http://jazz.about.com/ Get the latest headlines from the About.com http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hh http://www.about.com/ 118 20 en-us 2012-02-15T09:43:02Z Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:43:02 +0000 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/02/15/album-review-harold-oneals-marvelous-fantasy.htm <p><img class="alignright" src="http://0.tqn.com/h/jazz/1/3/d/8/-/-/HaroldOnealMarvelousFantasy.jpg" alt="Harold O'Neal Marvelous Fantasy" /></p> <p>Douglas Detrick reviews <em><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://jazz.about.com/od/2011jazzreleases/fr/Album-Review-Harold-O-Neals-Marvelous-Fantasy.htm">Marvelous Fantasy</a></em>, the solo album by pianist Harold O'Neal, featuring music inspired both by jazz and by composers such as Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/02/15/album-review-harold-oneals-marvelous-fantasy.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/02/15/album-review-harold-oneals-marvelous-fantasy.htm Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:56:29 +0000 2012-02-15T09:56:29Z http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/02/15/album-review-if-the-past-seems-so-bright-by-jeremy-uddens-plainville.htm <p><img class="alignright" src="http://0.tqn.com/h/jazz/1/3/c/8/-/-/JeremyUddenIfthepastSeemsSoBright.jpg" alt="Jeremy Udden's If The Past Seems So Bright" /></p> <p>Jonathan Lindhorst reviews <em><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://jazz.about.com/od/2011jazzreleases/fr/Album-Review-If-The-Past-Seems-So-Bright-By-Jeremy-Udden-And-Plainville.htm">If the Past Seems So Bright</a></em> by Jeremy Udden. The album is the second by Udden that features Plainville, his band featuring keyboardist Pete Rende, guitarist and ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/02/15/album-review-if-the-past-seems-so-bright-by-jeremy-uddens-plainville.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/02/15/album-review-if-the-past-seems-so-bright-by-jeremy-uddens-plainville.htm Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:43:02 +0000 2012-02-15T09:43:02Z http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/02/15/album-review-tim-berne-and-snakeoil.htm <p><img class="alignright" src="http://0.tqn.com/h/jazz/1/3/b/8/-/-/TimBerneSnakeoil.jpg" alt="Tim Berne Snakeoil" /></p> <p>Douglas Detrick reviews Tim Berne's <a href="http://jazz.about.com/od/2012JazzAlbums/fr/Album-Review-Tim-Berne-And-Snakeoil.htm"><em>Snakeoil</em></a>, an album featuring clarinetist Oscar Noriega, pianist Matt Mitchell, and drummer Ches Smith.</p> <p><em>Image Courtesy of ECM Records</em></p> http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/02/15/album-review-tim-berne-and-snakeoil.htm Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:32:51 +0000 2012-02-15T09:32:51Z http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/01/30/concert-review-bassist-zack-lobers-ancestry-project.htm <img class="alignright" src="http://0.tqn.com/h/jazz/1/3/a/8/-/-/ZackLoberAncestryProject.jpeg" alt="Bassist Zack Lober's Ancestry Project" /> Jonathan Lindhorst reviewed bassist, composer, and turntablist <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://jazz.about.com/od/reviews/fr/Concert-Review-Bassist-Zack-Lobers-Ancestry-Project.htm">Zack Lober's Ancestry Project</a>, performed at the IBeam performance space in Brooklyn on January 27th. The music drew from a range of styles, ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/01/30/concert-review-bassist-zack-lobers-ancestry-project.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/01/30/concert-review-bassist-zack-lobers-ancestry-project.htm Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:01:28 +0000 2012-01-30T12:01:28Z http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/01/30/artist-profile-pianist-herbie-hancock.htm <p><img class="alignright" src="http://0.tqn.com/h/jazz/1/3/_/8/-/-/HerbieHancock.jpg" alt="Jazz Pianist Herbie Hancock" /></p> <p>Read about pianist <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://jazz.about.com/od/classicjazzartists/p/Artist-Profile-Pianist-Herbie-Hancock.htm">Herbie Hancock</a>, from his early days with the Miles Davis Quintet, to his current career of balancing popular music styles with jazz.</p> <p><em>Image &#169; Alex Wong / Getty Images</em></p> http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/01/30/artist-profile-pianist-herbie-hancock.htm Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:43:10 +0000 2012-01-30T10:43:10Z http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/01/27/artist-profile-saxophonist-and-composer-wayne-shorter.htm <p><img class="alignright" src="http://0.tqn.com/h/jazz/1/3/Z/8/-/-/WayneShorter.jpg" alt="Wayne Shorter Jazz Saxophone" /></p> <p>A new artist profile for the jazz logs: saxophonist and composer <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://jazz.about.com/od/classicjazzartists/p/Artist-Profile-Saxophonist-Wayne-Shorter.htm">Wayne Shorter</a>.</p> <p><i>Image &#169; Rick Diamond / Getty Images</i></p> http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/01/27/artist-profile-saxophonist-and-composer-wayne-shorter.htm Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:12:21 +0000 2012-01-27T13:12:21Z http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/01/25/album-review-polylemma-by-hertenstein-heberer-niggenkemper-and-badenhorst.htm <p><img class="alignright" src="http://0.tqn.com/h/jazz/1/3/Y/8/-/-/Polylemma.jpg" alt="Polylemma Joe Hertenstein/Joachim Badenhorst/Thomas Heberer/Pascal Niggenkemper" /></p> <p>Read Douglas Detrick's review of <em><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://jazz.about.com/od/2011jazzreleases/fr/Album-Review-Polylemma-By-Hertenstein-Heberer-Niggenkemper-And-Badenhorst.htm">Polylemma</a></em>, the album by drummer Joe Hertenstein, trumpeter Thomas Heberer, bass clarinetist Joachim Badenhorst, and bassist Pascal Niggemkemper.</p> <p><em>Image Courtesy of Red Toucan Records</em></p> http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/01/25/album-review-polylemma-by-hertenstein-heberer-niggenkemper-and-badenhorst.htm Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:02:48 +0000 2012-01-25T13:02:48Z http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/01/23/album-review-frame-by-ben-wendel.htm <p><img class="alignright" src="http://0.tqn.com/h/jazz/1/3/X/8/-/-/BenWendelFrame.jpg" alt="Ben Wendel Frame" /> Jon Lindhorst reviews <em><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://jazz.about.com/od/2012JazzAlbums/fr/Album-Review-Ben-Wendels-Frame.htm">Frame</a></em>, the new album by saxophonist, bassoonist(?!), and composer Ben Wendel, featuring pianists Tigran Hamasyan, Adam Benjamin, Gerald Clayton, guitarist Nir Felder, bassist Ben Street, and drummer Nate Wood.</p>...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/01/23/album-review-frame-by-ben-wendel.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://jazz.about.com/b/2012/01/23/album-review-frame-by-ben-wendel.htm Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:30:33 +0000 2012-01-23T11:30:33Z http://jazz.about.com/b/2011/12/30/2011-a-year-in-reviews.htm <p><img class="alignright" src="http://0.tqn.com/h/jazz/1/3/R/8/-/-/200127437-001.jpg" alt="jazz reviews 2012" /></p> <p>Happy New Year from jazz.about.com. Check out my <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://jazz.about.com/od/resources/tp/2012-A-Year-In-Reviews.htm">list of favorite jazz reviews and interviews of 2011</a>!</p> http://jazz.about.com/b/2011/12/30/2011-a-year-in-reviews.htm Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:56:06 +0000 2011-12-30T14:56:06Z http://jazz.about.com/b/2011/12/29/rip-sam-rivers.htm <p><img class="alignright" src="http://0.tqn.com/h/jazz/1/3/V/8/-/-/SamRivers.jpg" alt="Saxophonist Sam Rivers" /></p> <p>Sam Rivers died on December 26th in Orlando, Florida. The saxophonist who played too "out" for Miles Davis back in the '60s was 88 years old. Read his <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://jazz.about.com/od/classicjazzartists/p/Artist-Profile-Saxophonist-Sam-Rivers.htm">artist profile</a>.</p> <p><em>Image Courtesy of GRP Records</em></p> http://jazz.about.com/b/2011/12/29/rip-sam-rivers.htm Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:30:08 +0000 2011-12-29T12:30:08Z