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David El-Malek: Music from Source Vol. II
by Nicholas F. Mondello
With distant musical worlds drawing closer via technological invention/access and displayed through exploration by innovative composers, it's no surprise that this effort from French-Israeli saxophonist David El-Malek offers highly intriguing music. The music and Israeli-Arab talents under El-Malek's leadership yield a fascinating brew of Middle Eastern-flavored selections mixed with a smattering of Western jazz improvisation
Bob Mover Quartet In Paris, Jan. 24-26 At Sunset-Sunside
The Bob Mover Quartet will perform at Sunset-Sunside Jazz Club in Paris, France for 3 nights, January 24 through 26, 2013. Mover, widely regarded as one of the greatest saxophonists in jazz and a legendary presence on the New York City jazz scene, has a new CD set for release in 2013, My Heart Tells Me ...
Paris Jazz Diary 2012
by Patricia Myers
Paris is the New York City of the European jazz world. Any night of the week, live jazz is played somewhere in this multicultural metropolis where America's global gift is valued, venerated and celebrated. There are more than 30 live jazz venues, as well as sporadic and spontaneous performances on street corners and bridges, in Metro ...
Manu Katche: Manu Katche
by John Kelman
Since joining ECM for Neighbourhood (2005), Manu Katché has carved out a very specific niche for himself at a label whose purview continues to broaden--with this French-Ivorian drummer, perhaps surprisingly so. Contemporary? Yes, Katché has fashioned a nearly four-decade career as a superb groove-meister, whether in the rock world with artists Sting or Peter Gabriel, or ...
Susanna Bartilla: I Love Lee
by Bruce Lindsay
So which Lee does singer Susanna Bartilla love? Lee Marvin? Six Million Dollar Man Lee Majors? Both men would be intriguing subjects for a tribute album, but of course the answer lies elsewhere. It's there in tiny letters on the cover of I Love Lee, but it's even more obvious from the opening bars of Kansas ...
Take Five With Daniel Stawinski
by AAJ Staff
Meet Daniel Stawinski: Born in Berlin in 1979, Daniel Stawinski began his musical education at age six with classical piano. Some years later he started playing jazz under the guidance of Alexander von Schlippenbach and Aki Takase, two of Germany's main free jazz pianists. From 2001 till 2005 he studied jazz piano at the ...
Various Artists: 13 Miniatures for Albert Ayler
by John Sharpe
Tributes come in many forms. Most blatant is the repertory regurgitation of charts associated with the dedicatee or modern takes on that program. Then comes homage, influenced by the historical figure in question, with works in a contemporaneous style. Finally, there appears art inspired by the spirit of the honoree. It is into this last division ...
Music a la Carte: Andrea Clearfield's Salon in Philadelphia
by Victor L. Schermer
According to Wikipedia, what is called the “salon" originated in Paris in the 17th century. Held in the homes of significant personages, and providing a unique opportunity for women in particular to serve as hostesses and mingle with “society," the early salons brought together high-minded individuals to read and discuss literary works. Over the course of ...
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Album: Tall Stranger
By Jeff Johnson
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2008
Duration: 5:57
A Love Supreme on the Paris Stage
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Congolese writer Emmanuel Dongala's novella “A love supreme" (1982) is the most moving and apposite tribute to the achievement of John Coltrane, in any medium, that I know. The account of a pair of encounters between a young African expatriate in New York and John Coltrane, motivated by the death of the latter in July 1967, ...
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