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Luis Bonilla, Terri Lyne Carrington, Tony Levin & Otis Taylor
by Martin Longley
The Luis Bonilla Quintet Dizzy's Club March 19, 2013 For two nights only, trombonist Luis Bonilla brought his quintet to Dizzy's Club. The first set on the first evening launched off into an assured blast of convoluted style amalgamation. Many might view Bonilla as a Latin jazz specialist because ...
Chris Massey & The NJP: Whosoever
by Dan Bilawsky
Drummer Chris Massey's debut--Vibrainium (Self Produced, 2011)--was an Art Blakey-influenced quintet date that put a modern slant on the hard bop tradition; this follow-up follows the same guidelines, but puts a greater emphasis on the modern. Massey tips his cap to those who came before him by including an always-in-style standard ("Old Devil ...
Take Five With Lisa Hilton
by AAJ Staff
Meet Lisa Hilton: Lisa Hilton is considered one of the most distinctive composers and pianists in jazz today. Trained as a classical pianist but with a degree in art, she has created her evocative, individualistic and impressionistic “sound paintings" for over a decade as a leader. In the book, The New Face of Jazz, Hilton was ...
A New Matthew Shipp Thirsty Ear Release Is Slated For Fall 2013
On Wednesday February 20, pianist/composer Matthew Shipp recorded his next Thirsty Ear record, Piano Sutras, at Park West Studios in Brooklyn. Jim Clouse was the recording engineer and Thirsty Ear owner Peter Gordon was the producer. It's a solo piano recording of originals by Mr. Shipp plus a couple of standards. Shipp said, “I continue to ...
The Le Boeuf Brothers Release - Le Boeuf Brothers Remixed - Available: April 30 On Nineteen-Eight Records
Featuring new remixes by Remy & Pascal Le Boeuf, David Binney, Tim Lefebvre, “Wolff Parkinson White" (AKA: Jochen Rueckert), Kissy Girls, Lucky Luke & Armand Hirsch The Le Boeuf Brothers will be appearing at: Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola on April 3 and The 55 Bar on April 7! “This group has an impressively self-assured new album, “House ...
Meet Dom Minasi
by AAJ Staff
I currently live in: New York, NY I joined All About Jazz in: 2012 What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? All About Jazz is the first thing I read in the morning, there is a wealth of information and I thought as a working musician I could offer ...
Thomas Chapin: New Jazz Film Goes to Kickstarter.com for Global Fundraising Campaign - Final Days!
FINAL DAYS OF KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN New jazz film is using kickstarter.com to raise money to shoot a music biography/ documentary in the NYC area, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Europe EMMY-winning filmmaker Stephanie J. Castillo is running a 45-day global fundraising campaign at kickstarter.com to raise $50,000 to begin shooting her feature-length documentary film, NIGHT BIRD ...
Curtis Hasselbring: Number Stations
by Glenn Astarita
Many avant-garde composers, leaders or conductors employ various mechanisms to instruct the band for a specific composition. Here, longtime New York City alternative composer, trombonist Curtis Hasselbring integrates an all-star lineup for pieces inspired by a random series of numbers, based on shortwave radio stations. Hasslebring iterates that these pieces are hypothetically decoded and provide cryptic ...
Dave Douglas Quintet Celebrates The Release Of "Time Travel," 50th Birthday At Jazz Standard March 28-31
The year 2013 marks trumpeter Dave Douglas's 50th birthday year and he will celebrate it this week at the Jazz Standard March 28th-31st with his new quintet featuring saxophonist Jon Irabagon, the pianist Matt Mitchell, the bassist Linda Oh and the drummer Rudy Royston. “The strength of the quintet," Douglas argues, “is a testament to the ...
Ryan Keberle + Catharsis: Music Is Emotion
by Dan Bilawsky
Music can be defined, analyzed and categorized, but those formal processes do little to help demystify the effect it can have on people. That's because music's power isn't directly related to the science behind the sound; music truly makes its mark through emotional connectivity, and trombonist Ryan Keberle is keenly aware of this. ...
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