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Article: Inside AAJ

Join Us! Volunteer Opportunities at All About Jazz

by Michael Ricci
May 22, 2014

Dear friends, If you have a strong interest in jazz with some free time, consider joining the All About Jazz team. It's an opportunity to establish your voice as part of our shared mission while taking advantage of some great networking opportunities to meet knowledgeable writers, editors, techies, musicians, industry pros, visual artists ...

News: Performance / Tour

World Jazz Vocalist Allison Adams Tucker Releases New Recording “April In Paris”

May 22, 2014

"With a voice supple, agile, and bright, she executes each song on the tracklist with ease and imagination, creating a serene atmosphere that leaves you smiling." —Eva Simontacchi for Jazzitalia Multi-lingual vocalist Allison Adams Tucker is celebrating the release of her second CD “April in Paris” on June 3, 2014 – Songs of springtime and new ...

News: Event

Hot Guitarist Jacques Lesure Cools Outdoor Los Angeles Audience

May 22, 2014

Recently with the temperatures topping 90-100 degrees, most Angelenos were seeking some relief from the heat. That came in the form of Jazz Guitarist,Jacques Lesure and his Quartet. The former Detroit native, now L.A. based musician, cooled off the audience with a great play list of originals and standards including a very soothing ,but swinging title ...

News: Website

Jazz Music News Twitter Page Launches

May 21, 2014

All press releases and news announcements submitted to All About Jazz's Jazz News Central will now appear on the new Jazz Music News Twitter page. If you're jazz news junky, follow us. If you're a publicist and looking to give your announcements a boost in circulation, submit them to here. Though the AAJ news service is ...

Article: Album Review

Kris Bowers: Heroes + Misfits

Read "Heroes + Misfits" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
May 21, 2014

Expectations can lead to unexpected directions. Kris Bowers, the compelling young pianist who took first place in 2011's Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, wowed judges that included the likes of Ellis Marsalis, Herbie Hancock and Jason Moran. A prodigy whose encyclopedic knowledge of jazz matches an adroit freedom that can't just be taught in the classroom, ...

Article: Album Review

Matt Garrison: Patchwork

Read "Patchwork" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
May 21, 2014

Instead of simply homing in on one specific musical coordinate, saxophonist Matt Garrison decided to widen his focus and hit a few different targets with his third album. The aptly-titled Patchwork finds him looking toward “initial musical influence, educational influences, and current outcomes." It's a collection of Garrison's personalized yesterday-meets-today musical scenarios. It's ...

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Article: Genius Guide to Jazz

How to Win Friends and Influence People to Jazz

by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
May 21, 2014

Suppose for a moment that you (or someone a lot like you, except taller) knew someone who had never heard jazz. Or, more likely, had never really listened to jazz. Everyone has heard jazz, in some form or another, even if it was just background music in a TV commercial and/or porno flick (it's hard to ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3

by Ian Patterson
May 21, 2014

It would have been inconceivable for Miles Davis in his post-sabbatical, 1980s reincarnation to have been billed as “an extra added attraction" on any festival or concert hall billing, but that's how it was when the trumpeter--already a legend--played his first ever gigs at the Filmore East, supporting Neil Young & Crazy Horse and the Steve ...

Article: Album Review

Euforquestra: Fire

Read "Fire" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
May 21, 2014

Although Fire is their fourth studio album, it also marks two milestone “firsts" in the history of jam masters Eufórquestra: The band's first studio album since the live album Let Us In straddled their 2009 relocation from Iowa City, Iowa, to Fort Collins, Colorado; and their first studio album managed by an external producer, keyboardist Kyle ...

Article: Album Review

BossaCucaNova: Our Kind of Bossa

Read "Our Kind of Bossa" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
May 21, 2014

Our Kind of Bossa celebrates fifteen fun years of BossaCucaNova, one of Brazil's most adventurous contemporary ensembles (and was also timed to coincide with Brazil hosting the 2014 soccer World Cup). These eleven tracks fuse the electro-bossa nova for which the group is best known with samba and other dance rhythms from their homeland, and celebrate ...