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Take Five With Dmitri Matheny

by AAJ Staff
January 7, 2013

Meet Dmitri Matheny: Celebrated for his warm tone, soaring lyricism and masterful technique, Dmitri Matheny has been lauded as “the first breakthrough flugelhornist since Chuck Mangione" (San Jose Mercury News). An honors graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy and Berklee College of Music, Matheny was first introduced to jazz audiences in the 1990s as the protégé of ...

News: Performance / Tour

BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center Presents Monk in Motion: The Next Face of Jazz

January 7, 2013

New York, NY: The BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center is proud to present the talented winners of this year’s Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. This year’s competition highlighted outstanding drummers. Announced in September 2012, this year’s three finalists ─ Jamison Ross in First Place, Justin Brown in Second Place and Colin Stranahan in Third Place ─ ...

News: Radio

Max Roach Birthday Radio Special With Host Larry Reni Thomas On WCOM-FM 1/13/13

January 7, 2013

Listen to WCOM-FM, Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina, January 13, 2013, from 9pm to 12 midnight, for The Max Roach Birthday Special with host Larry Reni Thomas. The program will feature three hours of Max Roach’s music and the premiere of an audio documentary called “Max Roach: The Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual.” It features commentary and ...

News: Performance / Tour

New England Conservatory's Jazz Studies & Contemporary Improvisation Departments Present Nearly 60 Free Performances For The Spring 2013 Season

January 7, 2013

Highlights include Miguel Zenon's Multi-Media Masterpiece: Identities Are Changeable: Tales From The Diaspora Randy Weston with the NEC Jazz Orchestra Faculty Recitalby Fred Hersch and Tanya Kalmanovitch In The Mix - 36 one-hour concerts by exceptional student ensembles – and many more New England Conservatory’s internationally renowned Jazz Studies and Contemporary Improvisation Departments announce nearly 60 ...

News: Event

Kobo Town @ Mundial Montreal Showcase

January 7, 2013

KOBO TOWN @ The Living Room Saturday, January 12, 2013 154 Ludlow St New York, NY 10002 10:40 pm / FREE “Merging calypso, roots reggae, acoustic performance, dub studio techniques and Trinidadian/Jamaican cultures, Kobo Town is a unique, stylistic, trans-national composite of rhythm, poetry and activist journalism. Kobo ...

Article: From Far and Wide

Guitarist Tomas Janzon Basks in Bassists

by Fradley Garner
January 6, 2013

Guitarist Tomas Janzon Basks in BassistsPlayers who lead trios and duos featuring a bassist tend to stick with one. Tomas Janzon is happy with Essiet Essiet, 56, drummer Art Blakey's last bassist.Yet, “There are so many extraordinary bassists in New York," the Big Apple-based Swedish guitarist tells me, “that I am happy ...

News: Website

All About Jazz Help Wanted: Download of the Day Editor and Photo Editor

January 5, 2013

We're looking to fill the following volunteer positions at All About Jazz: Download of the Day Editor and Photo Editor. Each position requires roughly 1-2 hours a week. If you're interested, contact Michael Ricci about next steps. Download of the Day Editor: The download editor will listen to MP3s submitted by musicians, record labels, etc. and ...

News: Contest

Enter the "Aruan Ortiz & Michael Janisch Quintet - Banned in London" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

January 5, 2013

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Whirlwind Recordings “Aruan Ortiz & Michael Janisch Quintet - Banned in London“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on February 4th. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of Michael Janisch at AAJ automatically enters you in ...

Article: Year in Review

Mark F. Turner's Best Releases of 2012

by Mark F. Turner
January 5, 2013

2012 was a year of stimulating music made all of the more relevant by artists who poured out their hearts and souls in diverse and compelling ways. Younger voices emerged like pianist Robert Glasper and drummer Henry Cole to deliver contemporary visions through fresh personal and cultural influences . Esteemed trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith brought his ...

Article: Album Review

Emy Tseng: Sonho

by Dan Bilawsky
January 5, 2013

Washington, DC-based vocalist Emy Tseng always had music in her life, but it took awhile for her to settle into the role of “Brazilian-based seductress" or “jazz singer." She started on the piano at age four, branched out into singing in high school and continued to explore the vocal arts while knee-deep in academia at Brown ...