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Article: Album Review

Bill Carrothers: Red Planet

Read "Red Planet" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Since the '80s, Michigan pianist Bill Carrothers has inventively and tirelessly fashioned himself an enviable discography, which includes 2008's Home Row (Pirouet Records, 2008) with Gary Peacock and Bill Stewart and 2010's tribute to revered trumpeter Clifford Brown Joy Spring (Pirouet Records, 2010 ). A critical fave on the touring circuit, he's highlighted gigs the world ...

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Article: Album Review

Andrew Kushnir: Influences

Read "Influences" reviewed by Don Phipps


Judging from the album cover, a coffee-filled cup on a drum, one might anticipate that drummer Andrew Kushnir's debut album, Influences, would be a hard charging affair. And Kushnir and his trio (Ryan Slatko on piano and Rick Rosato on bass) do not disappoint. The trio offers up some head-bobbing jazz at its finest.

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Article: Interview

Band Ambition: Sherrie Maricle and Diva

Read "Band Ambition: Sherrie Maricle and Diva" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci


In the iconic photo A Great Day in Harlem (1958), bandleader and pianist Count Basie has taken a seat on the curb. Eleven neighborhood kids and one ringer, Taft Jordan Jr, are seated single file to Basie's right. Marian McPartland and Mary Lou Williams stand behind the kids, chatting. They are bookended, appropriately, by Oscar Pettiford ...

Article: Live Review

Umbria Jazz Winter 2014

Read "Umbria Jazz Winter 2014" reviewed by Libero Farnè


Umbria Jazz Winter 22 Orvieto -27.12.2014-01.01.2015 “Fabrizio Bosso, Danilo Rea, Paolo Fresu... Anat Cohen, Chris Potter, Joe Lovano... vi aspettano a Orvieto per Umbria Jazz Winter." Più o meno di questo tenore era lo spot pubblicitario trasmesso per tutto dicembre sulle stazioni radio della RAI, uno dei media partner del festival; i ...

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Article: Live Review

Roberto Gatto Perfect Trio

Read "Roberto Gatto Perfect Trio" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 22.02.2014 Poteva non essere scontato che l'incontro tra un batterista come Roberto Gatto--veterano del jazz nostrano, ben piantato nella tradizione ancorché aperto a molteplici esperienze--e un musicista inquieto e sperimentatore come Alfonso Santimone potesse avere esiti indiscutibilmente positivi, essendo la diversità tra i due ...

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Article: Album Review

Claudio Cojaniz - Franco Feruglio: Blue Africa

Read "Blue Africa" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Il pianista Claudio Cojaniz rinnova la sua pratica del duo con il contrabbasso--frequentata con successo oltre vent'anni orsono assieme a Giovanni Maier nel mitico album Due--e lo fa con un suo antico compagno di strada, Franco Feruglio, che nel frattempo ha accumulato esperienze nei più diversi territori della musica--dalla classica contemporanea a Ludovico Einaudi, dalla musica ...

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Article: Album Review

David Ake: Bridges

Read "Bridges" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Experimentalist composer Gavin Bryars once proclaimed that “music history has flowed under the bridges for many years." That particular quote adorns the inside flap of pianist David Ake's Bridges which, like Bryars' statement itself, contains many a mystery about music, bridges and history. The pieces that Ake presents herein are modernistic, wide-ranging and wholly original. Melodic ...

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Article: Album Review

Old Time Musketry: Different Times

Read "Different Times" reviewed by Dave Wayne


Brooklyn-based Old Time Musketry is a band whose moniker foreshadows one aspect of the sound it's after, steeped in folk music and Americana. But the quartet's debut, Different Times, contains so much more. First and foremost, Old Time Musketry is a jazz quartet. Sure there's quite a bit of accordion and clarinet on this recording, but ...

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Article: Album Review

Maroney / Ilgenfritz / Niescier / Drury: Mind Games

Read "Mind Games" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


This quartet blurs the borders between orthodox and unorthodox forms of playing, between cerebral, intriguing music making and playful, harmonic articulations, and between sonic explorations of timbral variations, colors and shades, and organic, fluid textures. All these contradictions are blended into a mysterious kaleidoscope of nuanced details, a musical universe of a unique quartet with a ...

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Article: On and Off the Grid

Transitions: Musician To Artist, or Finding Your Own Voice

Read "Transitions: Musician To Artist, or Finding Your Own Voice" reviewed by Dom Minasi


Professional and amateur musicians come in all hats and sizes. There are classical, blues, jazz, country, rock musicians and musicians that specialize in all kinds of music. There are musicians from every corner of the world. If your definition of a musician is someone who: 1. Is a master of his/her instrument;2. Can ...


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