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Article: Live Review

Outbeat Jazz Festival 2014

by Victor L. Schermer
September 26, 2014

Outbeat Jazz Festival Philadelphia, PA September 18-21, 2014 The Outbeat Jazz Festival, touted as “America's First Queer Jazz Festival," where the “Q-word" has become an “in" word, proved to be an innovative event that brought the public's attention to the important role of gay (LGBT) jazz musicians and composers. A series ...

Article: Album Review

Steve Heckman Quintet: Search for Peace

Read "Search for Peace" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
September 26, 2014

Saxophonist Steve Heckman has been dishing up rock solid mainstream jazz in the quartet and quintet settings since 2003's For John (World City Music), a tribute disc to the legendary saxophonist John Coltrane. That debut and his two subsequent offerings, Live at Yoshi's (World City Music, 2005) and Born to Be Blue (Jazzed Media, 2013), held ...

Article: In the Artist's Own Words

The Most Beautiful Thing

by Michael Bisio
September 26, 2014

For me music is full of magic, mystery, spirituality, joy, passion and fire, blue to red, yet my journey to conceptualize finds me chasing the most objective truths I can discover, truths stripped of every aesthetic element possible. In High School during an intro to theory class my teacher announced: music is sound in time. We ...

Article: Album Review

Red Hill: Red Hill

Read "Red Hill" reviewed by John Ephland

by John Ephland
September 26, 2014

Red Hill is the collection of six group-composed pieces, led by trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, this very fine aggregate also including keyboardist Jamie Saft, Joe Morris playing acoustic bass and drummer Balazs Pandi. Indeed, Red Hill can't be heard except as a portrait of four vivid musical personalities interacting across musical terrain loaded with many unexpected ...

Article: Album Review

Oran Etkin: Gathering Light

Read "Gathering Light" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
September 26, 2014

Due compagni di viaggio d'eccezione come Nasheet Waits e Ben Allison, due ospiti (in realtà membri più che attivi del quintetto) altrettanto prestigiosi come il “Jazz Passanger" Curtis Fowlkes e il chitarrista Lionel Loueke, ed ecco che il clarinettista, sassofonista, compositore, didatta di origine israeliana Oran Etkin scodella un secondo lavoro da leader di tutto rispetto. ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Pianist/Composer Marc Hoffman To Perform At Center For Faith & The Arts

September 26, 2014

NC Musician will play at Mark Stephenson Exhibit Reception SALISBURY, NC – Marc Hoffman, NC composer, jazz pianist, and vocalist, will perform at the reception for the opening of artist Mark Stephenson's exhibit, Italian Paintings and Other Recent Works. The exhibit, at Center For Faith & the Arts in Salisbury, opened September 2nd. Stephenson recently completed ...

News: Performance / Tour

A Jazz Matinee with Larry Camp, Marty Morell, Bruce Wallace

September 26, 2014

Bassist Bruce Wallace opened the South County Jazz Club's 2014-15 concert season Friday afternoon with a top-notch trio whose members had never worked together in this personnel grouping. It featured guitarist Larry Camp and drummer Marty Morell, best known in jazz circles for his seven-year stint in pianist Bill Evans' trio from 1968 to 1975. Musically, ...

News: Education

Celebrated Jazz Vocalist, Al Jarreau, To Share His Craft With Young Artists

September 26, 2014

This October, up-and-coming vocalists from three Philadelphia high schools will experience an infusion of artistic excellence and mentorship during a three-day master class with jazz great, Al Jarreau, thanks to the work of The Mann Center for the Performing Arts. From October 14 to 16, Jarreau and three teaching artists, including Marc Johnson, Michal Beckman and ...

News: Recording

Commence Communication: Contemplative Keyboardist Patrick Bradley Connects On “can You Hear Me”

September 26, 2014

The title track featuring Dave Koz makes its chart debut as the fusion album produced by Jeff Lorber was released. Rick Braun, Eric Marienthal and Jimmy Haslip are also featured. Aliso Viejo, California (26 September 2014): On his third album, “Can You Hear Me,” which was released Tuesday (September 23) on the Patrick’s Song Factory label, ...

Article: Album Review

Anna Webber: Simple

by Paul Naser
September 25, 2014

Simple (Skirl 2014) , New York based composer/saxophonist Anna Webber's follow up to her 2013 release “Percussive Mechanics (Pirouet 2013) finds her exploring the expressive capabilities of a trio setting. While the compositional sensibilities introduced in her first album remain, her affinity for polyrhythms being a good example, the new texture provides her the ability to ...