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Buenos Aires International Jazz Fest survives fiscal crisis

By MARK HOLSTON

Buenos Aires International Jazz Festival Buenos Aires November 14-18, 2019 As the days flew by this past October, it was still impossible to pin down specifics for the upcoming annual Buenos Aires International Jazz Festival. The dates of the event, which has historically taken place in mid-November, remained elusive. The ...

Wing Walker Orchestra: Hazel

By ANGELO LEONARDI

Giovani orchestratori s'affacciano di continuo sulla scena jazzistica statunitense, con opere a volte sconcertanti come questa ma comunque originali e degne di attenzione. Leader della Wing Walker Orchestra è Drew Williams, trentenne clarinetto basso proveniente da una cittadina del Missouri, diplomato in composizione jazz a New York, dove ha studiato con Ralph Alessi, Rich Perry e ...

Mareike Wiening: Metropolis Paradise

By DON PHIPPS

Composer-drummer Mareike Wiening's album, Metropolis Paradise, is a homage to her six-year residency in New York. And what a special time it must have been--judging from the music--a warm, sunny collection of shimmering and breezy beauty. Wiening wrote all the compositions, and they reflect what might be a perfect day sitting in Central Park under a ...

Mareike Wiening: Metropolis Paradise

By MARK SULLIVAN

German-born drummer/composer Mareike Wiening makes her first full-length album and Greenleaf Music debut with Metropolis Paradise. This all-original program is a winning display of her composing, drumming and band-leading, with the help of a very sharp band. Returning from her earlier EP Crosswalk (Self Produced, 2015) are double bassist Johannes Felscher (a fellow Nuremberg native), Canadian ...

Harold Danko: His Own Sound, His Own Time

By JAKOB BAEKGAARD

The famous sculptor, Henry Moore, hit the nail on the head when he said: “there's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it." This statement certainly rings true in the case of pianist and composer, Harold Danko. Even though he has retired from a long and distinguished career ...

Niculin Janett Quartet: Complexes

By GENO THACKARA

Despite the connotations of its title, the sound of Complexes doesn't suggest anything excessively technical (or mental issues either, for that matter). The Niculin Janett Quartet's second recording is a largely sedate affair that stays semi-formless and yet always easy to follow--a resolutely modern mix of familiar swing and challenging abstraction. Even while the drift mostly ...

Bill Warfield: For Lew

By JACK BOWERS

The “Lew" referred to on Renaissance man Bill Warfield's latest big-band album, For Lew, is the late trumpeter Lew Soloff, whom Warfield remembers in the liner notes as “my mentor, colleague, friend and inspiration." The inspiration arrived when the teen-age Warfield, who had switched from trumpet to piano after losing his front teeth in an auto ...

Hyeseon Hong: EE-YA-GI (Stories)

By TROY DOSTERT

With her rich, engaging debut release, EE-YA-GI (Stories), composer Hyeseon Hong brings her own unique approach to contemporary jazz. Using a first-rate large ensemble to showcase her compositions, she takes traditional folk forms, particularly from her native Korea, and develops them with modern big-band jazz voicings. The result is an eminently listenable and enjoyable recording, one ...

Culture Clubs: A History of the U.S. Jazz Clubs, Part II: New York

By KARL ACKERMANN

Jazz didn't abandon jny: Chicago but its further development only began to take on a distinct personality in the 1960s. By the late 1920s, the next phase of the jazz scene had shifted from Chicago to New York though, initially, there was no red carpet rolled out. As jazz bands made their way to New York ...