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John O’ Gallagher: The Honeycomb
by Maurizio Zerbo
Da Charlie Parker ad Ornette Coleman, fino al jazz groove contemporaneo. Si potrebbe definire così l'itinerario del viaggio sonoro proposto dall'alto sassofonista newyorchese John O'Gallagher. Il free-bop messo in atto dal suo affiatatissimo trio è sintetizzato da Extralogical Railman," che rielabora un celebre standard ("Relaxin' at Camarillo") di Bird. Del nucleo tematico preesistente viene cambiato tutto ...
Mark Hetzler: Blues, Ballads, and Beyond: Influences Outside the Concert Hall
by C. Michael Bailey
The trombone has proven not so an elusive lead instrument in jazz. But what of moving beyond jazz. There is classical literature addressing the instrument. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's bastardly father, Leopold, composed the first classical trombone piece, Concerto for Alto Trombone in 1756. Josef Haydn's brother, Michael, composed Concerto shortly after in 1764. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Jan ...
Frank Zappa: The Lost Broadcast - The Full Performance
by Glenn Astarita
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention The Lost Broadcast -The Full Performance Gonzo Multimedia 2016 There aren't many videos floating around of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, but The Lost Broadcast should be received with welcome arms by loyal Zappa enthusiasts and others who still have a burning ...
Doug MacDonald: Solo Plus
by Hrayr Attarian
The field of jazz guitarists seems to have exploded with variety of discs that put one sort of spin or another on the music. From Latin touches to rock and roll beats and from avant-garde dissonance to popish smoothness this releases run the range of sounds striving to be exeptional." It is, therefore, refreshing to hear ...
Enrique Haneine: Instants Of Time
by Hrayr Attarian
New York based multi-instrumentalist Enrique Haneine dazzled the music world with superb pianism on the 2005 collaborative release At the End of the Day (Foxhaven, 2005). Ten years later, he leads his sextet on the gripping and spirited Instants Of Time this time from the drummer seat. Haneine is a native of Mexico of ...
Jazz Near You Upgrade Includes International Jazz Festival Calendar, improved Jazz Teacher Finder, improved Spotlight service and more
Your friends at Jazz Near You continually improve our website, our weekly eblast and our mobile app to better serve jazz communities worldwide. Check out the latest round of upgrades: A festival-only calendar page. It's accessible from the main calendar page and includes every upcoming festival event that has been added to Jazz Near You. Check ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, March 4-10
A week of interesting jazz awaits us! We can hear Larry McDonough channel Chet Baker, the X-Tet in a concert setting, a rare gig from Sidewalk Café, some of the area's most serious improvisers at the Icehouse (Vector Families) and Khyber Pass (Le Percheron), Twenty Steps From Stardom star Lisa Fischer, trad piano wizard Butch Thompson ...
Clipper Erickson: My Cup Runneth Over: The Complete Piano Works of R. Nathaniel Dett
by C. Michael Bailey
It is infrequent that I hear music by an unfamiliar composer that is so fantastically beyond anything I have heard before that when it happens, I am convinced of the Divine. So it is with the piano music of one R. Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943). Dett was an African-American polymath who was the first black to graduate ...
DarkMatterHalo: Darkness Interrupted
by Claudio Bonomi
Hardedge, all'anagrafe Velibor Pedevski, si definisce un sound designer. Non un sound designer qualsiasi. Hardedge è un architetto di suoni elettronici dotato di una sensibilità non comune. È capace di costruire scenari e affreschi apocalittici di una profondità siderale, e quasi mai disturbanti, che si reggono su autentiche colonne soniche. Potremmo definirlo un ...
Pianist Joel Holmes and The Green House Expansion Fuse Jazz and Hip-Hop with "Take One"
The Green House Expansion was founded ONE year ago in Neukölln, Berlin. Their name comes from the multi-disciplinary artist studio/residence known as The Green House where the band rehearses and creates its compositions. Lead by Grammy-Nominated pianist, Joel Holmes, the band features the award winning jazz bassist Martin Buhl, critically acclaimed Polish drummer, Kuba Gudz and ...

