https://www.allaboutjazz.com/articles/?in_type=32 2025-04-30T23:42:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/marilyn-crispell-fearless-deeply-sensitive-and-shaping-the-moment-interview<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />Dean Nardi2025-04-30T23:42:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/nicole-zuraitis-the-up-and-down-journey-to-newport-interview<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />Nicole Zuraitis should receive a Grammy Award just for her laugh! It's deep, loud, energetic and a treat to hear. Not taking herself too seriously, her conversation is peppered with laughter while she talks about the high and lows of her travels from a struggling young jazz vocalist/composer to her surprising (to her) Grammy win... ]]>Mark Robbins2025-04-29T23:42:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/michael-buckley-blowing-hot-interview<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />George Coleman no less, on the stage of Dublin's National Concert Hall when aged just ten... ]]>Ian Patterson2025-04-28T23:42:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/savina-yannatou-wandering-through-fairy-tales-interview<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />Savina Yannatou flies through vast reaches of space and time as she works, like the swallows and warblers who traverse the Sahara, stopping in jny: Greece on their annual pilgrimage to breeding grounds in the North, thousands of miles away... ]]>Katchie Cartwright2025-04-22T23:42:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/take-five-with-saxophonist-singer-guitarist-vanessa-collier<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />AAJ Staff2025-04-22T10:42:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/take-five-with-singer-guitarist-and-pianist-martina-fiserova<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />AAJ Staff2025-04-15T23:42:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/lamp-the-three-of-me-blend-into-one-of-us-lamp-ft-russ-lawton-scott-metzger-and-ray-paczkowski<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />rousing albums have a knack for keeping you listening, whether it is Russ Lawton propelling the trio along through punchy, substantial snare, Ray Paczkowski indulging in the inner point-of-view of melody and harmony on both organ and clavinet, or Scott Metzger inserting reveal after reveal in a twist-laden odyssey of gleeful, darting notes... ]]>Dean Nardi2025-04-14T23:42:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/take-five-with-accordionist-nathan-koci<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />Solomon Diaries Vol IV and V (Adhyaropa Records, 2025) with clarinetist Sam Sadigursky is a modern take on Klezmer jazz... ]]>AAJ Staff2025-03-27T07:42:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-changing-times-of-cecil-mcbee<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />jny:Albany, New York area saxophonist Nick Brignola connected with the State University of New York and produced the first and only SUNY Jazz Festival... ]]>Rob Rosenblum2025-03-26T06:59:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/signature-sound-that-echoes-the-angel-gabriel-a-conversation-with-maestro-leroy-jones-on-musical-tones-colours-and-meanings-leroy-jones<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />Wendell Brunious, John Michael Bradford, Kevin Louis and Shamarr Allen, who kindly shared their perceptions of the "trumpet as an instrument." "My trumpet is my girlfriend, I kiss her every day," Allen said with a smile back then... ]]>Taliya Hafiz2025-03-25T20:42:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/peter-erskine-revisiting-weather-report-peter-erskine<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />Peter Erskine began playing at the age of four. After honing his skills at Interlochen, he launched his professional career in 1972 with Stan Kenton... ]]>C. Andrew Hovan2025-03-20T23:42:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/billy-mohler-emotions-and-groove<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />Billy Mohler, a bassist with diverse musical experiences, is becoming an increasingly prominent presence in the ever-evolving and vibrant jny: Los Angeles jazz scene... ]]>Vincenzo Roggero2025-03-18T23:42:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/wajdi-riahi-something-that-feels-honest<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />Ieva Pakalniskyte2025-03-15T23:42:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/kinan-azmeh-live-in-berlin-and-living-in-new-york<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />jny: New York-based clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh and his CityBand released Live in Berlin on March 1, 2025 (recorded in 2021), dedicating the project to the people of Syria with this statement: "It moves me profoundly to be sharing this album with the world as my Syrian people are able to sing again after the long and costly struggle against tyranny and dictatorship... ]]>Katchie Cartwright2025-03-10T23:43:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/anat-cohen-and-oded-lev-ari-on-togetherness-the-3-cohens-and-the-art-of-interaction<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />Anat Cohen and arranger Oded Lev-Ari sit down to chat on a frigid February morning, they're completely cognizant of a pair of major milestones on the horizon in early 2025: Anzic Records--the label they initially launched with valued partner and supporter Colin Negrych, and have long run as a two-person team--marks its 20th anniversary; and separated by a matter of weeks, each is celebrating their golden jubilee... ]]>Dan Bilawsky2025-03-05T23:43:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/stephen-davis-leaving-it-all-out-there<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />Anthony Braxton asked Northern Irish drummer/percussionist Stephen Davis. The venerable American saxophonist and composer was bowled over after playing with Davis for the first time... ]]>Ian Patterson2025-02-27T22:44:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/emilio-solla-uncovering-music-already-there-emilio-solla<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />Charlie "Yardbird" Parker and Thelonious Monk, who took the harmonies of the old jazz and superimposed them on chord substitutions, resulting in complicated improvisations... ]]>Dean Nardi2025-02-26T23:44:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/take-five-with-clarinet-and-composer-kinan-azmeh<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />Yo-Yo Ma, John McLaughlin, Daniel Barenboim and the New York Philharmonic, among others... ]]>AAJ Staff2025-02-12T08:46:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/kenny-garrett-speaks-through-the-soul-of-his-jazz-kenny-garrett<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />Brian Blade hitting a snare, receive a message from another dimension, get lost in Miles Davis or Charlie Parker or lost in space and wind up thinking about their immortal soul... ]]>Dean Nardi2025-02-10T23:46:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/take-five-with-violinist-and-ethel-member-kip-jones-kip-jones<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />ETHEL string quartet and can often be found performing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as its Ensemble-in-Residence... ]]>AAJ Staff2025-02-05T23:47:00+00:00