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Article: Interview

Johnaye Kendrick: In The Deepest Way Possible

by Paul Rauch
March 8, 2017

Since arriving in Seattle, Johnaye Kendrick has enriched the Seattle jazz community with her performances, recordings, and as Associate Professor of Jazz Voice at the prestigious Cornish College of the Arts, as a mentor to her many students. Her vocal style is centered in the jazz and blues tradition, but embellished by her own interpretation based ...

News: Recording

Pianist Mike Longo's Consolidated Artists Productions To Release His New CD, "Only Time Will Tell," March 31

March 7, 2017

Connoisseurs of jazz piano trios will welcome the release, on March 31, of Only Time Will Tell, the new trio recording by piano master Mike Longo with Paul West on bass and Lewis Nash on drums. The disc is Longo’s 20th for the CAP (Consolidated Artists Productions) label, and his 26th since debuting as a leader ...

Article: Jazz Raconteurs

Bill Evans on meeting Miles

by Nenette Evans
February 15, 2017

Excerpt from Nenette Evans's untitled reflections of Bill Evans, October 3, 2012.Miles Davis said: “Bill left the band in 1958 and went down to Louisiana to live with his brother. Then he came back after a while and formed his own group. After a while he got Scott LaFaro on bass and Paul Motian ...

Article: Live Review

Monty Alexander Trio at Longwood Gardens

by Geno Thackara
February 15, 2017

Monty Alexander Trio The Ballroom at Longwood Gardens Kennett Square, PA February 11, 2017 It's generally a good sign for any show if the players onstage are smiling and laughing more than anyone else in the room. If there's been one main constant to Monty Alexander's music over his 59-year career, ...

News: Performance / Tour

Classical Meets Jazz: The Fred Moyer Trio At The California Jazz Conservatory on January 29th at 4:30 p.m.

January 25, 2017

Pianist Frederick Moyer, who has played in over 40 countries; at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Sydney Opera House; and with the Cleveland, Boston, and Philadelphia Orchestras, brings a decidedly unique program to the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley, California, on January 29th at 4:30 p.m. Blending his classical training with his passion for jazz, ...

Article: Album Review

Matthew Shipp Trio: Piano Song

Read "Piano Song" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
January 21, 2017

The finest compliment you can pay an artist is that his music is instantly recognized in a blindfold test. Sure, back in the day most experienced listeners could identify a Bud Powell, Bill Evans, or Oscar Peterson recording. It's just, these days, there are so many Powell, Evans, and Peterson soundalikes, schooled in the art of ...

Article: Rediscovery

Greg Lake & Keith Emerson: Their Best Work Together

by John Kelman
December 31, 2016

While it should come as no surprise that musical heroes from across all genres are beginning to die off, some of the highest profile losses are, in particular, in the rock/pop world, where many of its biggest stars are now in their mid-to-late sixties...or older. Few would disagree that one of the years biggest losses happened ...

Article: What is Jazz?

Jazz Stories: 2016

by Michael Ricci
December 31, 2016

All About Jazz--a longstanding internet destination for all things jazz--is a community bound by its love of the music. Since March, we've solicited jazz stories from our members asking them to answer any of a handful of questions and we wanted to recognize some of our submissions from 2016. New stories arrive daily and ...

Album

Oscar, with Love

By Oscar Peterson

Label: Two Lions Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Disc 1 -- The Contessa; Blues for Smedley; Celine’s Waltz; Bossa Beguine; Cool Walk; Dream of Me; Sushi; If I Love Again; On Danish Shore; Ballad for Benny Carter; A Little Jazz Exercise; Tranquille; Take Me Home. Disc 2 -- Announcement; If You Only Knew; Love Ballade; The Gentle Waltz; Summertime; Laurentide Waltz; Morning; Harcourt Nights; Wheatland; Why Think About Tomorrow? Disc 3 -- One for Oscar; The Smudge; Sir Lancewell; Dear Oscar; I Remember OP; Oscar’s New Camera; OP’s Boogie; Trust; Emmanuel; Look What You’ve Done to Me; Goodbye Old Friend; Hymn to Freedom; When Summer Comes.

Article: Album Review

Laura Dubin: Live at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival / Matt Savage: Piano Voyages

Read "Live at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival / Matt Savage: Piano Voyages" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
December 29, 2016

Here are three new CDs by two exemplary young pianists, Laura Dubin and Matt Savage, the first two of which reprise a concert by Dubin's splendid trio at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival in July 2016. The third, Piano Voyages, is Savage's twelfth recording, the first in which his eloquent piano is the lone instrument. ...