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Take Five With Armen Nalbandian

by AAJ Staff
May 14, 2013

Meet Armen Nalbandian:Armen Nalbandian (b.1978 in Manchester, England) is a jazz pianist, composer and humanitarian.In addition to the piano, he has been known to perform on the prepared Fender Rhodes mechanical piano, and contributes to produce jazz, improvised and experimental music in California. Nalbandian is the composer of over 1200 works in ...

Article: Catching Up With

Geri Allen: Apollo's Muse

by Bob Kenselaar
May 6, 2013

Pianist/composer Geri Allen is gearing up for her role as artistic director for an especially ambitious production of the 2013 Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival at the Apollo Theater. Presented as “Geri Allen & Friends Celebrate the Great Jazz Women of the Apollo," the program will offer two shows on May 11, 2013 that explore the legacy ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Easy Star All-Stars: Thrillah

by Chris M. Slawecki
April 4, 2013

Ten years ago, the Easy Star All-Stars began a series of albums that transformed landmarks of pop musical culture into thick and easy flowing reggae. They started with Dub Side of the Moon (2003, Easy Star Records) (from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon), continued through Radiodread (2006, Easy Star) (from Radiohead's OK Computer) and ...

News: Recording

Larry Carlton & Robben Ford "Unplugged"

April 1, 2013

The New Morning club in Paris presents the incredible - and long awaited - pairing of two guitar giants for their first Unplugged show. Imagine: Larry Carlton and Special Guest Robben Ford, two legendary guitarists... one stage unplugged... a guitar lover’s dream! This unique pairing of two all-time great guitar legends delivers an unforgettable evening of ...

Article: From the Inside Out

Requiems, Remodels & Remembrances

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 28, 2013

Michael BurksShow of StrengthAlligator Records2012 Michael “Iron Man" Burks grew up playing guitar. A quick study, he soon began leading the blues, rhythm and blues and soul house bands that backed O.V. Wright, Johnnie Taylor and other stars as they passed through the ...

Article: Album Review

Doctor Magnum: Live at Red Square

Read "Live at Red Square" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
March 13, 2013

Pianist Robert Glasper, in the All About Jazz segment “One LP," talked about Slum Village's Fantastic, vol. 2 (Good Vibe, 1999), produced by J Dilla: “J Dilla is probably the only producer I know that changed the way musicians actually play their instruments." Exhibit A is Glasper's own piano playing with both his acoustic and electric ...

News: Recording

Angel In America: Salsa Master from Chicago Brings the Funk to His "Heritage"

February 25, 2013

Angel d'Cuba has never shied away from dropping everything he can into his music. A native Cuban, Angel came up in a rich musical melange where James Brown and Jackson 5 grooves mixed freely with red—hot Afro-Carribean traditions. And Angel never hesitated to add new flavors—funk, R&B, soca, samba, rock—to this eclectic sonic mix. Moving to ...

Article: Album Review

Beata Pater: Red

Read "Red" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 5, 2013

Polish vocalist/composer/violinist Beata Pater, as of late in San Francisco, releases Red, the third recording in her “colors" series following Black (B&B, 2006) and Blue (B&B, 2011). She specializes in the no-lyrics singing that is related to, but not exactly the same as scat singing. Much of this is present on Red where, an expressive and ...

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Salsa Master Turned Chicago Mainstay Brings the Funk on "Heritage"

January 14, 2013

Angel d'Cuba has never shied away from dropping everything he can into his music. A native Cuban, Angel came up in a rich musical melange where James Brown and Jackson 5 grooves mixed freely with red-hot Afro-Carribean traditions. And Angel never hesitated to add new flavors — funk, R&B, soca, samba, rock — to this eclectic ...

Article: Album Review

Enrico Rava: Rava on the Dance Floor

Read "Rava on the Dance Floor" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
January 11, 2013

Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava doing a tribute to the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson? Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava doing a tribute to the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson, on ECM? If either of these concepts seem somehow wrong, it's likely because, in forty-plus years, ECM has garnered (beyond its reputation as one of the ...