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Article: Album Review

Kris Allen: Beloved

by Mark Corroto
June 14, 2016

You have to love how a sommelier might describe a certain wine. It has “a jammy taste with a sweet attack, leather, tobacco, and very muscular with integrated wood." Listening to saxophonist Kris Allen's Beloved reminds us that jazz listeners use similar terms to describe the music they're hearing. Allen's alto saxophone is flavored with hints ...

Article: Live Review

Andy Milne and Dapp Theory at SOUTH Jazz Kitchen

by Mike Jacobs
May 19, 2016

Andy Milne and Dapp Theory SOUTH Jazz Kitchen Philadelphia, PA May 11, 2016 Venues can be a boon to a jazz show, or a detriment. Seeing Andy Milne and Dapp Theory in the moderately upscale (yet warm and inviting) digs at South turned out to be a huge ...

Article: Album Review

Eric Revis Trio: Crowded Solitudes

Read "Crowded Solitudes" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 6, 2016

Listening to a recording, one can assume, as opposed to attending a performance, involves just one of your five senses, hearing. The concert has of course sight, but something about Eric Revis' Crowded Solitudes suggests other senses to consider. This trio recording follows City Of Asylum (Clean Feed, 2013). Revis has retained pianist Kris Davis, but ...

Article: Live From Philadelphia

Center City Jazz Fest: Five Years Strong

by Geno Thackara
May 6, 2016

Center City Jazz Festival Philadelphia, PA April 30, 2016 “The Fifth Annual Center City Jazz Festival is officially sold out!" Thus tweeted a spokesperson from @ccjazzfest two days before the start of Philadelphia's annual celebration (most likely its founder, local trombonist Ernest Stuart). I'm not sure if there was any backup plan ...

Article: Interview

David Gibson: Propelling The Story Forward

by Dan Bilawsky
February 22, 2016

It's late morning on Sunday, January 17, 2016--a wintry New York day that will later see snow--and much of Brooklyn seems to be in a state of hibernation or hiding. There are few signs of life on the streets, but there's no shortage of action in the basement of the former Public School 9 Annex. That's ...

Article: Live Review

Josh Lawrence Quintet at Chris’ Jazz Café

by Victor L. Schermer
February 9, 2016

Josh Lawrence Quintet Chris' Jazz Cafe Philadelphia, PA February 5, 2016 Josh Lawrence is a top-of-the-line, ascending trumpeter/composer/bandleader in Philadelphia and New York who in a few short years has three solo albums under his name, is a member of Orrin Evans' Captain Black Big Band and is co-founder of ...

Article: Album Review

Aruan Ortiz Trio with Eric Revis and Gerald Cleaver: Hidden Voices

Read "Hidden Voices" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
January 26, 2016

Cuban born pianist and composer Aruán Ortiz is just now starting to broaden his long-overdue recognition after two decades as a leader or collaborator. More than ten years prior to his new trio release, Hidden Voices, he had drawn favorable comparisons to Chick Corea and Ornette Coleman with Aruán Ortiz Trio Vol. 1 (Pimienta Records, 2004). ...

Album

The Evolution Of Oneself

By Orrin Evans

Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: All The Things You Are (prelude); For Miles; Genesis I; Autumn Leaves; Wildwood Flower; Sweet Sid; Genesis II; Jewels & Baby Yaz; Iz Beatdown Time; Spot It You Got It; Genesis III; Feb 13th; A Secret Place; Ruby Red; Tsagli’s Lean; Professor Farworthy; All The Things You Are (Spring Feathers); All The Things You Are.

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Drive

By Michelle Lordi

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Track listing: You're My Thrill; Imagination; True Love; My Ship; If I Only Had a Heart; I Fall in Love Too Easily; My Ideal; Ghost of a Chance; Now at Last;. Drive.

Article: Live Review

34 ° Tampere Jazz Happening

by Luca Vitali
November 18, 2015

Tampere Jazz Happening 2015 Tampere (Finlandia) 29.10- 01.11.2015 Il Tampere Jazz Happening si conferma come un festival di grande vitalità, tra i migliori in Europa. Un'edizione, questa 34^, ancora una volta senza confini geografici né musicali, all'insegna della combinazione tra musica jazz e parola parlata. I cinquemila spettatori paganti ...