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Article: Live Review

Other Minds 25, Day 3

by John Chacona
October 24, 2021

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Taube Atrium Theater Other Minds Festival San Francisco, CA October 16, 2021 Moment's Notice, the theme of the 25th Other Minds festival, was a wry comment on the perils of mounting a music festival in a time of ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Ensemble Novo, Mark Masters & Kurt Rosenwinkel

by Joe Dimino
October 24, 2021

The 722nd Episode of Neon Jazz happens to be a celebration of the birthday I share with the legendary vibes cat Terry Gibbs on October, 13, 2021. I threw together a collection of recent interviews with veteran musicians who have new CDs in 2021. We begin with a re-issue from Kurt Rosenwinkel and make our way ...

News: Recording

For Your Grammy Consideration: Blueprints Figure Two: New Designs by Markus Rutz

October 23, 2021

My record project Blueprints has lots of love within it. It is about and for people from my life through the present. For the listening reception, beautiful commentary, reviews, support and goodwill I am saying thank you sincerely! The second volume Blueprints Figure Two: New Designs was released last autumn and right now the album is ...

Article: Live Review

Other Minds 25, Day 2

by John Chacona
October 22, 2021

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Taube Atrium Theater Other Minds Festival San Francisco, CA October 15, 2021 There are festivals for which centering the social aspect of music is the point of the exercise. Conceived, as founder Charles Amirkhanian put it in ...

News: Recording

4-Time Grammy Winner Gordon Goodwin Returns With New 5-Song Ep

October 22, 2021

Multiple Grammy/Emmy Award winner Gordon Goodwin returns to forefront of adventurous compositions and modern jazz with The Reset, an urgent and topical 5-song EP, a bold foray into the intersection of composition and improvisation, a futuristic excursion brimming with purpose and cursive. From the 7-minute title track, which seems to channel the ethos of Chick Corea’s ...

Article: Live Review

Other Minds 25, Day 1

by John Chacona
October 20, 2021

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Taube Atrium Theater Other Minds Festival San Francisco, CA October 14, 2021 When the organizers of San Francisco's Other Minds Festival chose Moment's Notice as the name of its 25th edition, it might have been with the hope ...

Article: In Pictures

The Compelling Urgency of Now: Celebrating Peace, Justice and Improvised Music

by Dave Kaufman
October 20, 2021

Arts for Arts, the organization responsible for the Vision Festival, has put together a series of “Peace and Justice Celebration" concerts at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center situated on the Lower Eastside of Manhattan in New York City. I was fortunate to attend a performance on October 15, 2021 which was the last ...

Article: Live Review

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah at Yoshi's

by Roy Strassman
October 19, 2021

Christian Scott aTunde AdjuahYoshi's Oakland, CA October 7, 2021 The Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah flying saucer landed on Thursday night at Yoshi's in Oakland, and what an eclectic crew emerged! Though they were anything but alien, every musician was a monster--trumpet, flute, piano, bass, and three different drummers forming the percussion ...

Article: Interview

Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club: Two Brothers, A Landmark Building and A Singular Vision

by Doug Hall
October 18, 2021

With the recent opening of Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club, just north of Boston in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, there is an excitement and anticipation to fill pent-up demand for both performers and audiences. Two local businessmen, Michael, and Peter Labrie—both jazz and blues enthusiasts—saved a landmark turn-of-the-century building to create a Moulin Rouge-style cabaret venue with ...

Article: Live Review

East-West Trumpet Summit at Meydenbauer Center Theatre

by Paul Rauch
October 18, 2021

East-West Trumpet Summit Meydenbauer Center Theatre Bellevue Blues & Jazz Festival Bellevue, WA October 9, 2021 Two trumpet quintets in jazz are rare, historically and presently. The alliances most commonly mentioned are the bop era tandem of Fats Navarro and Howard McGhee ...