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Editorial staff of JazzTimes, under new management as of December 2024.
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Joined July 2009
And we're back, starting off slowly, here is a letter from our new editor, David Adler - https://t.co/4QMFHKxS55
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New at #JazzTimes: Charles Lloyd’s Elegiac Subjects and Career-Spanning Reveries. Geoffrey Himes talks to the woodwind great and reviews the new album, Figure in Blue.
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Charles Lloyd is always moving forward — writing new songs, creating new bands and trying new concepts. And sometimes that headlong momentum tumbles him right … Read More "Charles Lloyd’s Elegiac...
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New at #JazzTimes - Sweeps Week: Top October Jazz Releases, Amorosi Edition. Here are A.D. Amorosi’s monthly picks, coming to you the last Tuesday of the month. New music by The Necks, Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Saha Gnawa and Steve Tibbetts.
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Here are A.D. Amorosi’s monthly picks, coming to you the last Tuesday of the month. The Necks, Disquiet (Northern Spy) Heading into its fourth decade, … Read More "Sweeps Week: Top October Jazz...
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Jack DeJohnette, Jazz Drumming’s Surround-Sound of Thunder, Dies at 83. A.D. Amorosi on the passing of one of the absolute greats. "Within his sound there were wild brassy and woody timbres, pocket-deep grooves and impossible-to-identify tics."
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The phrase “poetry in motion”? That is Jack DeJohnette, the epic, dynamics-rich and legendary jazz drummer, pianist, abstract conceptualist and composer who died at the … Read More "Jack DeJohnette,...
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New at #JazzTimes - Sweeps Week: Top October Jazz Releases, Adler Edition. New music by Vernon Reid, John O'Gallagher, Patricia Brennan and Mark Turner. Read up!
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We wrap October with Sweeps Week, featuring top editorial picks of the month. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic Records) Patricia Brennan’s first … Read More "Sweeps Week: Top...
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New at #JazzTimes: Tortoise Returns with Its Touch Intact. Associate Editor A.D. Amorosi reconnects with Tortoise for JazzTimes on the occasion of its first album since 2016.
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The multiverse that is Tortoise — the barely over 30-year-old teaming of Dan Bitney, Doug McCombs, Jeff Parker, John Herndon and John McEntire — has … Read More "Tortoise Returns with Its Touch...
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Thomas Conrad on La Dimora Dell’Altrove (“The Abode of Elsewhere”), by the woodwind virtuoso and major new voice in large-ensemble composition, Luigi Grasso, brother of master guitarist Pasquale Grasso.
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Consider two brothers. Luigi and Pasquale Grasso were born in Ariano Irpino, a small town in southwestern Italy, in 1986 and 1988 respectively. They were … Read More "Luigi Grasso’s New Album...
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New at #JazzTimes: The Tedeschi Trucks Band Gets Back to Musical Roots in Florida. Philip Booth reports. Photo credit: Bradley Strickland.
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The Tedeschi Trucks Band, among the most durable inheritors of the Allman Brothers Band’s potent blend of Southern rock, blues, R&B, soul and unrestrained, jazz-influenced … Read More "The Tedeschi...
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New at #JazzTimes – Before & After: Jeremy Pelt. Nearing 50, the celebrated trumpeter surveys jazz of past and present and speaks on his place within it. Ted Panken, with characteristic curatorial insight, administers our JazzTimes listening session.
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On a steamy afternoon in early July, Jeremy Pelt was blasting a pristine vinyl of Kelly at Midnight through Klipsch speakers in the listening room … Read More "Before & After: Jeremy Pelt"
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New at #JazzTimes: No Party Like a Les McCann Party. Just ask Mocean Worker (Adam Dorn) and Joe Alterman, dubbed “Big Mo and Little Joe” by McCann himself. A.D. Amorosi speaks to the artists about their fresh collaboration, Keep the Line Open.
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Though my interviews with disk jockey, producer, label talent scout and salty raconteur Joel Dorn are lost to time (to say nothing of the not-so-accurate … Read More "No Party Like a Les McCann Party"
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New – California Dreaming: The 68th Monterey Jazz Festival. Chris J. Walker reports on performances by Christian McBride's new Ursa Major project, pianist and MJF 2025 Commission Artist Christian Sands's new suite premiere and much more.
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Music is a reflection — hopefully an uplifting one — of the era we live in. The 68th Monterey Jazz Festival was delightfully on the … Read More "California Dreaming: The 68th Monterey Jazz Festival"
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New at JazzTimes: And the Winner Is … Sullivan Fortner Takes the Inaugural Larry J. Bell Jazz Artist Award. Andrey Henkin reports:
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Two-time Grammy winning pianist Sullivan Fortner has been announced as the inaugural recipient of The Gilmore’s Larry J. Bell Jazz Artist Award, receiving $300,000 to … Read More "And the Winner Is …...
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New at #JazzTimes - The History, Mystery and Majesty Behind Charlie Rouse’s Cinnamon Flower. The discographical oddity gets a deluxe new reinvigoration. Link in bio. Photo credit: Raymond Ross/CTSIMAGES.
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Charlie Rouse was long known as the muscular, melody-favoring, bop-swing tenor saxophonist in Thelonious Monk’s quartet, working within the pianist’s curiously angular language. But there … Read More...
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A #JazzTimes EXCLUSIVE: Thurston Moore’s New Book on Monumental Free Jazz Recordings. An excerpt from NOW JAZZ NOW, co-authored by Moore, Byron Coley and Mats Gustafsson.
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JazzTimes is thrilled to present the following exclusive excerpt from NOW JAZZ NOW, co-authored by music writer Byron Coley, baritone saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and iconic … Read More "EXCLUSIVE:...
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New at JazzTimes - Opportunities Missed: When Duke Ellington Fired Bobby Durham and Elvin Jones. Bruce Klauber on some late-career Ellington intrigue.
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According to legend, Duke Ellington only fired one band member in the 50-plus years leading his orchestra. That oft-repeated story focused on bassist/composer Charles Mingus, … Read More "Opportuni...
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New – Conscious Mayhem: Jason Rigby/Mark Guiliana and Pino Palladino/Blake Mills. Musical partners put their heads together on two uncategorizable albums. By Bill Meredith.
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Recordings rarely get more intimate than duo projects, the musical equivalent of one-on-one conversations. Saxophonist Jason Rigby sheds his frequent sideman role here for a … Read More "Conscious...
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Sweeps Week: September Historical Releases & Reissues. Comments on reissues from Pharoah Sanders (Adler), John Coltrane (Amorosi) and The People's People (Henkin).
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Our JazzTimes Sweeps Week concludes on the last Thursday of the month, with one historical release/reissue pick from each of our reviewers. Pharoah Sanders, Love … Read More "Sweeps Week: September...
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New at #JazzTimes – Steel City Swing: The 15th Annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival. Our stalwart Pittsburgher friend Mike Shanley reports.
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The Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival moved back to the street last year, with two stages set up within a two-block stretch of Liberty Avenue in … Read More "Steel City Swing: The 15th Annual...
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New at #JazzTimes — Sweeps Week 2: Top September Releases, Amorosi Edition. New music from Mulatu Astatke, Harold López-Nussa, Cole Davis and Pateka.
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Here are A.D. Amorosi’s monthly picks, coming to you the last Tuesday of the month. Cole Davis, Consider It! (Totally Gross National Product) Upright bass–playing … Read More "Sweeps Week: Top...
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New at #JazzTimes - Sweeps Week: Top September Jazz Releases, Adler Edition. The music marches on. Brilliant new stuff from Rich Brown, Noah Garabedian, Simón Willson and the Webber/Morris Big Band.
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We wrap September with Sweeps Week, featuring top editorial picks of the month. Rich Brown, Nyaeba (Whirlwind Recordings) Toronto electric bassist Rich Brown succeeded Anthony … Read More "Sweeps...
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New: The Stages of Brazilian, Brooklyn-Based Bedroom Recording Artist and Multi-Hyphenate Late Again, a.k.a. Rafael Melo. A Q&A by A.D. Amorosi. https://t.co/t3ppPH3AJ2 .
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After the sleepy, intriguingly foreign bedroom pop of Absolutely Almost Sure and the aptly titled follow-up Migraine Fever Dream, the genial host of those recordings … Read More "The Stages of...
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