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Article: Live Review

Vossa Jazz 2013

by John Kelman
April 10, 2013

Vossa JazzOslo, NorwayMarch 22-24, 2013Every festival hopes to have a signature, that certain something that differentiates it from all the rest and makes it a desired destination, but few have as many things going for it as the annual Vossa Jazz Festival, now in its 40th year. It certainly may seem ...

Album

Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra: Emergence

By Tommy Smith

Label: Spartacus Records
Released: 2012

Article: Catching Up With

Kurt Elling: Stories from New York

by R.J. DeLuke
October 17, 2012

Singer Kurt Elling seems to be always on the go, working with his fine quartet and lending his artful vocals to a variety of other projects as time allows. Whatever the situation, he brings high aesthetic values and standards. He likes to investigate different musical possibilities under the jazz umbrella, which he embraces without reservation.

Article: Extended Analysis

Arild Andersen: Celebration

by John Kelman
June 20, 2012

Arild Andersen Celebration ECM Records 2012 With all the activities surrounding the 40th anniversary of ECM Records in 2009--from a three-day festival-within-a-festival at that year's Enjoy Jazz Festival in Mannheim, Germany, and the budget-priced Touchstone Series reissue of forty essential ECM titles, to the publication of an all-German book of commissioned ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Tommy Smith

April 27, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Tommy Smith's birthday today! Born in Edinburgh in 1967, Tommy Smith won best soloist and best group titles at Edinburgh International Jazz Festival, aged 14, and recorded his first album at 15. After studying at Berklee College of Music he joined Gary Burton’s group, touring worldwide and recording the Whiz Kids ...

Album

Karma

By Tommy Smith

Label: Spartacus Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Cause and Effect; Land of Heroes; Good Deed; Body or Soul; Tomorrow; Karma; Star; Projection; Sun; Who Are You?

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Article: Live Review

Kongsberg Jazz Festival, July 6-9, 2011

by Josef Woodard
July 22, 2011

Kongsberg Jazz FestivalKongsberg, NorwayJuly 6-9, 2011 By now, it's a self-evident truth that Norway has become something of a hot spot on the global jazz map... again. This is hardly a late-breaking news sensation, given the long arc of jazz lore and fanaticism and support systems in place in this Scandinavian corner, ...

Song of the Day

Cause and Effect

June 10, 2011

Album: Karma
By Tommy Smith
Label: Spartacus Records
Released: 2011
Duration: 3:59

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News: Recording

Capsule Reviews - Tommy Smith, Chase Baird

June 2, 2011

Tommy Smith—Karma (Spartacus, 2011) Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith is much in demand as a soloist (check his extraordinary playing on Arild Andersen's Live at Belleville) and as a well regarded educator. Smith's Karma (no relation to Pharoah Sanders' free-jazz masterwork of the same name) works well, as the band with Smith: Steve Hamilton on piano, synth ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Gwilym Simcock, Mike Walker, Steve Swallow, Adam Nussbaum: The Impossible Gentlemen

by Chris May
May 30, 2011

The Impossible GentlemenThe Impossible GentlemenBasho Records2011 You may not have heard of The Impossible Gentlemen, for this is the group's first album, and you may not have heard of one of its two chief protagonists, as he has chosen to spend most of his career away from ...