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Article: Interview

Tom Lawton: Jazz and the Modern Art of Man Ray

Read "Tom Lawton: Jazz and the Modern Art of Man Ray" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer

by Victor L. Schermer

In his book, Jazz Modernism: From Ellington And Armstrong To Matissse And Joyce (Yale University Press 2004), author Alfred Appel depicts the numerous but easily overlooked parallels between jazz music and modern art and literature. Many jazz musicians are art aficionados, and many of the twentieth century's great artists loved jazz and often kept record collections. ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Mads La Cour e il Questionario di Proust

Read "Mads La Cour e il Questionario di Proust" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Mads La Cour: Onestà e sincerità. AAJ: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. M.L.C.: La capacità di creare uno spazio libero all'interno di una forma rigida. AAJ: Come musicista, il momento in cui ...

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Article: Album Review

Sands Fonnesbæk Riel: Take One

Read "Take One" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey

In October 2014 pianist Christian Sands, a protégé of Billy Taylor, known mainly for with his work with bassist Christian McBride's trio, played two nights to remember at Copenhagen's legendary jazz club Montmartre. The highlights are captured on this Storyville double album. Sands plays with (rather than is accompanied by) phenomenal local bassist ...

Article: Book Review

Possibilities - L'autobiografia

Read "Possibilities - L'autobiografia" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi

Possibilities -L'autobiografia Herbie Hancock con Lisa Dickey 366 Pagine ISBN: 978-88-7521-667-2 Minimum Fax 2015 Da mezzo secolo Herbie Hancock è un protagonista del jazz e di generi popolari come funk, rock, rap, pop e reciproche commistioni. È il musicista che più ogni altro ha scorazzato nelle nuove tecnologie, ...

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Article: Album Review

Barry Altschul's 3dom Factor: Tales of the Unforeseen

Read "Tales of the Unforeseen" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

Barry Altschul made his mark on the musical world at a time of both turmoil and guarded acceptance. Charles Lloyd's quartet, with the unknown pianist Keith Jarrett, was bridging a gap with psychedelic rock at the Fillmore West; Miles Davis' Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970) along with the work of groups like Weather Report, the Mahavishnu Orchestra ...

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Article: Album Review

Joe Albany: Now's The Time

Read "Now's The Time" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Pianist Joe Albany (1924-1988) is a musicological artifact within an art form full of them. Most recently, Albany has garnered attention through the movie and soundtrack Low Down (Bona Fide Productions, 2014, directed by Jeff Priess) based on the bracing, stream-of-conscience memoire written by his daughter, Amy-Jo Albany. His is a story told many times: near-genius ...

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Article: Album Review

Arshak Sirunyan: Serendipity

Read "Serendipity" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

Pianist/composer Arshak Sirunyan last offered up a startlingly good multi-media, cross-genre collection with Hoodman's Blind (Self-produced, 2014). That recording found the Armenian born musician tackling the complexities of translating a medieval contest of strategy to an engaging musical concept. The success of that album hinged--in no small part--on Sirunyan's ability to blend disparate elements of chamber, ...

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Article: Album Review

London, Meander, Pramuk & Ross: The Royal Bopsters Project

Read "The Royal Bopsters Project" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

In the beginning, and by “beginning" I mean the February 26, 1926 commitment to shellac of Boyd Atkins' “Heebie Jeebies" by one Louis Armstrong. Legend has it that Armstrong dropped his lyric sheet while recording the song and no words to sing, began to improvise his vocals, creating scat singing. This was one of the first ...

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Article: Album Review

Fred Hersch: Solo

Read "Solo" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan

To paraphrase the famous remark Miles Davis made about Bill Evans, Fred Hersch plays the piano the way it ought to be played. This album documents a live performance from August, 2014, which was not originally intended for release. But when Hersch listened to it, he changed his mind. “I firmly believe this may be the ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

The Weave: Knowledge Porridge

Read "The Weave: Knowledge Porridge" reviewed by Phil Barnes

by Phil Barnes

Once there was a time when to be an individual meant pursuing self-realisation, working out who you were, how you felt about the world and what you believed for yourself. If that meant that say Thelonious Monk, Sun Ra or Charles Mingus were viewed as eccentrics then too bad, it was just how they were or ...


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