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Article: Lyrics

L'ultimo hipster. La vita e la musica di Mark Murphy

by Angelo Leonardi
May 23, 2017

Non trovate accenni a Mark Murphy nelle più recenti storie del jazz, neanche il nome. Una lacuna che appare inspiegabile (a differenza di Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormè e Tony Bennett) che si giustifica solo col ritardo a collocare il cantante di Syracuse in una prospettiva storica. Eppure già prima della sua scomparsa -il ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Shirley Horn

May 1, 2017

All About Jazz is celebrating Shirley Horn's birthday today! Shirley Horn remembered playing her grandmother\'s piano when she was four years old. Uninterested in playing with the neighborhood children, Horn enjoyed nothing more than to play that piano, and would close herself off in her grandmother\'s parlor, which was kept for guests and was chillier than ...

News: Recording

Recent And Upcoming ECM Releases: April - June 2017

April 16, 2017

Look for these recent or upcoming releases on ECM Records. Aaron Parks Find the Way Aaron Parks: piano, Ben Street: double bass, Billy Hart: drums. For the second ECM album by Aaron Parks—following the solo release Aborescence, which JazzTimes praised as “expansive, impressionistic… like a vision quest”—the prize-winning pianist has convened a cross-generational trio ...

News: Performance / Tour

Stephanie Jordan Begins Residency At Jazz Live Hyatt As Featured Artist

March 1, 2017

Join Jazz Live at Hyatt every Friday and Saturday beginning on Friday, March 3, and Saturday, March 4, 2017 as they present Stephanie Jordan as the featured performer for a year-long engagement at Hyatt Regency New Orleans. The Stephanie Jordan Ensemble will do two sets nightly performing jazz standards made popular from the likes of Abbey ...

Article: Out and About: The Super Fans

Meet Ari (ImpressARIo) Silverstein

by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
February 7, 2017

Some people are jazz aficionados. Then there's Ari Silverstein. Hooked from the moment he saw the light of jazz, was he content merely to listen? Not Impress-Ari-o! Once he was in, he was in all the way, from organizing concerts to getting his New York tour guide license in order to start shepherding tourists to his ...

News: Event

The Musical Jordan Family Featured At Swearing In Of Congressman Richmond As Chair Of CBC; Watch Live Stream

January 3, 2017

New Orleans’ musical Jordan family, represented by Stephanie Jordan, Rachel Jordan and Marlon Jordan have been invited by Congressman Cedric Richmond, D-LA to be the featured musical guests at the swearing in of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) of the 115th Congress. This past November, Representative Richmond was elected Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and ...

Album

Shirley Horn Live at the 4 Queens

By Shirley Horn

Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Hi-Fly; You’d Be Son Nice to Come Home To; Meditation; The Boy for Ipanema; Isn’t It Romantic; Lover Man; Something Happens to Me; Just for a Thrill; Blues for Big Scotia.

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); ...

Article: Album Review

Frank Kimbrough: Solstice

Read "Solstice" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
December 3, 2016

Pianist/composer Frank Kimbrough presents a trio album with only one of his originals, a reversal of his usual approach. He was a student of the late Paul Bley, and although there is no formal dedication the program has an air of homage about it. Kimbrough first heard three of the selections played by Bley's mid-60's trio. ...

Article: Interview

Ashley Kahn: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece

by Lazaro Vega
November 30, 2016

This interview was first published at All About Jazz in November 2000 and is part of our ongoing effort to archive pre-database material. Ashley Kahn, the author of Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece (Da Capo Press, 224 pgs.), is Music Editor at VH1, and was the primary editor ...