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Article: Extended Analysis

Stan Tracey: The Flying Pig

by Phil Barnes
February 1, 2014

As premises for an entertaining listen go the idea of a jazz record inspired by the First World War is not the easiest sell, even for a musician as respected as the late Stan Tracey. Yet on this fantastic collection, his final release prior to his December 2013 death, Tracey has somehow managed to pull it ...

Article: Extended Analysis

John McNeil: Hush Point

by Dave Wayne
February 1, 2014

Anyone who has played music with others on a regular basis understands inherently that, during a live performance, the sounds emanating from the instruments themselves have a way of clashing or canceling each other out. It's all in the frequencies. Bass and toms get mixed up on the low end, cymbals can kill a clarinet or ...

Article: Album Review

Camille Thurman: Origins

Read "Origins" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 1, 2014

Camille Thurman may have started as a vocalist, but on her Hot Tone debut, Origins, the flexes her breath, blowing through every instrument that transmits wind. Thurman rides the wave created by bassist/vocalist Mimi Jones, creator of Hot Tone Records with the release of her Balance (2014). A third artist makes a trio in this flood ...

Article: Album Review

TOTEM>: Voices of Grain

Read "Voices of Grain" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
February 1, 2014

For those that have heard TOTEM>'s Solar Forge, Voices of Grain will be familiar territory as guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil, bassist Tom Blancarte, and drummer Andrew Drury deepen and extend their intensity and group empathy while expanding their range of expression. While Solar Forge is white hot through and through, Voices of Grain has pacing ...

Article: Interview

Michel Delville: Guitar, Improv & Electro

by Jean-Pierre Goffin
February 1, 2014

Besides teaching at the University of Liège, Michel Delville is widely regarded as one of the most original musicians and composers of the current jazz, rock and jazz-rock scenes. His latest offering, Machine Mass' INTI (2014), recorded with Dave Liebman and Tony Bianco, has just been released by New-York-based label MoonJune Records. Michel Delville: ...

News: Event

NEC Presents Third Stream Headwaters Thursday, February 13 At NEC’s Jordan Hall

February 1, 2014

NEC’s Charles Peltz Conducts Program Including World Premiere Performances of Gunther Schuller’s From Here to There commissioned by NEC and Charles Mingus’ Half-Mast Inhibition in its original orchestration Join Charles Peltz, Director of New England Conservatory’s Wind Ensemble activities, as he conducts Third Stream Headwaters, a program in which he traces the history of NEC's unique ...

News: Contest

Enter the "B.J. Jansen - Ronin" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

February 1, 2014

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Artists Recording Collective “B.J. Jansen - Ronin“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on March 1st. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of B.J. Jansen at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck!

Article: Album Review

Jeff Ballard Trio: Time's Tales

Read "Time's Tales" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
January 31, 2014

For several decades Jeff Ballard has been the first call drummer for a host of contemporary jazz's biggest names, notably pianist Brad Mehldau, with whom Ballard has played since 2005. Of late, however, Ballard has gone it alone. The 2013 debut shows of his quartet Fairgrounds, featuring electronics musician/bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Tigran Hamasyan and guitarist ...

Article: Book Excerpts

Don Drummond: The Genius and Tragedy of the World's Greatest Trombonist

by Heather Augustyn
January 31, 2014

The following is an excerpt from the “The Known and Unknown" chapter of Don Drummond: The Genius and Tragedy of the World's Greatest Trombonist by Heather Augustyn (Foreword by Delfeayo Marsalis) (McFarland, 2013). Late one evening in 1985, I was returning to the Brooklyn residence of my eldest brothers Branford and Wynton from a ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Mike Bloomfield: From His Head to His Heart to His Hands

by John Kelman
January 31, 2014

While a proliferation of box sets continue to entice with career-spanning retrospectives-- sometimes entire discographies, like Legacy Recordings' recent Paul Simon: The Complete Albums Collection (2013)--few serve as aural biographies with the same degree of success as Mike Bloomfield's aptly titled From His Head to His Heart to His Hands, a three-CD/one-DVD long box produced by ...