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Aaron Parks Little Big in Hong Kong
by Rob Garratt
Aaron Parks Little Big Jazz in the Neighbourhood Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Hong Kong September 22, 2025 A charged, expectant energy filled the room in the moments before Aaron Parks took to the stage. A few hours before the American pianist's debut Hong Kong appearance as leader, it ...
Erik Truffaz plays Rollin’ & Clap! at Hong Kong City Hall
by Rob Garratt
Erik Truffaz--Rollin' & Clap! French May Arts Fest Hong Kong City Hall Hong Kong SAR June 7, 2025 It's easy to feel suspicious of projects too keen to tout their sales-friendly theme. Whether it's another Bird tribute or an album of Beatles songs (yup, looking at ...
Telakka Jazz 2025: Finland’s Second City Gets Spiritual
by Rob Garratt
Telakka Jazz 2025 Ravintola Telakka Tampere, Finland January 3-4, 2025 “Tampere is the heart of the Finnish jazz scene," a Helsinki record shop clerk proudly told me, when I announced I was heading north for the former, smaller city's Telakka Jazz fest. “In that case, Helsinki is the ...
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (Exit) Knarr: Breezy
by Rob Garratt
When news of Jaimie Branch's passing broke in 2022, there was an understandably huge outpouring of tributes from different corners of the jazz community. While an eternal punk rocker at heart, Branch was also a distinctly millennial musician, and a fitting figurehead for the recent wave of borderless improvised music that came out of Chicago's International ...
Remembering All About Jazz's Chris May
by AAJ Staff
With profound sadness, the All About Jazz family mourns the loss of Chris May (1946-2024), a luminous soul whose passion and dedication took AAJ to new heights during his 20 year tenure. Chris was more than a colleague--he was a beloved writer, a brilliant editor, and a cherished friend whose words dazzled with grace and insight. ...
The Necks: Bleed
by Rob Garratt
There is a diverting theory that modernist developments in the visual arts were mirrored in the evolving language of jazz: the rigid melodies of classic swing analogous with the formal representation of realism; the harmonic blurring of modalism an impressionistic step towards ambiguity; and the breakdown of order that came with free jazz the divisive audio ...
Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin at Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Hong Kong
by Rob Garratt
Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin featuring Ivan Lins Tsuen Wan Town Hall Auditorium Hong Kong November 12, 2024 Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin's musical relationship might date back some five decades--the pair may be, in the former's words, “best buddies"--but it was still startling to see how relaxed the pair ...
Wynton Marsalis’ The Shanghai Suite At Hong Kong Academy For Performing Arts
by Rob Garratt
Lincoln Centre Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Lyric Theatre, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts “An Evening of Swing" & “Wynton Marsalis' Birthday Celebration" Hong Kong October 17-18, 2024 How does Wynton Marsalis spend his birthday? On the road, of course. The venerable champion of all things jazzy and ...
Impressions of Zero Gravity
by AAJ Staff
We published Peter Jones's review of Zero Gravity the other week, but other staffers wanted to share their thoughts on the Wayne Shorter documentary, so we collected them and presented them here. Ellen Johnson Zero Gravity, the documentary chronicling the life and music of jazz icon Wayne Shorter, surpasses the boundaries of conventional biographical ...
Atlantis Trio at MutaMenti HK
by Rob Garratt
Atlantis Trio Tsuen Wan Town Hall MutaMenti HK Hong Kong September 27, 2023 A lot of flak is (fairly) laid on the often clumsy, jarring aesthetics of “global-beat," “world fusion," or whatever you want to call it (terms I use sparingly and with reservation). But the ...
