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Enter the "Ceramic Dog - Your Turn" Giveaway at All About Jazz!
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Northern Spy Records Ceramic Dog - Your Turn giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on June 17th. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of Marc Ribot at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! ...
Anzic Records Artist Anat Cohen On The Move!
Following her sojourn to Istanbul, Turkey to perform and participate in the International Jazz Day Celebration along with Herbie Hancock, Eddie Palmieri, Esperanza Spalding, and many other celebrated artists, the JJA declared reed virtuoso Anat Cohen Clarinetist of the Year" for the seventh year in a row, and Multi-Reeds Player of the Year" for the second ...
Verve Jazz Ensemble Takes It International With Japanese Website
It's About Time may be the Verve Jazz Ensemble's debut album, but the reception that these five players have received since its March release is as impressive as that awarded to the most seasoned jazz groups. Within weeks of being released on radio, It’s About Time soared to the #5 position on the national JazzWeek chart, ...
Edward Simon Trio: Live in New York at Jazz Standard
by John Kelman
Some artists maintain a busy release schedule, putting out an album a year--sometimes, in the case of musicians like guitarist Bill Frisell, even more frequently--while others, for a variety of reasons, are less prolific. Pianist Edward Simon has, in recent years, been issuing albums with broader distribution under his own name--which automatically discounts 2010's independently released ...
Ken Fowser/Behn Gillece: Top Shelf
by Dan Bilawsky
The team of tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser and vibraphonist Behn Gillece has been steadily releasing music of a similar nature on the Posi-Tone label since its 2009 debut, Full View, hit the shelves. With this, the duo's fourth album, Fowser and Gillece continue along the same path with nary a stylistic sharp turn, yet this one ...
Nicholl and Farquharson: Della by Moonlight
by C. Michael Bailey
Keyboardist Matthew Nicholl and bassist Michael Farquharson assemble an adult contemporary jazz suite on Della by Moonlight. To be clear, this is not smooth jazz, and while smooth jazz has its charms--accessibility and listening ease being two of them--Nicholl and Farquharson's music requires a little more than just passive listening. The additional attention is more than ...
Pablo Ziegler's Nuevo Tango Passion: Amsterdam Meets New Tango and Tango Nostalgias
by Dan Bilawsky
Astor Piazzolla invited jazz into the world of tango, birthing a hybridized form of music that's outlived its creator; jazz, proving equally hospitable, opened its doors to Piazzolla and nuevo tango. High-end artists like saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, vibraphonist Gary Burton, and guitarist Al Di Meola all collaborated with the legendary composer/bandoneon player, helping to raise his ...
Take Five With Felix Langford
by AAJ Staff
Meet Felix Langford:At 13, I fell in love with the art of percussion and I credit my brother, John (Doc), as the one responsible for teaching me basic beats and exposing my ears to some of the hippest and most innovative cats on the jazz scene. He exposed me to trendsetters like John Coltrane, ...
Miss Sophie Lee: Love Street Lullaby
by James Nadal
If there is one constant element in New Orleans music, it is tradition. Though there are many styles and genres to be discovered and enjoyed within this vibrant and energetic city, there is a defining acoustic syncopated sound which is most identified and associated with New Orleans. Vocalist Miss Sophie Lee with Love Street Lullaby has ...
Confusion Bleue: East Side Banquet
by Glenn Astarita
Luminously recorded at East Side Studio in New York City, the superfine Confusion Bleue band reemerges with a sterling exposition, centered upon its democratic, but largely cohesive free-form manifesto. The musicians present a resonating group-centric sound, aided by Lee Pembleton's exquisite audio-engineering via a consortium of gusty improvisations and swirling breakouts. With rapidly-moving pulses, keyboardist Nobu ...

