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Enter the "Sun Trio - In the Dreamworld" Giveaway!

July 6, 2014

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the CAM Jazz “Sun Trio - In the Dreamworld“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on August 5th. Click here to enter the contest (Tracking Sun Trio at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your ...

Article: Album Review

Gregory Porter/Donald Smith/Mansur Scott: Great Voices Of Harlem

Read "Great Voices Of Harlem" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
July 5, 2014

Harlem has long been known as an incubator for talent, birthing and/or nurturing some of the all-time greats in music, literature, and art. Nearly a century separates the dawning of the famed Harlem Renaissance and the creation of this album, but Great Voices Of Harlem serves as undeniable proof that this large neighborhood at the north ...

Article: Live Review

Hot Tuna, Lebanon Opera House

by Doug Collette
July 5, 2014

Hot Tuna Lebanon Opera House Lebanon, New Hampshire June 17, 2014 Bassist Jack Casady almost stole the show during his seventh (8th?) appearance in New Hampshire with long-time friend and musical compadre guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. And that's not to disparage the latter, whose delicate precise picking (except for a few moments ...

Article: Film Review

Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin’

by Doug Collette
July 5, 2014

Jimi Hendrix Hear My Train A Comin' Sony-Legacy 2013 As an entry into the PBS American Masters series, it's little surprise Hear My Train A Comin' doesn't take a particularly novel approach to its subject. Still, the film progresses assuredly and vividly from one significant point to another as it ...

Article: Live Review

Don Felder, Styx & Foreigner at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater

by Mike Perciaccante
July 5, 2014

Don Felder, Styx and Foreigner Nikon at Jones Beach Theater Soundtrack of Summer Tour Wantagh, NY June 28, 2014 On a pleasant early summer Saturday evening, the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater was transformed into a time machine as Styx and Foreigner double-headlined (on this tour the two bands ...

Article: Live Review

Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival 2014

by C. Andrew Hovan
July 4, 2014

Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival 2014 Cultural District Pittsburgh, PA June 20-22, 2014 With its modest beginnings back in 2011, the Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival had nothing but an uphill battle in terms of sustaining a free jazz festival. It took a billion dollar endowment to keep North America's largest free ...

Article: Album Review

Yvonnick Prene: Wonderful World

Read "Wonderful World" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
July 4, 2014

Before arriving in New York in 2007, Paris-born harmonica player Yvonnick Prené had already gained schooling of the practical kind, touring and recording with pianists Laurent Cugny and Yaron Herman, and trumpeter Alex Tassel. Prené hit the ground running in the States, winning several scholarships that enabled him to study with saxophonist Lee Konitz, bassist John ...

Article: Catching Up With

Bernard Purdie: Letting The Drums Speak

by Ben Scholz
July 4, 2014

Known primarily for his half-century long career as a studio musician, Bernard “Pretty" Purdie is an icon in the recording industry. With a catalog of 3,000+ recordings including landmark albums such as Steely Dan's Aja Aretha Franklin's Young, Gifted and Black, BB King's Completely Well, and James Brown's It's a Man's Man's Man's World, Bernard Purdie ...

Article: Album Review

T.K. Blue: A Warm Embrace

Read "A Warm Embrace" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
July 4, 2014

Saxophonist and flutist T.K Blue's tenth album A Warm Embrace is an enchanting and elegant work with richly textured harmonies and captivating melodies. Even though not all of the tracks are strictly speaking ballads there is a sublime sense of poetry that runs throughout the record and is its prevailing and cohesive motif.The solemn ...

Article: Album Review

Chris Speed: Really OK

Read "Really OK" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 4, 2014

Saxophonist, clarinetist, Chris Speed has been in the thick of things the past several decades. He's been a co-conspirator in trendsetting ensembles led by alto saxophonists, composers Tim Berne, John Zorn, and leading-edge outfits Claudia Quintet and Pachora amid a host of other noteworthy projects. Speed's prominence in the newer realm of jazz and jazz improvisation ...