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News: Contest

Jim Hall: Live! Vol. 2-4 Box Set Giveaway Contest

July 11, 2013

We are pleased to announce the Jim Hall: Live! Vol. 2-4 Box Set giveaway contest. For a limited time, we are offering you access to two previously unreleased tracks from Jim Hall: Live! Vol. 2-4. In addition, three lucky Jim Hall fans who redeem the exclusive giveaway contest offer (detailed below) will win Jim Hall: Live! ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Julphan Tilapornputt

by AAJ Staff
July 9, 2013

Meet Julphan Tilapornputt:Julphan Tilapornputt is a Boston-based jazz guitarist originally from Thailand. Julphan attended Berklee College of Music, where he has studied under jazz masters Mick Goodrick, Tim Miller and Larry Baione. He has earned a scholarship from Berklee in writing and composition, been a part of ASAB (Asian Students at Berklee), and Berklee's ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jeff Ballard Fairgrounds Plays One-off Irish Gig

July 8, 2013

It’s not every day that Dun Laoghaire plays host to one of the world’s greatest jazz drummers, so music fans are in for a tremendous evening on Wednesday 10th July when drummer Jeff Ballard swings by The Pavilion Theater with his band Fairgrounds, for one night only. Modern Drummer, the world’s premier drum magazine has said ...

Article: Album Review

Bill Frisell: Big Sur

by Troy Collins
July 5, 2013

Along with household names like Pat Metheny and John Scofield, Bill Frisell is one of the most distinctive American guitarists of his generation. Despite his penchant for abstraction, Frisell's phrasing, touch and tone are as singularly unique and readily identifiable as those of his more conventional peers. Though his vast discography includes bold experimental solo albums ...

Article: Big Band Report

Swingin' on a Riff . . . Hangin' by a Thread?

by Jack Bowers
June 14, 2013

Betty and I returned to Albuquerque on Memorial Day after attending Swingin' on a Riff, the latest in a series of marvelous semi-annual events presented by Ken Poston and the Los Angeles Jazz Institute for more than twenty years at venues in and around L.A. This one was held May 23-26 at the Los Angeles Marriott ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Trilok Gurtu: Spellbound

by John Kelman
June 13, 2013

In a 35-year career that's stretched from Oregon and saxophonists Jan Garbarek and Charlie Mariano, to violinist Shankar and guitarists John McLaughlin and Nguyên Lê, Trilok Gurtu has established a very specific talent. Few kit drummers are as adept as Gurtu on tabla and the Indian konnakol vocal percussion tradition; conversely, few tablaists/konnakol experts are as ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Julian Shore: Filaments

by Dave Wayne
June 2, 2013

There is nothing wrong with mellow jazz. As long as distance can be maintained from the hackneyed, dialed-in feel of smooth jazz, it can be a refreshing change of pace from the intensity and analytical focus of a lot of modern art music, jazz or otherwise. Listening to pianist Julian Shore's Filaments, there's the sense that ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Pat Metheny: Tap - John Zorn's Book of Angels | Vol. 20

by Nenad Georgievski
June 1, 2013

Literary, anything and everything can and will happen in composer John Zorn's constantly evolving musical world. Within that world, surprise and exploration are an important ingredients, as much as the cross-styling or the plethora of approaches for the different kinds of collaborative compositions he has created for the players involved. This surprising crossed paths of Zorn ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Marbin: Last Chapter of Dreaming

by Dave Wayne
May 31, 2013

Back in the 1970s, fusion used to mean one thing; the melding of jazz improvisation and chord structures with the stylistic eclecticism and pure energy of progressive rock. As a recognizable formula emerged, it became common to hear the exotic strains of various ethnic musics in a jazz-rock fusion context. By the late '70s, its emphasis ...

Article: Album Review

Pat Metheny: Tap: John Zorn's Book of Angels, Vol. 20

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 27, 2013

La strana coppia! Negli anni è diventato sempre più difficile, se non impossibile, valutare la produzione di John Zorn con i tradizionali strumenti critici: una delle caratteristiche più “geniali" e in un certo senso eversive del sassofonista e compositore newyorkese è infatti certamente quella di avere sottratto progressivamente la propria musica alle traiettorie dialettiche conosciute, attraverso ...