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Article: Album Review

Megalitico 4tet: Endless

Read "Endless" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
January 8, 2019

Quartetto internazionale dalle belle individualità, messo in piedi dal multistrumentista sardo Gavino Murgia, Megalitico ha una strumentazione abbastanza particolare, che vede accanto ai fiati del leader la fisarmonica di Luciano Biondini, la tuba (o il basso elettrico) di Michel Godard, oltre alla batteria di Patrice Heral. Ciò conferisce alla formazione un suono peculiare, che lo inserisce ...

Article: Year in Review

2018: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 3, 2019

The year 2018 was a busy one for the jazz world. The genre's version of the #MeToo movement resulted in a new Code of Conduct and other efforts to make the music workplace more equitable. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage to St. Petersburg, Russia. The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which ran a high-profile ...

Article: Year in Review

Most Read Album Reviews: 2018

by Michael Ricci
January 1, 2019

All About Jazz tracks how often an album review is read, and the reviews listed below represent our most popular in 2018. After The Fall Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette by Karl Ackermann Published: February 13, 2018 Music IS ...

Article: Album Review

The Gil Evans Orchestra: Hidden Treasures Vol. 1, Monday Nights

Read "Hidden Treasures Vol. 1, Monday Nights" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
December 31, 2018

In the '70s composer and arranger Gil Evans, after years of outstanding studio arranging for Miles Davis and others, put together a performing orchestra which took influences from the jazz-rock and fusion concepts of the time. That orchestra released several fine albums such as Svengali (Atlantic, 1973) and There Comes A Time (RCA, 1975) and, on ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Dinosaur Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam

by BIMHUIS
December 31, 2018

These four twenty-somethings have each established their own name in British jazz. The most prominent name in Dinosaur is trumpeter and composer Laura Jurd, who has previously been voted BBC New Generation Artist. The accessible synth pop of the 1980s is an important influence on the recent album Wonder Trail (Edition Records), on which she also ...

Article: Live Review

Joey Alexander Trio With Chris Potter at SFJAZZ

by Harry S. Pariser
December 31, 2018

Joey Alexander Trio with Chris PotterSFJAZZ San Francisco, CA December 13, 2018 Child prodigies have long maintained an important presence in jazz. These have included Bix Beiderbecke, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams and Keith Jarrett. Jarrett gave his first formal recital at the age of seven. Hancock performed on piano with the ...

Album

The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series Vol. 6

By Miles Davis

Label: Legacy Recordings
Released: 2018
Track listing: Olympia, Paris, France March 21, 1960 - CD 1: First Concert - All Of You: So What: On Green Dolphin Street. Second Concert - 4. Walkin’. CD 2: Paris Second Concert continued - Bye Bye Blackbird; ’Round Midnight; Oleo; The Theme. Tivolis Koncertsal, Copenhagen, Denmark March 24, 1960 - Introduction (by Norman Granz; So What; On Green Dolphin Street; All Blues; The Theme (incomplete) Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden. March 22, 1960 - CD 3: First Concert - Introduction by Norman Granz; So What; Fran Dance; Walkin’; The Theme. CD 4: Stockholm Second Concert - So What; On Green Dolphin Street; All Blues; The Theme; Interview - John Coltrane Interview by Carl-Erik Lindgren.

Album

Rubberband EP

By Miles Davis

Label: Warner Bros. Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Rubberband Of Life (Radio Edit); Rubberband Of Life; Rubberband Of Life (Instrumental); Rubberband (Original Version);

Article: Genius Guide to Jazz

Jazz in 1's and 0's

by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
December 30, 2018

If one were to happen by the GeniusDome, providing you could navigate the gauntlet of traps and snares leading to the door and pass muster by my parakeet Al Neri, you'd be greeted warmly and welcomed into my inner sanctum. You'd notice a veritable forest of guitars, an inexplicable collection of hot sauces and Barbecue sauces, ...

Article: Interview

Ron Carter: Still Searching for the Right Notes

by Rob Garratt
December 30, 2018

"People from newspapers and magazines always ask me two things," Ron Carter tells a reverent crowd from a stage in suburban Hong Kong. “What was it like playing with Miles Davis? And why am I still doing this?" He answers the latter enquiry by pointing left and right simultaneously at his two diligent sidemen, pianist Donald ...