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Article: Live Review

Kurt Elling With The Keith Ganz Trio at Jazz Standard

by Dan Bilawsky
August 2, 2016

Kurt Elling With The Keith Ganz Trio Jazz Standard New York, NY July 31, 2016 If there's any genre of music that's truly built on the idea of spur-of-the-moment change, it's jazz. And so, in that very spirit, we had this performance. The audience that came down to hear ...

Article: Out and About: The Super Fans

Meet "Jazz Judy" Judy Balos

by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
August 1, 2016

“Jazz Judy" Balos has earned her nickname. A live music fan since the age of 16 when she saw Nina Simone in concert, this New Yorker has been going out to hear live jazz four or five times a week (sometimes even two or three times a day) for over 50 years; she's even traveled to ...

Article: My Blue Note Obsession

Art Blakey: A Night in Tunisia – 1961

by Marc Davis
August 1, 2016

Dizzy Gillespie's “A Night in Tunisia" has been done almost to death. Wikipedia says it has been recorded at least 500 times and it is the title track to at least 30 albums. It might be the most recorded bop tune of all time. Who did it best? Take your pick. Dizzy ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Columbia Years 1968-1969

by Maurizio Comandini
August 1, 2016

La piccola ma intraprendente casa discografica statunitense, Light in the Attic, in collaborazione con la major Sony/Columbia, piazza un uppercut formidabile che toglie il velo ad uno dei misteri meglio preservati della discografia del secolo scorso. Vengono infatti pubblicati per la prima volta i cinque brani che Betty Davis, nata Betty Mabry e sposata con Miles ...

Article: Lyrics

I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Marcos Varela

by Vincenzo Roggero
July 28, 2016

01. Kenny Barron -Book of Intuition (Impulse -2016). Adoro questo disco e questo trio che ho avuto la fortuna di sentire diverse volte dal vivo. Barron è uno dei miei pianisti preferiti sin da quando da giovane lo ascoltavo nei lavori di Stan Getz, nel suo disco Live at Bradley's e in duo con Charlie ...

Article: Interview

Damión Reid: On Drum Artistry, The Robert Glasper Trio, and Beyond

by K. Shackelford
July 25, 2016

International drummer Damión Reid has crafted a style that is inimitable without sacrificing the ardor of modern jazz and its traditional stylistic approaches to drumming. Listening to Reid is like a history lesson on the drum--he can play everything with artful dexterity from Be-Bop to Hip Hop. Adrian Kirchler, owner of AK drums, was ...

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Article: Interview

Dominic Duval: Follow Your Melody

by Maxim Micheliov
July 22, 2016

In memory of Dominic Duval: 1945-2016. This article was first published in October 2010. Bassist Dominic Duval is a mystery to many—even to those interested in free music. Seemingly emerging out of nowhere in the mid-1990s, over the course of 15 years he has built a formidable discography, firmly establishing him as one of ...

Article: Album Review

Dida Pelled: A Missing Shade of Blue

Read "A Missing Shade of Blue" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
July 22, 2016

Guitarist and vocalist Dida Pelled previous Red Records release, Dida Pelled: Plays and Sings (Red Records, 2011) was one of my pics for Best-of-the-Year in 2011). That recording was so refreshingly organic that it has remained in my listening rotation since that time. Pelled snuck in a self-produced Modern Love Songs (2015) between Plays and Sings ...

Article: Live Review

Montreux Jazz Festival 2016

by Ian Patterson
July 20, 2016

Montreux Jazz Festival 2016 Various Venues Montreux, Switzerland July 9-12, 2016 No matter at what point, or for how long you dipped into the Montreux Jazz Festival during the seventeen days of its 50th edition, the sense of history was palpable. Charles Lloyd was present, just as he was ...

Article: Live Review

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2016

by John Kelman
July 19, 2016

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Montréal, Canada July 3-7, 2016 In many ways, the front of one of the festival's new T-Shirt designs said it all: swing blues soul improvisation latin gospel R 'n' B crossroads silence groove world ...