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Take Five With Adam Meckler
by AAJ Staff
Meet Adam Meckler: Trumpeter, composer and educator Adam Meckler graduated from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI in 2007 with a degree in trumpet performance and an emphasis in jazz studies. He was a member of LU's Down Beat award-winning Jazz Ensemble (2007) and studied privately under the direction of critically acclaimed composer and educator Fred Sturm. ...
Andrew Green: Narrow Margin
by Troy Collins
Commonly known as the author of a popular series of instruction books, including Jazz Guitar Comping, Jazz Guitar Structures and Jazz Guitar Technique, Andrew Green's lesson plans are revered for their basic approach towards complex concepts. His debut album, Narrow Margin, is a similarly understated, though deceptively intricate affair. Temporarily sidelined by a sprained ...
Andrew Green: Narrow Margin
by J Hunter
Film noir used to be what the Internet is nowadays: something to blame for why the world is going south in a sidecar. Noir films were black and white, but the story lines weren't. The good guys weren't all good, the bad guys weren't always that bad, and the girls with hearts of gold only had ...
Litchfield Jazz Camp Awards $90,000 in Need-Based Scholarships
Litchfield Jazz Camp Awards $90,000 in Need-Based Scholarships Location: Kent School, Kent, CT Contact: 860-567-4162 Email: [email protected] Website: litchfieldjazzfest.com Kent. CT--Litchfield Jazz Camp, the 13-year-old teaching arm of the renowned Litchfield Jazz Festival, has made if first big move this summer-- to Kent School in Kent, CT, for a month-long ...
Jason Rigby: The Sage
by Eyal Hareuveni
The sophomore release of New York-based saxophonist/composer Jason Rigby features him as a unique new voice that deserves wider attention. His deep, full-bodied tenor sound and his inside-outside jazz vocabulary reference sax greats such as John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter, while his elastic sense of time sounds closer to the fluid playfulness of Ornette Coleman. His ...
Michael Bates: Live In New York
by Lyn Horton
Prevalent in the musical ethic of Michael Bates is a masterful balance of instrumental and compositional elements. Live in New York is Bates' group Outside Sources--Russ Johnson (trumpet), Quinsin Nachoff (saxophone and clarinet) and drummer Jeff Davis --documented at a Fall 2008 Cornelia Street Café gig. The initial snap of the snare on ...
Jason Rigby: The Sage
by J Hunter
When purists maintain their Cheney-like insistence that nobody could have foreseen Miles Davis recording something as incendiary as Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1969), they reveal a blind spot the size of the Chrysler Building. The pre-Brew signs were as plain as the glasses on Stanley Crouch's face: First there was Filles de Kilimanjaro (Columbia, 1968), which codified ...
Ken Thomson and Slow/Fast at Issue Project Room, February 25
KEN THOMSON - SAXOPHONIST/CLARINETIST/COMPOSER WITH GUTBUCKET, BANG ON A CAN, SIGNAL, AND MORE UNVEILS NEW GROUP “KEN THOMSON and SLOW/FAST” ISSUE PROJECT ROOM WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2009, 8PM 232 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY 100% new music written throughout 2008 -- New project blends heavily composed long-form elements with improvisation, presenting a dynamic ...
Root Down
By Russ Johnson
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: 1. The Dawn Part I - III; 2. Lady (Fela Kuti); 3. Analog - Vamp For Lady; 4. City Of Noise; 5.
MRA (Dudu Pukwana); 6. Kirui Part I - V; 7. The Root; 8. Makaya And The Rain; 9. The
Drought - Colo Vamp; 10. Zombie (Fela Kuti); 11. Gebrselassie
Tutte le composizioni sono di Tommy Meier, tranne dove indicato altrimenti.
Tommy Meier: Root Down
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'Africa, nelle sue radici più profonde e sofferte. Quella dei musicisti sudafricani in esilio (od auto-esilio, come nel caso del pianista bianco Chris McGregor), o delle canzoni di protesta contro lo sfruttamento (un cenno a “Colonial Mentality" di Fela Kuti) o la corruzione e la tirannia ("Zombie", sempre di Fela Kuti). E però anche l'Africa dei ...
