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Article: Live Review

2013 Montreal Jazz Festival: June 28-July 2, 2013

by John Kelman
July 11, 2013

Festival International de Jazz de MontréalMontréal, CanadaJune 28-July 7, 2013After taking a year off to curate an All About Jazz Presents: Doing It Norway at Norway's 2012 Kongsberg Jazz Festival, it was great to return to the city that hosts what must surely be the largest jazz festival in the world. Where else ...

Article: Live Review

2013 TD Ottawa Jazz Festival: Ottawa, Canada, June 21-26, 2013

by John Kelman
July 1, 2013

TD Ottawa Jazz FestivalOttawa, CanadaJune 20-July 1, 2013Having made the decision, in 2012, to broaden its stylistic purview to include not only music on the periphery of jazz, but artists with no real connection to the founding raison d'être of the festival, the 2013 TD Ottawa Jazz Festival continued to bring extracurricular music ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Tom Harrell

June 16, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Tom Harrell's birthday today! Praised by Newsweek for his pure melodic genius, Tom Harrell is widely recognized as one of the most creative and uncompromising jazz instrumentalists and composers of our time. Even with a discography of over 260 recordings and a career that spans more than four decades, Harrell has ...

News: Performance / Tour

Evening Of Jazz For Newtown Benefit Concert on April 12th

April 4, 2013

April 12, 2013 7:30pm-9:30pm Newark Academy Auditorium 91 South Orange Avenue Livingston, NJ 07039 The Evening of Jazz has been an annual concert at Newark Academy to showcase it’s numerous jazz ensembles. This year we are dedicating our concert to the families of Sandyhook and the Greene family. We will have three ...

Article: Meet the Staff

Meet John Kelman

by AAJ Staff
March 7, 2013

I currently live in: Ottawa, Canada I joined All About Jazz in: 2004 What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? After deciding to start writing about music in about 2001, and starting at smaller websites, I was approached by All About Jazz in late 2003, with the question: “We've ...

Article: Album Review

Madeline Eastman + Randy Porter: A Quiet Thing

Read "A Quiet Thing" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
February 3, 2013

When Bay Area vocalist Madeline Eastman released Bare: A Collection Of Ballads (Mad-Kat, 2001), it was a bit of a departure from her previous recorded work. By that point, she was a decade into a critically acclaimed recording career and she had established herself as an adventurous, risk-taking, creative artist with albums like Point Of Departure ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Dmitri Matheny

by AAJ Staff
January 7, 2013

Meet Dmitri Matheny: Celebrated for his warm tone, soaring lyricism and masterful technique, Dmitri Matheny has been lauded as “the first breakthrough flugelhornist since Chuck Mangione" (San Jose Mercury News). An honors graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy and Berklee College of Music, Matheny was first introduced to jazz audiences in the 1990s as the protégé of ...

Article: Catching Up With

Melissa Aldana: Living a Second Cycle

by Marta Ramon
January 1, 2013

Melissa Aldana may still be in her early twenties, but the tenor saxophonist already knows what it is like to play with big jazz names like saxophonists George Coleman, Benny Golson and George Garzone. In a short time, Aldana has found her own place in the difficult New York jazz scene because she has developed a ...

Album

Shadow Box

By Ben Aronov

Label: Vertigo
Released: 2012
Track listing: Upper Manhattan Medical Group; On A Theme Of Debussy (3rd Movement,String Quartet In G Minor) ; In A Sentimental Mood; Marchons; Shadow Box; Lover Man; Passages; Water's Edge;

Article: Live Review

Duduka Da Fonseca & Helio Alves: New York, NY, December 22, 2012

by Dan Bilawsky
December 30, 2012

Duduka Da Fonseca and Helio AlvesDizzy's Club Coca-ColaNew York, New YorkDecember 22, 2012The air in New York's Central Park carried a chill on the Saturday night before Christmas, 2012, but a balmy Brazilian atmosphere was keeping folks warm a stone's throw away, inside Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola. Drummer Duduka Da Fonseca and ...