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News: Recording

Maria Schneider's New Recording With Acclaimed Soprano Dawn Upshaw - Available Now

March 8, 2013

We are pleased to present the release of Maria Schneider's new album 'Winter Morning Walks' - her first collaboration with soprano Dawn Upshaw. Maria's participants can witness and take part in her creative process as she walks them through each composition, discusses orchestration, answers questions about her scores, and offers insight on her unique compositional process. ...

Article: Interview

Dick Hyman: The Beat Goes On

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 8, 2013

Composer, arranger, bandleader, pianist, soloist and accompanist Dick Hyman has already lived several jazz lifetimes, and as he contemplates his 86th birthday in March 2013, his career shows no sign of slowing down. A New York City native, Hyman served as pianist with a Dixieland band and with Lester Young at the December 1949 ...

Article: Album Review

Yuhan Su: Flying Alone

Read "Flying Alone" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
March 8, 2013

The vibraphone has experienced a resurgence in recent years, with numerous talented musicians drawing the spotlight to the instrument. Taiwanese vibraphonist Yuhan Su is another notable exponent. Su moved to the United States in 2008 and studied at Berklee under vibraphone players Dave Samuels and Ed Saindon and marimba player Nancy Zeltsman. Her debut as leader ...

Article: Big Band Report

"Lone Wolf" Finds Plenty to Chew On

by Jack Bowers
March 8, 2013

With Betty sidelined by a bad cough, it was up to me to seek out local jazz events in February, and I managed to find a couple of pretty good ones, starting February 7 at the University of New Mexico's Keller Hall where SuperSax New Mexico performed for the third time in Albuquerque. As you may ...

Article: Album Review

Arthur Campbell: Carl Philipp Stamitz: Quartets for Clarinet

Read "Carl Philipp Stamitz: Quartets for Clarinet" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
March 8, 2013

Beneath the veneer of the “great composers"--Bach, Mozart and Beethoven--lay a wealth of talent that was composed at the same time, often competing with what history has deemed its betters. It would be easy to consign the clarinet music of the latter half of the Eighteenth Century to Mozart, whose “Clarinet Concerto in Am, K622" and ...

Article: Meet the Staff

Meet Carl L. Hager

by AAJ Staff
March 8, 2013

I currently live in: Los Angeles, CAI joined All About Jazz in: 2009What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I've been a writer and editor most of my life, and I love jazz. One day after I'd been reading All About Jazz for a few months, I inquired to ...

Article: Album Review

Al Thompson,Jr.: City Mainstream

Read "City Mainstream" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
March 8, 2013

Known for favoring bebop as well as jazz standards from the Great American Song Book, Bridgeport, Connecticut-based jazz pianist/composer Al Thompson Jr. delivers his first album as leader presenting a set of nine original straight ahead compositions recorded with a combination of groups from a quintet to a light ensemble--all nicely packaged on City Mainstream. Don't ...

News: Event

In Ears 'n' Eyes With Matt Langley At The Dance Hall On March 9th In Kittery Maine

March 8, 2013

In Ears ‘n’ Eyes is a visual and auditory sensation that will treat ones ears ‘n’ eyes to new conversations in jazz idioms on Saturday March 9th between 7 and 9:30pm at The Dance Hall in Kittery Maine. This season’s In Ears ‘n’ Eyes fuses combinations of painting, song, poetry, modal, tonal, bebop and classically inspired ...

News: Opinion

Seattle's Live Music Business Model is Broken

March 8, 2013

Drummer Tarik Abouzied has a post on his website entitled, “Seattle’s Live Music Business Model is Broken,” which he says, “is about informing the live music audience of the realities behind putting on these shows and what I see as an unsustainable situation, and trying to move past the usual finger-pointing and complaining so we can ...

News: Performance / Tour

Living Legend, Hugh Masekela Takes the Annenberg Center Stage This April

March 8, 2013

The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts closes out its 12/13 African Root series with a performance by Grammy award-winning trumpeter Hugh Masekela. “One of the most thrilling live performers around” (Rolling Stone), Masekela is known for his traditional South African jazz inspired sound and his outspoken political voice. This performancewill take place on Sunday, April ...