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Article: Live Review

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2023

by Mike Chamberlain
July 16, 2023

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec June 29-July 8, 2023 Not many cities like a party like Montreal, and the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (FIJM) has been the biggest party in Montreal since its inception in 1980. Not even smoke from wildfires in northern Quebec could obscure ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Bassist Bruno Råberg

by AAJ Staff
July 9, 2023

Meet Bruno Råberg Bruno Råberg is an internationally renowned bassist and composer. Since coming to the US from his native Sweden in 1981, he has made 13 recordings as a leader, about 30 as a sideman, and has performed with numerous world-class artists, including Kris Davis, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jerry Bergonzi, George Garzone, Kenny Werner, Sam ...

Article: Album Review

Walter Smith III: Return To Casual

Read "Return To Casual" reviewed by Dave Linn

by Dave Linn
June 2, 2023

Walter Smith III released his debut album, Casually Introducing (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2006), to enthusiastic reviews. On it, he covered Sam Rivers, Charles Mingus and Ornette Coleman and wrote the other six tracks, showcasing a mature and varied sense of composition. His playing and arrangements showed him to be a new, young (he was 26 ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Cyro Baptista, Felipe Salles, Gianluigi Trovesi, Ben Rosenblum & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 16, 2023

Here is our weekly merry-go-round of recent and upcoming albums, which this time will feature great saxophonists, up and coming composers, and various projects showing that jazz is the most inclusive genre out there, welcoming any source of inspiration from Baroque to Brazilian to Flamenco.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. ...

Article: Album Review

Kendrick Scott: Corridors

Read "Corridors" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
March 10, 2023

Drummer Kendrick Scott's A Wall Becomes A Bridge (Blue Note, 2019) was everything to everybody and then some. Optimistic yet well aware of the roiling contradictions beneath it all, the formidable Corridors, its revivalist tenor intact, carries on that spirit of interplay and common alliance. Breaking from the start with the loping, street-smart, stride ...

Article: Album Review

Harry Skoler: Living in Sound - The Music of Charles Mingus

Read "Living in Sound - The Music of Charles Mingus" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
February 23, 2023

Tra i vari tributi alle composizioni di Charles Mingus, pubblicati nell'anno del centenario della nascita, questo di Harry Skoler conferma la plasticità di quei temi, articolati e mutevoli, frutto della sua complessa personalità. L'autore e primo solista di questo progetto è un clarinettista--già allievo di Jimmy Giuffre al New England Conservatory e da ...

Song of the Day

The Door of No Return

February 8, 2023

Album: What Place Can Be for Us? - A Suite in Ten Movements
By Anthony Branker
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 08:52

Album

In Common III

By Walter Smith III

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: Shine; Loping; Oliver; Hornets; Orange Crush; After; Lite; For Some Time; Shutout; Reds; Variable; Prince July; Dust; Familiar; Misere.

Album

New Gospel Revisited

By Marquis Hill

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Intro; Law And Order; Walter Speaks (featuring Walter Smith III); The Believer; Oracle (featuring Kendrick Scott); New Gospel; Lullaby (featuring Joel Ross); Autumn; New Paths; A Portrait Of Fola; Perpetual (featuring Harish Raghavan); The Thump; Farewell (featuring James Francies).

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Walter Smith III: Listen To The Young Players

by Leo Sidran
May 16, 2022

From an early age, Walter Smith III began taking music very seriously. “My first gig was playing at a McDonalds in Houston]} with another saxophonist. I took a solo on Blue Bossa." It was terrible. People clapped, and I figured if I could get away with that and get applause, how could I fail?" <br /><br ...