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Article: Album Review

Mason Bates: Stereo Is King

Read "Stereo Is King" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
August 4, 2014

Modern composer and electronics artist Mason Bates is equally comfortable in the worlds of new classical and hip hop. Working closely with the symphony orchestras of San Francisco and Chicago, he has been a driving force in escalating the role of electronics in the orchestra setting. To that end, Bates has put years into the study ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Jason Anick: Tipping Point

by Ian Patterson
August 4, 2014

One of the Berklee College of Music's youngest instructors, violinist/mandolinist Jason Anick had already made a name for himself in 2008, when at twenty two years of age he was invited to tour with Grammy-winning guitarist John Jorgenson. Anick's tremendous virtuosity was to the fore on the acoustic Rhythm Future Quartet's Sleepless (Self Produced, 2011), a ...

Article: Album Review

Sharp Three: Sharp Three/Zero Cool

Read "Sharp Three/Zero Cool" reviewed by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton

by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton
August 4, 2014

Sharp Three put a wide mix of music together on their album, Zero Cool. Surpassing the quotidian jazz clichés about “moments" and “hipness," this album possesses sonority where even the stoniest non- emotes hear spirituality, Sharp Three provide music with enough cultural variation to lose self in parts or whole. There are 9 generous ...

Article: From the Inside Out

Musings on Jazz, Blues and the Sabbath

by Chris M. Slawecki
August 4, 2014

Margie Baker Sings With So Many Stars Consolidated Artists Productions 2014 Margie Baker didn't begin her career as a jazz and blues vocalist in the San Francisco area until she was nearly 40, but she made up for this delayed entry with endurance: She was often featured at the Monterey ...

News: Contest

Enter the "Sheryl Bailey - A Meeting of Minds" Giveaway!

August 4, 2014

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Cellar Live “Sheryl Bailey - A Meeting of Minds“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on September 2nd. Click here to enter the contest (Tracking Sheryl Bailey at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! ...

Article: Album Review

Michael Carvin Experience: Flash Forward

Read "Flash Forward" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
August 3, 2014

In 2006, oft-unsung drummer Michael Carvin broke a decade-long silence as a leader on record, releasing one of the strongest dates of his career through Marsalis Music's Honor Series. Fast-forward eight years and you have Flash Forward, another quartet-based album that stands as a testament to Carvin's skills as drummer, bandleader, and musical catalyst.

Article: Rhythm In Every Guise

Jeff Hirshfield on Rich Perry's SteepleChase Recordings

by David A. Orthmann
August 3, 2014

"Some drummers get carried away and stop listening, maybe because we are doing four or five things at the same time. You want to see if things will work out or not, but you're not paying enough attention...We think we need to make everything happen, but it's not true: Everything is already happening, all you need ...

Article: Album Review

Kosi: Pictures of Us

Read "Pictures of Us" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer

by Victor L. Schermer
August 3, 2014

This is an album whose authenticity and directness of expression is matched only by its underlying artistic complexity and conceptual nuances. Kosi Gyebi Sorensen (Akosua Gyebi) is a New York-based singer and composer whose vocal persona on this album is that of a young woman of humble origins struggling with the trials of intimacy and love, ...

Article: Book Review

Jazz Life: A Journey for Jazz Across America in 1960

by Nenad Georgievski
August 3, 2014

Jazz Life: A Journey for Jazz Across America in 1960 William Claxton and Joachim E. Berendt 552 ISBN: 3836544687 Taschen 2013 A single photograph can say and convene more than a thousand words. Although music itself can't be photographed, only a handful of photographers ever got closer to ...

News: Performance / Tour

Noted Jazz Flutist Peter H. Bloom To Perform With Guitarist Mark Leighton In Maine, August 2014

August 3, 2014

Flutist Peter H. Bloom and guitarist Mark Leighton, acclaimed for their virtuosity and versatility, will perform up-tempo jazz standards by Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael and other legendary tunesmiths in Islesboro (August 14 at 7:30 pm), West Kennebunk (August 17 at 3:00 pm) and Old York Harbor Maine (August 17 at 7:30 pm). ...