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News: Website

Improved Searching at All About Jazz and Jazz Near You

Improved Searching at All About Jazz and Jazz Near You

All About Jazz and Jazz Near You readers can now conduct either a website database search or a Google relevancy search from one convenient location by clicking the magnifying glass icon to the left of “Home" directly under “all about jazz" (or “jazz near you") at the top of every page. In addition to fast access ...

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Article: Album Review

Ken Thomson and Slow/Fast: Settle

Read "Settle" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne

There are ways to get to know people really well, really quickly. Many of these fall under the general category: “challenge them, somehow." For a certain time of my life this meant: “go camping with them." Really. If you go camping with a group of people, you will find out a lot about them in a ...

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Article: Album Review

Bebel Gilberto: Tudo

Read "Tudo" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes

On her seventh studio album, Bebel Gilberto follows a path similar to her last two records: a blend of original electronic-enhanced acoustic music sung in English and Portuguese and a handful of covers. Tudo opens with the gentle ballad “Somewhere Else," a track cleverly arranged with the addition of a string quartet led by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. ...

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Article: Album Review

Assaf Kehati Trio: Naked

Read "Naked" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Guitarist Assaf Kehati has never been one to hide behind the impenetrable or the opaque; his art has always been centered on clarity of thought and communicative expressionism, yet he's reached a new level of musical directness and comprehensibility with Naked. On this, his third release, Kehati winnows away anything that could remotely ...

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Article: Album Review

Brian Lynch and Emmet Cohen: Questioned Answer

Read "Questioned Answer" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Four highly regarded musicians from three different age groups come together for a two-leader session resulting in one terrific album. That's Questioned Answer by the numbers, but there's a lot more to the story than basic numerics. The partnership between veteran trumpeter Brian Lynch and rising star pianist Emmet Cohen was born out ...

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Article: Book Review

Jazz Child: A Portrait of Sheila Jordan

Read "Jazz Child: A Portrait of Sheila Jordan" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Jazz Child: A Portrait of Sheila Jordan Ellen Johnson 234 pages ISBN: 978-0-8108-8836-4 Rowman & Littlefield 2014 That Ellen Johnson's revealing portrait of Sheila Jordan is the first full biography of the eighty five-year old Pennsylvanian-born singer reaffirms the notion that the dominant jazz narrative has always lionized ...

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Article: One LP

Sheila Jordan: Charlie Parker, Now's The Time

Read "Sheila Jordan: Charlie Parker, Now's The Time" reviewed by William Ellis

by William Ellis

Sheila Jordan: At home, New York City, 11th February 2014 “This is the first jazz recording I ever heard, it's not even bebop! It's a rebopper! Charlie Parker's Reboppers. “There's a whole story behind this record. Charlie Parker alto, Miles Davis, trumpet, Curley Russell, bass and who's on piano? Hen Gates: ...

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News: Recording

Jonathan Parker To Release Interloper On One Trick Dog Records

Jonathan Parker To Release Interloper On One Trick Dog Records

New York, NY: One Trick Dog Records is pleased to announce the release of Interloper, the second studio album from Washington DC-based saxophonist Jonathan Parker. Recorded at both Peter Karl Studios in Brooklyn, NY and the legendary Inner Ear Studio in Arlington, VA, Interloper features Parker's writing and arranging for jazz octet. While firmly rooted in ...

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Article: Interview

Sheila Jordan: Now's The Time

Read "Sheila Jordan: Now's The Time" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Sheila Jordan, one of the last great jazz vocalists from the bebop era turns eighty six on 18 November. Happy Birthday Sheila! There's much to celebrate. The Pennsylvanian-born singer's remarkable life story has just been published--the first complete biography to cover Jordan's life and career in detail. Written by Ellen Johnson over seven years, Jazz Child: ...

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Article: Album Review

Ron Miles: Circuit Rider

Read "Circuit Rider" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

È pratica ormai diffusa anche tra musicisti dall'assidua frequentazione del jazz avventuroso e sperimentale quella di confrontarsi con registrazioni di tipo “domestico," intime, di tono colloquiale, in economie di mezzi, dove a prevalere è una sorta di understatement interpretativo. Circuit Rider rientra a pieno titolo in questa categoria, presenta tre musicisti di grande spessore, tre maestri ...


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