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Cliff Korman: Urban Tracks
by Katchie Cartwright
As ever, Urban Tracks finds pianist, arranger-composer and scholar Cliff Korman alchemizing, jazzifying choros and Brasilifying jazz tunes to create his own distinctive arrangements. Mood Ingênuo: Pixinguinha Meets Duke Ellington with Paulo Moura (Jazzheads, 1999), Brasilified (Tiger Turn, 2022) and Bossas and Ballads (Tiger Turn, 2024) are among other examples in his discography. He recorded Urban ...
Kraków Jazz Week: Seifert Competition & Jazz Juniors
by Martin Longley
Kraków Jazz Week Cricoteka/Hevre Kraków, Poland September 26th-October 3rd 2024 This was the second Kraków Jazz Week, but there is a much deeper history unearthed when studying the roots of this new event. Fundamentally, it involves the amalgamation of two long-running festivals: the Seifert Competition and Jazz ...
Alain Bedard Auguste Quartet: Particules Sonores
by Dan McClenaghan
The experience of bassist Alain Bedard's Partcules Sonores begins--for those who read liner notes--with a rumination on “sound waves that interact with every particle of matter they encounter. The energy created is transported and diffused, becoming sound particles." Hm. A bit cerebral for some tastes, perhaps. But then jazz guys are known to go ...
Some Overlooked 2024 Releases
by Jerome Wilson
Here are reviews of some of the many worthwhile jazz albums that came out in the latter half of 2024. Leslie Pintchik Prayer For What Remains Pintch Hard Records 2024 The latest album by pianist Leslie Pintchik has a gentle, swinging calm to it. She ...
T. K. Blue: Planet Bluu
by Dan McClenaghan
Is T.K. Blue the coolest name for a jazz artist? Only “Thelonious Monk" competes in the category. Blue (aka Talib Kibue) a New Yorker of Trinidad and Jamaican descent who boasts a wide-ranging career--involvements with saxophonist Sam Rivers and pianist Randy Weston (he plays on Weston's 1991, Verve Records masterpiece, The Spirits Of Our Ancestors)--showcases a ...
Mike Jurkovic's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Mike Jurkovic
It has been, to say the least, one hell of fright night year. But here is the music that stayed with me, through thick and thin, and all manner of human foible and political upheaval. Vijay IyerCompassion ECM Records Kris Davis
Mario Mariotti, ricerca e improvvisazione tra contemporanea e jazz
by Neri Pollastri
Trombettista milanese di formazione accademica e dalle diversificate esperienze, appassionato esploratore dei multiformi scenari dell'improvvisazione, Mario Mariotti negli ultimi anni ha proposto lavori diversi tra loro, ma tutti molto interessanti. Abbiamo conversato con lui per conoscere meglio la sua personalità artistica. All About Jazz: Comincerei dal tuo interesse per Bill Dixon al quale ti ...
Roy Haynes: Still Lighting It Up
by Chris M. Slawecki
This article was first published on All About Jazz in June 1997. Drummer Roy Haynes isn't just cool--he's cooooolllll. In conversation, Roy Haynes is languid and relaxed yet full of fire, yet playful, mysterious and serious. Similarly, his music--and he's played alongside the best--is simultaneously passionate and precise, free-swinging and loose, but ...
JazzFest Berlin 2024
by John Sharpe
JazzFest Berlin 2024 Haus Der Berliner Festspiele Berlin, Germany October 31-November 3, 2024 Intro For its sixtieth edition, the renowned JazzFest Berlin not only presented a full program of 24 shows by over 120 performers from around the globe, but also ran a research lab looking back at the event's history, ...
Jazzfest Berlin 2024
by Giuseppe Segala
Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Quasimodo Jazz Club, A-Train Jazz Club, Chiesa Monumentale Kaiser Wilhelm Jazzfest Berlin 2024 Berlino 31 ottobre--3 novembre 2024 Nel programma che celebrava il sessantesimo compleanno del Jazzfest Berlin, e che ne scandiva la sessantunesima edizione, non c'era solo musica. Ovvero, attorno al ricco e appetitoso ...
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