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Kim Pensyl & Phil DeGreg: Melodious Monk
by Greg Simmons
At some point or another, it seems, every jazz musician takes up the challenge of interpreting Thelonious Monk. It must be an unbearable temptation to try to bring some perceived new angle to such a distinct set of compositions, especially when those compositions are so inextricably intertwined with Monk's odd playing style. As if responding to ...
Nobuki Takamen: Live at the Iridium
by Glenn Astarita
Born in Hiroshima, Japan, guitarist Nobuki Takamen resides in New York City where he remains active in the local jazz scene amid gigs at major out-of-state festivals. Recorded at New York City's Iridium jazz venue, the guitarist steers his quartet through a progression of lyrically resplendent bop and swing works, complemented by interweaving plots and brief ...
Taking Shape!
by Michael Ricci
Dear fellow contributor, All About Jazz continues to improve as we further upgrade our appearance, optimize our performance, and launch new features. As always, we have some important and timely news to share, so please read on...Index 1. Team Concept: Baseline Expectations 2. Design Changes
Daniel Smith: Bassoon Goes Latin Jazz!
by Nicholas F. Mondello
It's about that sound--that down there, frog-like bellowing encountered on cartoon soundtracks, novelty TV commercials, and that marvelously masculine sound heard in the greatest of orchestral and chamber music repertoire. Rarely is the bassoon heard blowing improvisation in the jazz idiom, athough with the works of Daniel Smith, Paul Hanson and others, that's changing.
Daniel Smith: Bassoon Goes Latin Jazz!
by Dan Bilawsky
The bassoon seems to be the homebody of the orchestral woodwind family. This double-reed dynamo rarely leaves the confines of the classical world, instead finding contentment in its comfort zone, playing classic works of yore. On the rare occasion that the instrument does wander outside of its safety net to converse in other musical environments, it ...
Marty Nau Group: Mood Ebony
by Greg Simmons
An all-clarinet album is a rare thing in jazz these days. The B-flat clarinet has an old-fashioned sound, ubiquitous in the early days of jazz, but gradually replaced by the bigger, deeper, and often more aggressive reed sound of the saxophones. Early New Orleans bands at the birth of the form almost always featured the “stick," ...
Dave Wilson: Spiral
by AAJ Italy Staff
Con una ritmica così fare un disco deve essere un sogno. Già il brano di apertura è un piccolo manifesto di interplay, e l'assolo di Phil Markowitz è di una categoria a sè stante per eleganza e virtuosismo. Dave Wilson si trova subito a suo agio con alle spalle un trio di tale levatura. Tre composizioni ...
Blue Bassoon
By Daniel Smith
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: The Jody Grind; Billie's Bounce; Things Ain't What They Used To Be; Scotch And Water; My Baby's Gone; Sack Of Woe; Nostalgia In Times Square; Equinox; The Double Up; From Four Till Late; Break Out The Blues; Footprints; Solid.
Spiral
By Dave Wilson
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Spiral; Elm; Ocean Blue; Friend of the Devil; Summer Breezes; My Own Prison; Movin' On; Like GS 2; Remembering; Francisca; (You're the) Biggest Part of Me.
