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Article: Year in Review

Ian Patterson's Best Releases of 2012

by Ian Patterson
January 2, 2013

With more and more music being produced independently, it's harder each year to find the time to listen to a lot of it, never mind review it. The following baker's dozen represents some, though not all of my favorite music of 2012. Jenny Scheinman Mischief and Mayhem Self Produced

Article: Album Review

Paul Lytton & Nate Wooley + Ikue Mori & Ken Vandermark: The Nows

Read "The Nows" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
January 2, 2013

Ultra-progressive jazz and avant-garde expressionism are trumpeter Nate Wooley's toy stores, so to speak. He's well-established in the modern era's radical music scene and teams here with venerable Euro-jazz percussionist Paul Lytton, equating to a vivid snapshot of the duo's 2011 US tour. Brilliant minds think alike, and the proof resides in the multifarious modes of ...

Article: Album Review

Jon Raskin and Clara Harryman: Open Box

Read "Open Box" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 2, 2013

Among the varied collaborations between poets and musicians, or the adaptation of poetry to music, the setting of Carla Harryman's genre-busting poetry to improvised music by ROVA Saxophone Quartet's Jon Raskin is outstanding. Not only because of Harryman's avant-garde poetic language--often focusing on the language itself, its contradictions and shortcomings--subverting its attempts to capture the fleeting ...

News: Education

Trumpeter Art Davis, Drummer Tim Davis Join Merit School Of Music Tuition-free Conservatory

January 2, 2013

Well-known performing Chicago jazz artists are now sharing their musical experience and passion with a new generation at Merit School of Music in Chicago's West Loop. Newly-hired trumpeter Art Davis and drummer Tim Davis join a list of established jazz performers on faculty at Merit’s Alice S. Pfaelzer Tuition-free Conservatory, which offers college preparatory instruction free ...

News: Event

David S. Ware Memorial Service At Saint Peter's Church

January 2, 2013

The friends and family of the late David S. Ware will gather at Saint Peter's Church at 619 Lexington Avenue where it meets 54th Street on Monday, January 7, 2013 at 7:30pm The musical portions of the service will be presented by Cooper–Moore: solo harp William Parker: special presentation Muhammad Ali and ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Page Series Presents The Hornheads With John Paulson Big Band Opening, Feb. 14.

January 2, 2013

The Page Series is pleased to present a full evening of jazz and more jazz on Thursday, February 14, starting at 7:30pm in the Page Theatre at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Winona, Minnesota. The Hornheads, an extraordinarily talented group of horn players, has been gathering international acclaim from artists and critics alike, since 1991. On ...

Article: Album Review

Karriem Riggins: Alone Together

Read "Alone Together" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 1, 2013

Drummer Karriem Riggins has performed with or arranged for vocalist Betty Carter, pianist Oscar Peterson and bassist Ray Brown; he sat in the drummer's chair on pianist Mulgrew Miller's excellent Live at Yoshi's, Volume One (MAXJAZZ, 2004) and Two (MAXJAZZ, 2005). Hell, he even plays on ex-Beatle bassist-vocalist Paul McCartney's Kisses on the Bottom (Hear Music, ...

Article: Catching Up With

Melissa Aldana: Living a Second Cycle

by Marta Ramon
January 1, 2013

Melissa Aldana may still be in her early twenties, but the tenor saxophonist already knows what it is like to play with big jazz names like saxophonists George Coleman, Benny Golson and George Garzone. In a short time, Aldana has found her own place in the difficult New York jazz scene because she has developed a ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Tyler Mitchell

by AAJ Staff
January 1, 2013

Meet Tyler Mitchell: Chicago born Tyler Mitchell studied the bass with Don Rafael Garrett (John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Rahsaan Roland Kirk) and Malachi Favors (Art Ensemble of Chicago). He played with Von Freeman before moving to New York in 1984. In 1985/86, he joined the Sun Ra Arkestra, with whom he played and toured ...

Article: Album Review

Scott Healy-Glenn Alexander Quartet: Northern Light

Read "Northern Light" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
January 1, 2013

In today's fast-paced world, there's a tendency to try to write, record and release music in quick succession, but that's not always the best method. Sometimes, recorded music sounds best when it's had the chance to marinate and soak up the diverse flavors of time. Such is the case with the unintentional decades-long gap between the ...