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Article: Extended Analysis

Dan Willis and Velvet Gentlemen: The Satie Project II

by Dave Wayne
January 27, 2014

The music of Eric Satie may well be some of the most malleable and adaptable works ever composed. This could be partly due to the fact that Satie himself stood well outside of the musical mainstream of his time, thus his compositions are comparatively unencumbered by the stylistic baggage of his era. Satie was avant-garde before ...

Article: Album Review

Maciej Fortuna / Krzysztof Dys: Tropy

by Karl Ackermann
January 27, 2014

It remains largely unrecognized that the Polish jazz culture predates Louis Armstrong's “invention" of modern improvised jazz. As early as 1923, Polish jazz musicians were touring Eastern Europe in the company of Chicago and New Orleans Dixieland players. The American perspective of Polish jazz is principally defined by trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, violinist Michal Urbaniak and pianist ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Fred Fried: Core Bacharach

by Geannine Reid
January 27, 2014

As a kid in New York, Fred Fried enjoyed everything from early rock and roll to show tunes. He remembers listening to cast albums of Oklahoma, South Pacific and West Side Story. He loved Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and pretended to conduct the orchestra in front of the record player. From age 12, Fried played clarinet ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Michelle Walker Trio At Bar Next Door Monday Jan 27th 8:30pm

January 27, 2014

The Bar Next Door Jazz Bar & Lounge 129 MacDougal St. (West 3rd) New York, NY 10012 (212) 529-5945 2 Sets: 8:30pm & 10:30pm $12 Cover, Drink Minimum Call or Visit the Bar Next Door Website to reserve your table. Joining Michelle will be: ...

News: Award / Grant

56th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees: Jazz

January 27, 2014

31. Best Improvised Jazz Solo Orbits Wayne Shorter, soloist Track from: Without A Net (The Wayne Shorter Quartet) Label: Blue Note Records Don't Run Terence Blanchard, soloist Track from: Magnetic Label: Blue Note Records Song For Maura Paquito D'Rivera, soloist ...

News: Website

All About Jazz Expands Publishing Platform to Include Quarterly Magazine

January 26, 2014

Philadelphia, PA - All About Jazz, the web’s leading destination for jazz news, has teamed with Dutch based MFM Media to produce a quarterly jazz magazine through the Issuu.com publishing platform. Each issue reflects choice content previously published at All About Jazz with strong consideration given to connected material. For instance, the first issue focuses on ...

Article: The Mort Report

WOW! Bird and Bach: Them two cats really could play!

by Mort Weiss
January 26, 2014

O.K. Now that I've got your attention, what should I write about? The many articles here at AAJ have damn near covered each and every aspect on the topic of jazz and its place (albeit) always in flux and change with each and every up and coming generation of players. Where is jazz in the scheme ...

Article: Book Review

Brian Eno: Visual Music

by Nenad Georgievski
January 25, 2014

Brian Eno: Visual Music Christopher Scoates 416 pages ISBN: 1452108498 Chronicle Books 2013 To say that polymath Brian Eno is one of the most influential figures of our time would be a severe understatement. Eno has been one of the pivotal figures of the 20th century music as ...

Article: Album Review

Tom Jones: Spirit in the Room, Deluxe Edition

Read "Spirit in the Room, Deluxe Edition" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
January 25, 2014

The Rolling Stones celebrate 50 years as a band, resting on their well earned laurels while British peer Tom Jones continues to reinvent himself with the edgy and soulful sequel to his successful 2010 release Praise and Blame (Island Records). “What's New Pussycat?" and “It's Not Unusual" seem as far away as the Hubble Telescope's deep ...

Article: Album Review

The Sixxis: The Sixxis

Read "The Sixxis" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
January 25, 2014

Founded in 2006, The Sixxis' experienced the trials and tribulations of breaking into the music business, while honing their craft along the way. They are now managed by an A-list team in Nashville, where this formidable album was also recorded. With influences and a soundstage reminiscent of Rush, Kings X and others of note, the trio's ...