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Keith Jarrett: The Old Country: More from the Deer Head Inn

by Jack Kenny
Keith Jarrett remarked as he listened to a tape of the session: I think that you can hear on this tape, what jazz is all about." What did he mean? Was he reacting to criticisms of his long-form improvisations? Was it because he was in a small venue that prioritized jazz? Of course, you ...
New Music From Keberle, Nawashiro, Hilton & More

by Bob Osborne
On this show, we feature another selection of excellent new jazz releases for your listening pleasure. In addition, I feature a 1992 performance from Keith Jarrett with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian from the legendary Deer Head Inn which has just been released. Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Ryan Keberle & Catharsis Sonic Living" from ...
Álvaro Torres Trio: Iris

by Dan Bilawsky
At the age of 19, the Madrid-born, globe-hopping pianist Álvaro Torres fantasized about a life in New York, surrounded by influences and inspiration(s). And at the age of 29, he's living that dream. Studies at the Manhattan School of Music offered an initial pathway into all that the Big Apple has to offer, and life beyond ...
Alex Jenkins Trio: Black Bird

by Dan McClenaghan
An initial spin of Sacramento-based drummer Alex Jenkins' Black Bird--recorded by the Alex Jenkins Trio (AJT)--brings saxophonist Sonny Rollins' A Night At The Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 1958) to mind. Rollins rolled in the trio mode for these 1957 Vanguard shows with just his saxophone, bass and drums. Going on stage in 1957 without a chording ...
Giovanni Guidi: A New Day

by Mark Corroto
There is some positive momentum surrounding Italian pianist Giovanni Guidi, especially with the trio he established with American bassist Thomas Morgan and Portuguese drummer João Lobo. Guidi's trio produced two excellent releases for ECM, City Of Broken Dreams (2013) and This Is The Day (2015). Their brand of music--let's call it the Bill Evans trio with ...
Giorgio Pacorig & Stefano Giust: Così com’è

by Mark Corroto
The sporting equivalent of Giorgio Pacorig and Stefano Giust's Così Com'è ("that's how it is") might be tennis. Their game is a friendly back-and-forth rendezvous instead of a competition that can only be accomplished by two musicians who have worked (a better word would be played) together for more than two decades. Pacorig's piano and Giust's ...
Hamilton de Holanda & Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Collab

by Katchie Cartwright
Collab, the duo album from Cuban jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Brazilian choro mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda, is a sparkling collaboration between two contemporary masters of rhythm and improvisation. On the wings of a finely calibrated beat and a pliable form, they present 11 selections, adding new harmonic hues to the familiar, stretching, fracturing and reconstituting ...
My Conversation with Brad Shepik

by Lazaro Vega
This article was first published on All About Jazz in February 2001. It was conducted from Lazaro Vega's home in New York for Blue Lake Public Radio, a broadcast service of Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, the international summer school for the arts in western Michigan. All About Jazz: Is this band that you're ...
Jerome Sabbagh: Heart

by Chris May
AAJ occasionally publishes reviews which call out the barbarism of digital-only albums (Heart is not one of these, please hang on in there). Item: the review of Brazilian saxophonist and flautist Vinicius Mendes' Macunaismo Tardio Vol. 1&2 (Notes On A Journey, 2024). The two albums collected on that vinyl double-LP, blinders both, were originally released separately ...
Una gemma Soft Machine per il quarantennale Cuneiform

by Mario Calvitti
Non sono molte le etichette indipendenti che possono permettersi di festeggiare il quarantesimo anniversario dalla loro fondazione; ancora meno quelle che possono parimenti fregiarsi di un catalogo di tutto rispetto, ricco di artisti e opere di livello assoluto. È questo il caso della Cuneiform Records, con sede a Silver Spring nel Maryland fondata nel 1984 da ...