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Programme Gent Jazz Festival (Belgium) Now Complete
From 10 to 19 July at the Bijloke site, Ghent-Belgium Gent Jazz Festival's programme is complete, including Agnes Obel, Michael Kiwanuka, Gabriel Rios and TaxiWars project with Tom Barman and Robin Verheyen. Agnes Obel, Michael Kiwanuka, Gabriel Rios, BadBadNotGood and Dez Mona were today added to the Gent Jazz Festival 2014 programme. On 11 July, TaxiWars ...
Diana Krall Sextet at Mesa Arts Center
by Patricia Myers
Diana Krall Sextet Mesa Arts Center Mesa, Arizona April 8, 2014 Diana Krall applied her sultry voice and dynamic piano style to a captivating if surprising concert that combined jazz with tender childhood memories, silent-film clips and Seinfeld-style mischievous humor. In a stage setting that resembled an old-time theater, Krall mostly ...
Brilliant Corners 2014
by Ian Patterson
Brilliant Corners Various Venues Belfast N. Ireland March 26-29, 2014 It's taken a while, but Belfast has finally joined the ranks of cities that play host to an international jazz festival. The first edition of Brilliant Corners was staged in the rejuvenated Cathedral Quarter of the city in 2013 ...
Eric Legnini: The Afro Beat from Europe
by Jean-Pierre Goffin
Starting very young with his own trio--Stéphane Galland (Aka Moon, Joe Zawinul, Lobi) on drums and Jean-Louis Rassinfosse, bassist of the European Chet Baker's trio with Philip Catherine--Eric Legnini left Brussels and has been living in Paris since then, appearing first with drummer Aldo Romano, alto saxophonist Stefano Di Battista and trumpet player Flavio Boltro. His ...
Cirrus: Méli Mélo
by Ian Patterson
Norwegian group Cirrus started life as a drummerless trio when singer Eva Bjerga Haugen, saxophonist Inge Weatherhead Breistein and bassist Theodor Barsnes Onarheim met while studying performance and improvisation at the University of Stavanger. The final piece of the puzzle fell into place when teacher and drummer Stein Inge Braekhus joined for this debut recording, bringing ...
Greg Cohen: Golden State
by Ian Patterson
Though best known for his twenty-plus years in saxophonist John Zorn's Masada, bassist Greg Cohen's career has been marked by the diversity of his collaborations, from the carnivalesque Tom Waits and folkster Donovan, to rocker Lou Reed and saxophonist Ornette Coleman. So, in guitarist Bill Frisell--himself no stranger to experimentation--Cohen has found a most simpatico partner. ...
John Lurie's Art For Art's Sake
by Mark Corroto
The release of The Invention Of Animals (Amulet, 2014) finds the return of saxophonist and visual artist John Lurie to the musical spotlight he left nearly twenty years ago. First recognized in the late 1970s for his Downtown band The Lounge Lizards, a band that introduced many listeners to artists such as Marc Ribot, Michael Blake, ...
Josh Pollock: More Than Just The Notes
by Anthony Shaw
Josh Pollock may seem a strange guitarist to be featured in a jazz magazine in as much as a large body of his music is distinctly rock-worthy. Indeed in this interview he explicitly avows the necessity for rock bands, and especially ones in which he is involved such as 3 Leafs and Citay, to really rock! ...
Mark Edwards: In Deep
by Bruce Lindsay
Pianist and composer Mark Edwards has spent over 25 years in the music business, working with a wide range of musicians and bands including Chris Rea, Terry Callier, Nina Simone, Daryl Hall and Aztec Camera. In Deep is his debut recording for Grammy-nominated producer James McMillan's Quiet Money label--an album which mixes a couple of original ...
Matt White: The Super Villain Jazz Band
by Jeffrey Uhrich
In the midst of its long tradition as home of country music, Nashville is also home to a burgeoning and very vibrant jazz scene. Matt White and the musicians that comprise White's debut, The Super Villain Jazz Band, are proof that Nashville is generating world-class jazz musicians that can contend with any challengers from the east ...
