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Gonzalo Del Val Trio: Three Generations
by Dan Bilawsky
Spanish jazz musicians need not produce music that overwhelms with Iberian-influenced sounds or seduces with the so-called “Spanish Tinge" at every turn, and drummer Gonzalo Del Val's trio is proof. While Del Val's music isn't completely devoid of elements endemic to his musical DNA ("Malena"), the drummer's broad outlook goes well beyond any one place or ...
The Landrus Kaleidoscope: Capsule
by Dave Wayne
After exploring post-bop and free-ish jazz with his first two CDs, multi-reed player Brian Landrus extends his stylistic range into the realm of electric jazz with Capsule. Despite listing Fender Rhodes and electric guitar among the CD credits, Capsule is not really a fusion record. Rather, it's a jazz recording with some electronic instrumentation, along the ...
Marbin: Breaking the Cycle
by Chris M. Slawecki
At its jazz-rock core, Marbin is the Israeli duo of guitarist Dani Rabin and saxophonist Danny Markovitch, sort of a Israeli version of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, the essence of Steely Dan. Bassist Steve Rodby and drummer Paul Wertico, who cumulatively won 18 Grammy Awards as members of the Pat Metheny Group, provide the rhythm ...
Jozef Dumoulin Trio: Rainbow Body
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Belgian pianist Jozef Dumoulin's début release with his band Lidlboj, Trees Are Always Right (Bee Jazz, 2009), revealed this one-time John Taylor student to be something of an aficionado of farting around. This is not meant pejoratively, necessarily; farting around is an honorable activity in some quarters of improvised music, and can give rise to good ...
Jazz Mergers & Acquisitions
by Chris M. Slawecki
T. K. BlueLatin BirdMotéma Music2011 Saxophonist Charlie “Bird" Parker is primarily remembered as an incendiary, revolutionary, improvisatory soloist, but he often expressed his style through composition, and many of Parker's original tunes became part of the modern jazz canon. Latin Bird, saxophonist T.K. Blue's label ...
Take Five With Diego Perugini
by AAJ Staff
Meet Diego Perugini: Diego was born in Sarteano, Siena, Italy. A sideman to many important Italian artists, now he has decided to make his own music and... here we are.Instrument(s): Guitar.Teachers and/or influences? I teach in 3 schools in tuscany. The most important artists that changed ...
Free Label Sampler MP3 Album from Net Dot Music, Inc.
Net Dot Music, an indie record label specializing in instrumental fusion—all-instrumental music that blends several styles and genres—has released a free mp3 album, with over eighty minutes of music, encompassing fourteen different releases from their artist roster, which includes: Massimo—Percussionist and keyboardist who composes and plays in various styles and genres, favoring high-energy improvisational jazz fusion. ...
Martin Taylor/Andreas Varady: Belfast, Ireland, November 4, 2011
by Ian Patterson
Martin Taylor/Andreas VaradyBlack BoxBelfast, IrelandNovember 4, 2011 It was a mouth-watering prospect and no mistake; Martin Taylor, the guitarist's guitarist, paired with 14-year-old, six-string sensation Andreas Varady, the youngest ever headliner at London's Ronnie Scott's. Taylor--of whom Jeff Beck said: “he out-shreds us all"--came to prominence when he began an 11-year ...
Enjoy Jazz, 13th Edition: Heidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany, October 27-November 1, 2011
by John Kelman
Enjoy Jazz FestivalMannheim/Heidelberg/Ludwigshafen, GermanyOctober 27--November 1, 2011 It's always great to return somewhere that has become an annual port of call, but it's particularly nice to return to Germany's Enjoy Jazz, that atypical jazz festival which--rather than running for a week and concentrating a whack of shows in that short time frame--runs ...
Maria Schneider: Voll-Damm International Jazz Festival, Barcelona, Spain, October 20, 2011
by Enrique Turpin
Maria Schneider Orchestra 43rd Voll-Damm International Jazz Festival Barcelona, Spain October 20, 2011 Legend has it that a girl from Windom, in the agrarian depths of Minnesota, conquered territories banned to her human nature. They claimed that Maria Schneider, the name by which that little girl still goes by, had the ...
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