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Article: Album Review

Die Enttäuschung: Lavaman

by Mark Corroto
December 13, 2017

It has been twenty years since Die Enttäuschung recorded the music of Thelonious Monk, but Monk continues to be an essential component of their music making. This is also the case with Steve Lacy and Roswell Rudd's music after their Monk cover band School Days (Emanem, 1975) disbanded. The concepts of Monk's music were integral in ...

Article: Album Review

Dave Zoller: Evidence - Music of Thelonious Monk

Read "Evidence - Music of Thelonious Monk" reviewed by Patrick Burnette

by Patrick Burnette
November 27, 2017

Younger readers may not believe this, but there was a time when all-Thelonious Monk tribute albums were a rarity. During most of Monk's lifetime, musicians focused on a few of his best-known tunes ("Round Midnight" was--and remains-- the obvious favorite). But then Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, and other champions of Monk began to devote whole albums ...

Article: Interview

Jamie Saft: Jazz in the Key of Iggy

by Luca Canini
October 20, 2017

In 1988 Bill Laswell produced Iggy Pop's album Instinct. Back then, little he could have known that, almost thirty years later, he would have been instrumental in facilitating the iconic singer's first foray in the Jazz world. Loneliness Road (RareNoiseRecords) documents the latest incarnation of James Newell Osterberg Junior, the front man of proto-punk band The ...

Article: Live Review

Merano Jazz 2017

by Giuseppe Segala
July 21, 2017

Merano Jazz 2017 Teatro Puccini Merano 10-13.07.2017 Da molti anni l'appuntamento di Merano Jazz è imperniato su tre concerti e cinque giornate intense di corsi dell'Accademia Mitteleuropea, diretti da Franco D'Andrea ed Ewald Kontschieder. In ogni edizione si invita un artista diverso per la masterclass principale, e dal 2002 sono passati ...

Article: Interview

Steve Swell: Appreciating the Avant Garde Today

by Victor L. Schermer
July 10, 2017

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 [This is the third of an All About Jazz series of interviews and articles on “The Many Faces of Jazz Today: Critical Dialogues" in which we explore the current state of jazz around the world with musicians, journalists, and entrepreneurs who give us their own unique ...

Article: Under the Radar

The Politics of Dancing: Jazz and Protest, Part 2

by Karl Ackermann
May 5, 2017

Part 1 of Jazz and Protest took an in-depth look at two landmark artists and the songs that laid the groundwork for protest within the jazz community. Billie Holiday's “Strange Fruit" took a circuitous route from its origins as a poem to its successful recording on a small label that was not afraid to lend a ...

Article: Book Review

Francesco Spampinato e Julius Wiedemann: Art Record Covers

by Libero Farnè
February 20, 2017

Art Record Covers Francesco Spampinato e Julius Wiedemann 448 pagine Taschen 2017 Quasi quattro chili di peso per un formato che è più o meno quello degli LP. Sfogliando per la prima volta questo libro monumentale si rimane affascinati e sovrastati dalle immagini, talvolta a tutta pagina, ...

Album

August Love Song

By Roswell Rudd

Label: Red House
Released: 2016
Track listing: Social Call; Love Song for August; I’m Going Sane (One Day at a Time); Mood Indigo; Winter Blues; Blackstrap Molasses-Old Devil Moon; Con Alma; Open House; Tova and Kyla Rain; Love is Here to Stay.

Album

Strength & Power

By Roswell Rudd

Label: RareNoiseRecords
Released: 2016
Track listing: Strength & Power; Cobalt Is Divine; The Bedroom; Luminescent; Dunn's Falls; Struttin' For Jah Jah.

Article: Year in Review

C. Michael Bailey’s Best Releases of 2016

by C. Michael Bailey
December 15, 2016

Shifting priorities in 2016 prevented me from either listening to or reviewing as much music as I have in the past. Thus, I did not take a swing at many fine recordings that by all accounts should be on this list like: John Scofield's Country for Old Men (Impulse!); Keith Jarrett's A Multitude of Angels (ECM); ...