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Article: Live Review

Penang Island Jazz Festival 2012

Read "Penang Island Jazz Festival 2012" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

9th Penang Island Jazz FestivalBayview HotelPenang, MalaysiaNovember 29--December 2, 2012 From pickup at the airport at 10.30pm to personal send-off five days later at 4.00am, Paul Augustin, the Director of the Penang Island Jazz Festival, is what you could call the perfect host. It's this personal touch--instilled in the festival staff's ...

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Article: Album Review

Guy Sion: Away

Read "Away" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

The title of Israel-born, Oslo-based saxophonist Guy Sion's debut symbolizes his state of mind, having been away from home, moving from one place to another in the last decade--leaving Israel for music studies in Amsterdam, then moving to New York and finally settling in Oslo. Sion's original compositions reflect this long winding road-- modern American jazz ...

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News: Advocacy

Jazz Guitarist Pat Metheny Provides Soundtrack For Cancer Support Community Of Philadelphia’s Holiday e-Card

Jazz Guitarist Pat Metheny Provides Soundtrack For Cancer Support Community Of Philadelphia’s Holiday e-Card

PHILADELPHIA, PA: Pat Metheny, legendary jazz guitarist perhaps best known for his work with the Pat Metheny Group, and 19 GRAMMY awards (with the possibility of a 20th for his recent Unity Band release), has stepped up to help the Cancer Support Community of Philadelphia (CSCP) by providing the music for the organization’s 2012 electronic holiday ...

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Article: Album Review

Stuart McCallum: Distilled Live

Read "Distilled Live" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

Emerging from the interzone inhabited by post-Pat Metheny guitar jazz, electronica, minimalism and ambient, Manchester guitarist Stuart McCallum's music combines the lush, the layered and the looped with real-time emotional engagement and vigor. Made with a large ensemble including acoustic string and woodwind sections alongside the electronica, Distilled Live sounds rather like an orchestrated version of ...

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Article: Album Review

Allan Holdsworth: None Too Soon

Read "None Too Soon" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki

For his ninth album, guitar wizard Allan Holdsworth takes on jazz classics by saxophonists John Coltrane and Joe Henderson, pianist Bill Evans and more, plus pop classics just as famous for their jazz interpretations, in a set put together by Holdsworth's longtime musical associate and pianist, Gordon Beck. “Gordon chose most of the tunes, which I ...

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Article: Live Review

On The Road With The Asian Jazz All-Stars Power Quartet

Read "On The Road With The Asian Jazz All-Stars Power Quartet" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Though it was only a 12-hour flight from Singapore to London, for Singaporean organist/pianist Jeremy Monteiro, Philippine tenor saxophonist Tots Tolentino, Hong Kong guitarist Eugene Pao and Thai drummer Chanutr Techatana-nan--who together make up the Asian Jazz All-Stars Power Quartet--the journey has, in some ways, been a much longer one; you could say it's a journey ...

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Article: Live Review

44 Voll-Damm Festival de Jazz de Barcelona: China Moses, Albert Sanz Trio y Brad Mehldau Trio

Read "44 Voll-Damm Festival de Jazz de Barcelona: China Moses, Albert Sanz Trio y Brad Mehldau Trio" reviewed by Enrique Turpin

by Enrique Turpin

China Moses44 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de BarcelonaArtèria Paral.lel17 de noviembre de 2013No siempre hacen caso los hijos a los padres. De hecho, no debieran cuando llegan a una edad --padres e hijos--, pero siempre hay excusas para no contrariar a las voces de la experiencia. Una de esas voces ...

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Article: Interview

Marius Neset: Norwegian Woods

Read "Marius Neset: Norwegian Woods" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Marius Neset has become one of today's most talked-about saxophonists since the release of Golden Xplosion (Edition Records, 2011). The album, which also features pianist/keyboardist Django Bates, bassist Jasper Hoiby and drummer Anton Eger, has received widespread five-star reviews, and countless superlatives have been used to heap praise on the 26-year-old from Bergen. Neset has been ...

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Article: From the Inside Out

From Britain to Boogaloo

Read "From Britain to Boogaloo" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki

Chris BarberMemories of My TripProper American Records2011 You will find very few jazz retrospectives more thoroughly, warmly inviting than Memories of My Trip, which celebrates six decades of recording and performing by one of Britain's most enduring traditional jazz musicians--trombonist, bassist and bandleader Chris Barber. ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

The Complete Arista Albums Collection

Read "The Complete Arista Albums Collection" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

When fusion first emerged in the late 1960s/early '70s with artists like trumpeter Miles Davis, pianist Chick Corea and guitarist John McLaughlin, the emphasis was on guitar and keyboard heavy lineups like Return to Forever and Mahavishnu Orchestra, with an equally strong predilection for the intensity and volume of rock and a kind of thundering funk ...


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