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Article: Under the Radar

Tales of The Mystic Order of the Jazz Obsessed - Jazz Societies, Part II

Read "Tales of The Mystic Order of the Jazz Obsessed - Jazz Societies, Part II" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

Part 1 | Part 2 Jazz Societies, Part 1 briefly traced the preservation and interpretation of jazz from the oral history of its West African roots through academic and cultural institutions. The article included an overview of jazz societies and foundations that further the fostering of jazz education. The organizations vary in scope, size ...

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Article: Album Review

Emmet Cohen: Masters Legacy Series Volume 4: Emmet Cohen Featuring George Coleman

Read "Masters Legacy Series Volume 4: Emmet Cohen Featuring George Coleman" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic

So here we are, nearly knocking on the door to February 2020, and we're listening to the second of Emmet Cohen's two entrancing, late 2019 releases: Masters Legacy Series Vol. 4 Emmet Cohen featuring George Coleman--a good harbinger for the new year. And heaven knows we could use a boatload of good harbingers these exhausting days. ...

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Article: Album Review

Matthew Shipp / Nate Wooley: What If?

Read "What If?" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Sixty years after Miles Davis recorded “So What" during his Kind Of Blue (Columbia, 1959) sessions, the duo of pianist Matthew Shipp and trumpeter Nate Wooley ask the question What If?, as in, “What if, in the 21st century, all music was free?" Free as in free range, without prejudgement, unbiased and without partisanship. ...

Article: My Favourite Things

Anne Mette Iversen e il Questionario di Proust

Read "Anne Mette Iversen e il Questionario di Proust" reviewed by Paolo Peviani

by Paolo Peviani

Il tratto principale della mia musica Il modo in cui melodia e armonia interagiscono. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me La capacità di lavorare su qualsiasi composizione. Come musicista, il momento in cui sono stato più felice Quando sono sul ...

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Article: Live Review

Charleston Jazz Festival 2020

Read "Charleston Jazz Festival 2020" reviewed by Martin McFie

by Martin McFie

Various Venues Charleston Jazz Festival Charleston, SC January 23-26, 2020 Jazz Festivals are like people, six years old is still in infancy, but everything has to start somewhere. Historically, the city which gave birth to the Charleston dance craze and was the inspiration for Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, deserves The Charleston ...

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Article: Album Review

New Bojaira: Zorongo Blu

Read "Zorongo Blu" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi

La relazione tra jazz e flamenco ha avuto varie declinazioni. Eccettuando gli estemporanei antecedenti di Miles Davis e di John Coltrane, il primo a inaugurare proficuamente la sintesi è stato Pedro Iturralde nel 1967 con Flamenco Jazz: un condiviso impianto modale legava la chitarra di Paco De Lucia ad assoli di vari jazzmen (tra cui il ...

Article: Live Review

Emma-Jean Thackray al Bronson Club di Ravenna

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by Emmanuel Di Tommaso

Emma-Jean Thackray Bronson Club Ravenna 24.1.2020 Introspettiva e underground l'atmosfera al Bronson Club di Ravenna per il primo concerto in Italia della britannica Emma-Jean Thackray, compositrice, produttrice, poli-strumentista, cantante, bandleader nonché DJ fra le più talentuose e poliedriche dell'attuale panorama musicale. La platea dei presenti non è numerosa ma selezionata e ...

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Article: Album Review

Brad Mehldau: Finding Gabriel

Read "Finding Gabriel" reviewed by Emmanuel Di Tommaso

by Emmanuel Di Tommaso

Se un'artista del calibro di Brad Mehldau riesce ancora a stupire dopo aver destrutturato in tutti i modi possibili la musica contemporanea, il motivo può essere solo un'opera d'arte complessa e stratificata, che non a caso trae le sue basi concettuali da una rilettura in chiave post-moderna delle profezie dell'Antico Testamento nel tentativo di offrire una ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Roberto Fonseca, Christian McBride, King Oliver and More

Read "Roberto Fonseca, Christian McBride, King Oliver and More" reviewed by Joe Dimino

by Joe Dimino

This week's show is book-ended by Latin jazz, as we take off with the talented Roberto Fonseca and we land with the multi platinum-selling Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass. In between, we focus on new releases by Christian McBride and Kansas City's own Todd Wilkinson as well as on the music of forward looking artists ...

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Article: Profile

The Very Singular Mr. Ran Blake

Read "The Very Singular Mr. Ran Blake" reviewed by Duncan Heining

by Duncan Heining

There have been few American composers and musicians, with the ability to encapsulate their country's music in all its racial and ethnic complexity. We might perhaps point to Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Charles Ives and perhaps, in their own distaff ways, Harry Partch and Steve Reich. In jazz, their number is fewer still--Duke Ellington and George ...


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