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Article: Album Review

Armen Donelian: Sayat-Nova: Songs of my Ancestors

Read "Sayat-Nova: Songs of my Ancestors" reviewed by Gabriel Medina Arenas

by Gabriel Medina Arenas
March 17, 2014

The sound of his piano evokes treasured sounds from a small and hidden mountainous country full of cultural richness and history in the heart of Eurasia. On his thirteenth solo album, the New Yorker veteran musician Armen Donelian paid a homage to Armenia, the homeland of his forefathers. Donelian, a classically trained ...

Article: Album Review

Vijay Iyer: Mutations

Read "Mutations" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
March 17, 2014

Alla fine anche Vijay Iyer si accomoda alla corte di re Manfred Eicher. E lo fa alla sua maniera, spiazzando chi lo attendeva al varco con una nuova rivisitazione del piano trio, o con l'ennesima escursione nel mondo del poetry insieme all'amico Mike Ladd, o con il recupero della via indiana al jazz insieme al collaboratore ...

Article: Album Review

Dawn of Midi: Dysnomia

by AAJ Staff
March 17, 2014

Clinicamente, la Dysnomia è una sindrome afasica per cui non si riescono a ricordare parole o nomi. Non è difficile credere di esserne affetti quando si tenta di trovare qualche esperienza musicale affine a questo progetto dei Dawn of Midi, e questo è già un ottimo risultato! Perché è un piano ...

Article: Album Review

Vijay Iyer / Mike ladd: Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project

Read "Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
March 17, 2014

Devo confessare che--pur nel rispetto delle opinione di tutti e ben consapevole che il percorso artistico di Vijay Iyer possa anche non piacere--ho trovato estremamente ingenerosi, talvolta ai limiti della stupidità, molti commenti negativi e invidiosi che si sono susseguiti nei social networks all'indomani della vittoria del pianista della prestigiosa [e soprattutto pecuniariamente corposa] MacArthur Grant. ...

Article: Album Review

Carol Fredette: No Sad Songs For Me

Read "No Sad Songs For Me" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
March 17, 2014

The fact that Carol Fredette's CD is going to be a rare treat is suggested by its very first track, the lesser-known Cole Porter gem, “I Am in Love." As arranged with ingenuity and class by bassist/producer David Finck. (who also wrote the wry title track), this jubilant samba makes one thing clear from the jump: ...

News: Event

Asha Puthli Now Appearing At Celebrating Ornette At The Painted Bride Art Center 3/21/2014

March 17, 2014

Jamaaladeen is honored and humbled to announce a very special addition to the line up of Celebrating Ornette Concert happening 3/21 at The Painted Bride. The Legendary vocalist Asha Puthli will be joining him singing a song from Ornette Coleman's Seminal Album Science Fiction. (Excerpt from her Asha's Bio) Asha Puthli is one of the most ...

News: Obituary

Med Flory dies at 87

March 17, 2014

Med Flory, an alto saxophonist and founder of the Grammy-winning jazz group Supersax in addition to being an actor who appeared on numerous TV series, has died. He was 87. His son, Rex, who cared for his father during several years of heart maladies, reported that Flory died Wednesday at his home in North Hollywood. Flory ...

News: Recording

Atash: "Everything Is Music" Out March 25

March 17, 2014

Austin’s multi-award winning world music band Atash shall release their long-awaited third album, Everything Is Music, worldwide on March 25, 2014, featuring the pan-cultural alchemy of sound the group is so famous for, and incorporating heavyweight musicians from the worlds’s stage such as world jazz guitarist Fareed Haque, Uzbek doira (frame drum) master Abbos Kosimov, and ...

Article: Live Review

Jeff Hamilton at Phoenix Musicians Union

by Patricia Myers
March 16, 2014

Jeff Hamilton Trio with Armand Boatman and Jack Radavich Phoenix Musicians Union Phoenix, Arizona March 6, 2014 An Oscar Peterson Trio-like swingfest was delivered by Los Angeles-based drummer Jeff Hamilton in a reunion with longtime Phoenix pianist Armand Boatman, for a scholarship benefit concert presented by the Phoenix Musicians Union as ...

Article: Film Review

The Allman Brothers Band: Live at Great Woods 1991

by Doug Collette
March 16, 2014

The Allman Brothers Band Live at Great Woods 1991 Legacy 2014 When The Allman Brothers Band regrouped in 1989, there were no long- term plans after the roadwork in support of the box set Dreams (Polydor, 1989). Accordingly, when the response to those concerts led to further work, including the ...