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Article: Album Review

Meir Shitrit: Way

by Dan McClenaghan
October 3, 2013

Isreali-born and now San Diego-based guitarist Meir Shitrit's Way sounds like a recording that guitarist Bill Frisell might have made, had he been born and raised in Israel. Frisell's often mulit-layered sets are, more often than not, a celebration of Americana--though certainly there are tangents and hybridizations in the discography. Meir's debut is a well-crafted, multi-ethnic ...

Article: Mr. P.C.'s Guide to Jazz Etiquette and Bandstand Decorum

October 2013

by Mr. P.C.
October 3, 2013

Dear Mr. P.C.: What do musicians mean when they say they're “using space" in their solos? --John H. Dear John: Obviously if they're “using" space, they're doing something to it. And in music, pretty much the only thing you can do to space is fill it with a ...

Article: Album Review

Markus Gottschlich: Of Places Between

Read "Of Places Between" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 3, 2013

Pianist Markus Gottschlich is anything but a traditionalist, yet tradition, or more accurately, traditions, play a major role in his music; he doesn't believe that a single tradition must be addressed in isolation. In Gottschlich's world, songo and samba can meet and marry ("Invitation"), Billy Strayhorn's music can stray a bit, taking a detour to Jamaica ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Janis Siegel

by AAJ Staff
October 3, 2013

Meet Janis Siegel: Over the past four decades, the voice of Janis Siegel, a nine-time Grammy winner and a seventeen-time Grammy nominee, has been an undeniable force in The Manhattan Transfer's diverse musical catalog. Alongside her career as a founding member of this musical institution, Siegel has also sustained a solo career that has spawned ...

Article: Album Review

Becky Archibald: Midnight At Monteton

Read "Midnight At Monteton" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
October 3, 2013

Becky Archibald is an extremely talented lady. Relatively new to jazz, her composing and arranging skills at best warrant comparison with those of such great names as Marty Paich and Mary Lou Williams. Though they are all her own and bang up to date. A native of Anderson, Indiana, she sums up her ...

Article: Album Review

Patrick Cornelius: Infinite Blue

Read "Infinite Blue" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
October 3, 2013

Veteran New York saxophonist and composer Patrick Cornelius delivers his fourth album as leader with Infinite Blue, a gem of a recording that sparkles with an A-list of players interpreting eight new originals and one cover tune in one audacious session of music. Not really an unusual feat for this three-time winner of the ASCAP Young ...

News: Radio

Eccentric Genius Of Jelly Roll Morton This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

October 3, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Vernel Bagneris joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for Wild Man Blues, a musical biography based on stories from the personal diaries of Jelly Roll Morton, compiled by the late William Russell, the first curator of the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University in New Orleans, and published in the book ...

News: Performance / Tour

Dimitrije Vasiljevic To Perform Solo Piano Concert at Tenri Cultural Institute on Oct 11

October 3, 2013

Dimitrije Vasiljevic, New-York based award-winning pianist, will hold a solo piano concert on October 11, 2013 at 8pm at Tenri Cultural Institute of New York. This jazz concert will include Vasiljevic’s own compositions as well as several original arrangements of songs by Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis. Dimitrije Vasiljevic is performing extensively at renowned ...

News: Recording

Visionary, Platinum Selling & Grammy Nominated Pianist, Composer David Lanz Celebrates Illustrious Career With Poetic & Mesmerizing New Album, Movements Of The Heart

October 3, 2013

Album Available October 8 Via Shanachie Entertainment “Looking towards heaven, I rise up and touch the sky. The unmistakable spirit of romance is in the air creating movements of the heart. And there in moonlight, I hear you in a song, as the adagio plays, heralding love's return." —David Lanz New York, NY: Some musicians have ...

News: Recording

BJURecords Proudly Releases Composer Joshua Shneider's Debut Recording, The Joshua Shneider Love Speaks Orchestra

October 3, 2013

Featuring Lucy Woodward and Dave Stryker Available October 29, 2013 CD Release Celebration - Tuesday, November 19, 2013 @ ShapeShifter Lab The Joshua Shneider Love Speaks Orchestra Featuring Dave Stryker & Saundra Williams (of Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings) Showtime is 8 PM, cover is $10, 18 Whitwell Place, Brooklyn, NY, Tel 646 820 9452 ...