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Giovanni Maier: The Talking Bass
by Mark Corroto
Students of jazz have long known that the bassist can be the hippest musician on the bandstand, constantly listening, and rarely featured. That's why, when a first class bassist like Giovanni Maier gets a chance to lead and present his compositions, it should be a special event. That is just what The Talking Bass is: a ...
UCLA Live Presents Alice Coltrane Tribute Dec. 5 All-star evening includes performances from McCoy Tyner, Kyp Malone, Nels Cline, Han Bennink, Daniel Carter, Michael White & Leisei Chen, Radha Botofasina, plus Flying Lotus and special guests
UCLA Live Presents Alice Coltrane Tribute Dec. 5 All-star evening includes performances from McCoy Tyner, Kyp Malone, Nels Cline, Han Bennink, Daniel Carter, Michael White & Leisei Chen, Radha Botofasina, plus Flying Lotus and special guests LOS ANGELES—A host of jazz luminaries and some of modern music's most exciting artists gather on the Royce Hall stage ...
Nels Cline: Dirty Baby
by Mark Corroto
Those not hearing Nels Cline's music lately just aren't listening. Besides gracing rock band Wilco's albums and live shows, he seems to be the hottest jazz/improv guitarist of late. Right on the heels of his two-disc Initiate (Cryptogramophone, 2010)--maybe the jazz record of the year--he drops another double set, Dirty Baby, which is part of an ...
Various Artists: I Never Meta Guitar
by Mark Corroto
There are no fans of the guitar in today's creative music--they are better described as fanatics, or devotees. But then the guitar has always caused listeners to choose sides. I'm a fan of Jimmy Page and you, Pete Townshend--or do you prefer Wes Montgomery to my Jim Hall. John McLaughlin or Pete Cosey? Some of these ...
Scott Amendola Trio: Lift
by Troy Collins
A virtuosic salvo of dynamic trap set flourishes introduces “Tudo De Bom," the Brazilian-influenced number that opens Lift, the debut of the Scott Amendola Trio, reinforcing the fact that this drummer-led session has no intention of forgoing percussive invention in favor of austere compositional strategies.A stalwart sideman to such notable West Coast improvisers as ...
Take Five With Todd Clouser
by AAJ Staff
Meet Todd Clouser:A young, genre-defying guitarist, composer, and writer, Berklee graduate Todd Clouser is an accomplished musician across the modern jazz and rock spectrum, leading a unique path to recognition as an up-and-coming act, finding his own voice performing with musicians from Keb' Mo' to Downtown NYC jazz legend, Steven Bernstein.Clouser's impassioned ...
Scott Amendola Trio: Lift
by Nick Millevoi
Scott Amendola is probably best known as the drummer with the Nels Cline Singers, a guitar trio with detailed compositions, high-energy improvisations, and an oft-exhibited ability to shift gears at a moment's notice. On Lift, his first album since 2005's Believe (Cryptogramophone), Amendola debuts his own take on the guitar trio format, with guitarist Jeff Parker ...
Take Five with Albert Beger
by AAJ Staff
Meet Albert Beger:Albert Beger, the free-jazz pioneer and innovator, with his ninth album Peacemaker. Accompanied by his new electro-acoustic band, combining acoustic instruments and noise/glitches laptop works. Albert brings his music to a new level of creation and band dynamic. Following his critically acclaimed Big Mother, Peacemaker returns to a more personal, introspective observation ...
Pori Jazz and its Ultra Music scene
by Anthony Shaw
Pori Jazz Festival--Ultra Music NightsPori FinlandJuly 17--25, 2010 Pori Jazz trucks on--this was its 45th year of action, still housed on the banks of the River Kokemäki and with links spread to all corners of this normally rather sleepy town on Finland's west coast. This year it ran concurrently ...
Huntsville: Eco, Arches & Eras
by Anthony Shaw
"Eras" actually comprises the majority of Huntsville's whole double-CD Eco, Arches & Eras, recorded live at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival in 2007. It therefore typifies the trio's live sound, although here they are augmented by guests from Wilco--percussionist Glenn Kotche and guitarist Nels Cline. The band specializes in the gradual build-up of powerful ...
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