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Article: Live Review

John Beasley’s Monk’estra At SFJAZZ

by Walter Atkins
November 12, 2017

John Beasley's Monk'estra SFJAZZ Thelonious Monk Centennial Celebration San Francisco, CA October 15, 2017 The double Grammy nominated Monk'estra big band lead by conductor/arranger and pianist John Beasley performed Sunday night in SFJAZZ's spacious Miner Auditorium. Released in September of this year, Beasley's Monk'estra Vol. 2 (Mack Avenue Records, 2017) ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Ivo Perelman Makes It Rain

by Mark Corroto
November 12, 2017

If music was sports, then Ivo Perelman would be baseball and most other musicians football. Where football's regular season is 16 games, baseball plays 162. Likewise, most musicians release one album every year or two, but Perelman has averaged seven titles per year for the last seven years. His 2017 Leo Records output is thirteen (fourteen, ...

Article: Live Review

Mary Fahl at The Cutting Room

by Tyran Grillo
November 11, 2017

Mary Fahl The Cutting Room New York, NY November 3, 2017 After being in the presence of singer Mary Fahl, one better understands the sentiments of Caroline Myss, who said: “The greatest gift you can give another person is strength." One needn't even have been at The Cutting Room, ...

Article: Live Review

The Chris Robinson Brotherhood at Higher Ground

by Doug Collette
November 11, 2017

The Chris Robinson Brotherhood The Ballroom at Higher Ground South Burlington, VT November 5, 2017 Sunday November 5th was the first night following the end of daylight savings time, which might have held some portent for the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, a group whose leader places so much stock in the mystical. ...

Article: Interview

Pat Metheny: Driving Forces

by Ian Patterson
November 10, 2017

It's been five years since Pat Metheny was last interviewed by All About Jazz, a not inconsiderable period of time in any working musician's life and particularly in one quite as prolific as the Missouri guitarist/composer. At the time, Metheny was promoting his Unity Band featuring Chris Potter, Ben Williams and Antonio Sánchez. His unconcealed enthusiasm ...

Article: In Pictures

Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis at Mechanics Hall

by James McCabe
November 10, 2017

Taken in October during the first three songs of their set at Worcester MA's Mechanics Hall, these black and white selections are my attempt to capture jazz mastery. Tim O'Keefe, the writer I worked with on this project, described it best: “In a memorable performance... 15 soloists and ensemble players comprising the Jazz at Lincoln Center ...

Article: Interview

Bill Anschell: Curiosity and Invention

by Paul Rauch
November 9, 2017

Bill Anschell strikes me as a man with boundless curiosity. You perceive this in conversation, in his sense of humor, the patient manner in which he listens on and off the bandstand. You sense it in his inventive compositions, the rhythmic complexity, and the musical conception that lyrically imprints an authentic sense of melody. His work ...

Article: Live Review

Gary Peacock Trio at Jazz Standard

by Tyran Grillo
November 9, 2017

Gary Peacock Trio Jazz Standard New York, NY November 7, 2017 Anyone old enough to remember when special effects in films were handmade has probably noticed the lack of apparent weight in modern CGI. Compare, for example, the cityscapes of Blade Runner 2049 to those of its 1982 predecessor, ...

News: Recording

JMood Records Releases Roberto Magris Sextet "Live" In Miami @ The WDNA Jazz Gallery

November 9, 2017

JMood Records is pleased to announce the release of the CD Roberto Magris Sextet Live in Miami @ the WDNA Jazz Gallery. “Saturday, February 6, 2016 was a bright sunny beautiful day, but, a more exciting and electric evening in Miami, Florida, one I won’t soon forget," recalls Paul Collins, jazz impresario from Kansas City, Missouri, ...

Article: Live Review

Kurrent Duo at The Bop Stop

by C. Andrew Hovan
November 8, 2017

Kurrent Duo with Brian Charette and Jordan Young The Bop Stop Cleveland, Ohio October 26, 2017 Taking the tried and true organ trio format and turning it on its side, Brian Charette's latest self-produced release is a mind-bending mélange of colors that is certainly one of the best recordings of ...