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Eric Schugren/Vin Scialla/Brian Charette/Mike DiRubbo: Wake Up!

Read "Wake Up!" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 14, 2014

Wake-Up! is one of those surprises that jazz lovers live for. The names--four of them on the very well-designed, 1960s Blue Note Records-like cover--aren't top shelf in terms of profile. They might even be completely unfamiliar to the less than fanatical jazz fans. But what a band! What a set! There's just something that ...

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JP Soars: Full Moon Night In Memphis

Read "Full Moon Night In Memphis" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 14, 2014

The blues have proven to be a most durable musical genre. They are also quite fertile and productive, providing the basis for infinite interpretation. This is good and bad. It is good for all of the exceptional music that has been made atop the rugged 12-bar harmonic structure. It is bad for all of the bad ...

Article: Album Review

Tohpati: Tribal Dance

Read "Tribal Dance" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 14, 2014

Indonesian composer, producer and guitarist Tohpati continues his march toward dominating the jazz-rock fusion guitar world with Tribal Dance. Written and produced by the guitarist, this electrifying Dance was recorded live in a Los Angeles studio then finished in Indonesia, and is credited to “Tohpati featuring Jimmy Haslip and Chad Wackerman." Haslip and Wackerman previously worked ...

Article: Album Review

3D: Dąbrowski Davis Drury: Vermilion Tree

Read "Vermilion Tree" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 14, 2014

The international 3D trio was initiated by Polish, Denmark-based rising trumpeter Tomasz Dąbrowski during his 2012 visit to New York that already yielded a duo with drummer Tyshawn Sorey (Steps, For Tune, 2013). Canadian, New York-based pianist Kris Davis and American drummer (with Nordic roots) Andrew Drury join Dąbrowski in a set of eight concise, snapshot-like ...

Article: Album Review

Nicola Conte: Free Souls

by AAJ Staff
October 14, 2014

Tutta l'anima di Nicola Conte. Inconfondibile. Mettiamo un po' in ordine gli elementi. La sua passione per la black music è vera e consapevole, ormai da anni: jazz, soul, latin, bossanova, funk, sono elementi di un vocabolario che ha le pagine un po' ingiallite come si conviene a chi si bagna nei ...

News: Event

When Haiku Inspires Music: Bobby Zankel Ensemble Performs Original Composition Celebrating Peace

October 14, 2014

Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane inspired saxophonist and composer Bobby Zankel is usually heard with his Warriors of the Wonderful Sound big band performing large-scale compositions such as his recent re-setting of Coltrane’s A Love Supreme. Here, on the occasion of a celebration of mural art, which has turned numerous outside walls of Philadelphia buildings into ...

News: Recording

Released Today: "Circuit Rider" Feat. Ron Miles, Bill Frisell And Brian Blade

October 14, 2014

Master Cornetist RON MILES Releases Circuit Rider, his Second Album featuring Bill Frisell and Brian Blade New York, NY —- Cornetist Ron Miles leads guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Brian Blade in Circuit Rider, the group’s second album. A logical evolution from the Trio’s debut album Quiver (2012), Circuit Rider epitomizes Miles’ signature lyricism, deceptively simple ...

News: Recording

David Bowie to release new "Jazz-Oriented" single

October 14, 2014

Bowie has teamed up with the Maria Schneider Orchestra to release his first new material since 2013 comeback album The Next Day David Bowie has revealed he has teamed up with a leading jazz orchestra for his new single. The track, called “Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)," is under wraps until it is premiered ...

Article: Catching Up With

Andrew D'Angelo: Story of the Living

by Daniel Lehner
October 14, 2014

The album artwork for Andrew D'Angelo's Norman features the album's namesake, D'Angelo's grandfather, as a young man, seated slyly and serenely. The significance of naming the album “Norman" was not only a nod to the fact that D'Angelo bears that as his middle name, but also that the album is dedicated in part to D'Angelo's mother. ...

Article: Film Review

Clark Terry: Keep On Keepin' On

by Mark F. Turner
October 14, 2014

Clark Terry Keep On Keepin' On RADiUS-TWC 2014 Produced by Quincy Jones and Paula Dupre' Pesmen with first time filmmaker Al Hicks the multiple award winning documentary Keep On Keepin' On brings an intimate view into the extraordinary friendship between trumpet great Clark Terry and aspiring young pianist Justin Kauflin. The ...