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Article: Live Review

Montreal Jazz Festival 2011

Read "Montreal Jazz Festival 2011" reviewed by John Kelman


Days 1-3 | Days 4- 6 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Montreal, Canada June 25- July 4, 2011After a hiatus in 2010, in order to take a three-week Norwegian road trip, it's great to get back to the festival that the Guinness Book of Records calls “The biggest ...

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Article: Album Review

Evan Weiss: Math or Magic

Read "Math or Magic" reviewed by David Rickert


Combining jazz improvisation and classical composition has been an irresistible idea for many--an intellectual problem promising that, perhaps, the result will combine the best qualities of both. However, in practice, the third stream movement has largely been an indication of boring, pretentious recordings to avoid. But then a guy like Evan Weiss comes along with his ...

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Article: Profile

Jaga Jazzist: Maximalistic

Read "Jaga Jazzist: Maximalistic" reviewed by Angela Shawn-Chi Lu


A Norwegian nonet that rocks 35 instruments onstage and smashes Afrobeat, prog, film music, cheesy fanfares and Steve Reich arpeggios together against a backdrop of gigantic slot machine fruit? The odds of that happening are “No friggin way!" But as it turns out, one such nonet does exist. What's even more shocking is that Jaga Jazzist ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Edward Simon

Read "Take Five With Edward Simon" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Edward Simon: The process by which Simon became an internationally regarded jazz musician began in the small coastal town of Cardon, Venezuela, where he grew up surrounded by the sounds of Latin and Caribbean music. Born in 1969, Simon credits his father, Hadsy, for developing his passion for music and supporting him and ...

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Article: Album Review

Club d'Elf: Electric Moroccoland / So Below

Read "Electric Moroccoland / So Below" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Even in our far-reaching and cluttered modern musical culture, it seems safe to suggest that there is no other band quite like Club d'Elf, a floating riverboat gamble with a fluid cast of contributors--keyboardist John Medeski, guitarists Reeves Gabrels and Duke Levin, Mat Maneri on electric viola, turntablist Mister Rourke, and many others among them--steered by ...

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Article: From the Inside Out

Voices Instrumental in Jazz

Read "Voices Instrumental in Jazz" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Natacha AtlasMounqalibaSix Degrees Records2010 Vocalist Natacha Atlas seems to embody the modern musical millennia: She was born in Brussels and raised in one of its Moroccan suburbs; her compositions and singing reach into and crisscross storied European and Arabic musical traditions. Primarily co-written ...

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Article: Live Review

Jazzkaar 2011: Tallinn, Estonia, Days 1-3

Read "Jazzkaar 2011: Tallinn, Estonia, Days 1-3" reviewed by John Kelman


Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-8 Punkt Festival in Tallinn / Talvin Singh and Niladri Kumar Jazzkaar Festival 2011 Tallinn, Estonia April 20-22, 2011 It's one thing to visit a European country and marvel at the history that has been made in centuries past; it's another to ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Bill Frisell: Sign of Life - Music for 858 Quartet

Read "Bill Frisell: Sign of Life - Music for 858 Quartet" reviewed by John Kelman


Bill FrisellSign of Life: Music for 858 QuartetSavoy Jazz2011 Bill Frisell fans attending the 2010 Ottawa International Jazz Festival were given a rare opportunity to catch two groups, for whom the guitarist was planning releases in the coming months: his new Beautiful Dreamers trio, a couple months ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa

Read "Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski


A question that has always been asked, regardless of genre, is whether music can be conservative and revolutionary at the same time. Various composers have surfaced in recent times with brilliant compositions, but their work has not adhered to any of the schools of composition that make up the 20th century classical music. These composers have ...

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News: Recording

Club d'Elf: New Albums & Tour

Club d'Elf: New Albums & Tour

Deep Trancing: The Hypnotic Grooves, Camel-Skin Bass, and Unifying Spirit of Club d'Elf The music of Club d'Elf flies through North African trance, glitchy turntablism, improvisation, and rock psychedelia, but it's playfully altered states of musical consciousness that truly guide the band. Witness founder Mike Rivard's first night in Morocco, the country that had fired his ...


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