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Album

Thank You, Duke!

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Don’t Get Around Much Anymore; In a Sentimental Mood; Day Dream; Sophisticated Lady; Isfahan; In a Sentimental Mood; Chromatic Love Affair; Mood Indigo; Come Sunday; The Feeling of Jazz.

Article: Catching Up With

Naama Gheber's Detours Lead Straight To Jazz Career

by Jim Trageser
June 8, 2022

There is no “normal" journey to becoming an established, professional musician. Every path is different; each story one of a kind. But some are perhaps more different than most. Naama Gheber's surely ranks among those in the “more different" category: not many jazz singers began their adult years by serving as an ...

Album

Crisis

By Louis Hayes

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Arab Arab; I'm Afraid the Masquerade Is Over; Desert Moonlight; Where Are You?; Creeping Crud; Alien Visitation; Crisis; Oxygen; It's Only a Paper Moon

Article: Album Review

Louis Hayes: Crisis

by Jack Bowers
December 18, 2021

Louis Hayes--who has been a force in jazz drumming for more than sixty years, anchoring legendary groups led by Horace Silver, Cannonball Adderley, Oscar Peterson, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, among others--has assembled a quintet of New York City's finest for Crisis, wherein he pays musical tribute to some of his jazz colleagues, past and present, ...

Article: Live Review

56th Jazzaldia Festival

by Paul Combs
September 6, 2021

56th Jazzaldia Festival Various venues Donostia/San Sebastián, Spain July 21-25, 2021 This was the 56th edition of the Jazzaldia Festival in Donostia/San Sebastián, the capital of Gipuzcoa province in the Pais Vasco region on the north coast of Spain. With a population of roughly 200,000, and popularity as a tourist ...

Article: Interview

Chien Chien Lu: On The Right Path

by William H. Snyder
August 20, 2021

Chien Chien Lu is a vibes and marimba player who lived the first quarter of a century of her life in Taiwan. This year she is closing in on 32 years of age. One of three children, she went to church with Dad and temple with Mom--her father being a Christian, and her mother a Buddhist. ...

Article: Interview

Dave Holland: More Than Just Notes

by Ian Patterson
August 2, 2021

The creative juices, if not the hunger, desert many artists as they advance in years. Repetition and mediocrity--a blunting of the sword--can creep in, while past glories are often left to provide the kindling for flames that never quite catch. Such charges could never be levelled at English bassist Dave Holland, who turns seventy-five in October. ...

Article: Live Review

Merano Jazz 2021

by Giuseppe Segala
July 23, 2021

Merano Jazz Festival 2021 Merano Teatro Kimm e altre sedi 13-18.7.2021 L'atmosfera che si respira al Merano Jazz Festival è aperta e multiculturale. In questo, senza dubbio svolge un ruolo la storia della località bagnata dal Passirio, coronata a Nord dalle poderose, ripide fiancate delle Alpi Venoste. Nella seconda metà ...

Album

Marbles

By Falkner Evans

Label: Consolidated Artists Productions
Released: 2020
Track listing: Pina; Civilization; Sing Alone; Global News; Hidden Gem; This From That; Mbegu; Marbles; Dear West Village; Things Ain't What They Used To Be.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Fred, Bird, Carmen, Nat, Abbey, New Bu & More

by Marc Cohn
September 11, 2020

Oh, do we have a show for you. I was reading Will Friedwald's great book, The Great Jazz & Pop Vocal Albums, and discovered a Fred Astaire recording on Verve. We checked it out and spent a couple of very pleasant hours with Fred talking and singing in company of esteemed jazz artists. Our first segment ...