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News: Performance / Tour

Dimensional States For Orchestra: The Microtonal Music Of Sten Hostfalt At Shapeshifter Lab on June 19

Dimensional States For Orchestra: The Microtonal Music Of Sten Hostfalt At Shapeshifter Lab  on June 19

After the successful March 13 2014 debut concert performance of composer/guitarist Sten Hostfalts large microtonal ensemble Dimensional States (a 15-piece featuring 2 dancers) at ShapeShifter Lab Brooklyn NY, follows the second (11-piece) June 19 2014 incarnation of the unique orchestra exclusively performing Sten Hostfalt compositions. Constance Cooper - voice Robyn Siwula - viola

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News: Website

Improved and Streamlined All About Jazz Advertising Services

Improved and Streamlined All About Jazz Advertising Services

All About Jazz has introduced an eye-grabbing 2000x600 pixel advertising option and has greatly improved its existing banner and Showcase services to coincide with its website relaunch. New! Big Bopper The equivalent of a full page print ad, the big bopper is a fixed location, persistent display ad sized at a whopping 2,000 pixels wide by ...

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News: Festival

Vision Festival 19 Has The Matthew Shipp Trio In The Thick Of It

Vision Festival 19 Has The Matthew Shipp Trio In The Thick Of It

In many ways, Saturday is a miniature of the entire guiding outlook and purpose of this annual love labor from Arts For Art. All elements, discussion, youth support, poetry and a well sequenced array of distinct and personal performance statements are present and the stalwart Matthew Shipp Trio speaks to the element of continuity. A FUTURE ...

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Article: Album Review

Ken Husbands Trio: Keepin' It Going

Read "Keepin' It Going" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

San Francisco Bay area guitarist Ken Husbands is a well-travelled man. He grew up in Massachusetts, lived in Paris for a few years then moved to Oakland, California, in 2005. Along the way he's gained a PhD and developed an electric guitar style that encompasses many influences from jazz, fusion and other genres yet avoids sounding ...

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Article: Film Review

Little Feat: Live in Holland 1976

Read "Little Feat: Live in Holland 1976" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Little Feat Live in Holland 1976 Eagle Vision A band that has suffered more than its share of losses over the years--most significantly, group cofounder/primary singer/songwriter Lowell George, when he died of a heart attack in 1979 at the age of 34, but also the more recent passing of drummer Richie Hayward ...

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Article: Album Review

Stéphane Escoms Trio+: Meeting Point

Read "Meeting Point" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

Pianst/composer Stéphane Escoms fronts a versatile trio on his self-produced sophomore album Meeting Point. The French native has studied with the legendary Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés and Bulgarian pianist Mario Stantchev. A prize-winning musician, Escoms has crossed borders and genres frequently in this early phase of his musical career. Where he has intersected and absorbed influences ...

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Article: Live Review

Zebra at the NYCB Theatre At Westbury

Read "Zebra at the NYCB Theatre At Westbury" reviewed by Mike Perciaccante

by Mike Perciaccante

Zebra with special guests Youth Be Told NYCB Theatre At Westbury Westbury, NY May 31, 2014 Zebra is a legendary power trio in two noted musical “hotbeds"--New York and New Orleans. Unfortunately, they are underappreciated in the rest of the U.S. Those who have “discovered" the band are well aware of ...

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Article: Album Review

Lori Carsillo: Sugar and Smoke

Read "Sugar and Smoke" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

San Francisco Bay Area songbird Lori Carsillo provides us with her third solo vocal album Sugar and Smoke, presenting modern versions of familiar jazz standards from the '60s, featuring a host of first-rate musicians from the Bay Area's vibrant jazz scene. Carsillo offers a light soft-toned session of vocal jazz enhanced by her sultry hushed-styled vocal ...

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Article: Live Review

The First Annual Bell Bottom Ball at the NYCB Theatre At Westbury

Read "The First Annual Bell Bottom Ball at the NYCB Theatre At Westbury" reviewed by Mike Perciaccante

by Mike Perciaccante

Lime, Bonnie Pointer, Harold Melvin's Blue Notes, the Trammps, Tavares and France Joli The NYCB Theatre At Westbury The First Annual Bell Bottom Ball Westbury, NY May 30, 2014 Disco was alive, well and flourishing in the small Westbury concert venue on this late May evening. The Bell Bottom ...

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Article: Album Review

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Volume 18

Read "The Treasury Shows, Volume 18" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey

As Duke Ellington leads his band into the opening bars of “Take The A Train," a mighty roar goes up from the radio audience. The moment comes four tracks into the first CD of this double Storyville release, after a somewhat shaky start. With it there's a marvellous feeling of being back in ...


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