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Take Five With Dee Bell

by AAJ Staff
March 16, 2014

Meet Dee Bell: Dee Bell has three jazz albums that have all been at the top of the airplay charts. The most recent, Sagacious Grace (Laser Records) with Houston Person, was released in August 2011 and hit the JazzWeek charts at 31. Bell's debut album, Let There Be Love with Stan Getz on saxophone and ...

Article: Album Review

Shawn Maxwell: Shawn Maxwell's Alliance

Read "Shawn Maxwell's Alliance" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
March 16, 2014

Woodwind player and composer Shawn Maxwell's Shawn Maxwell's Alliance on the Chicago Sessions label is a carefully orchestrated suite with a subtle yet distinct dramatic sense. Although the description in the liner notes makes mention of a group of friends experimenting with new styles and sounds the disc is not a blowing date nor it is ...

Article: Album Review

Lena Bloch: Feathery

Read "Feathery" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
March 16, 2014

Russian-born tenor saxophonist Lena Bloch carries a cool burning torch for the music of saxophonist Warne Marsh and the Lennie Tristano school of jazz. For Feathery, her debut CD as a leader, Bloch has assembled a quartet that can rival the loose and interactive and spontaneous ensembles of alto saxophonist Lee Konitz--a Tristano acolyte and Bloch's ...

Article: Album Review

Jon Irabagon: It Takes All Kinds

Read "It Takes All Kinds" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 16, 2014

It Takes All Kinds is the third recorded collaboration between prolific tenor saxophonist Jon Irabagon and a great drummer, Barry Altschul. The first, Irabagon's Foxy (Hot cup, 2010) featured double bassist Peter Brendler. The second, Altschul's The 3dom Factor (TUM, 2013) featured double bass player Joe Fonda. The most recent one features Altschul's longtime rhythm teammate, ...

News: Festival

Preview: Harrell, Lovano, Cohen, Jensens Head 2014 Iowa City Jazz Festival

March 16, 2014

It's one of my favorite jazz festivals, and not just because it's in my home town, and not just because it is free and only a 5-hour drive from the Twin Cities. The Iowa City Jazz Festival happens to be one of the gems of summer jazz — a small-town feel, an historic college-campus venue, and ...

News: Website

Map of Today's Jazz Events Added to Jazz Near You home page

March 15, 2014

Jazz Near You now represents today's events on a map with pin drops highlighting their locations. “Though there's still plenty of development work ahead, we're starting to move beyond foundational programming for the website, which is freeing us up to experiment with new features like mapping your way to jazz events," enthuses Michael Ricci, Jazz Near ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Andre Carvalho: Memoria De Amiba

by Phil Barnes
March 15, 2014

Subtlety and gentility are not qualities that our modern world tends to value significantly, but in jazz they can add greatly to the listening experience. Think perhaps of say a Bill Evans and Jim Hall collaboration or maybe Arve Henriksen's recent Places of Worship, music that beguiles and insinuates its way into your sub-conscious until it ...

Article: Album Review

Matt Slocum: Black Elk's Dream

Read "Black Elk's Dream" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 15, 2014

Musicians always aim to tell a story with their music, but drummer Matt Slocum goes one better on Black Elk Speaks: Slocum uses a story--an entire individual's history, in fact--to shape his own telling of musical tales. On his third release, following Portraits (Chandra Records, 2009) and After The Storm (Chandra Records, 2011), ...

Article: Live Review

Disappear Incompletely at the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society

by Bill Leikam
March 15, 2014

Disappear Incompletely Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society Half Moon Bay, CA February 9, 2014 The electro-jazz septet of Disappear Incompletely performed selected numbers from the Radiohead songbook, with all arrangements by trombonist and electronics master Rob Ewing in what might be best described as the jazzification of the English rock band. ...

News: Performance / Tour

Brazilian Sounds Of Minas In Collingswood Thurs. April 3rd!

March 15, 2014

The Jazz Bridge First Thursdays Neighborhood Concerts Series at the Collingswood Community Center, 30 East Collings Avenue in Collingswood NJ, presents the Brazilian jazz of Minas on Thursday, April 3rd. Showtime is 7:30 p.m., tickets are $10/$5 for students, and are only available at the door. For info: 856-858-8914, 215-517-8337 or visit Jazz Bridge. Formed in ...