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2014: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The year 2014 turned out to be a year noteworthy for its numbers. Newport turned 60, Blue Note turned 75, International Jazz Day's third edition featured 900 events in more than 190 countries. The jazz world lost seven of its NEA Jazz Masters, and New Orleans trumpeter Lionel Ferbos died at 103. Sad but not unexpected, ...
Outbeat Jazz Festival 2014
by Victor L. Schermer
Outbeat Jazz Festival Philadelphia, PA September 18-21, 2014 The Outbeat Jazz Festival, touted as “America's First Queer Jazz Festival," where the “Q-word" has become an “in" word, proved to be an innovative event that brought the public's attention to the important role of gay (LGBT) jazz musicians and composers. A series ...
Lena Bloch: Feathery
by Dave Wayne
One of the really enjoyable things about listening to jazz is that, after a few years, one is able to discern some aspects of a particular musician's stylistic evolution. If her debut album, Feathery, is any indication, saxophonist Lena Bloch has staked a claim on some of the most distinct real estate in the jazz neighborhood; ...
Wolfgang Muthspiel: Driftwood
by John Kelman
Since studying at Berklee College of Music and returning to his home in Austria--though not before releasing a number of American-based recordings either on his own or as a member of bands led by people like Gary Burton, Marc Johnson and Patricia Barber--guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel has largely been focusing on his career through Material Records, the ...
The City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection To Host OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival
The City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection To Host OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival Featuring Performances by Andy Bey, Bill Stewart, Fred Hersch and Patricia Barber, Among Others Thursday, September 18 - Sunday, September 21, 2014 at Various Venues Throughout Philadelphia The William Way LGBT Community Center, with generous support from The Pew Center ...
Smash
Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2013
Track listing: Code Cool; The Wind Song; Romanesque: Smash; Redshift; Spring Song;
Devil's Food; Scream; The Swim; Bashful (Instrumental); The Storyteller;
Missing.
Laila Salins: Elevator Into The Sky
by C. Michael Bailey
On Smash, pianist/composer Patricia Barber wrote songs quite reminiscent of the late American poet Anne Sexton's (1928-1974) poetry: abstract and almost, but not quite, inaccessible. On Elevator Into The Sky, Latvian-American singer/composer Laila Salins adapts poems by Sexton for her lyric book, backing them with a competent and far-reaching band. This project is as ambitious as ...
Patricia Barber: Smash
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist/pianist Patricia Barber's 25-year career has been brilliantly marked by a complete unwillingness to compromise her approach to music. She exists in that uncharted creative realm where she successfully defies classification as a purveyor of any particular musical movement or genre. These characteristics spotlight Barber's role as an innovator and catalyst for musical evolution, a musician ...
Montreal Jazz Festival: Montreal, Canada, June 28-July 7, 2012
by Greg Thomas
Festival International de Jazz de MontréalMontréal, CanadaJune 28-July 7, 2012From the time of the airplane's descent to the airport in Montréal, I knew something was different and perhaps special about this place. Instead of a square or rectangular grid style of suburban housing plots, from my window I saw circular formations of housing, ...
Take Five With Tanya Balakyrska
by AAJ Staff
Meet Tanya Balakyrska: A singer-songwriter, originating from the Ukraine and residing in Russia. Tanya's music style is quite difficult to distinguish: indie, minimalism, some bits of jazz, pop, lounge and sympho-fusion are mixed in it, depending on a particular lineup chosen. Tanya performs at various international jazz and contemporary music festivals in CIS and ...
