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Tyft: Smell The Difference
by Troy Collins
Smell The Difference is the third album by Icelandic guitarist Hilmar Jensson's metallic power trio Tyft, which features longstanding members Andrew D'Angelo (alto saxophone and bass clarinet) and Jim Black (drums). Since the late nineties, Jensson has explored the fertile territory between popular music and jazz improvisation, both with his own ensembles and Jim Black's Alasnoaxis. ...
JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards - Join Us!
Mark your calendar! 13th Annual JJA Jazz Awards June 16, 2009 3:00-6:00pm at The Jazz Standard 116 E. 27th Street New York, NY Join us at the JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards as we... Announce our 2009 award winners (see nominees below) Honor winners and nominees ...
Perspectives 2009
by Andrey Henkin
Perspectives 2009 Vasteras, Sweden March 5th-7th, 2009 For those who have not attended, or perhaps not even heard of, the Perspectives International Festival for Creative Music, held in Våsteras, 90 minutes northwest of Stockholm, there are two comparable equivalents. In some ways, Perspectives is similar to the Vision Festival--the names ...
Okkyung Lee / Peter Evans / Steve Beresford: Check for Monsters
by John Eyles
Recorded in New York and Philadelphia on a mini-tour in March 2008, this Anglo-American-Korean trio brings together superb improvisers who are not immediately obvious as a compatible threesome but who combine together to stunning effect. Pianist Steve Beresford, the trio's elder statesman, surely needs no introduction; leaving aside his other music, his work with the London ...
Peter Evans: Oculus Ex Abyssus; Evans/Fei/Smith/Walter; Sparks
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Peter Evans-Weasel Walter Group Oculus Ex Abyssus Ug Explode Records 2008 Peter Evans / James Fei / Damon Smith / Weasel Walter Evans/Fei/Smith/Walter Ug Explode Records 2008 Peter Evans / Tom Blancarte Sparks ...
Ryan Snow Presents "Basement Music Series" with Peter Evans, Adam Caine, Jack Wright on February 27 & 28
An ongoing series at: Snow's Basement 796 Grand St. #1 Brooklyn NY 11211 Friday, February 27th Peter Evans Solo Trumpet Adam Caine Trio (Caine guitar, Tom Blancarte bass, John Wagner drums) Jason Nazary Solo Laptop Saturday, February 28th Jack Wright Trio (Wright sax, Reuben Radding bass, Andrew Drury drums) Ben ...
Making Avant-Garde Jazz in a Mostly Killing Climate
The record business is a sinkhole no matter which way you turn. But in this troubled economy, Moppa Elliott chose an especially tough path: playing in an avant-garde bop band named Mostly Other People Do the Killing, and starting his own tiny jazz label, Hot Cup. Elliott, 30, a bassist/composer born in Factoryville, says, “Look, we're ...
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: This Is Our Moosic
by AAJ Italy Staff
Chi sentenzia che da parecchio tempo a questa parte il jazz americano produce poco o nulla di interessante e che il futuro della musica afroamericana si trova nel Vecchio Continente, basta vedere cosa succede a casa nostra, nelle terre scandinave o nei paesi balcanici, dovrebbe ascoltare, tra gli altri, dischi come questo. Nulla di rivoluzionario, si ...
Firehouse 12's 2009 Spring Jazz Series to Begin March 20th
New Haven's Firehouse 12 is proud to announce the schedule for its fourth annual Spring Jazz Series, a 13-week program of performances by some of the most active, innovative and respected musicians in creative improvised music today. The series, which begins on Friday, March 20th with two performances by the Julian Lage Group, will feature 8:30 ...
Raging Free Jazz Drummer Weasel Walter Upcoming Live Tour Dates in U.S. and Europe
Hyperactive free jazz drummer Weasel Walter will be spreading his intense style of spontaneous musical interaction in many venues across the U.S. and Europe this spring in the company of many notable improvisers like Evan Parker, Peter Evans, Mary Halvorson and Marco Eneidi. His upcoming release out March 15, 2009 is a trio record with West ...
