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Tampere Jazz Happening 2010: Day 2, November 5, 2010
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Days 3-4 Tampere Jazz HappeningTampere, FinlandNovember 4-7, 2010 Day two of Tampere Jazz Happening kicked the festival into high gear, with a terrific line-up at both the festival's primary venues: Pakkahuone's Old Customs House Hall, which seats upwards of a thousand people and is used ...
Footprints: When You Dream
by Karl Ackermann
Saxophonist Joshua Kwassman and trumpeter Christoph Siegrist front this maiden effort from Footprints, a New York-based quintet that surpasses freshman potential and arrives entirely shaped in its own unique style. The sophistication of the compositions, and the maturity and innovation in the playing, all belie the fact that these are very young players. The two leaders ...
Tomasz Stanko Quartet: Dark Eyes
by Ian Patterson
As a trumpeter, Tomasz Stanko clearly owes a debt to Miles Davis; yet, after four decades making some of the most arresting small ensemble jazz music in Europe, the Polish veteran perhaps deserves to be considered in the same category as the iconic legend. As a trumpeter, composer and leader, Stanko has few peers, past or ...
Zbigniew Seifert Quartet: Nora
by John Kelman
With a trajectory only starting to expand beyond his native Poland, before succumbing to complications from cancer in 1979 at age 32, it's little surprise that Zbigniew Seifert has flown largely beneath the radar of even the most knowledgeable jazzer. Still, it appears as though overdue attention is finally returning to this remarkable violinist, whose Man ...
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal: July 2-5, 2010
by Peter Walton
Festival International de Jazz de MontréalMontréal, Quebec, CanadaJuly 2-5, 2010I arrived in Montréal mid-week, the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal already in high gear. Closing off six square blocks of downtown Montréal, an area commanding six major outdoor stages and several indoor theaters and concert halls, the Festival International de ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Tomasz Stanko
All About Jazz is celebrating Tomasz Stanko's birthday today! Tomasz StankoTomasz Stanko was 20 and a graduate of the Cracow Music Academy when he formed his first band, the Jazz Darings, with pianist Adam Makowicz in 1962. Inspired by early Ornette Coleman and the innovations of Coltrane... more Website ...
Freihofer's Jazz Festival 2010: 33rd Edition is Strong
by R.J. DeLuke
2010 Freihofer's Jazz FestivalSaratoga Springs, NYJune 26-27, 2010 Watching Kendrick Scott's Oracle band in the warmth and sunshine of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center recently brought into focus everything that's good about the two-day event created by legendary impresario George Wein in 1978 and carried on more than capably by Danny Melnick's ...
Ottawa Jazz Festival 2010: Days 10-11, July 3-4, 2010
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 | Days 10-11 The Wide Alley / Neil Cowley TrioChristian Scott / Tomasz StańkoTD Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada July 3-4, 2010 As the 30th Anniversary of the TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival wraps up, there's ...
2010 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Days 1-3
by AAJ Staff
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-10 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaJune 25th--July 4th 2010 Remnants of this year's Winter Olympics from February have seemingly been cleared right out of the city of Vancouver. For the first week of this year's 25th anniversary of the TD ...
Ottawa Jazz Festival 2010: Days 7-9, June 30-July 2, 2010
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 | Days 10-11 radio.string.quartet.vienna / Tord Gustavsen EnsembleTD Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 30-July 2, 2010 As the 30th Anniversary of the TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival enters the home stretch, it once again provided a day of ...
