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Take Five with Ron Jackson
by AAJ Staff
Meet Ron Jackson: World-renowned, Seven String Jazz Guitarist, composer, and arranger, Ron Jackson has performed, recorded, and taught music in over 30 countries. Jackson is likely the only African American seven-string jazz guitarist alive. His goal is to bring awareness to the instrument through education, music, and events. As a musician, Jackson has been ...
Lennie Tristano Personal Recordings, 1946-1970
by Peter Rubie
They called it the Cool School, but what's in a name?In this case, quite a lot as it happens. The Cool School included musicians like Chet Baker, John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet, and Dave Brubeck. Under the guidance of arranger and composer Gil Evans, it established itself in an unquestionable way with ...
Steve Slagle: Ballads: Into the Heart of it
by Edward Blanco
New York-based saxophonist, composer and educator Steve Slagle refused to let the pandemic interfere with his recording activities, and in August of 2021 completed a project covering an assortment of wonderful ballads on Ballads: Into the Heart of it. Having carved out a distinguished musical career spanning over four decades and documented on over 20 albums ...
Miles Davis, Hank Mobley, Sonny Clark and Sonny Rollins
by Joe Dimino
We start the 739th Episode of Neon Jazz with a collection of classics from Miles Davis (and Birth of the Cool) followed by Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans and Sonny Rollins. Enjoy this wonderful hour of jazz in honor of Valentine's Day! Playlist Miles Davis “Venus De Milo" Birth of the Cool (Capitol Records) 00:00 ...
Luke Stewart, Pablo Held, MonoNeon, John Hebert & More New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
From the irresistible Afro dancefloor life-affirming music of Nubyian Twist to two tributes to Wayne Shorter's contribution to the Miles Davis' Second Great Quintet, and a whole lot of other jazz declinations in this set. Happy listening! PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Nubiyan Twist “If ...
Yes, Yes Nonet
by Patrick Burnette
We've made it nine years—four years more than Ziggy Stardust promised us, thank you very much—and to celebrate we're once again discussing ensembles the numerical size of which matches our anniversary. That means, my friends, nonets, and of course we'll start with the most famous jazz nonet of all, that one that birthed a hundred West ...
Natsuki Tamura: Summer Tree
by Dan McClenaghan
In 2002, the Natsuki Tamura Quartet released an album called Hada Hada (Libra Records). It sounded as if it was plugged into ten thousand volts, even Tamura's trumpet, and especially Satoko Fujii's synthesizer, in the making of a soundtrack to a “Cyborgs March on the Capitol" movie. And those cyborgs were mad. Odd stuff. In 2022, ...
The Roma: The Roots of Flamenco, Gypsy Jazz, and Miles Davis' "Sketches of Spain"
by Martin McFie
In 1959, a magical year for jazz albums, Miles Davis, inspired by some flamenco performances he had heard, recorded Sketches of Spain (Columbia, 1960) at Columbia's 30th Street studio. Half of the album is a beautiful orchestral interpretation of the classical guitar piece “Concierto de Aranjuez," written twenty years before the Davis recording, by Joaquin Rodrigo, ...
Chamber 4: Dawn To Dusk
by John Sharpe
The third album from the French-Portuguese collective Chamber 4 might be the aural equivalent of comfort food. A nourishing feast of spontaneous communal navigation which slips down easily, but leaves you wanting more. Not that there's any attempt to replicate past glories from their eponymous debut (FMR, 2015) or City Of Light (Clean Feed, 2017).
Patto, Una Mirabolante Avventura Senza Rete.
by Maurizio Comandini
Siamo alla fine degli anni sessanta, Mike Patto è un ragazzone inglese con una bella voce potente e ruvida, la musica lo affascina e capisce subito che non c'è miglior momento per iniziare una avventura esistenziale che profuma di rock e di jazz, senza dimenticare la vena blues di fondo che un giovane cantante incazzato non ...
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