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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with pianist, composer Itamar Dahan

by AAJ Staff
June 14, 2025

Meet Itamar Dahan Itamar Dahan is a Brooklyn-based jazz pianist, composer, and producer originally from Israel. Known for his deeply lyrical style and bold harmonic language, he has performed with legendary artists including NEA Jazz Master Reggie Workman, Billy Hart, Omer Avital, and David Broza. A graduate of The New School's Jazz program on a full ...

Article: Rising Stars

Introducing Pianist Holly Bean

by Sanford Josephson
May 25, 2025

For Holly Bean, in her last semester at Juilliard, it was the summit of a long journey that began when, as a three-year-old, she started playing on the piano in her Oak Ridge, TN, home. “I would hop on top of the bench and try to copy my mom, who plays piano and organ," she said. ...

Article: Album Review

Rodney Jordan: Memphis Blue

Read "Memphis Blue" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 30, 2025

On Memphis Blue, acclaimed bassist Rodney Jordan bows deeply to his Tennessee hometown via a series of charming and largely blues-tailored themes that are designed to trace the city's unique character and heritage. Jordan wrote four of them, including the album's title song and animated tributes to trumpeter Roy Hargrove and drummer Art Blakey.

Article: Live Review

Sesto Jazz 2025

by Neri Pollastri
March 27, 2025

Sesto Jazz Teatro Della Limonaia Sesto Fiorentino 7-9 marzo 2025 Come ogni anno, la Scuola di Musica Bruno Bartoletti e Music Pool portano il grande jazz a Sesto Fiorentino con le tre serate di Sesto Jazz, grazie anche alla direzione artistica di Alessandro Lanzoni, che invita i migliori musicisti incontrati sui ...

Article: Interview

Kenny Garrett Speaks Through The Soul of His Jazz

by Dean Nardi
February 10, 2025

Mental bungee-jumping may not be their sport of choice, but a cerebral ledge exists that sooner or later every jazz musician must leap off. One day, ready or not, tuning up or shaking down their instrument, they will glance in a mirror, hug a pregnant mother-to-be, second-line a funeral, walk in the deepest, dark woods, chance ...

Article: Album Review

Hans Luchs: The Spell is Broken

Read "The Spell is Broken" reviewed by Artur Moral

by Artur Moral
January 24, 2025

The third record by NYC-based guitarist Hans Luchs arrives six years after his praiseworthy--but largely overlooked--sophomore release, Until Next Time (Self Produced, 2018). As with that album, the Chicagoan embraces the well-known motto of “less is more," distilling his guitar expertise and writing talent into less than forty minutes across eight new original compositions.

Article: Interview

Russell Gunn: No Safety Net, No Overdubs, Just Pure and Original

by Dean Nardi
January 6, 2025

One of the reasons podcasts have become so popular is they provide listeners with the experience of hearing people live, raw and unedited with no safety net as opposed to reading an article in a magazine or on the Internet. Even a Question & Answer interview is edited to remove repetitive comments and all the “ums" ...

Article: Rising Stars

Introducing Vocalist April May Webb

by Sanford Josephson
January 5, 2025

When April May Webb was attending William Paterson University more than 10 years ago, pianist Mulgrew Miller, who was Director of Jazz Studies, came to one of her ensemble classes and played a Sarah Vaughan record. “He kinda was trying to fool me," Webb said. “He didn't tell me who it was, and he asked me, ...

Article: Album Review

Alliance: Alliance

by Jack Bowers
December 24, 2024

Alliance is an impressive all-female co-op quartet whose self-titled debut album, recorded in 2023, offers a luminous snapshot of their remarkable talent and versatility. Reed virtuoso Sharel Cassity, an alumna of New York City's world-class DIVA Jazz Orchestra, oversees the front line, while pianist Hannah Meyer provides an eloquent reciprocal perspective and shares the essential rhythmic ...

Article: Album Review

Chris Rottmayer: Being

Read "Being" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
October 10, 2024

One thing is for sure. If a listener comes upon a recording based on the music of Mulgrew Miller and Woody Shaw, there are unlimited possibilities for a harmonic education. Both players were revered for their sophistication and the beauty of the melodies they created. So it hardly seems odd that someone, here pianist Chris Rottmayer, ...