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News: Recording

Skin Deep The New Smooth Jazz-Funk-fusion Album From Pianist Jon O'Bergh Available on February 4th

January 25, 2014

Skin Deep the new smooth jazz/funk/fusion album is pianist and keyboardist Jon O'Bergh's ninth studio album featuring ten tracks influenced by such artists as Esperanza Spalding, Herbie Hancock, Ramsey Lewis, Dave Brubeck and Joe Sample. Skin Deep also features a cover of Beyonce's “Love On Top" taken from her “4" album. Skin Deep, produced by Andre ...

News: Music Industry

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, January 24-30

January 25, 2014

You can find jazz in all sorts of venues this week, from classic club settings to hotel lounges to the tiniest gallery space. And you can also find some jazz memorabilia to reinforce your memories of perhaps the most beloved venue of all. Big Gigs This Week Friday, January 24. Whenever Patty Peterson is on stage, ...

News: Contest

Enter the "Brian McCarthy - This Just In" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

January 25, 2014

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the “Brian McCarthy - This Just In“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on February 24th. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of Brian McCarthy at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! About Brian ...

Article: Album Review

Rudy Royston: 303

by Dan Bilawsky
January 24, 2014

Drummer Rudy Royston's actions speak louder than his words. Royston oozed modesty, comfort and a touch of humor when he addressed the audience at a pre-release show for 303 during New York's Winter Jazzfest, but he gave off a much different sense of himself when he put sticks to skins during that same set. One minute ...

Article: Album Review

Clare Fischer Orchestra: Extension

Read "Extension" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
January 24, 2014

The late 1950s and early 1960s saw a change in the approach to big band arranging. Voicings and colorings became more luxuriant, and the palettes began to include more pastels; classical harmonies began to creep in to charts. Gil Evans brought the arranging prowess he developed in the Claude Thornhill Orchestra and the the ...

Article: Album Review

Mimi Jones: Balance

Read "Balance" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
January 24, 2014

NYC-native bassist-raconteur Mimi Jones founded Hot Tone records in 2009, releasing her debut, A New Day. Jones states the label ..."was created to give chances to those who may have been overlooked and denied the necessary support and knowledge to develop." Specifically, and appropriately, the focus of the label has evolved as a resource for women ...

Article: Album Review

Zevious: Passing Through The Wall

Read "Passing Through The Wall" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
January 24, 2014

Here's a group that started out as a no-frills jazz guitar trio. They've become louder and more aggressive, incorporating Machiavellian- like chutzpah, tinted with a punkish 'tude, spanning hardcore jazz- fusion and vintage progressive rock mechanisms. With an in-your-face modus operandi, the band intimates a high metabolism rate through a punishing impetus. The musicians' literally bust ...

News: Recording

Electro-Bossa Pioneers BossaCucaNova Return with "Our Kind of Bossa" on February 18th

January 24, 2014

As the world is getting ready to put all eyes on Brazil for this year's World Cup, one of the country's own musical treasures, BossaCucaNova will set the stage with their brand new release of Our Kind Of Bossa on February 18 (Six Degrees Records). The eleven tracks are an irresistible fusion of the electro-bossa nova ...

News: Recording

Cumbancha Signs Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate / "Faya" out February 18th

January 24, 2014

The well-worn and often overblown expression “music is a common language" has never been more apropos in the case of Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate. US-born, England-based Driscoll speaks no French and Kouyate, who hails from the West African country of Guinea, little English. When they were brought together at the Nuit Metis (Mixed Night) festival ...

News: Festival

Arizona Jazz Festival Bodes To Be A Souled Out Weekend

January 24, 2014

Parade of Grammy winners and R&B legends set to join a stellar jazz slate March 7-9, including Ne-Yo, Patti LaBelle, Smokey Robinson, The Isley Brothers and Gladys Knight Phoenix, AZ: With thousands of old school and new school R&B and contemporary jazz fans from across the U.S. flocking to Phoenix twice a year for the Arizona ...