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Tony Allen: An Autobiography Of The Master Drummer Of Afrobeat
by Chris Becker
Tony Allen: An Autobiography Of The Master Drummer Of Afrobeat Michael Veal ISBN: 978-0-8223-5591-5 Duke University Press 2013 First of all, drummers are going to love this book. With so few autobiographies of drummers in print, the publication of Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of ...
Ron Aprea: Remembering Blakey
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Legendary drummer Art Blakey, he of the eponymous Jazz Messengers, is regularly attributed with saying: “Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life." Well, if that's the case, this superb recording from saxophonist Ron Aprea and his cleaning crew certainly left the studio spotless, and themselves, to be somewhat crude but oh-so accurate, assless.This ...
Nate Wooley - Peter Evans - Jim Black - Paul Lytton: Trumpet and Drums: Live in Ljubljana
by Glenn Astarita
Given the unorthodox instrumentation, there's a little more than meets the eyes and ears on this quartet effort recorded at a jazz festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Each musician is highly respected within the progressive and avant jazz communities. Yet the band doesn't bridge the playing field with tireless bashing and cacophonous exchanges, which are components that ...
New World Records Proudly Releases Saxophonist/Composer Marty Ehrlich's New Recording, A Trumpet In The Morning
Available on November 12, 2013 A Trumpet in the Morning is Ehrlich's first recording in 13 years devoted entirely to his large ensemble compositions, featuring J.D. Parran, Ron Horton, James Zollar, Howard Johnson, Ray Anderson, Jerome Harris, Uri Caine, Drew Gress, Eric McPherson, Matt Wilson & many others MARTY EHRLICH STONE RESIDENCY @ The ...
All About Jazz Update: News From the Publisher (October 2013)
With so many improvements and changes happening at AAJ and Jazz Near You, I wanted to give you a quick update: We relaunched the All About Jazz forum. It’s much improved with enhanced functionality and much faster. We welcome old friends back and invite new friends to join us. We also created two new “tools and ...
Take Five With Janis Siegel
by AAJ Staff
Meet Janis Siegel: Over the past four decades, the voice of Janis Siegel, a nine-time Grammy winner and a seventeen-time Grammy nominee, has been an undeniable force in The Manhattan Transfer's diverse musical catalog. Alongside her career as a founding member of this musical institution, Siegel has also sustained a solo career that has spawned ...
Dimitrije Vasiljevic To Perform Solo Piano Concert at Tenri Cultural Institute on Oct 11
Dimitrije Vasiljevic, New-York based award-winning pianist, will hold a solo piano concert on October 11, 2013 at 8pm at Tenri Cultural Institute of New York. This jazz concert will include Vasiljevic’s own compositions as well as several original arrangements of songs by Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis. Dimitrije Vasiljevic is performing extensively at renowned ...
BJURecords Proudly Releases Composer Joshua Shneider's Debut Recording, The Joshua Shneider Love Speaks Orchestra
Featuring Lucy Woodward and Dave Stryker Available October 29, 2013 CD Release Celebration - Tuesday, November 19, 2013 @ ShapeShifter Lab The Joshua Shneider Love Speaks Orchestra Featuring Dave Stryker & Saundra Williams (of Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings) Showtime is 8 PM, cover is $10, 18 Whitwell Place, Brooklyn, NY, Tel 646 820 9452 ...
Ted Nash: The Goal Is Creativity
by R.J. DeLuke
A New York City morning often starts early, sometimes 6 a.m., for this musician who is trying to elongate the hours available in a day. There's a lot to get to. Practicing the saxophone or flute. Sitting down to go through the elusive and demanding task of writing music worthy of the plateau, which these days ...
Yellowjackets: A Rise in the Road
by Ian Patterson
With the departure of bassist Jimmy Haslip in 2012, pianist Russell Ferrante is the sole original member, more than three decades after the band's debut recording Yellowjackets (Warner Bros, 1981) set the ball rolling. That said, saxophonist Bob Mintzer has been onboard 22 years and drummer Will Kennedy 14. Not for nothing does the twenty second ...
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