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All About Jazz is a website founded by Michael Ricci in 1995. It features a team of volunteers who share news, album reviews, articles, videos, and schedules for jazz concerts and events. Ricci also runs a companion site called Jazz Near You.

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Stéphane Mercier: Live At The Jazz Station

3 days ago | allaboutjazz.com | Ian Patterson

Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Stéphane Mercier: Live At The Jazz Station Stéphane Mercier: Live At The Jazz Station Play Stéphane Mercier on Amazon Music Unlimited (ad) A graduate of the Conservatoire Royale de Bruxelles and Berkley College of Music—where he was lead alto in Herb Pomeroy 's big band—Belgian saxophonist Stéphane Mercier has been leading/co-leading groups since the mid-'90s. This live album, captured from a gig at The Jazz Station, the famous Brussels venue in whose...
Emi Nishida: The Boundary-Defying Virtuoso Bridging Jazz, Classical & Pop

4 days ago | allaboutjazz.com | Frank Gazerro

From the moment her tiny fingers first touched piano keys, Emi Nishida was destined for musical greatness. Now, this Japanese crossover sensation has blossomed into one of the most versatile and in-demand pianist-composers of her generation, effortlessly moving between jazz clubs, concert halls, manga studios, and international festivals with equal mastery, as narrated by Rene Pfister.
Matt Ulery: Mother Harp

4 days ago | allaboutjazz.com | Mike Jurkovic

Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Matt Ulery: Mother Harp With 15 albums of adventurous composition and daredevil artistry behind him, Chicago-based bassist-composer-bandleader Matt Ulery is, as they say back home, no slouch. And on his 16th, the raucously-inflamed and infectious Mother Harp, he follows his rock 'n' roll heart to the finish line and beyond.
George Freeman, Ermelinda Cuéllar, Bennie Moten & Lonnie McFadden

4 days ago | allaboutjazz.com | Joe Dimino

Home » Jazz Articles » Radio & Podcasts » George Freeman, Ermelinda Cuéllar, Bennie Moten & Lonnie McFadden Click the play button to listen We're kicking off the 902nd episode in style—with none other than the King of Kansas City Jazz himself, Lonnie McFadden. We drop the needle on a fiery cut from his 2018 album Live at the Green Lady Lounge, and it sets the tone just right.
Song For Someone: The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler

4 days ago | allaboutjazz.com | Ian Patterson

Home » Jazz Articles » Book Review » Song For Someone: The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler Song For Someone The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler Brian Shaw and Nick Smart 509 Pages ISBN: # ISBN-13-978-178179 Equinox Publishing 2025 If only for his trumpet and flugelhorn playing Kenny Wheeler stands as one of the modern greats, marrying linear lyricism and free-jazz expression like no-one else.
Backgrounder: East Coast - West Coast Scene (1954)

5 days ago | allaboutjazz.com | Marc Myers

By 1954, the 10-inch 33 1/3 and seven-inch 45 album formats had made inroads with consumers and were quickly replacing the 78. On the West Coast, labels that had been cultivating Los Angeles musicians came to realize that jazz out there had its own sound. With the 10-inch LP expected to expand to 12 inches within the year and become the industry standard, and the 45 likely to become used exclusively for rock 'n' roll, R&B and country singles, the record business was on the verge of a boom.
Stefano Tanzi: Wrong Together

5 days ago | allaboutjazz.com | Konstantin Rega

Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Stefano Tanzi: Wrong Together Stefano Tanzi is an up-and-coming Italian guitarist with a knack for smooth playing. His debut as leader, Wrong Together, is essentially a tribute to jazz legend Steve Swallow, but it also communicates so much more. With the assistance of Emanuele di Teodoro on bass and Fabio Colella on drums, the trio works with sleek skill.
Perfection: Tommy Flanagan: In the Blue of Evening

6 days ago | allaboutjazz.com | Marc Myers

In 1960, pianist Tommy Flanagan recorded The Tommy Flanagan Trio, an album of easy-going jazz for Prestige's Moodsville line. Joining Flanagan was the exceptional Tommy Potter of bass and superb Roy Haynes on drums. By then, Flanagan had made a name for himself as a first-call sideman and would soon become Ella Fitzgerald's accompanist. While the entire album is top-notch, the track that has always stood for its sheer elegance and beauty is In the Blue of Evening.
Jimmy Mundy: Swing Era Barnstormer

6 days ago | allaboutjazz.com | Marc Myers

Like Fletcher Henderson, Don Redman, Edgar Sampson and Sy Oliver, Jimmy Mundy was one of the architects of the swing era in the early 1930s. Born in Cincinnatti, Ohio, in 1907, Mundy played the tenor saxophone in regional bands, where he developed an ear for arranging. He first worked as an arranger for Earl Hines in the early 1930s and joined Benny Goodman in late 1935 after selling the bandleader a chart. Goodman needed a strong, authentic swing arranger of barnburners.
Sylvie Courvoisier Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells album review @ All About Jazz

6 days ago | allaboutjazz.com | Mike Jurkovic

Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Sylvie Courvoisier Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells Guitarist and sound-chaser Mary Halvorsonnever fails to hypnotize. Add the equally hypnotic pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and beauties like Bone Bells materialize to shift your news-exhausted consciousness to greater possibilities. Bone Bells does that. Bone Bells does it often.