savoldelli

Read "Take Five with Boris Savoldelli" reviewed by AAJ Staff


About Boris Savoldelli: Boris is a vocal performer with a brilliant personality. He's always been in love with his “vocal instrument" and its extraordinary possibilities. He loves to find different original ways of singing, due to his eclectic background, from classical studies to jazz singing (thanks to his mentor Mark Murphy), passing from funk-rock ...

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Article: Album Review

Mark Murphy: Live in Athens, Greece

Read "Live in Athens, Greece" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


No figure in jazz personified hip the way that the late Mark Murphy did. For more than half a century he taught the world what it meant to be a true artist, pushing boundaries, walking the tightrope, and going where he pleased. He had it all--wit, charm, guile, good taste, a pure improviser's spirit, a flexible ...


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