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Article: Live Review

Zlatko Kaučič alla Galleria degli Uffizi di Firenze

by Neri Pollastri
September 5, 2018

Zlatko Kaučič Uffizi Live 2018 Gallerie degli Uffizi Firenze 21.8.2018 Per il terzo anno la Galleria degli Uffizi, uno dei musei più importanti al mondo, ha dato vita a una serie di spettacoli, svoltisi nei giorni di apertura anche serale della galleria. Tra le circa cinquecentocinquanta proposte pervenute alla ...

Article: Interview

Randy Weston: Brooklyn, Africa e ritorno

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 4, 2018

Per ricordare il grande pianista statunitense, riproponiamo un'intervista del 1999 che ripercorre la sua vita e la sua carriera, dalla nascita a Brooklyn agli anni passati in Africa fino alla consacrazione dopo il rientro negli Stati Uniti. Ogni anno, la facoltà di musica dell'università di Harvard, dedica parte del suo calendario accademico all'analisi ...

Article: Album Review

Miles Okazaki: Work: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Monk

Read "Work: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Monk" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 31, 2018

The best way to embark upon Miles Okazaki's six-volume Work: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Monk is the same manner you might approach Herman Melville's American masterpiece Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. Like Moby-Dick with its 135 chapters (and epilogue), Work is a Brobdingnagian accomplishment. Okazaki performs the complete Thelonious Monk songbook. 70 tunes in total.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jazz & Poetry

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 8, 2018

The best of jazz is aural poetry. The best of poetry swings and grooves. So it's not surprising that jazz and poetry have had a long and fruitful synergy. We decided to explore intriguing collaborations between jazz musicians and poets, from the icons of the Beat Generation to Amiri Baraka, from Federico Garcia ...

Article: Out and About: The Super Fans

Meet Jacob Cartwright

by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
August 6, 2018

Our August Super Fan is a visual artist with a special affinity for improvisational music, which has spilled over into his jazz-themed painting series. In jazz, as in art, Jacob Cartwright values the past while embracing the forward momentum of the new. Plus he's really “down with the jazz cats"--read on to see what we mean! ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Hal Willner, Nino Rota & Beyond

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 1, 2018

For Today's episode we go back in time to 1981, the year in which Amarcord Nino Rota by producer Hal Willner was released. 37 years later it remains a reference record and one of the greatest tribute albums ever produced, and recently remastered and re-released by Corbett vs. Dempsey. We take a look back at the ...

Article: Musician 2 Musician

Enrico Rava and Tomasz Stanko: Elective Affinities

by AAJ Staff
July 30, 2018

In memory of Tomasz Stanko. This article was first published at All About Jazz on October 18, 2017. Enrico Rava and Tomasz Stanko have recently launched an ECM super-group with which in July they toured all over Europe, performing in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway and Romania, as well as in their native countries, ...

Article: Musician 2 Musician

Tomasz Stanko & Enrico Rava: Le Affinità Elettive

by AAJ Staff
July 29, 2018

Questo articolo era stato pubblicato l'11 settembre 2017 e viene ora riproposto in home page per ricordare il grande trombettista polacco scomparso il 29 luglio 2018. Lo scorso luglio Enrico Rava e Tomasz Stanko hanno varato un super-gruppo ECM per un tour europeo di oltre due settimane, in Italia e Polonia, ovviamente, ma anche ...

Article: Interview

Hal Willner's Rock 'n' Rota

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 26, 2018

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." Anyone who has ever been at an all-star event--especially if that was a tribute concert--has learned the importance of Aristotle's maxim the hard way. Maybe the occasion was momentous, the cast probably star-studded, the heart certainly in the right place and the expectations high... however, at ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Steve Lacy

July 23, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Steve Lacy's birthday today! Steve Lacy, one of the greatest soprano saxophonists of all time and a New England Conservatory faculty member since fall 2002, died Friday [June 4th, 2004] at New England Baptist Hospital. The jazz master who once defined his profession as “combination orator, singer, dancer, diplomat, poet, dialectician, ...