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Article: Album Review

Danish Radio Big Band: Jazzin' Around Christmas

Read "Jazzin' Around Christmas" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey

Despite the fact that Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Dave Brubeck all successfully recorded Yuletide songs, jazz still enjoys a problematic relationship with the so-called festive season. The trouble no doubt is that Christmas is so quintessentially square or unhip. What self-respecting hipster would dream of walking in a winter wonderland or taking ...

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News: Award / Grant

Grammy Nominees 2017 Named - Jazz List

Grammy Nominees 2017 Named - Jazz List

The 59th Annual Grammys will air live from the Staples Center in LA on Feb. 12th at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.  Here is the full list of nominees for the 59th Annual Grammy Awards: JAZZ Best Improvised Jazz Solo: “Countdown” — Joey Alexander “In Movement” — Ravi Coltrane “We See” — Fred Hersch

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News: Recording

Sonny and Horace: 1959

Sonny and Horace: 1959

On Thursday, March 5, 1959, the Sonny Rollins Trio and the Horace Silver Quintet were in Zurich on a joint European tour. Interestingly, Sonny and Silver were at different points in their careers. Silver had yet to crest and would record the fiery Blowin' the Blues Away in August before riding his funk piano style into ...

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Article: Out and About: The Super Fans

Meet Roberta DeNicola

Read "Meet Roberta DeNicola" reviewed by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper

by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper

Roberta DeNicola, a favorite of musicians on New York City's downtown and experimental jazz scenes, has very broad taste in jazz--from straight-ahead to out--but the more out it is, the more she needs to experience it live. She saw her first jazz concert (jazz flutist Hubert Laws) on a date with her teenage boyfriend. However, it ...

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Article: My Blue Note Obsession

Javon Jackson: Pleasant Valley – 1999

Read "Javon Jackson: Pleasant Valley – 1999" reviewed by Marc Davis

by Marc Davis

If the iconic sound of Blue Note Records could be summed up in just one band, it would surely be Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. For 35 years--1955 to 1990--the Messengers were the heart and soul of hard bop, on Blue Note and other labels. But what happened when Blakey died in 1990? ...

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Article: Album Review

John Coltrane: Trane 90

Read "Trane 90" reviewed by Jim Trageser

by Jim Trageser

Along with Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, the late saxophonist John Coltrane is one of the most anthologized figures in the history of jazz. He is also one of the most studied, with at least four full biographies on Amazon, and dozens of other books looking at various aspects of his music. The number ...

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Article: Interview

Ashley Kahn: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece

Read "Ashley Kahn: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece" reviewed by Lazaro Vega

by Lazaro Vega

This interview was first published at All About Jazz in November 2000 and is part of our ongoing effort to archive pre-database material. Ashley Kahn, the author of Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece (Da Capo Press, 224 pgs.), is Music Editor at VH1, and was the primary editor ...

Article: Album Review

Albert Ayler Quartet: European Radio Studio Recordings 1964

Read "European Radio Studio Recordings 1964" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala

Cosa si può aggiungere alle precise, esaustive note discografiche stilate nel gennaio 2016 da Andy Hamilton per questa splendida edizione delle registrazioni radiofoniche di Albert Ayler effettuate in studio e in concerto nel 1964? Certo, aggiungiamo qualche nostra considerazione a questo ascolto tuttora straordinario di materiali già in precedenza pubblicati, scelti ora dalla svizzera hatOLOGY per ...

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Article: Live Review

London Jazz Festival 2016

Read "London Jazz Festival 2016" reviewed by Duncan Heining

by Duncan Heining

The London Jazz Festival, now in its 24th year, straddles the capital--its noble aim, as ever, is the provision of musical succour for the diverse tastes that make up the larger British jazz audience. You want mainstream, you'll find it. Looking for fusion, then look no further. Free jazz, bebop, blues? Step this way. Postjazz? Postjazz? ...

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Article: Profile

Improvised Music Company: Orbital Pathways, Gravitational Pull

Read "Improvised Music Company:  Orbital Pathways, Gravitational Pull" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Arguably some of the most dramatic changes in jazz have taken place in the last quarter of its century-long history: the emergence of a strong European jazz identity/identities; technological advances that empower individuals to become their own producers; Youtube, which has all but erased the boundary between past and present; the increase in pedagogical institutions; pan-national ...


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