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The 2006 Panama Jazz Festival
by Mark Sabbatini
Most festivals, especially new ones, make maximum use of their big-name talent to lure crowds. But for Danilo Perez. this year's test for his labor of love was standing it on its own two legs. The Panama native and favorite son scarcely played a note during the third annual Panama Jazz Festival from Feb. ...
Andreas Gidlund: The Happiest Man Alive
by Mark Sabbatini
There's something strange about how modern jazz often defies the laws of physics, which specify that two particles of matter can't occupy the same space at the same time. Swedish saxophonist Andreas Gidlund's The Happiest Man Alive is a Michael Brecker-like fusing of contemporary jazz hooks with post bop calking (mostly the latter), the ...
Jazzmandu 2005: A Musical Expedition Ends
by Mark Sabbatini
(All About Jazz exclusive: Two songs by a variety of musicians during a day five jam session generally considered the festival's best performance are available in this MP3 file (click to listen in a separate window, or right-click to download). Many thanks to those recording the event and sharing the file). It sounds harsh, ...
Jazzmandu 2005, Day 6: Jazz And Nepal's Youth
by Mark Sabbatini
In a country of extremes, Nepal's youth is no exception. Frighteningly high numbers are displaced, killed and suffer abuses such as being sold into prostitution. But when students go on strike it's a big deal as everyday commerce screeches to a halt. Schools outside cities are lacking and a target for Maoist insurgents in ...
Jazzmandu 2005, Day 5: Fusion Of Players Scales The Peaks
by Mark Sabbatini
Since trips to Nepal usually involve mountain climbs, perhaps reaching the potential summit of a jazz festival here at the halfway point is appropriate. A jam session between traditional Nepali musicians and visiting bands on day five of Jazzmandu 2005 got nods from players and listeners as the best performance of the eight-day festival ...
Jazzmandu 2005, Day 4: Taking It To The Streets
by Mark Sabbatini
The crowd started arriving three hours early, surrounding the trio on all sides. Children took in unusual looking and sounding instruments with transfixed stares. Plenty of applause greeted a fast and loose set venturing at times into the theatrical, such as solos featuring cymbals tossed off low-laying brick walls. Norwegian guitarist Bjorn Vidar Solli ...
Jazzmandu 2005, Day 3: Latin with a Nepali accent
by Mark Sabbatini
When it comes to offering foreigners the familiarities of home, Nepal is decidedly Impressionistic. Bakeries from the cities to the high mountain trails sell brownies, burgers and bagels of widely varying appearance and taste, but all blurry renditions of their American counterparts. Not necessarily worse; it depends on how a person feels about eating ...
Burning And Chilling At Jazzmandu 2005
by Mark Sabbatini
Most other places it'd be an ordinary night at a small jazz festival. Here it's culture shock in reverse. The showcase event of Jazzmandu 2005 featured eight bands performing fusion-oriented jazz and Nepali music for seven hours on two stages. Roughly 500 listeners gathered on the lawn of a swanky golf resort on the ...
Viruses force Sony BMG to suspend CD copy protection scheme
by Mark Sabbatini
It's a CD copy protection scheme that makes a lot of people sick (along with their computers), so it's fitting a virus is bringing it to at least a temporary halt. Several viruses, actually, as Sony BMG is suspending for now production of discs embedded with software that installs anti-piracy software when users try ...
Warning - Sony BMG CDs Install Antipiracy Software On Computers
by Mark Sabbatini
A few days ago I wrote a “Dear John" letter to The Bad Plus, letting them know I wouldn't be purchasing any more of their CDs as long as they chose to use a copy protection scheme that presents obstacles to those wanting to listen to them on computers, iPods and the like. ...
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