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News: Recording

RareNoise To Release Chat Noir in April

April 5, 2014

By organically blending elements of electronica and ambient music with bits of chamber music and jazz, Chat Noir, the innovative trio of pianist Michele Cavallari, bassist Luca Fogagnolo and drummer Guiliano Ferrari has come up with a wholly unique sound on Elec3Cities that may establish a daring new direction for the piano trio. This delicate balance ...

News: Recording

Multiplicity of Musical Idioms: Guitarist Joel Harrison & Sarode Master Anupam Shobhakar Release "Leave The Door Open"

April 5, 2014

With Leave The Door Open (Whirlwind Recordings), guitarist Joel Harrison teams up with sarode player Anupam Shobhakar and the product is a wholly idiosyncratic synthesis of Indian and American musics and more particularly, the lives and interests of these two musicians. Harrison and Shobhakar met as a result of a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship when Harrison set ...

News: Event

Philadelphia's Mayor Nutter Launches Jazz Appreciation Month With City's Award To Benny Golson

April 4, 2014

In Philadelphia, and across the country, April is celebrated as Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM). To honor jazz as an original American art form, JAM was created in 2002 by John Edward Hasse, curator of the Smithsonian Institute National Museum of American History. Philadelphia has been one of the cities celebrating JAM for several years now, with ...

News: Event

New York Jazz Workshop Student Showcase On April 6 At Smalls Jazz Club

April 4, 2014

Join the faculty and students of the New York Jazz Workshop on April 6 at Smalls Jazz Club in the West Village! No cover charge, no minimum! The students of the following 11 workshops will be performing: 12:15- 12:45 HARDBOP 12:45 – 1:15 IMPROV WORKSHOP 1:15- 1:45 MIXED METER WORKSHOP 1:45 – 2:15 BLUES to STANDARDS ...

Article: Live Review

37th Paradise Valley Jazz Party at Scottsdale Hilton Resort

by Patricia Myers
April 4, 2014

37th Paradise Valley Jazz Party Scottsdale Hilton Resort Scottsdale, Arizona March 22-23, 2014 An A-team of East Coast, West Coast and Arizona musicians played a mix of swing and bebop sounds in 14 jam-session-style sets at the 37th annual Paradise Valley Jazz Party. A special element at this party ...

Article: Album Review

Jeff Kunkel: Meu Coracao Brasileiro

Read "Meu Coracao Brasileiro" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 4, 2014

Brazil never lets go once it's wrapped its arms around a musician. Pianist Jeff Kunkel discovered this firsthand. In 2007, Kunkel, the Coordinator of Jazz Studies at Montclair State University's Cali School of Music in New Jersey, took a sabbatical and took off to see Brazil for himself. The experience was life-changing, and he's since returned ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Alexander Hawkins: Step Wide, Step Deep

by Phil Barnes
April 4, 2014

The effortless and precocious ability shown by British pianist Alexander Hawkins to step between the jazz tradition and music more associated with free improv makes for a heady brew on this thrilling collection. While it is arguable that the genres are far from mutually exclusive the ability to make accessible music from that which is often ...

Article: Album Review

Antonio Adolfo: Rio, Choro, Jazz...

Read "Rio, Choro, Jazz..." reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
April 4, 2014

For the more casual fans, Bossa Nova is the Brazilian contribution to music. But there's more than that, and a background from which the popularization of Brazilian sound began in America via saxophonist Stan Getz' teamings with Joao Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim on Getz/Gilberto (Verve Records, 1963) and guitarist Charlie Byrd for Jazz Samba (Verve ...

Article: Live Review

So Cal Jazz 2013: Highlights and a Serious Low

by Chuck Koton
April 4, 2014

Azar Lawrence Quartet RG Club Venice, CA January-September 2013 2013, already slipping deep into the fog of forgetfulness, had its share of memorable jazz moments here in Southern California. And while, according to the Western, as well as the Chinese calender ( Happy Year of the Horse!), this review and these ...

Article: Album Review

Tom Cox & Bill Huntington: Red

Read "Red" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
April 4, 2014

Former House Speaker Tip O'Neill once said, “All politics is local." The same can be said of music, particularly when considering that music so close to home it is often missed. Little Rock-native Tom Cox teaches jazz piano and jazz combo after having taught at the Cleveland Music School Settlement and Akron University's Firestone Conservatory of ...