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Lester Bowie, Hayoung Lyou, and Bill Warfield

by Jerome Wilson
This particular show features recent music by Hayoung Lyou and Bill Warfield's Hell's Kitchen Funk Orchestra. It also has older work by Sheila Jordan and Roy Campbell and a pair of selections by Lester Bowie. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of ...
Remembering Roy Haynes: Modern Jazz Giant

by Ian Patterson
When Roy Haynes sat down at the tiny kit on the stage of the Everyman Theatre, during the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival in 2005, he shook his head ruefully and said, Man, I feel like a midget!" Rising above the audience laughter, somewhere in the depths of the theatre, a voice replied, Roy, you're a giant!" ...
Ilya Osachuk: The Answer

by Neil Duggan
Canadian bassist Ilya Osachuk is positive proof that the jazz education system in Canada and the US is in fine shape. Born in Winnipeg, Osachuk graduated from the University of Manitoba's Desautels Faculty of Music in 2021 with a Bachelor's Degree in Jazz Performance. He then moved to New York and gained a Master of Music ...
Belgrade Jazz Festival 2024

by Thomas Conrad
Belgrade Jazz Festival 2024 Dom Omladine Beograda, MTS Dvorana Belgrade, Serbia October 24-28, 2024 It is possible that, of all the major cities of Europe, the least understood in the Western world is Belgrade, Serbia. In the 1990's, when the wars in the former Yugoslavia were raging, Serbia was a major ...
Fred Hersch at the Barcelona Jazz Festival

by Artur Moral
Fred HerschConservatori del Liceu56 Festival de Jazz de BarcelonaBarcelona, Spain October 29, 2024 The 56th Barcelona Jazz Festival boasted one of the most complete and balanced line-ups in recent years. Fred Hersch's solo piano concert was, without a doubt, one of its greatest nights, a performance characterized by tributes, admiration ...
Sun Ra: Lights on a Satellite: Live At The left Bank

by Mark Corroto
Sun Ra's 1978 performance at Baltimore's Left Bank Jazz Society ballroom had something for everyone. The great man and his Arkestra, along with singer June Tyson and dancers, performed jazz from its inception to what Ra predicted (correctly) as its future. This recording is the second unissued discovery from Zev Feldman, the Jazz Detective," and it ...
Roy Haynes: Still Lighting It Up

by Chris M. Slawecki
This article was first published on All About Jazz in June 1997. Drummer Roy Haynes isn't just cool--he's cooooolllll. In conversation, Roy Haynes is languid and relaxed yet full of fire, yet playful, mysterious and serious. Similarly, his music--and he's played alongside the best--is simultaneously passionate and precise, free-swinging and loose, but ...
Roy Haynes Revisited

by AAJ Staff
This article was first published on All About Jazz in January 1999. Roy Haynes is one of the few living legends remaining in jazz. He has been awarded the Danish Jazzpar prize, Grammys, and numerous other awards and polls. Haynes is the most versatile drummer in jazz history, do in most part to his ...
Anat Cohen Quartetinho a Macerata Jazz

by Enrico Tomassini
Anat Cohen Quartetinho Teatro Lauro Rossi Macerata Jazz Macerata 14 ottobre 2024 Secondo appuntamento della manifestazione Macerata Jazz--giunta alla cinquantacinquesima edizione--con l'esibizione dell'Anat Cohen Quartetinho, un quartetto di virtuosi e polistrumentisti selezionati dalla leader attingendo ad un'altra altra sua formazione di successo, il Tentet. Anat Cohen è nata ...
Caleb Wheeler Curtis: The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Deluxe Edition)

by Troy Dostert
There has always been room in jazz for those creative minds who can bridge the gap between the heart of tradition and the leading edge of change. In the world of saxophonists, Thomas Chapin, Arthur Blythe, Julius Hemphill or David Murray easily come to mind. Multi-instrumentalist Caleb Wheeler Curtis has similarly explored this terrain for years, ...