https://www.allaboutjazz.com/articles/?in_type=32 2025-03-25T06:42:08+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 Hafiz2025-03-25T06:42:08+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 Los Angeles jazz scene. With the release of his latest album and an upcoming European tour, we took the opportunity to discuss various aspects of his artistic journey... ]]>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+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/take-five-with-saxophonist-zishi-liu<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />jny: Boston-based saxophonist and music curator originally from China. He made history as the first Chinese artist to play at Boston's famed Regattabar in collaboration with Blue Note Jazz Club in 2025... ]]>AAJ Staff2025-01-27T23:48:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/works-is-the-brooklyn-trio-finding-freedom-in-space-rob-garcia<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />Daniel Kelly exclaims midway through discussing Scouring for the Elements (Connection Works Records, 2024), the album from Brooklyn trio Works. Works is Kelly, flutist Michel Gentile, and drummer Rob Garcia and Scouring for the Elements is only their second recording in seventeen years... ]]>Lawrence Peryer2025-01-20T23:48:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/prepared-the-munich-trio-making-minimalism-move-chris-gall<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />jny: Munich's experimental music scene has yielded Prepared, a trio that merges chamber music, minimalism and dance music through a distinct lineup of prepared piano, bass clarinet and drums. The group brings together three established musicians, Chris Gall, Florian Riedl, and Christoph Holzhauser, whose individual paths through Argentinian tango, folk music, and German hip-hop intersect in musically exciting ways... ]]>Lawrence Peryer2025-01-17T23:49:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/take-five-with-saxophonist-noah-peterson<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />AAJ Staff2025-01-16T23:49:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/chet-baker-a-conversation-in-1977<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />Miles Davis, set a style and standard for trumpet playing that was to permeate most of the decade and create a fiery controversy whose smoke remains around us to this day... ]]>Rob Rosenblum2025-01-13T23:49:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-creative-convergence-of-rtime-and-doug-hammand-reut-regev<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />Doug Hammond's unexpected presence transformed a routine tour stop into the genesis of It's Now: R*Time Plays Doug Hammond (ESP-Disk, 2024). During R*Time's performance at a gallery in Linz, Austria, drummer Igal Foni spotted a metal sculpture he wanted to incorporate... ]]>Lawrence Peryer2025-01-10T23:50:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/vicente-archer-150-albums-grammys-and-an-unrelenting-pursuit-of-music<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />Vicente Archer. Over the past 30 years, he has bellowed out numerous melodic and harmonic narratives through the colossal instrument--gracing each improvisational moment with imagination and curation of timbre... ]]>K. Shackelford2025-01-08T23:50:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-guitar-and-bass-duo-who-threw-away-the-script-eric-normand<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />Lawrence Peryer2025-01-07T23:50:00+00:00https://www.allaboutjazz.com/russell-gunn-no-safety-net-no-overdubs-just-pure-and-original<img src="" width="100" height="100" /><br />Dean Nardi2025-01-06T23:50:00+00:00