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Jazz Musician of the Day: Wadada Leo Smith

Jazz Musician of the Day: Wadada Leo Smith

All About Jazz is celebrating Wadada Leo Smith's birthday today! ISHMAEL WADADA LEO SMITH trumpet-player, multi- instrumentalist, composer and improviser has been active in the creative contemporary world music for over thirty years. His theory of Jazz and World music was significant in his music development as an artist and educator. Born in Leland, Mississippi, Smith\'s ...

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Article: Album Review

Wadada Leo Smith & John Lindberg: Celestial Weather

Read "Celestial Weather" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, one of the original AACM artists and a major avant-garde artist in his own right, is perhaps best known of late for his highly ambitious, monumental orchestral works--Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform Records, 2013) and Occupy the World (TUM Records, 2013). In 2014 he turned this approach down a bit--using using an all-star ...

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

AACM - The Association of the Advancement of Creative Music

Read "AACM - The Association of the Advancement of Creative Music" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


The Association of the Advancement of Creative Music (AACM) was created 50 years ago in Chicago to give voice to adventurous African American musicians and to express the political turmoil of the era. As this is the anniversary year of this revolutionary collective here are ten essential classic AACM recordings that belong in any collection, regardless ...

Article: Lyrics

I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Daniel Levin

Read "I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Daniel Levin" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


01. Joe Morris -Solos -Bimhuis (Relative Pitch -2015). Musica incredibile. Ci sono così tante informazioni in ogni frase di Joe. La prima volta che ho ascoltato questo disco, sono ritornato sui primi tredici secondi di “Trunk" almeno una trentina di volte prima di passare al brano successivo. Incredibilmente denso e fluido allo stesso tempo.

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Article: Take Five With...

James Brandon Lewis e il Questionario di Proust

Read "James Brandon Lewis e il Questionario di Proust" reviewed by AAJ Staff


All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della mia musica. James Brandon Lewis: Le emozioni e il suono la fanno da padrone! Le melodie, sia predeterminate che spontanee. Musica angolare, onesta, vulnerabile, rischiosa, urgente, con groove, funky e libera, che viene dal cuore. AAJ: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano ...

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Article: Album Review

Mario Pavone: Blue Dialect

Read "Blue Dialect" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Gone are the days where a jazz trio maintains a three month residency, playing nightly in a club. Nor are there world traveling units that refine their skills nightly on the road, working and reworking material. There will be no more piano trios led by the likes of Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans. But have no ...

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Article: Live Review

Burlington Discover Jazz Festival: Burlington, VT, June 5-14, 2015

Read "Burlington Discover Jazz Festival: Burlington, VT, June 5-14, 2015" reviewed by Doug Collette


Burlington Discover Jazz Festival Burlington, VT June 5-14, 2015 The continuing success of the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival not only elevates the level of participation in the city's music scene for the duration of each annual run, but also shines a light throughout Vermont's Queen City to illuminate the variety of venues ...

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Article: Album Review

Anthony Braxton: Trio and Duet

Read "Trio and Duet" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Multi reed player and composer Anthony Braxton has been called a genius by some and for very good reason. He is one of the most restlessly innovative and intelligently idiosyncratic contemporary musicians. He seamlessly erases the boundaries between the composed and the improvised and his works brim equally with fresh and progressive ideas as well as ...

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Article: Interview

Dave Douglas: There's Wisdom Everywhere in the Universe

Read "Dave Douglas: There's Wisdom Everywhere in the Universe" reviewed 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 ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Wadada Leo Smith, fenomenologia di un maestro

Read "Wadada Leo Smith, fenomenologia di un maestro" reviewed by Luca Canini


Non tutti i maestri sono uguali. C'è chi sceglie di farsi da parte, riducendo al minimo gli sconfinamenti, gli azzardi, i contatti con situazioni potenzialmente rischiose. E c'è chi invece si ostina a cercare, a condividere; tenendo fede a quella che del jazz è la suprema vocazione: la fisiologica tendenza a includere, in un continuo sovrapporsi ...


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