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Kansas City's 18th & Vine Jazz And Blues Festival Talent Line Up Announced

September 19, 2014

Saturday, October 11 presents the 2014 edition of Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz and Blues Festival. The initial American Jazz Museum Press Conference held on July 23 presented the Official Festival Poster designed by David Terrill; and, announced Headliner Talent featuring Lucky Peterson (Blues), Meshell Ndegeocello (Neo-Soul), Roy Hargrove (Jazz), Midnight Star (R&B Party Band). Announced ...

News: Website

All About Jazz Launches "Big Question" Column

September 18, 2014

All About Jazz has debuted a provocative new column called “The Big Question," a regular feature that's designed to engage jazz aficionados and encourage discussion on the important issues facing jazz today. We kicked off the column with arguably the most important topic currently facing jazz: “Can jazz become culturally relevant again? If so, how?" Please ...

Article: Album Review

Jason Ajemian: Folklords

Read "Folklords" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
September 18, 2014

Folklords is one of the most adventurous albums to be issued by Delmark Records since Levels and Degrees of Light, the auspicious recording debut of pianist and composer Muhal Richard Abrams in 1967. Bassist Jason Ajemian's second effort for the venerable label, following 2008's The Art of Dying, conceptually surpasses his prior work by leaps and ...

Article: The Vinyl Post

Everything Old is Blue Again: Hank Mobley, McCoy Tyner, Grant Green and Horace Silver

by C. Andrew Hovan
September 18, 2014

If you are a Blue Note fan, you undoubtedly know that over the course of their 75th anniversary year Blue Note has been reissuing important titles from the catalog at a rate of about five albums per month. It is really a fast-paced program that will appeal to folks on many levels. Some might be starting ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Endre Huszar

by AAJ Staff
September 18, 2014

Meet Endre Huszar: “Versatility" is probably the word that would describe best Endre Huszár's career: beside being a musician/composer, he is also known as a journalist and media expert. While playing with many leading Hungarian acts in a wide range of genres from pop, alternative rock to jazz and world music, he formed his jazz ...

Article: Album Review

Howard McGhee: Howard McGhee West Coast 1945-1947

Read "Howard McGhee West Coast 1945-1947" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
September 18, 2014

Bebop trumpet pioneer Howard McGhee has undergone a lengthy process of rediscovery and reassessment since his death in 1987. A one-time Downbeat Poll Winner (1947), it's probably not much of an exaggeration to say he had been largely forgotten, even by trumpet players. Yet Gunther Schuller (1989) and Scott DeVeaux (1997) soon published searching and sophisticated ...

Article: Album Review

Afro Bop Alliance: Angel Eyes

Read "Angel Eyes" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
September 18, 2014

Latin Grammy Award-winning group Afro Bop Alliance lend their infectious hard-driving and percussive Latin-tinged sound to Angel Eyes, the group's fifth album staking one more claim for yet another future Latin Grammy nod. Known for their percolating percussion as well as dipping into straight ahead jazz, this Washington D.C. based octet lets the rumba rumble, the ...

Article: Album Review

Theo Croker: Afro Physicist

Read "Afro Physicist" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
September 18, 2014

Nel terreno d'incontro tra neo-bop, soul e fusion, il giovane trombettista e compositore Theo Croker mostra vivo talento e freschezza d'idee. Non è azzardato prevedergli un'imminente luminosa carriera e questo “Afro Physicist"--prodotto da Dee Dee Bridgewater e pubblicato dalla Okeh--si caratterizza come un lavoro fantasioso e maturo. Nipote di Doc Cheatham, Theo ha ...

News: Event

DivaNation Showcases "A Sisterhood of Singers"

September 18, 2014

By Nathea Lee The Philadelphia Jazz Project set out to see what would happen if they brought together a diverse array of vocalists, created a nurturing environment where seasoned performers could mentor younger singers, and gave them all the opportunity to perform on one of the City's premier stages. The result is DivaNation, “a sisterhood of ...

News: TV / Film

Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Sundance Hit "Whiplash"

September 18, 2014

New York, NY - Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all North American, Australian, New Zealand and German rights to Damien Chazelle’s feature Whiplash. The film, which played as the 2014 Sundance Film Festival’s opening night film, received rave reviews. Written by Chazelle, Whiplash stars Miles Teller (THE SPECTACULAR NOW) and J.K. Simmons ...