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Jazztopad Hosts Wadada Leo Smith, Pharoah Sanders And Mulatu Astatke, 13 - 23 November

November 8, 2014

Jazztopad, the internationally renowned Polish jazz festival held in Wroclaw, returns for its 11th edition from 13 – 23 November 2014. This year promises to be a tremendously exciting festival, with the usual mixture of jazz legends, up-and-coming talent, World Premieres, international showcases and much more besides. Trumpeter Nate Wooley gets the festival underway on the ...

Article: Album Review

Manuel Valera Sr.: Recuerdos

Read "Recuerdos" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
November 8, 2014

There's quite a bit of Cuban music history in Manuel Valera Sr.'s fingertips. Over the course of his career, he's put his saxophone to good use in the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna, Mario Bauza's Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra, Machito's Orchestra, Paquito D'Rivera's Big Band, and numerous other groups; he's played alongside bassist Israel Cachao" Lopez, ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74, the 40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set

by C. Michael Bailey
November 8, 2014

In the end, music is a personal soundtrack to one's life. It is tied to a specific time and place, circumstances and memories that are so tightly integrated in one's experience that having memory with no music cannot even be imagined, much less considered. In the summer of 1974, I went from Little Rock to Chicago ...

Article: Live Review

Anna Maria Jopek at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater

by Ernest Barteldes
November 8, 2014

Anna Maria Jopek Joe's Pub at The Public Theater November 5, 2014 New York, NY For the opening of her 2014 North American tour, Polish singer/songwriter Anna Maria Jopek concentrated on reinvented takes on her native country's folk and classical music, as featured on Polanna (Self Produced, 2011). ...

Article: Album Review

Black Milk Impulses: Manifesto

Read "Manifesto" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 8, 2014

We love jazz music because its purveyors wander off-script to make music. That is, they improvise. They do not wing-it or fake it. Step one, obtain a command of your instrument. Step two involves learning compositions. Step three, for a jazz musician, is to reinvent both step one and two.Such is Manifesto by the ...

Article: Album Review

Nancy Kelly: B That Way

Read "B That Way" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
November 8, 2014

Vocalist Nancy Kelly is one of those artists one can always count on for producing muscular and assertive jazz. On B That Way, Kelly is supported by an organ-guitar trio featuring tenor saxophone. Such a format affords an expanse of sound from the intimacy of a piano trio to the full-throated roar of a big band. ...

News: Music Industry

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 7-13

November 8, 2014

As we settle into standard time, shorter days, cooler nights, and the beginning of the holiday media blast, it's comforting to have our favorite jazz venues running at full tilt. This weekend includes the final three nights of the Zeitgeist New Music Cabaret at Studio Z, a favorite voice of jazz in a rare vocal night ...

Article: Album Review

Jon Mayer: The Art of the Ballad

Read "The Art of the Ballad" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
November 7, 2014

Jon Mayer not John Mayer. This particular Mayer is a jazz pianist currently living on the West Coast who has been plying his Jazz trade in one form or another since the mid-1950s. Early on, Mayer played on two notable sessions: alto saxophonist Jackie McLean's Strange Blues (Prestige, 1957) and on the John Coltrane sessions recorded ...

Article: Live Review

Minus the Bear at the Gramercy Theatre

by Christine Connallon
November 7, 2014

Minus the Bear The Gramercy Theatre New York City October 17, 2014 A warm fall night welcomed Minus the Bear into the Gramercy Theatre in Manhattan. The five man band from Seattle earned a “Sold Out" sign on the marquee outside, on this the third show of their fall tour in ...

Article: Album Review

Expansions: The Dave Liebman Group: Samsara

by Budd Kopman
November 7, 2014

Dave Liebman is forever restless. An extremely emotional and expressive player, he has formed, after 20 years in a group featuring guitarist Vic Juris, the new group Expansions, purposefully bringing in and connecting with players of the younger generation. Adapting himself to their harmonic language and rhythmic patterns, he continues to expand and grow, resulting in ...