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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Pat Metheny

August 12, 2017

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, ...

Article: Album Review

Reggie Young: Forever Young

Read "Forever Young" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 2017

It's good that guitarist Reggie Young is Forever Young, as he waited until he was almost eighty years old to record the album of that name, the first as leader of his own group(s) after six decades of backing innumerable pop stars including Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond, Dusty Springfield and Willie Nelson. While Young shows he ...

Article: Live Review

Bill Frisell Trio alla Casa del Jazz di Roma

by Mario Calvitti
August 1, 2017

Bill Frisell Trio Summertime 2017 Casa del Jazz Roma 21.07.2017 Il chitarrista Bill Frisell ha aperto e chiuso in Italia il tour europeo del suo trio. Dopo l'esordio a Bologna, il concerto di Roma è il penultimo, seguito solo da un'ulteriore tappa in Sardegna prima del rientro negli Stati ...

Article: Interview

Stefano "Cocco" Cantini: direttore artistico del Grey Cat Jazz Festival

by Neri Pollastri
July 27, 2017

Musicista assai apprezzato, grande interprete del sax tenore e, soprattutto, soprano, Stefano “Cocco" Cantini è nato e vissuto a Follonica, sulla costa maremmana, dove fin da giovane si è distinto per l'insegnamento e per la promozione della cultura musicale. In quest'ultimo campo la sua creatura più importante e duratura è il Grey Cat Festival, la principale ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Guitars on Three Continents

by Geno Thackara
July 16, 2017

Gonzalo Esteybar One Look River Flow Records 2017 Even when you can glean a lot from a first glance, it still usually means just scratching the surface. Gonzalo Esteybar knows his way around the instrument enough to have studied in Robert Fripp's Guitar Circle and repeatedly toured with its ...

Article: Lyrics

Ricordiamo Michael Brecker

by Angelo Leonardi
July 10, 2017

Sono trascorsi più di dieci anni dalla morte di Michael Brecker, avvenuta il 13 gennaio 2007, il giorno dopo quella di Alice Coltrane. Brecker è stato il massimo e più influente sax tenore post-coltraniano ed è quanto mai doveroso ricordarne la vita e il percorso artistico. Il 25 gennaio di quest'anno la comunità jazzistica ...

Article: Live Review

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2017

by John Kelman
July 7, 2017

Part 1 | Part 2 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2017 Montréal, Canada June 29-July 3, 2017 It's always a thrill to return to Le Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (FIJM). Deemed the biggest jazz festival in the world by the Guinness World Book of Records, it only ...

Article: Album Review

Dave Kline: Shifting Borders

Read "Shifting Borders" reviewed by Geannine Reid

by Geannine Reid
July 5, 2017

Violinist Dave Kline is pushing the contemporary voice of strings to new heights, while maintaining a sophisticated yet approachable city sound. Kline's original compositions are intricate and push the violin as a lead instrument in an ensemble setting, assertively bending the borders of undiscovered territory with great result. This idea led to his new album entitled ...

News: Award / Grant

National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2018 Class of NEA Jazz Masters

July 2, 2017

Joanne Brackeen, Pat Metheny, Dianne Reeves, and Todd Barkan now join the ranks of the nation’s highest honor in jazz, the NEA Jazz Masters. The 2018 NEA Jazz Master recipients were announced this evening at a DC Jazz Festival concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, where Metheny also ...

Article: Live Review

TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2017

by John Kelman
June 29, 2017

TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 23-26, 2017 Amongst the most significant challenges that face any festival is, as the gray and no-hair crowd continues to age, finding ways to cultivate and grow a younger audience. But when you're a Canadian festival, another major challenge is a simple fiscal fact: most ...