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News: Interview

Muhal Meets the Warriors Part 4/4

April 19, 2012

Leading up to the April 28th premiere at Montgomery County Community College of a new piece written by Muhal Richard Abrams for Bobby Zankel's Warriors of the Wonderful Sound, music writer Shaun Brady (JazzTimes, Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia Inquirer) will be contributing a series of blog posts about the project. This is the second installment of Brady's four-part ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Nino Rota: Collector Nino Rota

by Chris May
April 3, 2012

Nino Rota was a composer who stretched the imagination, though he was not, by any stretch of the imagination, a jazz composer. Classically trained, at the Milan conservatoire and Rome's Santa Cecilia academy, Rota composed ten operas, five ballets and a great amount of orchestral and chamber music. He counted Igor Stravinsky and Arturo Toscanini among ...

News: Music Industry

Muhal Meets the Warriors Part 2/4

February 29, 2012

Leading up to the April 28th premiere at Montgomery County Community College of a new piece written by Muhal Richard Abrams for Bobby Zankel's Warriors of the Wonderful Sound, music writer Shaun Brady will be contributing a series of blog posts about the project. This is the second installment of Brady's four-part series. A Conversation With ...

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Article: Book Review

Kathy Sloane: Keystone Korner - Portrait Of A Jazz Club

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 26, 2012

Keystone Korner: Portrait Of A Jazz ClubKathy Sloane 220 pages; audio CDISBN: 978-0-253-35691-8Indiana University Press2012 Photographer Kathy Sloane's Keystone Korner: Portrait Of A Jazz Club is a love letter: a love letter to something more than just a business, to something less than ...

News: Performance / Tour

Muhal Meets the Warriors Part 1/4

January 25, 2012

Different Than The Different: Bobby Zankel and the Warriors of the Wonderful Sound meet Muhal Richard Abrams On April 28 at Montgomery County Community College, Bobby Zankel’s big band the Warriors of the Wonderful Sound will premiere a new piece written for the ensemble by legendary pianist/composer Muhal Richard Abrams. Recently, at his West Philadelphia home, ...

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Article: Interview

Jack DeJohnette: Time and Space

by John Kelman
January 9, 2012

It begins with the sound of a resonating bell, followed by a gently cascading piano solo that gradually assumes shape and form, hovering around two chords and creating an inviting ambiance that resolves with another ringing of the bell, segueing gently into the groove-heavy “Salsa for Luisito." The track is “Enter Here," and the album is ...

Album

SoundDance

By Muhal Richard Abrams

Label: Black Saint
Released: 2011

Article: Album Review

Muhal Richard Abrams: SoundDance

Read "SoundDance" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 3, 2011

Registrati dal vivo tra il 2009 e il 2010, i due concerti di questo disco ci regalano il dialogo tra il pianoforte di Muhal Richard Abrams e - rispettivamente - il sax tenore di Fred Anderson e il trombone [+ laptop] di George Lewis, tre pilastri della storia dell'AACM di Chicago, il cui pensiero musicale riesce ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Muhal Richard Abrams

September 19, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Muhal Richard Abrams' birthday today! Muhal Richard Abrams..... World renowned pianist and composer has been in the forefront of the contemporary music scene for well over forty years. Muhal is a co-founder of The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), founder of The AACM School of Music and President ...

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Article: Interview

Patrick Brennan: Rhythms of Passion

by Ludwig vanTrikt
August 23, 2011

Since moving to New York City in 1975, one-time bassist/painter Patrick Brennan has crafted a musical path that is open in its candor and indebtedness to all facets of black music. Much like trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, the alto saxophonist brews a thicket of his own distinct musical language that “unlike much contemporaneous vanguard music is ...