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Jazzkaar 2011: Tallinn, Estonia, Days 7-8
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days Days 4-6 | Days 7-8 Dave Liebman Quintet / European Jazz Orchestra Jazzkaar Festival 2011 Tallinn, Estonia April 26-27, 2011 As Jazzkaar 2011 heads into the home stretch, it's important to remember that, with Tallinn selected as European Capital of Culture for 2011, ...
David Caceres: Double Threat Coming Forward
by R.J. DeLuke
The singer/instrumentalist in jazz has a long and honorable tradition. Many of those, though certainly not all, are more known for their singing than playing, especially in the last 20 years or so. But almost universally, they're enjoyed for what they can do, breathing a certain joie de vivre into songs by expressing the lyrics, then ...
Dreyfus Records: Crossing Continents with Music
by Jakob Baekgaard
Music, at its best, has the ability to reach across boundaries of nationality, gender and age. If there's a message in music, it's about communication, and about getting to the essence of everything: the beating pulse of a human heart. In an increasingly commercial market, where it has become more important to make music that opens ...
Don Aliquo: The Man, The Music, The Journey
by Ludwig vanTrikt
Geography is a central theme in the life and artistry of Pittsburgh's native son, Don Aliquo. The saxophonist, educator and bandleader is part of a rich steel town jazz lineage which includes his father, Don Aliquo Sr., a performing artist and teacher in his own right. There is also a metaphorical geography, in which Aliquo covers ...
Jean-Michel Pilc: True Story
by Karl Ackermann
Jean-Michel Pilc has yet to achieve a US prominence that compares to his fellow French jazz pianists, the late Michel Petrucciani and Algerian-born Martial Solal. While both of the latter musicians are frequently cited for their lightning-fast delivery, Pilc shares their agility as well as a finely honed ear for lyricism. But ultimately, Pilc is a ...
Francis Dreyfus: 1940 - 2010
Music publisher and record producer Francis Dreyfus died Thursday, June 24, 2010, at the age of 70. Through his labels Disques Motors and Dreyfus Records, Francis Dreyfus launched the careers of prominent artists, including Christophe and Jean Michel Jarre. His love of jazz led to the creation of the Dreyfus Jazz label which brought together such ...
Tuscia in Jazz: Info and Festival Program 2010
Tuscia in Jazz We have arrived at the ninth edition of the Tuscia in Jazz Festival. Other than the change in name, we have also changed the venue, moving to a fixed location in the heart of the Monti Cimini, the beautiful Soriano nel Cimino. The festival has been strongly supported by the local administration of ...
Antonio Ciacca: Lagos Blues (with Steve Grossman)
by George Kanzler
There's a good reason most “real" jazz radio stations tend to favor the modern mainstream jazz of the post-bop era codified by such record labels from the mid-20th Century as Blue Note, Columbia's jazz division, Prestige, Riverside and Impulse. It's creative jazz with a comfortingly substantial physicality, clean lines and rhythmic heft still anchored to a ...
Antonio Ciacca: Lagos Blues
by J Hunter
Four decades ago, Miles Davis called then-burgeoning saxophonist Steve Grossman “an important voice in this music." One of the people who heard that voice was pianist Antonio Ciacca. Lagos Blues, Ciacca's second disc for Motema, not only shows Grossman's influence as Ciacca's former teacher; it also includes the now-legendary tenor player's direct influence, as he joins ...
