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Paris Jazz Diary 2010
by Patricia Myers
Travelers who stay in Paris for more than three days without hearing live jazz will miss a vital element of Parisian life. Jazz is as easily available as French wine and crusty baguettes, with performances seven nights a week throughout the City of Light. It's been this way since jazz first entered Paris in the 1920s, ...
Cyrus Chestnut Trio: Journeys
by Larry Taylor
During a career spanning 20 years, Cyrus Chestnut has risen to be one of the most esteemed and productive of jazz pianists. Journeys makes 16 recordings under his name. He regularly performs with his trio and is the go-to guy on numerous recording dates and gigs. Having apprenticed with the incomparable vocalist Betty ...
Take Five With Winnie Dahlgren
by AAJ Staff
Meet Winnie Dahlgren: A native of Denmark Winnie Dahlgren started playing percussion at age fifteen, and received both her B.M. in music education and her M.M. in Performance from the Vestjysk Academy of Music in Esbjerg, Denmark. In the middle of her classical studies at the conservatory she took two years off to study jazz at ...
Geri Allen Quartet at the Kimmel Center
by Victor L. Schermer
Geri Allen QuartetJazz Up Close Celebrates Thelonious Monk SeriesKimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Perelman TheaterPhiladelphia, PA December 4, 2010 Once, when asked to define jazz," Count Basie simply replied, Tap your feet." At this December, 2010 concert, the fourth member of pianist Geri Allen's quartet turned out to do ...
Herman Leonard: Jazz
by Ian Patterson
JazzHerman LeonardHardcover; 320 pagesISBN: 9781848870741Atlantic Books2010 Jazz is billed as the definitive collection of photographer Herman Leonard's jazz photos. When record companies use ths term to promote box sets, appealing to the completist in many jazz fans, it is often not the case, ...
Sebastian Liedke: To Walk In The Past
by Dan Bilawsky
Different people often have different thoughts of what a piano trio should be: some view Oscar Peterson-style groups as the archetype in this category; others, just as easily, point to Bill Evans and feel that his body of work is the alpha and omega when it comes to piano group interaction and chemistry; while younger, rock-leaning ...
Dan Adler: Back To The Bridge
by Bruce Lindsay
Back To The Bridge is produced by three talented musicians whose ability to interact, solo, provide rhythmic support and, above all, to groove makes this album a terrific advertisement for the classic organ trio and for the enjoyable straight-ahead jazz it produces. While this is guitarist Dan Adler's second album as leader--following 2009's self-produced All Things ...
Danilo Perez Trio Meets Thelonious Monk: Live at the Kimmel Center
by Victor L. Schermer
Danilo Perez TrioKimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Perelman Theater Philadelphia, PANovember 13, 2010Thelonious Monk was a remarkable figure, and his music continues well beyond his lifetime to influence musicians on many levels. Truly An American Original," as the subtitle of Robin D.G. Kelley's definitive biography calls him, he took stride ...
Dave Frank: Portrait Of New York
by Bruce Lindsay
Twelve tunes inspired by or dedicated to the city of New York come together to form Portrait Of New York, only the fourth album by ex-Berklee Professor Dave Frank in a career as a musician and educator that stretches back to the '80s. Why Frank's recorded ouvre should be so brief is something of a mystery, ...
Steve Amirault: One Existence, Two Voices
by Pascal-Denis Lussier
Initially, I was disappointed to find out that pianist Steve Amirault was taking this new direction. Jazz singers have never really been my thing. Anyone that knows me knows I have a penchant for the lyric-less stuff--music that breaks all bounds, and language tends to impose extreme restrictions. Nonetheless, despite my own usual preferences, I'm always ...


