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News: Event

Patterson Blues Festival On Sat July 26 Showcases Regional And Local Talent

July 22, 2014

The annual Patterson Blues Festival features some of the best in southern blues, soul, and r&b acts locally from Tennessee as well as regional southeast acts. The 2014 festival features headliner touring act Sol Roots, Tennessee's r&b act Al Rich, harmonica master James Eddie, and more. The Patterson Blues Festival showcases fantastic music, soul food, and ...

News: Technology

Blue Note Records Launches New Blue Note 75 App For iPad

July 22, 2014

Blue Note Records proudly presents the Blue Note 75 app – a ground-breaking new app available exclusively for iPad that celebrates the 75th Anniversary of the legendary jazz label which has represented The Finest In Jazz Since 1939. Now available exclusively on the App Store, the app presents a new digital format – developed in partnership ...

News: Contest

Enter the "Peter Lerner - Continuation" Giveaway!

July 21, 2014

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Origin Records “Peter Lerner - Continuation“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on August 20th. Click here to enter the contest (Tracking Peter Lerner at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at ...

News: Recording

Chris Greco - Standards, Vol. 1 - 2014 CD Release

July 21, 2014

As a saxophonist, clarinetist, and flutist Chris Greco free lanced, recorded, explored small, medium, and large group formats and was a significant contributor to the jazz culture of Los Angeles during the 80's and 90's. His Los Angeles jazz projects can be found on the gwsfourwinds records label. Standards, Vol. 1, a knockout disc played by ...

Article: Album Review

J.J. Wright: Inward Looking Outward

Read "Inward Looking Outward" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
July 21, 2014

Pianist J.J. Wright has catholic tastes in more ways than one. He's the Director of Music at Sacred Heart Parish, the crypt church beneath the University of Notre Dame's Basilica of the Sacred Heart, and his musical interests range far and wide; Wright's inspired and influenced by everything from the music of J.S. Bach to the ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Rafael Rosa: Portrait

by Ian Patterson
July 21, 2014

In jazz terms Puerto Rico has certainly punched above its weight, producing Juan Tizol--a mainstay of Duke Ellington's bands in the 1930s and 1940s, Eddie Gomez and Manolo Badrena--who came to prominence in the 1960s/1970s through their respective associations with pianist Bill Evans and Weather Report--and latterly David Sanchez. Lesser known--though perhaps that's soon to change--is ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Michael Feinberg's Humblebrag: Live at 800 East

by Dave Wayne
July 21, 2014

Blending modern jazz with any aspect of funk or R&B is a risky proposition for a young jazz musician. No matter how personal one's concept may be, or how artfully executed, a segment of the jazz- listening population is going to yell “sellout!" at the first electric bass slap. Though he doesn't do slap bass, Michael ...

Article: Album Review

Jeff Cosgrove: Alternating Current

Read "Alternating Current" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
July 21, 2014

Drummer Jeff Cosgrove certainly knows how to draw attention to himself. For his third album the DC area-based drummer enlists the services of two avant jazz icons in pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist William Parker. Just what a coup this is can be gauged from the fact that Shipp's previous sideman dates have included the legendary ...

Article: My Blue Note Obsession

My Pet Peeve: The Mislabeled CD – Clifford Brown Memorial Album – Blue Note 1526

by Marc Davis
July 21, 2014

And now it's time for a personal pet peeve, something far worse than a squeaky sax or a fumble-fingered pianist: The mislabeled CD. Today's example: The Clifford Brown Memorial Album. Let's start by noting that this is a terrific record--recorded in 1953, released in 1956, shortly after Brown's tragic death in a ...

Article: Album Review

Br-aa-jj-aa Waldman's Quintet: Sir Real Live at Resonance

Read "Sir Real Live at Resonance" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
July 21, 2014

Nato nello Stato di New York, non lontano dal Canada e poi trasferitosi nel 2003 a Montreal e lì particolarmente attivo in diversi progetti musicali, il sassofonista, batterista e compositore Brahja Waldman, da qualche tempo risiede a New York, dove studia, incontra musicisti, accompagna reading di poeti della beat generation come Anne Waldman e Bob Holman, ...