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Article: Album Review

Phil Grenadier / Bruno Raberg Duo: Plunge

by Ian Patterson
September 21, 2012

Maybe only a pirate radio station would be uninhibited enough to play duo improvisations such as these served up by trumpeter {Phil Grenadier and acoustic bassist Bruno Råberg. However, such mainstream disinterest should be considered a backhanded compliment and is perhaps reason enough to check it out. Plunge is an apt title for music inspired by ...

News: Festival

Women Jazz Composers Festival Premieres October 12th And 13th At 18th Street Arts Center And World Stage, Los Angeles

September 21, 2012

OFF THE PAGE 2012: Women Jazz Composers Festival premieres October 12th and 13th at 18th Street Arts Center and World Stage, Los Angeles: including concerts by Maia, Tomeka Reid, Manisha Shahane, Dawn Norfleet, Leah Paul and Nicole Mitchell. October 12-13, 2012—Six women composers from diverse musical backgrounds will present original music at the OFF THE PAGE ...

News: Performance / Tour

Lenore Raphael & Friends In New Jazz Concert Series In NYC

September 21, 2012

Renowned jazz pianist/Steinway Artist Lenore Raphael is heading up a new jazz series on Manhattan's West Side. Having had a full house at a concert in May, a series was the best way to constantly feature great jazz by world-class artists at affordable prices. Co-produced by “West 64th Street Jazz" and The New York Society for ...

News: Website

Upcoming Album Releases and Future Articles Links Moved

September 20, 2012

Two navigation changes to All About Jazz The “Events" option on the navigation bar (above) will soon change to “Near You" and link directly to the Jazz Near You website. In anticipation of this change, we've moved the Upcoming Album Releases and Future Articles links to the CD Review Center and Article Center respectively. To access ...

News: Radio

This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Red Nichols

September 20, 2012

This week on Riverwalk Jazz the Jim Cullum Jazz Band tells the story of Red Nichols and his Five Pennies, illustrated with numerous historical recordings of Nichols and the ensembles he led. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz ...

Article: Album Review

Colin Cannon: Glenville

Read "Glenville" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
September 20, 2012

Though still in his twenties, guitarist Colin Cannon has been performing in New York and along the East Coast for a decade. His debut as leader, In Summary (Self Produced, 2009) revealed a young composer with ideas aplenty, and a guitarist with a broad musical palette. If that album was slightly Pat Metheny-influenced--Cannon and Metheny were ...

Article: Album Review

Jon Hamar: Hymn

Read "Hymn" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
September 20, 2012

Origin Arts bassist Jon Hamar effects an intimate trio with alto saxophonist Todd DelGiudice and pianist Geoffrey Keezer on Hymn. Heard most recently, prior to this date, on Richard Cole's Inner Mission (Origin Records, 2007), Hamar's Hymn is heavy on introspective yet muscular originals, as Hamar also chooses some sturdy standards upon which to improvise.

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Pepper, Vol. VII and Neon Art

by C. Michael Bailey
September 20, 2012

Art Pepper (1929 -1982) is the story, but an important subtext is his widow, Laurie Pepper, who, since 2006, has been expanding the saxophonist's discography with unreleased live recordings from the 1980s. At the time, Art Pepper was enjoying his comeback, which began in 1975 with the release of Living Legend (Contemporary), hitting its stride in ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Josh Maxey

by AAJ Staff
September 20, 2012

Meet Josh Maxey: Making a series of six albums in twelve months. Doing it without Impulse!, Blue Note, Verve, money or without playing the Village Vanguard. Eating a lot of pizza. One through five-and-a-half available: Incarnate, Approach, The Language of Sound and Spirit, Argument for the Blues, Light Cycles and Blues in the Kitchen ...

Article: Album Review

Fred Hersch Trio: Alive At The Vanguard

Read "Alive At The Vanguard" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
September 20, 2012

Tradition is served well on this Fred Hersch Trio live recording from New York's Village Vanguard. The pianist's covers of the American songbook, like Cole Porter's “From This Moment On" and jazz classics such as Miles Davis' “Nardis" and Thelonious Monk's “Played Twice," animate and energize every moment of this club date.Hersch, whose touring ...