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Guitarist John Scofield Presents Eric Krasno & Nigel Hall in Shades of Jazz at the Katonah Museum of Art
The Katonah Museum of Art invites you to enjoy an early summer evening of art and jazz with the second Shades of Jazz concert of the new season. As curator for the series, legendary guitarist John Scofield presents some of the brightest talents in jazz today and jams with them at the end of each performance ...
Laurie Antonioli: A Constellation In The West
by C. Michael Bailey
While vocalist Laurie Antonioli may not be a household name, she is not exactly an unknown quantity. The Bay area native has been singing pre-professionally and professionally since the late 1970s, initially influenced by the diamond songwriting talents of Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Neil Young. She took a right turn listening to her grandmother's 78s ...
Jan Bang: Head, Shoulders, Hips, Knees and Toes
by John Kelman
When it comes to organically integrating modern technology into music, few countries are innovating to the degree of Norway, and at the epicenter of that country's forward-thinking approach to melding improvisation with jazz and Norwegian traditionalism--not to mention contemporary classicism, pop, ambient and more; truly any and all musical markers--is producer/remixer/sampler Jan Bang, who has just ...
Jan Bang: ….and poppies from Kandahar
by John Kelman
It's rare for an album to quietly shake the foundation of what music is...and can be. Fifteen years after Jan Bang first innovated the concept of live sampling--turning an Akai MPC 3000 sampler into a true improvising instrument by sampling other musicians in real time and feeding processed musical ideas back; pushing and pulling the music ...
Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Rekindles Cuban Fire Suite
by Jack Bowers
On June 5, 2010, with the temperature in Albuquerque hovering around 100 degrees, the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra couldn't have wished for a better time to perform Johnny Richards' incendiary Cuban Fire suite, first recorded in 1956 by the Stan Kenton Orchestra. The sold-out concert was the opening event in the city's annual Jazz and Blues Under ...
Steve Tibbetts: Natural Causes
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
First things first: this is a mellow record. A very mellow record. Not Ben Webster mellow, or Antonio Carlos Jobim mellow, or Morton Feldman mellow, but rather, a record of music depicting a kind of quietism: profoundly passive contemplation. And it's not clear that quietism is a direction all jazz fans will want to go.
Take Five With Dave Chisholm
by AAJ Staff
Dave Chisholm is a trumpet player and composer who currently lives in Salt Lake City. He is moving to Rochester, NY in the fall of 2010 to pursue his DMA at the Eastman School of Music. He has his bachelor and masters degrees from the University of Utah. Dave's first album, Radioactive, is coming ...
Sonny Rollins Receives Miles Davis Award at Montreal Jazz Festival
The Montreal Jazz Festival bestowed awards on three of the biggest names in jazz over the weekend, including Sonny Rollins, who won the Miles Davis Award. The tenor saxophonist, a legend on the jazz scene for five decades, was presented with the award Sunday ahead of his concert at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier. Nicknamed the Saxophone Colossus," he ...
Marian Petrescu: Thrivin'
by Larry Taylor
Called The Horowitz of the Piano" by French jazz great Martial Solal (under whom he studied) pianist Marian Petrescu's dazzling technique--reminiscent of the late Oscar Peterson--is on full display with Thrivin', recorded at New York's Jazz Standard. Petrescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1970. Coming from a large family of musicians, he ...
Gabriel Zufferey: Hear & Know
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
This satisfying, varied and coherent date sounds like the work of a mature group leader, but in fact it is only the second release from twenty-something Swiss pianist Gabriel Zufferey. His first, Après l'orage, a trio outing with heavyweight French drummer Daniel Humair and bassist Sébastien Boisseau, came out on Bee Jazz in 2005 to very ...

