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Ivo Perelman: What A Year In Music
by Mark Corroto
There is an adage in the music world that one is damned to be a completist. Ever since performances have been captured on cylinders, records, and now digitally, music devotees have endeavored to collect entire catalogs of their favorite musicians or ensembles. Think about the obsessive hunters of 78 rpm blues records from backwoods artists of ...
The 20th Anniversary DC JazzFest
by Jerome Wilson
2024 DC JazzFest Potomac Riverfront Washington, DC August 31 to September 1, 2024 Being the birthplace of Duke Ellington among other things, Washington, DC has had a long tradition as a hotbed for jazz, and been the site of several ambitious jazz festivals over the years. The most prominent one currently ...
Sun Ra: At the Showcase (Live In Chicago, 1976-1977)
by Giuseppe Segala
Moltissime sono le registrazioni di Sun Ra, alcune memorabili. In ognuna si nasconde una tessera, un elemento della sua vitalità inesauribile, della sua ricerca cosmica di torcere, frammentare, lacerare le convenzioni. Di toccare con mano meravigliata i materiali di cui dispone, quasi venissero da altri mondi, da altre dimensioni, da logiche differenti. Sun Ra trascende le ...
Wayne Shorter: The Final Mission
by Chris May
Every good story has a beginning, a middle and an end. Depending on how one figures it, Wayne Shorter's recording history has upwards of half a dozen important chapters. They tell a tale of superheroes, of monsters and demons and, ultimately, of the sight of a new dawn. Just three of the chapters cover the story's ...
My Conversation with Anthony Braxton
by AAJ Staff
This article first appeared on All About Jazz in September 2001. In Puccini's Tosca, the lead heroine sings “Vissi d'arte" in the second act. It is with passion and anguish then that the audience understands the opera singer Floria Tosca is asking the heavens why she has suffered so much for her art when ...
Wayne Shorter: Celebration Volume 1
by Chris May
In 2000, three years short of entering his eighth decade on this planet--a place of origin which at times seemed questionable, though he made less fuss about it than Sun Ra--Wayne Shorter finally did what he had resisted doing throughout his career. He formed his own band, not just for an album project but as an ...
Jonas Cambien's Maca Conu: Maca Conu
by John Sharpe
While Oslo-based Belgian pianist Jonas Cambien's Maca Conu may be a new venture, it has a lot in common with his trio which made a series of acclaimed albums, including A Zoology of the Future (Clean Feed, 2016) and We Must Mustn't We (Clean Feed, 2018). Not least of that is down to the continued tenure ...
Summer Sequence: Ralph Burns + Lucian Ban, Marta Sanchez and more
by David Brown
In the first set we have a birthday tribute to pianist and arranger Ralph Burns, born June 29, 1922. In jazz, Burns is best known for his work with Woody Herman's “Second Herd" as the band's pianist and chief arranger. Let's also explore his ensemble work and then his string arrangements for Ben Webster, Ray Charles ...
Johnny M. Dyani: African Bass
by Alberto Bazzurro
Inciso allo studio Barigozzi nel novembre 1979 e uscito su LP di lì a pochi mesi, rivede oggi la luce, ancora su LP nonché su CD, questo singolare album di Johnny M. Dyani (la M. sta per Mbizo), esponente di punta di quella colonia di jazzmen sudafricani emigrati in Inghilterra (tendenzialmente a Londra) e diventati ben ...
Astro: Eclipse: State Of The Baritone, Volume 6
by Mark Corroto
For composer, author and saxophonist Anders Svanoe place is the space. That last part needs no correction as the proud Wisconsinite creates an abundance of sound 150 miles north of Chicago. He has been releasing his State Of The Baritone series, and Astro Eclipse is volume 6. Previously, he has investigated Latin jazz with El Dragón: ...
