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Article: Album Review

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (Exit) Knarr: Breezy

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When news of Jaimie Branch's passing broke in 2022, there was an understandably huge outpouring of tributes from different corners of the jazz community. While an eternal punk rocker at heart, Branch was also a distinctly millennial musician, and a fitting figurehead for the recent wave of borderless improvised music that came out of Chicago's International ...

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Article: Big Band in the Sky

Remembering All About Jazz's Chris May

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With profound sadness, the All About Jazz family mourns the loss of Chris May (1946-2024), a luminous soul whose passion and dedication took AAJ to new heights during his 20 year tenure. Chris was more than a colleague--he was a beloved writer, a brilliant editor, and a cherished friend whose words dazzled with grace and insight. ...

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The Necks: Bleed

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There is a diverting theory that modernist developments in the visual arts were mirrored in the evolving language of jazz: the rigid melodies of classic swing analogous with the formal representation of realism; the harmonic blurring of modalism an impressionistic step towards ambiguity; and the breakdown of order that came with free jazz the divisive audio ...

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Article: Live Review

Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin at Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Hong Kong

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Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin featuring Ivan Lins Tsuen Wan Town Hall Auditorium Hong Kong November 12, 2024 Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin's musical relationship might date back some five decades--the pair may be, in the former's words, “best buddies"--but it was still startling to see how relaxed the pair ...

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Article: Live Review

Wynton Marsalis’ The Shanghai Suite At Hong Kong Academy For Performing Arts

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Lincoln Centre Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Lyric Theatre, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts “An Evening of Swing" & “Wynton Marsalis' Birthday Celebration" jny:Hong Kong October 17-18, 2024 How does Wynton Marsalis spend his birthday? On the road, of course. The venerable champion of all things jazzy and ...

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Article: Film Review

Impressions of Zero Gravity

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We published Peter Jones's review of Zero Gravity the other week, but other staffers wanted to share their thoughts on the Wayne Shorter documentary, so we collected them and presented them here. Ellen Johnson Zero Gravity, the documentary chronicling the life and music of jazz icon Wayne Shorter, surpasses the boundaries of conventional biographical ...

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Article: Live Review

Atlantis Trio at MutaMenti HK

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Atlantis Trio Tsuen Wan Town Hall MutaMenti HK Hong Kong September 27, 2023 A lot of flak is (fairly) laid on the often clumsy, jarring aesthetics of “global-beat," “world fusion," or whatever you want to call it (terms I use sparingly and with reservation). But the ...

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Article: Album Review

Jack DeJohnette: Sorcery

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Which Jack DeJohnette is best known? The subtle sticksmith at the heart of Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio, perhaps? Probably the heavyweight hitter driving electric-era Miles Davis' '70s sonic brew. Maybe the percussive upstart propelling Charles Lloyd to crossover flower-power fame? Or even the fearless bandleader behind the ever-thrilling Special Edition band ... ...

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Article: Live Review

Flow Festival 2023

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Flow Festival Suvilahti, Helsinki, Finland August 11-13, 2023 The stark quantity and sheer quality of improvised and instrumental music on offer at Finland's Flow Festival only starts to make sense when you dig into its roots. Once loudly crowned by Vogue as “the Nordics countries' coolest festival"--a fact the event's ...

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Article: Album Review

Héctor Lavoe: La Voz

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Craft Recordings have been on a roll of late, following 2021's excellently presented Ornette Coleman boxset, Genesis of Genius, with 2023's Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series and imminent Sonny Rollins set Go West!: The Contemporary Records Albums. So it is only natural that jazz-inclined audiophiles will start turning their attention to what other treasures the LA-based ...


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This and That: November 2024
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