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News: Performance / Tour

"Newport Jazz Festival: Now 60" Tour Stops At Jazz Standard, March 4-8

February 21, 2014

NEWPORT, RI: In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the world- renowned Newport Jazz Festival® (August 1-3, 2014), the “Newport Jazz Festival: Now 60” Tour makes a stop in New York City at the Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, March 4-8. Featuring clarinetist/saxophonist Anat Cohen, vocalist/pianist Karrin Allyson, bassist Ben Allison, pianist Peter Martin, guitarist ...

News: Recording

"Groove-O-Matic" Glory For Guitarist Blake Aaron

February 21, 2014

No. 1 single will appear on the “Soul Stories” album coming this summer. Aliso Viejo, CA: Guitarist Blake Aaron is still tucked away in the recording studio tinkering on his forthcoming fifth album, “Soul Stories,” yet he’s already topped the charts with a single from the session. Aaron’s cool electric jazz guitar dances to a retro ...

News: Recording

The Tony Digregorio Sextet releases "I Love Pancakes!"

February 21, 2014

Tony DiGregorio has just released his second CD on the Bovine Bop label entitled I Love Pancakes! The album is a study in lyricism and dissonance performed by the composer on guitar along with Tim Hays on alto, Nathan Paris on trombone, two virtuoso bassists in Hill Greene and Joe Peterson and Andy O'Neill on the ...

News: Radio

The Luis Russell Story This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

February 21, 2014

This week, Riverwalk Jazz presents the musical legacy of the great 1920s bandleader Luis Russell as his daughter, the magnificent vocalist Catherine Russell joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band with Dick Hyman on piano. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows ...

News: Website

All About Jazz Improves Article Navigation

February 20, 2014

The cats and kittens down in All About Jazz R&D have been hard at work improving how we navigate between articles. The latest round of upgrades includes quicker access to previous and next articles along with a slide out teaser box on every article page. View this example The previous and next buttons cycle through articles ...

News: Contest

Enter the "Takuya Kuroda - Rising Son" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

February 20, 2014

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Blue Note Records “Takuya Kuroda - Rising Son“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on March 19th. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of Takuya Kuroda at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! ...

Article: Album Review

Bohren & der Club of Gore: Piano Nights

Read "Piano Nights" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
February 20, 2014

Of the many hard-to-define sub-genres of jazz, “dark jazz" may be the most challenging to classify. Exemplifying the category is Bohren & der Club of Gore's Piano Nights . The German quartet, whose members have a variety of doom metal origins, has morphed their earlier inclinations into a hybrid that has little to suggest the player's ...

Article: Catching Up With

John Lurie's Art For Art's Sake

by Mark Corroto
February 20, 2014

The release of The Invention Of Animals (Amulet, 2014) finds the return of saxophonist and visual artist John Lurie to the musical spotlight he left nearly twenty years ago. First recognized in the late 1970s for his Downtown band The Lounge Lizards, a band that introduced many listeners to artists such as Marc Ribot, Michael Blake, ...

Article: Album Review

Lauren Kinhan: Circle In A Square

Read "Circle In A Square" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 20, 2014

Vocalist Lauren Kinhan is the alto quarter of vocal ensemble New York Voices and the leader of two previous solo outings, Hardly Blinking (Orchard, 2000) and Avalon (Koch, 2010). She was most recently hears on New York Voices holiday offering, Let It Snow (Five Cent Records, 2013). Kinhan's solo recordings are all originally composed by the ...

Article: Album Review

Mary Halvorson - Michael Formanek - Tomas Fujiwara: Thumbscrew

Read "Thumbscrew" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
February 20, 2014

Kindred musical spirits unite on this composers' cooperative, featuring three musicians who have been forerunners and antagonists of new-fangled directions in the avant-garde jazz spectrum, other than ripping into customary modern jazz fare with a vengeance. The artists' divergent discographies offer a worldly testament to these aspects, besides their work as first-call session aces. With Michael ...