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Joe Locke at Dizzy's in NYC, January 26, 2010
by Ernest Barteldes
Joe Locke Dizzy's Club New York, New York January 26, 2010 Columbus Circle and Central Park South were the backdrop for Joe Locke and his band (Geoffrey Keezer: piano; George Mraz: bass; Clarence Penn: drums; Kenny Washington, vocals) as they began their six-day residence at Dizzy's Club in New ...
Jamie Cullum Releases "The Pursuit" & Upcoming US Tour Dates
JAMIE CULLUM LAUNCHES ONE MAN BRITISH INVASION" OF AMERICA GOLDEN GLOBE & GRAMMY NOMINEE ANNOUNCES MARCH TOUR DATES AND RELEASE OF NEW ALBUM THE PURSUIT ON MARCH 2, 2010 English singer/songwriter/pianist/multi-instrumentalist Jamie Cullum, who has been dubbed a one man British invasion" (Hollywood Reporter), has announced a series of US tour dates to coincide with the ...
Jeremy Pelt Taking a Ride on Jazzs Main Line
The trumpeter Jeremy Pelt has spent most of the last decade as a young exemplar, traveling the postbop continuum on his own steam, at his own pace. As a bandleader he has plunged headlong into funk and dipped a toe in chamber orchestration, but the larger theme of his output seeks a footing on the bedrock ...
Mark Berman ("Sex and the City") Returns to NYC's "Top of the Rock" February 24
Mark Berman, jazz piano star notable for his hot montuno piano playing on HBO's Sex and the City" theme song, as well as for his live playing with such stars as Aretha Franklin, Mark Murphy, and Wycliffe Gordon, to name but a few, brings his jazz trio to the 67th Floor Weather Room at the Top ...
Tim Kuhl's - Pandora's Box @ Goodbye Blue Monday on February 4
From Tim Kuhl: Hello AAJ Readers, Thursday Feb. 4th @ 11pm, I have a special free improvisation group performing at this years Sounds Like Brooklyn Music Festival presented by BAM. Very excited about this group... Tim Kuhl's - PANDORA'S BOX Jonathan Moritz - Saxophones
Brad Mehldau Rides Again
When Brad Mehldau released Largo in 2002, I remember thinking it was high-time the era's greatest jazz pianist ventured beyond his comfy acoustic trio. Since signing a deal with the now-defunct Warner Jazz at the tender age of 24, Mehldau had released six piano trio records with the same personnel (Larry Grenadier on bass, Jorge Rossy ...
POW! Darius Jones
The Brooklyn jazz scene has been a boon to New York, fostering a defiantly local culture that the city's biggest clubs (Blue Note, Vanguard, etc) sometimes lack. In Greenwich Village, you see top jazz stars deliver polished performances; at Brooklyn events like the New Languages Festival, you see scruffy young musicians experimenting, developing, emerging. Yet there's ...
AAJ's Guide to NYC Jazz Venues in the New Decade
by Matthew Miller
In its nearly eight years of existence, All About Jazz has become the foremost chronicler of live jazz in New York City. Our monthly issues, like bibles in hotel rooms, have found a place in nearly every jazz venue in the city and concertgoers have looked to its pages to keep them abreast of new arrivals. ...
Count Basie: Live in Berlin & Stockholm 1968
by Graham L. Flanagan
Count Basie Live in Berlin & Stockholm 1968 Impro Jazz 2009 Every jazz fan, while listening to an album by one of their favorite legends of the genre, occasionally closes their eyes to imagine what it might have been like actually to be there for the recording itself. ...
Harry Allen: New York State of Mind
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The big, fat, warm and tender tone of Harry Allen's tenor saxophone is impossible to miss. There is no one who sounds quite like him, and that is probably because no other saxophonist has embraced the tenor horn in a similar way. No one since Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster has mined the wealth of that ...

