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Article: Album Review

Nicola Fazzini Quartet: Metamorfosi

Read "Metamorfosi" reviewed by Stefano Merighi

by Stefano Merighi
February 14, 2014

Con questo disco Nicola Fazzini si conferma compositore e solista di prim'ordine, in grado di focalizzare un'estetica dai contorni netti, definiti, e soprattutto di guidare un gruppo, bilanciando a dovere esigenze dei singoli e razionalità del collettivo. L'altosassofonista ha come obiettivo quello di realizzare una musica accessibile, un jazz ordinato, elegante ma che ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Danilo Perez: Panama 500

by Victor L. Schermer
February 11, 2014

Danilo Perez is one of our finest contemporary jazz pianists and educators. Most recently, he has recorded and toured extensively with the ground-breaking Wayne Shorter Quartet. Residing in the Boston area, Perez maintains close ties with his native Panama and has initiated jazz education and festival programs there. In this album, devoted to his cultural origins, ...

Article: Interview

Victor Lewis: The Drummer's Spirit

by Victor L. Schermer
February 10, 2014

For several decades, Victor Lewis has been one of the most in-demand drummers of the post-bop era and beyond. He has performed with Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, J.J. Johnson, Chet Baker, George Cables, Woody Shaw, Kenny Barron, Bobby Watson, and others of similar stature. On account of his exceptional ability to push the envelope of musical ...

News: Festival

37th Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival Announces Lineup

February 10, 2014

Saratoga Springs, NY: The 37th annual Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival, one of the most celebrated and longest running jazz events in the world, will be held on Saturday, June 28 and Sunday, June 29 at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. This year's festival headliners include Earth, Wind & Fire, Trombone Shorty, Terence Blanchard, Dave Holland Prism, ...

Article: Interview

Claudio Filippini: Facing North

by Robin Arends
February 4, 2014

Pianist Claudio Filippini, born in Pescara in 1982, is one of the bright young stars of Italian jazz. With his album The Enchanted Garden (CAM Jazz, 2011) he was hailed as the new “wonder boy" of Italian jazz. Now he is regarded as a pianist/composer of international stature, with his album Facing North (CAM Jazz, 2013) ...

Article: What is Jazz?

The Power of Jazz

by John Wesley Reed Jr.
January 30, 2014

"Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together...Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity." Spoken by Quincy Jones at the First International Jazz Day in 2012 at the United Nations. The soul of Jazz is expressed in the life of its ...

Article: We Travel the Spaceways

Pete Mills: The Anatomy Of A Jazz Release

by Mark Corroto
January 28, 2014

I'm here to tell you that everything you thought about the making of a modern jazz records is wrong. The notion that there are talent agents selling concepts to record companies—wrong. That bands work on tunes, perfecting them for months before entering the studio—wrong. That jazz musicians make money from records—again, wrong. I had ...

Article: Interview

Fabian Almazan: Espejos

by DanMichael Reyes
January 27, 2014

Intent is one of those intangible qualities that make a jazz musician. While traits like technical facility, memory, harmonic and rhythmic sophistication play a huge part in the career and development of the aspiring jazz artist, intention is the X-factor that can make a performance special. In an art form that demands spontaneity and thrives within ...

News: Website

All About Jazz Expands Publishing Platform to Include Quarterly Magazine

January 26, 2014

Philadelphia, PA - All About Jazz, the web’s leading destination for jazz news, has teamed with Dutch based MFM Media to produce a quarterly jazz magazine through the Issuu.com publishing platform. Each issue reflects choice content previously published at All About Jazz with strong consideration given to connected material. For instance, the first issue focuses on ...

Article: Record Label Profile

Lyte Records: Dancing To Different Beats

by Ian Patterson
January 22, 2014

Since its inception in 2007, Lyte Records has earned a reputation as one of the very best labels in Ireland/Northern Ireland for independent jazz artists and creative musicians of various stripes. What started out as a very small, personal concern for Lyte Records founder David Lyttle has grown into something much bigger; international recognition came Lyte ...