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Lagarina Jazz Festival 2016

by Paolo Peviani
August 23, 2016

Lagarina Jazz Festival 2016 Ala, Brentonico, Isera, Mori, Villa Lagarina 29.07-17.09.2016 Alla sua dodicesima edizione, il Lagarina Jazz Festival ha articolato la propria programmazione in blocchi di due- tre concerti (intervallati ogni dieci giorni circa), a coprire tutto il mese di agosto e la prima metà del mese di settembre. ...

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Ron Carter: Always at the Center of the Action

by Victor L. Schermer
August 22, 2016

Great jazz bassists can always be identified by the fact that you really listen to them! A good jazz bassist keeps good time and gets the chords right, but a great bassist, going as far back as Jimmy Blanton, Scott LaFaro, Charlie Haden, or Jimmy Garrison, catches your ear because you're surprised and moved by what ...

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Take Five With Brandon Goodwin of B's Bees

by AAJ Staff
August 19, 2016

About Brandon Goodwin: Montreal group B's Bees is a hard swinging jazz outfit known for writing compelling original music and playing high energy interpretations of the music of past masters such as The Jazz Messengers, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Haden. Comprised of five core members, they wowed the audience at their debut concert at ...

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Bobby Hutcherson: A Life In Jazz

by AAJ Staff
August 17, 2016

This interview was first published at All About Jazz in February 1999. Listen to any one of Bobby Hutcherson's albums for Blue Note during the mid-'60's and '70's, he made well over thirty, and you will see just why he is the best vibraphonist in jazz. Dialogue with Andrew Hill, Components with a fiery ...

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Sébastien Paindestre Trio: Paris

by Mark Sullivan
August 16, 2016

French pianist Sébastien Paindestre--last heard on the French/American quartet Atlantico's En Rouge (La Fabrica'son, 2016)--leads his own trio in a mostly-original program. The liner notes credit a Fender Rhodes technician, and the opener “Scottish Folk Song" (by Walt Weiskopf) shows why. After introducing the tune on acoustic piano with double bassist Jean-Claude Oleksiak and drummer Antoine ...

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Spike Wilner: Koan

by Mark Corroto
August 12, 2016

I have an idea that pianist Spike Wilner has read Kenny Werner's book Effortless Mastery: Liberating The Master Musician Within (1996), because Koan emulates Werner's lessons in surrendering one's self to music. Werner's teachings on enlightenment flow through this trio recording, Wilner's sixth as a leader. As a disciple of Harlem stride and ragtime, ...

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Clusone Jazz Festival 2016 -36a Edizione

by Paolo Peviani
August 8, 2016

Clusone Jazz Festival Clusone Corte Sant'Anna 28-31.07.2016 “Sono molto contento di tornare a Clusone Jazz, un festival che ha una storia musicale importante" (Louis Sclavis). “Siete fortunati ad avere un festival così" (Roberto Negro). Potremmo continuare a lungo, citando tutti i musicisti che quest'anno ...

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Carsten Dahl Trio: Simplicity

Read "Simplicity" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
August 6, 2016

Danish pianist Carsten Dahl has made many fine albums but none finer than his latest, Simplicity. He describes in a video posted on his record company Storyville's website, how it felt to create it: “I don't have any thoughts about what I play when I play. I focus a lot on not being ...

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Nobuki Takamen: Live in Japan

Read "Live in Japan" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
August 5, 2016

When last heard from, guitarist/composer Nobuki Takamen had released his first solo album, Solo Guitar (2014). He is active on the New York scene, but has returned to his native Japan for an annual tour for many years. For his sixth album he has chosen to document live performances of his trio with bassist Toshiyuki Tanahashi ...

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Damión Reid: On Drum Artistry, The Robert Glasper Trio, and Beyond

by K. Shackelford
July 25, 2016

International drummer Damión Reid has crafted a style that is inimitable without sacrificing the ardor of modern jazz and its traditional stylistic approaches to drumming. Listening to Reid is like a history lesson on the drum--he can play everything with artful dexterity from Be-Bop to Hip Hop. Adrian Kirchler, owner of AK drums, was ...