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News: Recording

Sonny and Horace: 1959

Sonny and Horace: 1959

On Thursday, March 5, 1959, the Sonny Rollins Trio and the Horace Silver Quintet were in Zurich on a joint European tour. Interestingly, Sonny and Silver were at different points in their careers. Silver had yet to crest and would record the fiery Blowin' the Blues Away in August before riding his funk piano style into ...

Article: Lyrics

Things We Like: Novembre 2016

Read "Things We Like: Novembre 2016" reviewed by AAJ Staff


By VIC ALBANI Se state cercando un grande regalo musicale per il prossimo natale, ecco uno dei più dischi più belli e interessanti degli ultimi anni, sopra ogni etichetta, sopra ogni genere. Before the Dawn, raccoglie lo straordinario ritorno sulle scene “una tantum" di sua maestà Kate Bush, vale a dire la ...

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Article: Album Review

Frank Kimbrough: Solstice

Read "Solstice" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Pianist/composer Frank Kimbrough presents a trio album with only one of his originals, a reversal of his usual approach. He was a student of the late Paul Bley, and although there is no formal dedication the program has an air of homage about it. Kimbrough first heard three of the selections played by Bley's mid-60's trio. ...

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Article: Album Review

Friends & Neighbors: What's Wrong

Read "What's Wrong" reviewed by John Sharpe


Norwegian quintet Friends & Neighbors' third CD presents a line up unchanged sinceNo Beat Policy(Øra Grammofon, 2011) and Hymn For A Hungry Nation (Clean Feed, 2014). The moniker gives a clue as to their inspiration, referencing one of Ornette Coleman's less well known albums recorded live at his Prince Street loft and featuring a chorus of ...

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Article: Interview

Ashley Kahn: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece

Read "Ashley Kahn: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece" reviewed by Lazaro Vega


This interview was first published at All About Jazz in November 2000 and is part of our ongoing effort to archive pre-database material. Ashley Kahn, the author of Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece (Da Capo Press, 224 pgs.), is Music Editor at VH1, and was the primary editor ...

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Article: Album Review

Joe McPhee: Flowers

Read "Flowers" reviewed by John Sharpe


Multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee has a long history of solo albums stretching back to Tenor (Hat Hut, 1976). Furthermore he's one of the few improvisers still to regularly perform and record in that format. Flowers, his eleventh unaccompanied release, was recorded at the Jazz ao Centro Festival in Coimbra in 2009 and rescued from obscurity by the ...

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Article: Album Review

Rakalam Bob Moses: Song of the Free Will

Read "Song of the Free Will" reviewed by Dave Wayne


Though Ra Kalam Bob Moses is known primarily for his uncanny and profound drumming skills, few realize that he has forged a unique and highly personal piano style in parallel with his efforts as a percussionist, composer and bandleader. Few remember his wonderful band Compost with that other ineffable drummer / pianist, Jack DeJohnette. Compost recorded ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

I racconti dal profondo di Pacorig e De Rossi

Read "I racconti dal profondo di Pacorig e De Rossi" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Antichi compagni di numerose avventure, un paio d'anni fa coautori del bel CD Kepos, Giorgio Pacorig e Zeno De Rossi escono adesso per Artesuono con un lavoro in duo, Sleep Talking, che nasce principalmente dal desiderio di suonare assieme e, da parte di Pacorig, di dedicarsi finalmente al solo pianoforte dopo anni nei quali aveva usato ...

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Article: Album Review

Nate Wooley: Argonautica

Read "Argonautica" reviewed by Troy Collins


Argonautica reveals a subtle new facet in Nate Wooley's eclectic discography. A celebrated leader of the new trumpet scene, Wooley has expanded the instrument's language by incorporating innovative extended techniques into his bold improvisations. Most of his work has fallen under the banner of lower-case improv, noise or advanced post-bop, but little of his prior output ...

Article: Live Review

Il SF Jazz Collective al Teatro Manzoni di Milano

Read "Il SF Jazz Collective al Teatro Manzoni di Milano" reviewed by Rosarita Crisafi


SF Jazz Collective Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni Milano 30.10.2016 Una strepitosa apertura di stagione per Aperitivo In Converto, la rassegna milanese che propone dei matinée domenicali con i maggiori protagonisti della scena jazz contemporanea internazionale. La 32^ edizione è partita il 30 ottobre con l'ennesimo tutto esaurito. Sul ...


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