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Michael Moore

Born: May 16, 1945

Frank Kohl: Pacific

by Bill Milkowski
September 15, 2023

An old adage maintains that New York City is the Jazz capital of the world. While that may still ring true, there are fertile jazz scenes scattered all over the country where plenty of potent players have been flying under the radar. Seattle guitarist Frank Kohl, who has been quietly going about the business of making ...

George Dumitriu: Monk on Viola

by Karl Ackermann
April 3, 2023

In an NPR interview, avant-garde composer Volker Bertelmann--who wrote the soundtrack All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix, 2022)--talked about re-imagining music, saying: “You don't have to paint the river to express something about the river." That attitude applies to George Dumitriu's Monk on Viola, an unusually inventive reading of Thelonious Monk's work. The Romanian multi-instrumentalist ...

Wayne Shorter: Footprints of a Soothsayer

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 21, 2023

Rarely has a jazz musician created a body of work in which depth, sophistication and melodies coexist as beautifully as Wayne Shorter. In this episode we selected interpretations of his compositions by musicians we admire and who chose to follow his soothsaying footprints. In loving tribute to Mr. Gone. Playlist Ben Allison ...

Ada Rave / Aaron Lumley / Onno Govaert: Bioluminus

by Mark Corroto
March 19, 2023

We can no longer refer to the music and creative Amsterdam scene with the title coined by author Kevin Whitehead as the New Dutch Swing. His 1998 book of the same name described the origins of the free jazz movement in The Netherlands and its now legendary masters such as Misha Mengelberg, Willem Breuker, Han Bennink, ...

Joe Hertenstein LIVE DURING LOCKDOWN feat. Michael Moore & Greg Cohen

By Joe Hertenstein

Label: Jazzwerkstatt Berlin-brandenburg E.v.
Released: 2022
Track listing: Panicballad; Providence; Ballad For Paul & Poo; Pink Umbrella; Acceptance; The Gift; House Party Starting; Panicballad (Rehearsal)

Rodrigo Almonte: Distancia

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 31, 2022

"Every piece of music on Distancia is an honest representation of a pilgrimage of different distances that I had to walk, musically and geographically speaking, in order to find inspiration and to create a representation of myself as a musical nomad," explains guitarist Rodrigo Almonte, who was born and raised in Peru, completed Bachelor of Arts ...

Monsters from the Jazzlab

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 17, 2022

Rodrigo Almonte Distancia Odradek Records 2021 “Every piece of music on Distancia is an honest representation of a pilgrimage of different distances that I had to walk, musically and geographically speaking, in order to find inspiration and to create a representation of myself as a musical ...

Distancia

By Rodrigo Almonte

Label: Odradek Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Toribio; OCD; Crown Heights; Shorter Steps; Noggin; Utjawi; The Journey Of The Lonely Cloud; In The Depth Of Winter.

Size Matters: (Mostly New) Jazz for Big Bands and Orchestras, Part 4

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 14, 2021

In the early days of jazz, “Orchestra" was used to identify bands larger than a septet. Nowadays, jazz orchestras and big bands are much larger than that, like those we feature in our final installment of our mini-series dedicated to (mostly new and upcoming) releases by big bands and orchestras which can be found at the ...