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Yaron Stavi: Profoundly Bassist
by Sammy Stein
Yaron Stavi is a bassist who has performed all over the world with many musicians, playing double and electric bass and crossing genres into rock, classical, jazz and World Music. He studied in Berlin and played with orchestras around Europe, North America and Asia, and was principal bassist with the Mahler Youth Orchestra under, among others, ...
Chick Corea al Parco della Musica, Roma
by Mario Calvitti
Parco della Musica Roma 10.05.2014 In occasione della recentissima pubblicazione del suo nuovo CD di solo piano, Portraits, il pianista Chick Corea ha intrapreso un tour mondiale che lo ha portato anche dalle nostre parti. Il suo concerto solistico è strutturato analogamente al CD, registrato dal vivo, con una prima ...
Humble Origins: Humble Beginnings
by Dan McClenaghan
The opening of the group Humble Organism's Humble Beginnings, Hello Jansen," with its big bright organ wash and prowling bass, a rumbling set of drums laying down a backdrop, seems to say: Kick back, baby. You're gonna get in the groove with some organ jazz." And it doesn't sound humble." To the contrary, its a brash ...
Jazzkaar 2014
by John Kelman
Jazzkaar 2014 Tallinn, Estonia April 16-28, 2014 Any opportunity to return to Tallinn, the capital of Estonia in Eastern Europe, is one worth grabbing. Beyond the somewhat surreal feeling of being in a country that, just 23 years ago, was a completely different place, Tallinn is, quite simply, one of the most ...
Jaimeo Brown: Transcendence
by Angelo Leonardi
Al suo debutto discografico come leader Jaimeo Brown ha relizzato una delle opere più intense, originali e appassionanti del 2013. Un concept album che abbraccia il passato e il presente della cultura afro-americana, inglobando suggestioni geograficamente distanti (come quella indiana) in un percorso capace di coniugare feeling e controllo della forma. Il trentaquattrenne batterista non ...
Acme Jazz Company: Acme Jazz Company
by Jack Bowers
There are moments on its debut recording when the Twin Cities-based Acme Jazz Company rises well above its generic name to present an exciting brand of big-band jazz, others when its run-of-the-mill label seems to suit the ensemble like a proverbial glove. Lance Strickland's genial One Eyed Jacks," for example, hustles merrily along behind cogent statements ...
Chick Corea At Town Hall
by Mike Perciaccante
Chick Corea Town Hall New York, NY April 10, 2014 With the coronation of rock's royalty taking place a mere six miles across town in Brooklyn at The House That Jay Z Built" (The Barclays Center), one of jazz' princes took the stage at Manhattan's Town Hall. Chick Corea's solo piano ...
Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration Deluxe Edition
by John Kelman
A star-studded show celebrating the music of Bob Dylan, televised around the world thirty years after the release of his first Columbia recording, 1962's Bob Dylan, could have been seen as swan song; after all, Dylan was in a period of songwriting inactivity that would last from 1990 through to his potent reemergence with 1997's Time ...
Jazz Quanta April
by C. Michael Bailey
April is no more the cruelest month than the moon is made of cheese. For consideration this month we have nine recordings from far and wide: Antonio Adolfo to Little Feat far and wide. Antonio Adolfo Rio, Choro, Jazz AAM Music 2014 Before there was ...
Misha Tsiganov: Misha Tsiganov: The Artistry Of The Standard
by Edward Blanco
Veteran Russian pianist Misha Tsiganov has an extensive discography featuring original compositions and, like most musicians, blending a few standards for familiarity along the way. With The Artistry Of The Standard, the pianist presents an entire album of standards reprising the music of jazz greats Wayne Shorter, Charlie Parker, Wes Montgomery and John Coltrane among others. ...


