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Bassist Yosef Gutman Levitt Ventures Inspired Collaboration With Yonathan Avishai On The Rapturously Melodic 'Shir Yedidot'
Bassist and composer Yosef Gutman Levitt of Jerusalem is back with an immersive new release, Shir Yedidot, continuing an inspired series of albums on the Soul Song label. On Shir Yedidot, Levitt explores material springing from melodies that have been adorned with prayer and tears for two thousand years. These tunes, studied with one of the ...
Japanese Composer Ko Tanaka: Jazz, Ballet, And The Fusion Japanese And American Musical Theater
Ko Tanaka, the first Off-Broadway Japanese composer known for his fusion of jazz with American musical theater and Japanese musical traditions, is composing a ballet rendition of the internationally-acclaimed Off-Broadway musical Poupelle of Chimney Town. Tanaka, composer of the musical Poupelle of Chimney Town, which premiered Off-Broadway at New York's Pershing Square Signature Theater in 2024, ...
Forget it, Jake, It's Chinatown
Whenever temperatures soar into the high 90s, my thoughts turn to the Chinatown film score. My Pavlovian reaction dates back to the summer of 1974, when I worked as a ticker-ripper and usher at a General Cinema duplex movie theater before the start of college. Among the many great movies out that summer was the Jack ...
Ali Hugo Breaks New Ground With Genre-defying Jazz Album 'Jazzalane'—Now Streaming
Since making his debut in 2015, singer-songwriter and producer Ali Hugo has become known not just for his eclectic musical journey but also for his ability to adapt, evolve, and lead in an ever-changing music industry. Now, Hugo unveils his boldest project yet: JazzaLane—a full-length jazz album that showcases his evolution as a genre-bending artist and ...
Backgrounder: Joe Puma - East Coast Jazz/3
I love precious jazz guitarists who place a premium on harmony, swing and compelling chords. One of the best in this category was Joe Puma. In the 1950s, Puma was a session sideman on many recordings and led his own groups. He recorded into the 1990s and died in 2000 at age 72. One of his ...
Jazz-con Partners With All About Jazz To Present The Jazz Forward Awards At The Inaugural Jazz-con: 2025!
Jazz-Con, the new global music-business conference dedicated to the future of jazz, announced today that it will partner with All About Jazz—the premier online jazz resource since 1995—to present the Jazz Forward Awards during the inaugural Jazz-Con 2025 (September 15-16, virtual). Founded by Michael Ricci, All About Jazz has spent three decades championing the music, expanding ...
Denny Zeitlin: With a Song in My Heart
Pianist Denny Zeitlin's very first recording was for Columbia in 1963, as a sideman on Jeremy Steig's Flute Fever. His first trio leadership album, Cathexis, came next for Columbia in February 1964, with Cecil McBee on bass and Freddie Waits on drums. Carnival followed in October, with Charlie Haden on bass and Jerry Granelli on drums. ...
Eliot King Smith Teams Up With Audrey Martells (Chic) To Bring To Life The Story Of Josephine Baker
In the 1920s, faced with the grinding poverty and segregation of East St. Louis, Josephine Baker took her dancing and musical talents first to New York, and then, at 19, arrived in Paris to perform with the Folies Bergère. Entranced by her reception and treatment by French society, she rose to stardom almost immediately at the ...
Ryan Truesdell: Gil Evans and Shades of Sound
I love producers and performers who fall madly in love with legacy jazz artists and go the distance to pay tribute to them. I'm thinking of what producer-director Kristian St. Clair did with his 2006 documentary and album This Is Gary McFarland and what jazz historian and album producer Gary Carner did in 2012 with baritone ...
Joe Diorio: A Guitarist's Guitarist
I first became aware of guitarist Joe Diorio in the1970s, when I bought a pair of Sonny Stitt albums on the Argo label—Move on Over (1963) and My Main Man (1964). I was instantly struck by how tasty Diorio played behind Stitt, especially his driving rhythm figures and fills. Born in Waterbury, Ct., in 1936, Diorio ...
