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Article: Live Review

The Swallow-Talmor-Nussbaum Trio at the Douglas Beach House

by Bill Leikam
August 24, 2014

Swallow-Talmor-Nussbaum TrioDouglas Beach House Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society Half Moon Bay, California August 10, 2014 A rare U.S. performance by the highly sophisticated and seasoned jazz trio of Steve Swallow, electric bass; Ohad Talmor, tenor saxophone; and Adam Nussbaum on drums, set the stage for a two-set performance. Before ...

Article: Album Review

Jose James: While You Were Sleeping

Read "While You Were Sleeping" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
August 24, 2014

Jazz has always had a soft spot for pop music. Icons like trumpeter Louis Armstrong blessed the masses with his positivity and raspy voice in 1967's “What a Wonderful World" and saxophonist John Coltrane transformed Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1960 musical smash “My Favorite Things" into a swinging affair. Fast forward to 2014 as singer, songwriter and ...

News: Website

All About Jazz Launches Three New Advertising Services: Video of the Day, Soundcloud Player of the Week and Big Bopper

August 23, 2014

All About Jazz has developed three highly effective advertising opportunities by leveraging YouTube, SoundCloud, Facebook, Twitter and its tremendous website reach. Video of the Day Presented at the very top of media.allaboutjazz.com (and stretching 1,000 pixels wide, an advertiser's video is featured for one day on the media home page, on the All About Jazz home ...

Article: Album Review

Julie Kelly: Happy To Be

Read "Happy To Be" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
August 23, 2014

Over the past thirty years, vocalist Julie Kelly has established and cemented her sterling reputation via seven highly praised albums. Her eighth, a beauty in every way, is likely to garner her some more rave reviews. After tackling a diverse program with able support from pianist Mike Wofford on Everything I Love (Chase ...

Article: One LP

Orbert Davis: Clifford Brown with Strings

by William Ellis
August 23, 2014

Orbert Davis: Symphony Centre, Buntrock Hall, Chicago. 15th May, 2013 This is Clifford Brown with Strings (EmArcy, 1955). I was a teenager when I first heard this incredible album—the depth is in its subtleties—and Clifford is so perfect with the string writing of Neal Hefti. It's a true blending of classical and jazz.

Article: Album Review

Indigo Mist: Cuong Vu - Richard Karpen: That The Days Go By And Never Come Again

Read "That The Days Go By And Never Come Again" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
August 23, 2014

Pioneering trumpeter, composer Cuong Vu and pianist Richard Karpen push the envelope by not releasing a cut and dry tribute to Duke Ellington and his counterpart Billy Strayhorn . With a standard jazz quartet supported by iPad and electronics performers, to say this album follows mainstream jazz guidelines would be a miscue of sorts. Unconventional wisdom ...

Article: Album Review

Alan Evans Trio: Woodstock Sessions Vol. 1

Read "Woodstock Sessions Vol. 1" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
August 23, 2014

The Alan Evans Trio, nee Alan Evans' Playonbrother, were the first band to formally avail themselves of the resources of Applehead Studios for a live with studio audience session in Woodstock New York in 2013. Patterned to a great degree on Levon Helm's Midnight Rambles at his own barn, ultra contemporary facilities in a rustic setting, ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

The Led Zeppelin Papers: Led Zeppelin II, Deluxe Edition

by C. Michael Bailey
August 23, 2014

January 12, 1969 to October 22, 1969. Two-hundred eighty-three days. That is the length of time between the releases of Led Zeppelin and Led Zeppelin II. By any estimation, in rock music it defies the space-time continuum. By 21st Century time, it only compares to the incessant leakage of Rap mixtapes pooling on the floor of ...

Article: One LP

Jimmy Heath: Charlie Parker with Strings

by William Ellis
August 23, 2014

Jimmy Heath: Langston Hughes Library, Flushing, New York, 30th April 2013 It was impossible to make a choice! This is Charlie Parker with Strings (Mercury Records, 1950)--a compilation of all the Charlie Parker with Strings--not just the one studio performance; there's some live performances. Someone at The Charlie Parker organisation that used ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Mark Egan

by AAJ Staff
August 22, 2014

Meet Mark Egan:Over the past 30 years, Mark Egan's ability to groove, perfectly complement the music in any situation and solo expressively has made him one of the most in-demand bass players on the international music scene. While racking up credits with the likes of the Pat Metheny Group, saxophonists Steve Grossman, Dave Liebman, Stan ...