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News: Performance / Tour

New York City’s Jazz Standard Launches 'The Flip Side Sessions': Eight Virtual Concerts Featuring Today’s Leading Artists Starting With Keyon Harrold (march 26)

March 20, 2021

Every Friday, March 26-May 14, 2021. All shows 7:30 p.m. ET. Shows will be made available to stream for the following 48 hours. $15 per show. Tickets must be purchased online in advance at JazzStandard.com. Ticket buyers will receive an exclusive link to access the broadcast. Jazz Standard, one of the nation’s premier jazz ...

Song of the Day

La Madrina

March 13, 2021

Album: Visions
By Melissa Aldana
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2019
Duration: 06:03

Article: Album Review

Emmet Cohen: Future Stride

Read "Future Stride" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
January 27, 2021

As proven onstage as well as on such percolating, locomotive recordings as 2018's self released Dirty In Detroit, Masters Legacy Series Vol 1 with Jimmy Cobb (Cellar Live, 2016), 2018's Masters Legacy Series Vol 2 with Ron Carter (Cellar Live), and his regular Monday Night Quarantine Jams on Facebook, pianist Emmet Cohen makes his music with ...

Album

Balance Point

By Art Hirahara

Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Mother's Song; Blessed Son, Mr. Weston; Balance Point; Ascent; G-Yokoso; Had It Happened; A Fine Line Between; Like Water; Prelude To A Kiss; Fulcrum; The Path Of The Gods; Homage; Lament For The Fallen

Album

Artemis

By Renee Rosnes

Label: Blue Note
Released: 2020
Track listing: Goddess Of The Hunt; Frida; The Fool On The Hill; Big Top; If It's Magic; Nocturno; Step Forward; Cry Buttercup Cry; The Sidewinder.

Article: Catching Up With

Allison Miller: Driving the Balance

by John Pietaro
December 22, 2020

Allison Miller sits at the vintage Camco drumkit in her Brooklyn home, playing post-bop over a rolling samba. Within the shimmer of an age-darkened cymbal, she switches from sticks to brushes, filling the room with the shush of summer rain, then a sudden hailstorm as her arms, aerial, traverse snare, tom-toms and cymbals in a blurring, ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Celebrating New Holiday Releases and Connee Boswell's Birthday

by Mary Foster Conklin
December 16, 2020

The broadcast features new holiday releases from vibraphonist Warren Wolf and vocalists Lauren Henderson, CeCe Gable, Avery Raquel and Leslie Odom, Jr., plus birthday shoutouts to Connee Boswell, Dave Brubeck (100!) saxophonist Melissa Aldana, Cassandra Wilson and pianist Amina Figarova among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Melissa Aldana

December 3, 2020

All About Jazz is celebrating Melissa Aldana's birthday today! On her first jazz quartet “Visions", award-winning saxophonist Melissa Aldana connects her work to the legacy of Latina artists who have come before her, creating a pathway for her own expression. Inspired by the life and works of Frida Kahlo, Aldana creates a parallel between her experiences ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Denin Koch

by AAJ Staff
October 19, 2020

Meet Denin Koch Hailed as possessing “pristine playing, meticulous composing" and “a very personal voice deserving of attention," guitarist and composer Denin Koch has synthesized his wide and varied influences into a unique approach to jazz improvisation. He has performed with Arturo Sandoval, Pat Metheny, Branford Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon, Dee Daniels, Ryan Keberle, and ...

Article: Catching Up With

Melissa Aldana: Visiones de una verdadera artista

by Patricia López
August 27, 2020

La galardonada Melissa Aldana es la saxofonista más joven de su familia. Nacida en Santiago, Chile, comenzó a tocar el saxofón cuando tenía seis años. Con una importante influencia de su abuelo y las enseñanzas de su padre Marcos Aldana, empezó a estudiar saxofón alto. Pero después de escuchar a Sonny Rollins, su corazón se identificó ...