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Ehud Asherie: Organic

by Dan Bilawsky
Contrary to what some might believe, the designation of a musician as an organist or pianist does not have to be mutually exclusive. While some players choose to focus all of their time and energy on one of these instruments, many others prefer to branch out and try their hand at both. Fats Waller wasn't afraid ...
Under the Big Top: Detroit's 31st Year Hits a High Note

by C. Andrew Hovan
31st Annual Detroit Intermational Jazz FestivalHart PlazaDetroit, MichiganSeptember 3-6, 2010Last year may have been their 30th anniversary year, but this past Labor Day weekend, The Detroit Jazz Festival pulled out all the stops for what had to be one of the most memorable line-ups of recent memory. Mother Nature would cooperate ...
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense (Theatrical Version)

by John Kelman
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense (Theatrical Version)IndiePix Films2009 Distilling a groundbreaking, four-part, four-hour television documentary--one which finally examined the evolution of jazz in a contemporary, rather than purely historical, context--into a shorter theatrical version is no mean feat. When Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense aired on ...
Take Five with Joel Fairstein

by AAJ Staff
Meet Joel Fairstein: Hailing from Knoxville, Tennessee, Joel Fairstein has earned critical praise as jazz pianist, composer, producer, and studio musician. His first album, Umbra, an LP recorded at age 24 with eighteen sidemen has since become a sought-after collectors item.Joel graduated from Berklee college in 1983 and freelanced regularly in Boston ...
A Jazz Pianist Who Has Honed His Style While Hiding in Plain Sight

Sam Yahel played his own song Truth and Beauty" around the middle of his early set on Tuesday night at the Village Vanguard. In the past hes recorded it on Hammond organ, in a different group, with saxophone and drums. Here he was playing it on the piano, with the bassist Matt Penman and the drummer ...
Libor Smoldas: In New York On Time

by Dan Bilawsky
Guitarist Libor Šmoldas is a known entity within the Prague jazz scene, but In New York On Time should help him to significantly expand his fan base beyond the borders of the Czech Republic. While Šmoldas has largely worked with Czech musicians in a variety of groups, including his trio and quartet which focus on his ...
Dan Pratt: Toe The Line

by Dan Bilawsky
Toe The Line does far more than its name implies. Saxophonist Dan Pratt has put together a record that, while loyal to the small organ group" tradition, also manages to cover broad stylistic ground. Within this category, certain norms or standards seem to be expected in the music: Jimmy Smith's records provide a grooving and intense ...
Sam Yahel Trio Live at the Village Vanguard - Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 thru Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Pianist /Composer Sam Yahel will be performing with his Trio (featuring Matt Penman on bass, Jochen Rueckert on drums) at The Village Vanguard in NYC from Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 thru Sunday, April 18th, 2010. Sam Yahel Trio: Sam Yahel - Piano Matt Penman - bass, Jochen Rueckert - drums The Village ...
Take Five With Rick Stone

by AAJ Staff
Meet Rick Stone: I've been teaching and performing in the New York area since 1982 and have had the good fortune to perform with musicians like Kenny Barron, Barry Harris, Junior Cook, Ralph Lalama, Dennis Irwin, Vernel Fournier, Eric Alexander, Peter Leitch, Sam Yahel, Mark Elf, Roni Ben-Hur, Peter Bernstein, Matt Wilson, and ...
Open Secrets: A Triumvirate of Israeli Guitarists

by Tom Greenland
Gilad Hekselman Words Unspoken LateSet Records 2009 Oren Neiman Frolic & Detour Noyman Music 2009 Yotam Silberstein Next Page Posi-Tone 2009 ...