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Article: Album Review

Carla Bley - Andy Sheppard - Steve Swallow: Trios

by Luigi Sforza
February 20, 2014

Trios--ultima produzione dello strepitoso trio composto da Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard e Steve Swallow--è uno di quei progetti musicali felicemente riusciti, in cui l'assoluta spontaneità espressiva dell'atto creativo lascia magicamente traccia di sé negli esiti. Questa produzione ECM è intellettualmente stimolante, possiede un suggestivo potere incantatorio e sprigiona una decisa, sana e positiva energia a bassa ...

Article: Album Review

Mike Wofford: It's Personal

Read "It's Personal" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
February 20, 2014

Sono appena una decina i dischi a nome di Mike Wofford, a fronte di una prestigiosa carriera iniziata in California negli ultimi anni del West Coast Jazz e tutt'ora in pieno svolgimento all'età di 75 anni. Dotato di una solida preparazione classica, ha iniziato a esibirsi con Shorty Rogers, Art Pepper, Chet ...

Article: Album Review

Peter Evans - Nate Wooley - Jim Black - Paul Lytton: Trumpets and Drums Live in Ljubljana

Read "Trumpets and Drums Live in Ljubljana" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
February 20, 2014

Due trombe, due batterie. Formazione perlomeno insolita, potenzialmente esplosiva sia ritmicamente che timbricamente, dalle limitate possibilità combinatorie, con un'energia che l'esibizione live dovrebbe liberare in quantità industriali. Ma il disco registrato a Lubiana nel giugno 2012--quello nella capitale slovena è festival tra i più stimolanti, propositivi e meglio organizzati del Vecchio Continente--non va in questa direzione, ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Bridge Annual Spring Fundraising Concert With Pat Martino!

February 20, 2014

Boardmember and Fundraising Committee Chair, vocalist Rhenda Fearrington is throwing the Jazz Bridge 10th-year anniversary party with guitarist Pat Martino. The annual Jazz Bridge Spring fundraiser will be held at The New Leaf in Rosemont, PA on Friday, April 25th from 8:00 – 10:00 PM. The world-renowned master guitarist is bringing his trio with B3 Organist ...

News: Event

Return Engagement For "Last Call At The Downbeat" In April!

February 20, 2014

In November 1942, 25-year-old trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie is in Philadelphia leading his own quartet for a 7-week engagement at the Downbeat Club. He’s just been fired by Lucky Millinder after a stint at the famed Earle Theatre at 11th and Market Streets—right around the corner. It’s war time, and big band swing is still the rage, ...

News: Recording

Jaco Pastorius Has Vinyl LP, Official Documentary For Record Store Day

February 20, 2014

Limited-issue releases available in brick-and-mortar record stores on Record Store Day, April 19, 2014. Get in line now! Jaco Pastorius documentary, Jaco, is the official Record Store Day film for 2014 LOS ANGELES, CA: If only every day could be like Record Store Day . On a mid-April Saturday, the hearty breed of surviving disc emporiums ...

News: Recording

Sonny Rollins And Doxy Records Sign Distribution Agreement With Sony Music Masterworks/OKeh

February 20, 2014

Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins has signed a distribution agreement with Sony Music Masterworks and its jazz imprint OKeh Records for the release of his new Doxy Records album, Road Shows, vol. 3. A street date of May 6 is planned. Over the span of his storied and still-unfolding 65-year career, Rollins has established himself as one ...

News: Trends

Jazz study shows link between music and language

February 20, 2014

WASHINGTON (AP) - Jazz musicians are famous for their musical conversations - one improvises a few bars and another plays an answer. Now research shows some of the brain's language regions enable that musical back-and-forth much like a spoken conversation. It gives new meaning to the idea of music as a universal language. The finding, published ...

Article: Interview

Takuya Kuroda: Rising Son

by DanMichael Reyes
February 19, 2014

Awards aren't handed down to individuals that proclaim how tough it is to live in New York. Likewise, it's not news to write that the life of the modern day jazz musician is difficult. If we follow the past two sentences we might come to the conclusion that the life of a New York jazz musician ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Cecile McLorin Salvant: WomanChild

by Phil Barnes
February 19, 2014

There is no getting away from it, jazz is a 'mature' art form where the considerable achievements of past greats can sometimes weigh heavy on the shoulders of young artists. In the CD and internet era that illustrious past is ever present, constantly available at the click of a mouse, or an inexpensive out of copyright ...