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Wadada Leo Smith / Jack DeJohnette: America
by Troy Collins
Originally proposed to ECM Records in 1979, the collaboration of trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and drummer Jack DeJohnette has finally found new life in America. Recorded last year in Bill Laswell's New Jersey studio (but without his heavy-handed production aesthetic), this unadorned acoustic session documents two of the world's most versatile and virtuosic improvisers working through ...
The Hearing Eye: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art / Thriving on a Riff: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Literature and Film
by Tom Greenland
Representative of what has been coined the “new" jazz studies, these two books are compilations of critical essays edited by Graham Lock and David Murray, which investigate and unpack the role and influence of jazz and blues in African American culture. The Hearing Eye: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art
Miles Davis London Art Exhibition Coming in June
The last exhibition ever of drawings and oil paintings by the late Miles Davis, considered by many to be the worlds greatest jazz musician, will be showcased at The Exchange Court Gallery, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, WC2 OJU, UK, from Monday 1st June 2009. Tel: (44)020 7420 4300. The Exhibition also includes some of the ...
Jazz and Global Music Mix: Conga Kings with Tiempo Libre and John Patitucci, Rufus Reid and Danilo Prez at the Kimmel Center, May 8 and 9
The Kimmel Centers final weekend of jazz concerts for the 2008-09 season includes Miami-based, Cuban-born and internationally renowned artists bringing their own flair of global rhythms to jazz. Click on the name of the artist below for more information on each Kimmel Center performance: Jazz Fridays culminates with Conga Kings and Tiempo Libre performing polyrhythmic Latin ...
Take Five With Chico Hamilton
by AAJ Staff
Meet Chico Hamilton: Known for representing jazz in its purest form, octogenarian Chico Hamilton shows virtually no signs of fatigue. Saluted by the Kennedy Center as a “Living Jazz Legend," and appointed to the National Council on the Arts, Chico Hamilton is considered one of the most important living jazz artists and composers. He is currently ...
Arve Henriksen: Cartography
by Dan McClenaghan
The components of sound that make-up Arve Henriksen's Cartography, the trumpeter's debut as a leader on ECM, reads like a hyper-processed, low-nutrition, junk food for the ear brew: samples, treatments, synthesizer, dictaphone, programming, beats, voice samples. It is a stew of musical inputs, a layering of sounds that mixes ambient and electronica with snippets of soaring ...
Download Three Free MP3s by Composer / Trumpeter Jon Hassell
Learn more about Jon Hassell, then download three free tracks (see below), including one from his latest release Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street on ECM Records. Enjoy! About Jon Hassell Composer/trumpeter Jon Hassell is the visionary creator of a style of music he describes as Fourth World, a mysterious, ...
Tom Warner: Honoring the Legacy
by Victor L. Schermer
Tom Warner recently replaced Mervon Mehta as vice-president of programming for the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, when the latter took the head position at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Among his eclectic musical tastes, the accessible, warm and articulate Warner has a strong interest in jazz.
Trumpeter/Composer Jon Hassell Interviewed at AAJ... And Much, Much More!
He may well be one of the most insidious influences in modern music. Trumpeter, composer and deep thinker Jon Hassell may not have the same name recognition as, say, Miles Davis, but his unmistakable approach to music--he calls it Fourth World music--has affected musicians around the globe, ranging from now friend/co-conspirator Brian Eno, British post-rock crooner ...
Jon Hassell: Fourth World and Balancing the North and South of You
by John Kelman
He may well be one of the most insidious influences in modern music. Trumpeter, composer and deep thinker Jon Hassell may not have the same name recognition as, say, Miles Davis, but his unmistakable approach to music—he calls it Fourth World music—has affected musicians around the globe, ranging from now friend/co-conspirator Brian Eno, British post-rock crooner ...
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