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Muhal Richard Abrams has been in the forefront of the contemporary music scenefor well over forty years. Muhal is a co-founder of TheAssociation for the Advancement of Creative Musicians(AACM), founder of The AACM School of Music andPresident of The Association for the Advancement ofCreative Musicians, New York City Chapter. Muhal was thefirst recipient of the grand international jazz award, "TheJazzPar Prize", which was awarded to him in 1990 by theDanish Jazz Center in Copenhagen, Denmark.. In 1999Muhal was presented a proclamation by Richard M. Daley,Mayor of the City of Chicago, declaring April 11, 1999 asMuhal Richard Abrams Day in Chicago.
Remembering Jack DeJohnette: Unlimited Imagination
by Ian Patterson
It is with sadness that All About jazz must report the passing of NEA Jazz Master Jack DeJohnette--one of the most respected and influential of modern jazz drummers. He died of congestive heart failure on October 26, 2025. He was 83. DeJohnette belongs in the pantheon of great jazz drummers. If there were a ...
Amina Claudine Myers: Solace of the Mind
by Alberto Bazzurro
Un pianismo decisamente nero, peraltro senza alcun tipo di didascalismo o forzatura, è quanto ci arriva da questo nuovo lavoro, solitario, di Amina Claudine Myers, inciso alla fine di ottobre del 2023 e freschissimo di pubblicazione. Amina, classe 1942, come più o meno tutti sanno (o dovrebbero comunque sapere) è una delle figure di riferimento (al ...
Amina Claudine Myers: Solace of the Mind
by Troy Dostert
One of the under-heralded legends of the jazz avant-garde, keyboardist Amina Claudine Myers is finally getting her due. An early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the mid-1960s, her efforts were sometimes overshadowed by outsized colleagues such as Muhal Richard Abrams, Lester Bowie, or Henry Threadgill. But recent years have ...
Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith
by Hobart Taylor
New music from Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith, Kneebody, Claire Cope and Ensemble C, and remembering Roy Ayers. Playlist Roy Ayers “Hey Lover" from Jazz Is Dead #1 (Jazz Is Dead) 0:00 Roy Ayers Ubiquity “We Live In Brooklyn, Baby" from He's Coming (Verve) 2:24 Chien Chien Lu “ We Live In Brooklyn, ...
Kris Davis: Run the Gauntlet
by John Sharpe
While Kris Davis hews close to the hallowed piano trio format on Run The Gauntlet, her first return to the set-up since Waiting For You To Grow (Clean Feed, 2014), she inevitably gives it a few intriguing twists. By recruiting bassist Robert Hurst, alumni of Tony Williams, Steve Coleman and Wynton and Branford Marsalis, and drummer ...
Brandon Ross Phantom Station: Off the End
by Vic Albani
"Navigando tra luce e oscurità, con Off the End, Brandon Ross Phantom Station offre una cerimonia che è allo stesso tempo aperta e strettamente focalizzata, rivelando uno spirito impavido slegato da vincoli stilistici." Le poche parole tratte dalla recensione pubblicata da “Jazz Trail" inquadrano perfettamente e in poche parole il sunto stilistico del nuovo lavoro discografico ...
Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre: Live From Studio Rivbea
by John Sharpe
Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre is in some ways the forgotten man of Chicago's pioneering Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). He appears on two of the first albums to come out of the collective: Roscoe Mitchell's Sound (Delmark, 1966) and Muhal Richard Abrams' Levels And Degrees Of Light (Delmark, 1968); and was the leader of ...
Take Five With Saxophonist / Composer Wataru Uchida
by AAJ Staff
About Wataru Uchida Wataru Uchida is a saxophonist and composer who has been leading jazz projects in New York City since 2003. He studied saxophone performance and composition with Chico Freeman. In 2001, Wataru worked as a teaching assistant of Rory Stuart's rhythm analysis class at New School University Jazz & Contemporary Music program. ...
My Conversation with Anthony Braxton
by AAJ Staff
This article first appeared on All About Jazz in September 2001. In Puccini's Tosca, the lead heroine sings “Vissi d'arte" in the second act. It is with passion and anguish then that the audience understands the opera singer Floria Tosca is asking the heavens why she has suffered so much for her art when ...
