Sara Serpa at The Stone article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Live Review » Radical Community: Sara Serpa at The Stone Courtesy Adam Beaudoin I like to think that more than political, my work is humanist. What does it mean to be human, to live, to witness this world? How do we bring attention to what matters to us? How can […]
Take Five with Vocalist Teodora Brody article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Take Five With… » Take Five with Vocalist Teodora Brody Meet Teodora Brody Born in Romania, and now based in Switzerland, Teodora Brody initially trained in classical jazz and rose to prominence in the late 1990s and early 2000s singing with legendary jazz pianist ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Johnny Raducanu . Acclaimed […]
Introducing Saxophonist Veronica Leahy article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Rising Stars » Introducing Saxophonist Veronica Leahy She turned everyone’s heads in the band, including Wynton Marsalis’. Ted Nash ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Veronica Leahy began playing classical piano at an early age. Then, when she was in the fourth grade, she heard a recording by tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman saxophoneb.1969 ” […]
Smatter article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Play This! » Kenny Wheeler: Smatter ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Kenny Wheeler, offers the chance to hear several grandmasters of jazz concoct high-energy music together. For Wheeler’s debut on ECM Records, Gnu High (ECM, 1976), he gathered the creative forces of ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette drumsb.1942 ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Jack DeJohnette […]
Lighting Up Charlotte with Jazz article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Lonnie Davis: Lighting Up Charlotte with Jazz One of the things that is important for me and my role at JazzArts is to make sure that the audience is getting access and exposure to a wide variety of high quality jazz music. In the ’90s, fierce jazz curator, […]
Imani-Grace Cooper and Her Vocal Art article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Imani-Grace Cooper and Her Vocal Art When I sing jazz, it is not about specific lines, scales or arpeggios that sound jazzy. But more so just fitting in where the spirit of the stage is in at the time, and the groove. As I do this, it becomes […]
At Monterey Jazz Festival 67, Jazz Gospel According to a New Head article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Live Review » At Monterey Jazz Festival 67, Jazz Gospel According to a New Head Courtesy Josef Woodard For this edition of MJF, new director Darin Atwater achieved his stated goal of continuing the Jackson approach, presiding over a healthy checklist of artists with appeal for a wide demographic of […]
Take Five With Saxophonist / Composer Wataru Uchida article @ All About Jazz
” data-original-title title>Nilson Matta. The album is dedicated to Baden Powell guitar, acoustic1937 – 2000 ” data-original-title title>Baden Powell, the legendary Brazilian guitarist. In 2015, Wataru recorded his original tunes with Abelita Mateus, Itaiguara Brandão, and Vanderlei Pereira, and published the album, Predawn Shenanigans Club. The album has several tunes with rhythmical approaches applying odd […]
When I Can Read My Titles Clear article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Play This! » Sam Wilkes: When I Can Read My Titles Clear Bassist ” data-original-title title>Sam Wilkes is known in jazz inner circles for the beauty of his instrumental sound. Immersing yourself in the flow of his ambient compositions, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that his […]
20 Years of Abstract Logix article @ All About Jazz
” data-original-title title>Jimmy Herring, Col. Bruce Hampton, Wayne Krantz guitar, electric ” data-original-title title>Wayne Krantz, ” data-original-title title>Gary Husband, ” data-original-title title>Scott Kinsey, ” data-original-title title>Gary Willis, ” data-original-title title>Oz Noy and on and on. It’s also quite possible you may have even encountered him as well. Along the way to adding Grammy-winning producer to […]