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Bill Cunliffe, Arturo Sandoval & Melissa Errico
by Joe Dimino
The multi-talented jazz singer and Broadway actress Melissa Errico begins the 767th Episode of Neon Jazz with a song off her 2022 release Out of the Dark; The Film Noir Project. From there, we glide into Gene Krupa and hear a host of new songs from artists that keep making 2022 a tasty year of jazz ...
Sisters from Another Jazz Mother? Part 2
by Ludovico Granvassu
You know how scientists say that, statistically, every person has roughly six look-alikes around the world? Well the same seems to be true in the music world, where one can find quite a few songs that appear to be sound-alikes of other compositions we're familiar with... This does not have to be necessarily the result of ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Pat Metheny
All About Jazz is celebrating Pat Metheny's birthday today! Pat Metheny was born in Kansas City on August 12, 1954 into a musical family. Starting on trumpet at the age of 8, Metheny switched to guitar at age 12. By the age of 15, he was working regularly with the best jazz musicians in Kansas City, ...
August 2022
by Pat Youngspiel
Binker Golding Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy Gearbox Records 2022 A place where folk, gospel and jazz meet in tuneful harmony with each other is a place where the likes of Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny spent some of the most original and prolific years of their ...
Jazz World Records: From Hong Kong with Love
by Rob Garratt
"I've had plenty of labels in the past--three or four, I can't remember--and I always swore I'd never do it again," begins Clarence Chang as he sits down to lunch. And yet here we are, chewing linguine and discussing the label he just founded, Jazz World Records. “The only true jazz label in ...
I Hear a Rhapsody
by David Caudill
We put out a call to visitors to AAJ to tell us their stories about how jazz has impacted, indeed shaped their lives. David Caudill heard the call. David has lived in Cincinnati for three decades and spent a long career writing, both in journalism and for a short while in corporate communications. He ...
The Conference Producer: Peter Schulze
by B.D. Lenz
Who would ever imagine that just being able to hold a professional conference would be a victory in itself? Post-Covid, that's true for all kinds of gatherings including one held every April in Bremen Germany. Jazzahead is an international assembly of all facets of the jazz industry and a place for this niche community to meet ...
Gary Thomas with the John Toomey Trio at Robin Hixon Theater
by Mark Robbins
Saxophonist Gary Thomas has been called “one the most original saxophone voices of his generation" and not only is he in high demand in jazz but has worked with some of the top rap artists and orchestras performing today. More than just a first-call sideman, Thomas has recorded 11 albums as a leader. Two ...
Summer 2022
by Doug Collette
Jazz Journal is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent releases of note, spotlighting titles that might otherwise go unnoticed or that deserve special attention. Manel Fortia Despertar Segell Microscopi 2022 Beginning softly and politely, as befits its title definition (trans. “fall asleep"), “Dormir" is the ...
Guitar Trios x 5
by Mark Sullivan
Several recent releases provide evidence that the classic guitar trio (guitar, bass and drums) is alive and well, even in the midst of a pandemic. It remains a format with a broad array of stylistic possibilities. As it happens, none of these groups are from North America, but they include several from European countries and one ...
