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Celebrating Art Pepper, Al Cohn and Marty Paich on their centennial.

by Larry Slater
It is hard to even imagine the history of jazz without the many musicians born 100 years ago.There were the icons, like Roy Haynes, Oscar Peterson, Gene Ammons and James Moody, as well as long forgotten artists like Dodo Marmarosa , Leo Parker and Sahib ShihabIn this hour, you'll hear gifted musician ...
Dug and Jazz Spot Intro in Tokyo

by Sanford Josephson
I owe my love of jazz to the time I spent in Japan in the mid-1960s when I was working as a writer in the public information office of the American Red Cross' Far Eastern Area headquarters, located on a U.S. Army base about 45 minutes from Tokyo. While there, I saw Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, ...
Ornette Coleman's and Horace Silver's "Lonely Woman" — A Disambiguation

by Artur Moral
Reality is filled with confusion and misunderstandings; some are suggestive or creative, while others are disappointing or, worse, malicious. The jazz world is no stranger to the first type: specific compositions are often confused or misidentified as if they were the same. Usually, this happens because of similar melodies or titles that are sometimes identical. This ...
Introducing Pianist Ben Collins-Siegel

by Sanford Josephson
I first saw Ben Collins-Siegel play piano in July 2019 at the Roselle Park Jazz Festival. Then a 12-year-old seventh grader at Maplewood Middle School, he led off a performance by the JTole Jazz Orchestra of Thad Jones' Counter Block," written for the Count Basie Orchestra. It was stunning. JTole stands for Julius Tolentino, ...
Pat Thomas: This is Trick Step

by Mark Corroto
Where to begin with the music of Pat Thomas? The London-born pianist began his journey in classical music before a televised performance by Oscar Peterson led him down the path of jazz and free improvisation. Over the past forty-plus years, Thomas has forged a singular voice in the avant-garde, contributing to groundbreaking ensembles such as the ...
Take Five with pianist, composer Itamar Dahan

by AAJ Staff
Meet Itamar Dahan Itamar Dahan is a Brooklyn-based jazz pianist, composer, and producer originally from Israel. Known for his deeply lyrical style and bold harmonic language, he has performed with legendary artists including NEA Jazz Master Reggie Workman, Billy Hart, Omer Avital, and David Broza. A graduate of The New School's Jazz program on a full ...
Atzko Kohashi & Tony Overwater: Porgy

by Dan McClenaghan
George Gershwin's 1935 folk opera, Porgy and Bess, a quintessentially American masterpiece, has had its share of jazz interpretations. Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald visited the work in 1957 on Verve Records. Pianist Oscar Peterson dug into the Gershwin score--again, on Verve--in 1959. But the most notable rendition is the Miles Davis/Gil Evans collaboration Porgy and ...
Zoo Too Trio: Poetry Legroom

by Kyle Simpler
The jazz trio has long captivated both musicians and listeners, with iconic recordings from artists like Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson serving as cornerstones of the genre. But with Poetry Legroom Zoo Too Trio challenges and redefines the conventional format, sidestepping tradition in favor of something more exploratory, cinematic, and emotionally expressive. Pianist Michael Cain, guitarist ...
Terry Waldo & the Gotham City Band: Treasury, Volume 2

by Jack Bowers
Like any other handiwork you can name, contemporary jazz did not emerge from a vacuum. It sprang forth from a variety of sources, including but not limited to bebop, cool jazz, swing, trad jazz (Dixieland), blues, stride and perhaps the granddaddy of them all, ragtime. Yes, ragtime. Before there was King Oliver or Louis Armstrong, Duke ...
Vicenza Jazz - New Conversations 2025

by Libero Farnè
Vicenza Jazz 2025 Varie sedi Vicenza 15--25 maggio 2025 Vicenza Jazz--New Conversations ha sempre portato un sottotitolo che mettesse in evidenza il tema su cui di anno in anno si concentrava prevalentemente. Questa ventinovesima edizione ha evitato di celebrare anniversari o di puntare i riflettori su uno strumento principe, ...anche se, ...