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Celebrating Blue Note Records 75th With Delicious Vinyl
by Mark Corroto
Everything old is new again. Except of course for the timeless music of Blue Note Records which celebrated its 75th anniversary this year. The recordings Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff produced starting in 1939 have been collector's items since day one. While much of the label's music has been re-released in digital format, CDs and in ...
Vijay Iyer Solo at San Francisco Performances
by Harry S. Pariser
Vijay Iyer San Francisco Performances San Francisco, CA November 16, 2013 Polymath, pianist, arranger, composer, Grammy nominee, creative program director, a doctorate holder, the recipient of a 2013 MacArthur “genius" fellowship, the recipient of a groundbreaking “quintuple crown" in the 2012 Down Beat International Critics Poll, as well as a “quadruple ...
Art Blakey: The Musical Drummer
by Anton Rasmussen
“Jazz Washes Away the Dust of Everyday Life" --Art Blakey So said, Abdullah Ibn Buhaina (1919-1990), more widely known to the world of jazz by his pre-Islamic name: Art Blakey. Blakey was my first introduction into the musicality of jazz drumming and, in some senses, my introduction to a lifelong love of jazz.
Trio 3 + Jason Moran: Refraction - Breakin' Glass
by Glenn Astarita
The trio--launched in 1986--comprises three legendary maestros of progressive jazz and improvisation. Customarily, the band augments its line of attack with a guest pianist. Here, Jason Moran upholds the tradition and plays an integral role, augmenting the core unit's reach into pieces fabricated with kaleidoscopic formations and variegated hues, spanning a myriad of seamlessly integrated jazz-related ...
Trio 3 + Jason Moran: Refraction - Breakin' Glass
by John Sharpe
If ever there was a threesome that hankered after being a quartet, it's Trio 3. Though working as a self-contained unit since 1986, pianists have often supplemented the core triumvirate, and in fact one has augmented each of the group's previous three recordings. Now Jason Moran fills the piano stool on Refraction--Breakin' Glass, adding to an ...
Take Five With Luka Veselinovic
by AAJ Staff
Meet Luka Veselinovic:Luka Veselinovic was born in Rijeka, Croatia. His father was a guitarist and his grandmother, a piano teacher. He is a professional musician, bassist, and composer who has been in jazz music for the past 10 years. He began playing bass at 21, and soon after became a professional. Luka has attended ...
Geri Allen: Apollo's Muse
by Bob Kenselaar
Pianist/composer Geri Allen is gearing up for her role as artistic director for an especially ambitious production of the 2013 Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival at the Apollo Theater. Presented as “Geri Allen & Friends Celebrate the Great Jazz Women of the Apollo," the program will offer two shows on May 11, 2013 that explore the legacy ...
Take Five with Aruan Ortiz
by AAJ Staff
Meet Aruan Ortiz: Named “the latest Cuban wunderkind to arrive in the United States" by BET Jazz, this classically trained violist and pianist from Santiago de Cuba, considers himself “a curious person who loves music," and portrays his music as an architectural structure of sounds, incorporating contemporary classical music, Afro-Cuban rhythms, and improvisation as primary material ...
Jim Miller Honored as "Jazz Hero" on April 15th at LaRose Jazz Restaurant
Jim Miller—Philadelphia jazz percussionist, composer, recording artist, music journalist, and jazz educator—will be named a “Jazz Hero” by the Jazz Journalists Association on April 15th. The ceremony honoring this jazz icon will take place at LaRose Supper Club, 5531 Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia, during an evening’s performance by saxophonist Tony Williams, from 6 to 9 p.m. ...
Tony Miceli & Diane Monroe In Media Pa Wednesday April 17th!
Appearing at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Delaware County—145 West Rose Tree Road in Media—on Wednesday, April 17th is jazz vibraphonist Tony Miceli with violinist Diane Monroe. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Show time is 7:30 p.m. Information: 215-517-8337. Jazz has produced but a few world class vibraphonists ...
