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Sam Yahel: From Sun to Sun
by Dan McClenaghan
Sam Yahel made his name in jazz as an organist, notably on the excellent Truth and Beauty (Origin Records, 2009). In addition to a handful of well-received CDs under his own name, Yahel has worked his B3 Hammond magic on recordings by vocalist Norah Jones and saxophonist Joshua Redman. So it was something of a risk ...
Sam Yahel Trio: New York, NY, July 17, 2011
by Dan Bilawsky
Sam Yahel Trio The Village Vanguard New York, NY July 17, 2011 The world has changed in numerous and startling ways since pianist Bill Evans recorded Sunday At The Village Vanguard (Riverside, 1961) a half century ago, but two things remain as consistent as the rising and setting of the sun: The ...
The first Taiwanese jazz pianist to be listed in the Steinway hall of fame: Jo-Yu Chen signed an exclusive artist contract with Sony Music Taiwan
Jazz pianist Jo-Yu Chen, who has long made New York her home, was recently shortlisted as Steinway Artist and thus becoming the first Taiwanese jazz pianist to obtain this honor. At the end of 2010, she was featured prominently in the coverage of two American heavyweight jazz magazines: Downbeat and Jazziz. In addition to being featured ...
Northern Ireland: Jazz is on the Rise
by Bruce Lindsay
In geographical terms, the island of Ireland is small: just 300 miles by 175 miles, with a population of around 6.2 million. Northern Ireland is smaller still: 1.8 million people in six counties in the north-east of the island. In the wide world of jazz the country rarely rates a mention. But Northern Ireland's jazz scene ...
Javier Vercher: Wish You Were Here
by Enrique Turpin
Poco importa que Javier Vercher sea madrileño de nacimiento y valenciano de adopción. Defender un origen geográfico sólo tiene sentido si se está dispuesto a morir por él, y no creo que sea el caso del saxofonista, que bien pronto entendió que las fronteras que cabe preservar con la firmeza de las pasiones tienen que ver ...
Take Five With Steve Sacks
by AAJ Staff
Meet Steve Sacks: A jazz saxophonist/flutist and Harvard-trained musicologist, Steve, has for 35 years, focused his talents on the richness and diversity of Brazilian and Latin music. An internationalist fluent in five languages, and with twenty years experience on the New York music scene, Steve has performed, recorded and/or written for a wide variety ...
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 ...


