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Listen to This Miles Davis and "Bitches Brew"

March 25, 2015

THE FIRST CLOSE CRITICAL TREATMENT OF THE ALBUM THAT SHOOK JAZZ WITH ITS ELECTRIC SOUND AND ROCK-INFLUENCED STYLE Listen to This stands out as the first book exclusively dedicated to Miles Davis's watershed 1969 album, Bitches Brew. Victor Svorinich traces its incarnations and inspirations for ten-plus years before its release. The album arrived as the jazz ...

Article: Interview

A Fireside Chat With Chris Potter

by AAJ Staff
March 23, 2015

This article was originally published in December 2001.I remember first seeing Chris Potter playing with Paul Motian and most recently with the highly regarded Dave Holland Quintet. His improvement in the two or so years time is nothing short of remarkable. I can only compare his development with Scott Colley, who happens (and not ...

Article: Interview

Glenn Zottola: A Jazz Life - Hollywood, the World and the Stars

by Nicholas F. Mondello
March 21, 2015

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 World-renown trumpeter, saxophonist, musical director, producer and entrepreneur. These are but a mere handful of words that describe the vast talent in Glenn Zottola's bag of musical marvels. There are others: child prodigy, creative genius, “musical natural" and aural savant also percolate rapidly to mind. Now ...

Article: Album Review

Karl Latham / Ryan Carniaux / Mark Egan: Constellations

Read "Constellations" reviewed by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton

by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton
March 21, 2015

If you happened to be in vitro fed Isao Tomita during your pre-personage, you're going to recognise Karl Latham's Constellations electronica subliminally--regardless any jazz/Bjork connections. 70's Japanese synth/horn, space music trembling has that tendency to unhinge a certain primeval magic. Space music in the 21st Century has less artefacts than the 70s first steppers, and more ...

Article: Rediscovery

Jack DeJohnette's Directions: New Rags

by John Kelman
March 20, 2015

Jack DeJohnette's DirectionsNew RagsECM Records1977 Today's Rediscovery is an album that, despite never being released officially on CD, is a relatively regular play chez Kelman, getting spun at least a couple times every year. New Rags (ECM, 1977), the third and, sadly, final recording by drummer Jack DeJohnette's Directions group, pares ...

Article: Interview

Glenn Zottola: A Jazz Life - The Early Years

by Nicholas F. Mondello
March 19, 2015

Article: Interview

Chantale Gagné: Composer on the Rise

by R.J. DeLuke
March 18, 2015

Chantale Gagné has been locked in with some of the best musicians on the scene since the pianist/composer moved to New York City in 2008. She's an import from Quebec. Raised in a rural part of the province, she cut her teeth in jazz circles in Montreal before moving to the Big Apple. She's not only ...

Article: Album Review

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

Read "Kind of Blue" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski
March 17, 2015

In any kind of art form, music including, there are pathfinders who probe new territory and establish new trails, and this breed of people is indeed of a rare kind than the many who follow behind and eventually benefit from their trailblazing. One such pathfinder in the 20th century music was the great Miles Davis.Throughout his ...

News: Book / Magazine

"Don Alias: Stories of a Legendary Percussionist" By Melanie Futorian Available on Kindle

March 17, 2015

The Don Alias ebook is now out. This book recounts the journey of a great, American percussionist who set a new standard in percussion in a multitude of musical genres from Afro Cuban to jazz. From the 1950s into the new millennium, his performances ranged from playing on the streets of Harlem to recording the groundbreaking ...

Article: Interview

Anton Fig: Behind the Band Stand, Part 1

by Ben Scholz
March 14, 2015

Part 1 | Part 2 It's around 3 o'clock in early January, that melancholy time of year where the day perpetually feels like 7 pm. We're standing on West 53rd Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue around the corner from the entrance to The Ed Sullivan Theater. A light haze of snow is falling ...