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Orrin Evans: Walk a Mile in His Shoe
by David Bixler
The shoes that grace the cover of Orrin Evans' new record are special shoes from his childhood that were necessitated by being born with Neurofibromatosis. The record is called Walk a Mile in My Shoe (Imani Records) and the shoes are a reminder of his condition and the impact that this neurological disorder has had on ...
Vision Festival 2024
by Luciano Rossetti
A collection of photos from the Vision Festival 2024 in Brooklyn at the Roulette Theatre, from June 18 to June 23, 2024 featuring William Parker, James Brandon Lewis, Dave Burrell, Matthew Shipp, Orrin Evans, Darius Jones, Ingrid Laubrock, Jen Shyu, Ava Mendoza, James Blood Ulmer, Amina Claudine Myers, Isaiah Collier, Marshall Allen Sun Ra Arkestra, Rob ...
Detroit Jazz Festival 2024: The Year of Alice
by Paul Rauch
Detroit Jazz Festival 2024 Hart Plaza & Campus Martius Detroit, MI August 30-September 2, 2024 An annual pilgrimage to the Detroit Jazz Festival allows a jazz fan, or in this case, a jazz journalist, to reset to an internal default setting for what this music means to us on a very ...
Ralph Bowen: Keep the Change
by C. Andrew Hovan
I can still remember the impression that Ralph Bowen made on a young jazz enthusiast trying to break into radio and be part of the hip jazz crowd. I had decided to get involved with the programming end of a local non-profit arts support organization and on a letter perfect July evening our committee had lined ...
Kris Davis Celebrates Six Remarkable Women Pianists
by Bob Osborne
On her new album Run the Gauntlet, Kris Davis pays tribute to six remarkable women pianists who have provided inspiration and support over the course of her own journey in music: Geri Allen, Carla Bley, Marilyn Crispell, Angelica Sanchez, Sylvie Courvoisier and Renee Rosnes. I'm featuring a track from the Davis album plus a selection of ...
Jaco Pastorius Legacy 5tet, Orrin Evans, Patricia Brennan Septet and more
by Tony Poole
A new AAJ music mix series focusing on new jazz releases. Each episode will feature 10 brand new tracks from my favourite new albums, EP's and singles. The selections promise to be funky and soulful, some with a Latin-tinge, and others even a little avante-garde... and always in the groove! Playlist Jaco Pastorius Legacy ...
Orrin Evans, Lux Quartet, Andromeda Turre and Nasheet Waits
by Hobart Taylor
This week we feature brand new music from Orrin Evans' Captain Black's Big Band, The Lux Quartet featuring Myra Melford and Alison Miller, vocalist Andromeda Turre and Nasheet Waits. Playlist Brian McCarthy “The Beginning" from After/Life (Truth Revolution) 0:00 Maddie Vogler “Hymn For August" from While We Have Time (Origin) 15:09 Mike Downes “Banff ...
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2024
by Mike Chamberlain
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 27-July 6 2024 One of the charges that has historically been leveled against the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (the FIJM, or popularly, the Montreal Jazz Festival) is that the programming had gone from a jazz-centric approach in its early ...
Freedom & American Themes + Captain Black Big Band
by David Brown
Here is the show from Independence Day weekend with American and freedom themes as explored by jazz artists. From there, we'll check out some works from the Orrin Evans Captain Black Big Band, and more. Welcome friends and neighbors to The Jazz Continuum. Old, new, in, out... wherever the music takes us. Each week, we will ...
Rudi Mahall, Fabian Dudek, John Blum & Tarbaby
by Maurice Hogue
The shrinkwrap comes off several new albums sampled in this show, and there's a decided tilt to Europe. One of the stalwarts of the European avant-garde, Rudi Mahall, offers The Straight Horn Of Rudi Mahall, his first album playing only clarinet. Another reed player from Germany, Fabian Dudek doesn't hold anything back on his intriguing Distant ...
