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Francesca Han: Illusion

Read "Illusion" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
January 18, 2013

Pianist Francesca Han's music contains a certain duality. She's a classical and improvising jazz pianist with one foot in the jazz tradition and the other wedged firmly in the door of contemporary jazz. An established jazz musician in South Korea, Han acquired new vocabulary studying and playing in New York, where she also collaborated with composer ...

Article: Live Review

Penang Island Jazz Festival 2012

by Ian Patterson
December 27, 2012

9th Penang Island Jazz FestivalBayview HotelPenang, MalaysiaNovember 29--December 2, 2012 From pickup at the airport at 10.30pm to personal send-off five days later at 4.00am, Paul Augustin, the Director of the Penang Island Jazz Festival, is what you could call the perfect host. It's this personal touch--instilled in the festival staff's ...

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44 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona: Lucian Ban, Dan Tepfer y Enrico Pieranunzi

by Pep Salazar
December 10, 2012

Lucian Ban Enesco Re-ImagineAuditori de Barcelona (sala 3)13 de noviembre de 2012Barcelona ha vivido un noviembre en estado de gracia. El 44 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona, además de sus múltiples actividades y ofertas de todo tipo, ofreció, con el patrocinio especial de la inquieta Fundación de Música Ferrer-Salat, un ambicioso ...

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Michael Attias: Spun Tree

Read "Spun Tree" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
December 2, 2012

Saxophonist Michael Attias seldom rests on his laurels. Always aligning with a superlative support structure, each of his solo outings offer a fluctuating refresher course on routes previously navigated. With nouveau ideologies in place, Attias' expansive cache of weaponry once again comes to the forefront. The band skirts between introspection, aggression, and fiercely driven free bop ...

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Enjoy Jazz Festival: Heidelberg / Mannheim / Ludwigshafen, Germany, October 30-November 7, 2012

by John Kelman
November 26, 2012

2012 Enjoy Jazz FestivalHeidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, GermanyOctober 30-November 7, 2012After a week in northern Sweden covering the 2012 Umeå Jazz Festival--where the were days shortening and the temperature dropping--moving south to Heidelberg, Germany was a welcome respite from the oncoming onslaught of winter that's also approaching back home in Canada. For this year's coverage of ...

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The Cloudmakers Trio With Ralph Alessi: Live At The Pizza Express

Read "Live At The Pizza Express" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
September 9, 2012

The Cloudmakers Trio brings together three of the most inventive players on the UK scene: vibraphonist and band originator Jim Hart, drummer Dave Smith and expat American bassist Michael Janisch. On its debut, Live At The Pizza Express (released on Janisch's Whirlwind Recordings), the band is joined by New York trumpeter Ralph Alessi. It's a beautifully ...

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Gent Jazz Festival: Days 1-4: July 5-8, 2012

by Martin Longley
August 18, 2012

Gent Jazz Festival Bijloke Gent, Belgium July 5-8, 2012 All parts of northern Europe had already been suffering an intense rainfall throughout the month of June. There was no abating once July was in swing. The forecast was pretty much for a daily downpour, and for once ...

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Avi Granite's Verse: Snow Umbrellas

Read "Snow Umbrellas" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
August 1, 2012

Snow Umbrellas is guitarist/composer Avi Granite's third album as leader, as well as the debut from his New York quartet, Verse. Released on Granite's own Pet Mantis Records, the album features trumpeter Ralph Alessi, bassist Jerry DeVore and drummer Owen Howard on a set of Granite's original compositions that range from the free, improvised feel of ...

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Jasmine Lovell-Smith's Towering Poppies Release Colorful Debut "Fortune Songs"

July 15, 2012

The term “Towering Poppies,” which saxophonist Jasmine Lovell-Smith chose to christen her stellar quintet, is an evocative one, conjuring images of radiant flowers reaching heavenward, bold colors against a bright sky. Those images are perfectly appropriate for the stunning sounds of Lovell-Smith’s debut CD, Fortune Songs. But for the New Zealand native, the name has a ...

Article: Live From New York

Henry Cole, Joe McPhee & Ravi Coltrane

by Martin Longley
June 27, 2012

Henry Cole & The Afrobeat Collective 92Y Tribeca May 30, 2012 The Checkout is a monthly live broadcast for the WBGO radio station, presented by DJ Josh Jackson. The deal down at 92Y Tribeca always involves two formidable combos, often featuring a very familiar act coupled with a surging ...