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Article: Multiple Reviews

The Seneca Village Concerts

by Jerome Wilson
June 27, 2022

For much of 2020 and 2021, the coronavirus pandemic brought a screeching halt to virtually all live music performances in this country. To combat that, some individuals in various locales arranged series of live open-air performances. One was recording engineer and photographer Jimmy Katz who curated a series of live outdoor jazz performances in New York ...

Article: Album Review

Simon Moullier Trio: Countdown

Read "Countdown" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
July 2, 2021

Simon Moullier declares that one of his goals with his second recording is “to make the vibraphone disappear." To this end, he eschews the colorful guest list of his debut Spirit Song (Outside In, 2020) and puts his instrument at the head of an acoustic trio where it gets to fill out most of the melodic ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Tadd Dameron, Fats Navarro, Sonny Stitt & JJ Johnson (1946 - 1950)

by Russell Perry
May 14, 2019

In the past several hours of Jazz at 100, we have featured the music of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, and Max Roach. In this hour, we will continue to present bebop innovators—pianist/composer Tadd Dameron and his frequent (but short-lived) collaborator Fats Navarro, the next great bebop trumpeter after Dizzy Gillespie, ...

Article: What is Jazz?

The Many Faces of Jazz Today: The Big Picture

by Victor L. Schermer
November 10, 2017

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 [In a series of five interviews entitled “The Many Faces of Jazz: Critical Dialogues," All About Jazz asked three musicians, a public relations manager, and a jazz educator about the state of jazz in the world today. ...