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John Zorn’s Masada Book III The Book Beriah At Roulette on September 10th
Launched in 1993 with the idea of expanding the definition of what Jewish music can be, John Zorn’s Masada project has become a touchstone of New Jewish Music for the last three decades. This marathon concert will feature the world premiere of many compositions interpreted by four exciting bands from the extended Masada family: Brazilian percussionist ...
Max Johnson, Kirk Knuffke, Ziv Ravitz: Something Familiar
by Karl Ackermann
New York native Max Johnson does not appear to require sleep. The bassist/composer, whose career spans the wide terrain from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra to Lollapalooza to Anthony Braxton consistently delivers fresh, adventurous, high-quality music against an ambitious output. With his now-regular working trio of Kirk Knuffke on cornet and drummer Ziv Ravitz, the group has released ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Uri Caine
All About Jazz is celebrating Uri Caine's birthday today! Uri Caine was born in Philadelphia and began studying piano with Bernard Peiffer. He played in bands led by Philly Joe Jones, Hank Mobley, Johnny Coles, Mickey Roker, Odean Pope, Jymmie Merritt, Bootsie Barnes and Grover Washington. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and studied music composition ...
Dave Douglas: There's Wisdom Everywhere in the Universe
by Dave Wayne
We're republishing this June 2013 in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of Dave Douglas's Greenleaf Music record label. When All About Jazz last spoke with trumpeter, multi-bandleader, teacher, composer, marathon runner, podcaster, and record label head honcho Dave Douglas in November, 2011, he was in the Ukraine on the last leg of a ...
Composer And Jazz Supporter Andrea Clearfield Actively Involved In Campaigns For Nepal Earthquake Relief
Celebrated composer Andrea Clearfield has written important musical compositions based on the long and vital tradition of music in Nepal, where she has traveled, transcribed and documented indigenous folk music and made many friends. (In the photograph on the right, on a recent trip there, she is recording Nepalese composer, Tashi Tsering.) A long-time resident of ...
Iiro Rantala al Pinocchio Live Jazz di Firenze
by Neri Pollastri
Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 17.01.2015 Un jazz club può non apparire il luogo più adatto per mettere in scena un piano solo, tipo di performance che richiede attenzione e raccoglimento per essere apprezzata. Ma quando l'interprete del piano solo è non solo bravissimo, ma anche creativo, pirotecnico, ironico, irruente, ...
Take Five with Courtney Bryan
by AAJ Staff
Meet Courtney Bryan: Courtney Bryan, a native of New Orleans, is “a pianist and composer of panoramic interests" (New York Times). Her music ranges from solo works to large ensembles in the new music and jazz idioms, film scores, and collaborations with dancers, visual artists, writers, and actors. On April 9, 2015, her new work Sanctum for orchestra ...
Paolo Fresu: con di Bonaventura su ECM
by Libero Farnè
Gli americani Ralph Towner e Uri Caine, il cubano Omar Sosa, il tunisino Dhafer Youssef, gli italiani Antonello Salis, Furio Di Castri, Gavino Murgia, Gianluca Petrella, perfino l'organista classico Claudio Astronio e il danzatore Giorgio Rossi... La lista dei nomi con cui Paolo Fresu intreccia duetti con maggiore o minore frequenza (e chissà quanti ne ho ...
Paolo Fresu: In Maggiore
by Giuseppe Segala
Paolo Fresu ha sempre esplorato con interesse la dimensione del duo, iniziando a frequentarla con il contrabbasso di Furio Di Castri e proseguendo poi con Antonello Salis, Uri Caine e altre situazioni più occasionali, ad esempio con Omar Sosa e Ludovico Einaudi. Se il connubio con Salis è giocato su un lirismo istintivo, muscolare, spesso serrato, ...
Dialoghi, Jazz Per Due - 17a Edizione
by Paolo Peviani
Pavia, 02-12.02.2015 Solitamente, la rassegna pavese Dialoghi -Jazz per Due si svolge nel mese di Marzo, e si articola in quattro concerti cadenzati con frequenza settimanale. Quest'anno, complice il desiderio di proporre il duo Uri Caine-Mario Brunello, che aveva programmato una mini-tournée di una settimana per inizio febbraio, il calendario ...
