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Article: Live Review

MetJazz 2024

by Neri Pollastri
April 3, 2024

MetJazz 2024 Prato Teatro Metastasio, Teatro Fabbricone, Scuola di Musica Verdi 26.2--25.3.2024 Ventinovesima edizione del festival MetJazz, che anche quest'anno, sotto la direzione artistica di Stefano Zenni, per un mese ha disseminato di eventi la città di Prato, con gli spettacoli principali --tutti in doppio concerto--collocati come sempre il lunedì e ...

Article: Liner Notes

Riccardo Arrighini: Cambio di Marcia

by Thomas Conrad
March 26, 2024

The first time I heard Riccardo Arrighini was at the Umbria Jazz Melbourne festival in Australia in May of 2005. It seems odd, as I look back on it, that I barely noticed him at the festival. The explanation is not that there were other, more famous Italian piano players there, like Stefano Bollani and Danilo ...

Article: Interview

A Conversation with Brad Mehldau

by AAJ Staff
March 19, 2024

This article was first published at All About Jazz in 2002. All About Jazz: Do you recall your first jazz record? Brad Mehldau: I think the first real jazz record I listened to was an Oscar Peterson and Joe Pass duo album, one of those Pablo things. A friend of my father's ...

Article: Opinion

Can You Judge an Album By Its Label?

by Dave Hughes
March 3, 1999

This article was first published at All About Jazz in March 1999. For almost as long as there have been record labels, many labels have sought to build a reputation or a brand identity for themselves in terms of the genre of music presented on their labels or the technical quality of their product. ...

Article: Liner Notes

Joel Weiskopf: New Beginning

by C. Andrew Hovan
February 21, 2024

For better or worse, it seems that any artistic endeavor that involves the true expression of raw human experience and emotion is destined to have appeal to only a small and select audience. This dilemma becomes even more daunting for the artist in today's technology-laden society where electronic communication has taken the place of face-to-face conversation. ...

Article: Rising Stars

Introducing Pianist Tyler Bullock

by Sanford Josephson
February 9, 2024

Tyler Bullock began taking classical piano lessons in his hometown of Nashville when he was four years old. Eight years later, he discovered jazz through an organization called the Nashville Jazz Workshop. “It's kind of similar to Jazz House Kids," he said. “They have classes and summer camps. It was a summer camp I went to, ...

Article: Album Review

Barry Elmes Quintet: Night Flight

Read "Night Flight" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
February 2, 2024

Barry Elmes is a drummer and composer who, over the years, has made notable contributions to the Canadian jazz scene. On the release Night Flight, he pays tribute to several iconic composers such as Charles Mingus, Cedar Walton, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans and Hank Mobley each of whom had made a deep musical impression on Elmes. ...

Article: Highly Opinionated

Give Your Regards to Broadway—and Hollywood

by Con Chapman
January 30, 2024

Those who recognized the complexity and beauty of jazz early on--such as twentieth century French critic Hugues Panassié--rightly characterized it as American's unacknowledged classical music. Their sentiment came to fruition in the wrong way by the end of the century when the genre had fallen from its peak to its current lowly status, tied for last ...

Article: Liner Notes

Yuri Honing: North Sea Jazz Legendary Concerts

by Ian Patterson
January 22, 2024

It's fitting that saxophonist, composer and quiet visionary Yuri Honing should be acknowledged as one of the pivotal voices in the history of the Netherland's world-renowned North Sea Jazz festival, described in 1990 by Jazz Times as “the best jazz festival in the world." Honing's first appearance at the NSJF's was in 1995, where he performed ...

Article: The Big Question

Is There Really Only One Guitar And Drums Duo Album in Jazz History?

by Ian Patterson
January 12, 2024

A veritable mountain of duo albums color jazz history. Vocal and piano duos abound. Think Ella Fitzgerald and Ellis Larkins, Tony Bennet and Bill Evans, or Carmen McRae and George Shearing for starters. Guitar and piano duos? Plenty of those too. Jim Hall and Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson and Joe Pass spring to mind. ...