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Article: Live Review

Ahmad Jamal: San Francisco, CA, June 18, 2013

by Ken Vermes
June 23, 2013

Ahmad JamalSymphony HallSan Francisco, CAJune 18, 2013SFJAZZ has accomplished a lot of things as it approaches its first half-year in its new building. Amongst them is revealing dedicated audiences for specific areas of the jazz universe, including piano-led bands. On the face of things, little may appear to connect two masters ...

Article: Album Review

Diego Barber/Hugo Cipres: 411

by Dan McClenaghan
June 23, 2013

The opening of the decidedly modern music on 411, the track entitled “Timanfaya," sounds like a spooky, welcome to a plugged-in netherworld. It begins with electric surges and wafflings, then glowing beeps punctuating electric washes before a shift into tune two, “all in," that sounds as if the late multiple reedman Eric Dolphy is hanging around ...

News: Contest

Enter the "Edward Simon Trio - Live in New York at Jazz Standard" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

June 23, 2013

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Sunnyside Records “Edward Simon Trio - Live in New York at Jazz Standard“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on July 22nd. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of Edward Simon at AAJ automatically enters you ...

News: Website

Jazz Near You Expands to 30 More Cities!

June 22, 2013

Jazz Near You expansion continues with the addition of these 30 U.S. cities: ames.jazznearyou.com annarbor.jazznearyou.com atlanticcity.jazznearyou.com bangor.jazznearyou.com bethesda.jazznearyou.com bethlehem.jazznearyou.com billings.jazznearyou.com charlottesville.jazznearyou.com cheyenne.jazznearyou.com fargo.jazznearyou.com ftlauderdale.jazznearyou.com ftmyers.jazznearyou.com greenville.jazznearyou.com huntsville.jazznearyou.com iowacity.jazznearyou.com ...

Article: Live Review

Preta Gil: New York, NY, June 16, 2013

by Ernest Barteldes
June 22, 2013

Preta GilBrazilian Film Festival at Central Park SummerstageNew York, NYJune 16, 2013 Backed by a simple four-piece band (drums, guitar, bass, keys), Rio de Janeiro-born Preta Gil took the stage with her “Meu Corpo Quer Voce" ("My Body Wants You"), a hit single for her in Brazil. The audience--mostly formed by ...

Article: Album Review

Dave Liebman/Michael Stephens: Lineage: Rock and Pop Classics Revisited

Read "Lineage: Rock and Pop Classics Revisited" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 22, 2013

Saxophonist Dave Liebman was yet another musician drawn into the orbit of trumpeter Miles Davis, contributing to the always innovative master band leader's extraordinary and ground breaking--but underappreciated and even maligned at its time of release--On the Corner (Columbia Records, 1972), as well as Dark Magus (Columbia Records, 1974) and Get Up With It (Columbia Records, ...

Article: Live Review

Jerry Vivino and the LA/NY Jazz Trio: Half Moon Bay, CA, June 9, 2013

by Bill Leikam
June 22, 2013

Jerry Vivino and the LA/NY Jazz TrioDouglas Beach HouseHalf Moon Bay, CaliforniaJune 9, 2013Three top-flight jazz musicians--saxophonist/flautist Jerry Vivino (soprano, tenor, and baritone), the ever-inspiring pianist Mitchel Forman and stand-up bassist Kevin Axt (touted as being Los Angeles' busiest bassist)--presented themselves on a breezy, sunny afternoon at the Bach Dancing and ...

Article: Album Review

Anna Webber: Percussive Mechanics

Read "Percussive Mechanics" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 22, 2013

First she was a flutist, then a saxophonist, now an outstanding jazz and new music composer. Canada's Anna Webber follows up her debut, Third Floor People (Nowt Records, 2010), with Percussive Mechanics, a skirmish between contemporary composed music and jazz improvisation.As a player, she has recorded with Stephon Harris's Blackout--Urbanus (Concord, 2009)--and has also ...

News: Event

KCC Productions Presents Troy Roberts' "Nu-Jive"

June 22, 2013

Hailing from the remote location of Perth, West Australia, saxophonist and composer Troy Roberts has won four consecutive Downbeat Jazz Soloist Awards, two consecutive West Australian Music Industry Awards, was the only Australian finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition, received his first Grammy Nomination Medal, and has shared the stage with greats such ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Bonerama, "88 Squared," and More

June 22, 2013

For a lot of St. Louis jazz fans, there's a hole in this weekend approximately the size and shape of tenor saxophone giant Sonny Rollins, who, up until a couple of weeks ago, had been scheduled to play this Saturday night at the Touhill Performing Arts Center. Unfortunately, Rollins' continuing health issues forced him to cancel ...