All About Jazz

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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Ryan Truesdell: Gil Evans and Shades of Sound

1 day ago | allaboutjazz.com | Marc Myers

I love producers and performers who fall madly in love with legacy jazz artists and go the distance to pay tribute to them. I'm thinking of what producer-director Kristian St. Clair did with his 2006 documentary and album This Is Gary McFarland and what jazz historian and album producer Gary Carner did in 2012 with baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams by compiling Joy Road: The Complete Works of Pepper Adams (Motema).
Rob Mazurek, Ches Smith, Steve Lehman, and Joe Fonda

2 days ago | allaboutjazz.com | Jerome Wilson

Home » Jazz Articles » Radio & Podcasts » Rob Mazurek, Ches Smith, Steve Lehman, and Joe Fonda Click the play button to listen This show features recent recordings by Joe Fonda, Steve Lehman and Ches Smith as well as older ones by Rob Mazurek, Kevin Sun, and Emily Remler.
Camila Meza, Gillian Margot & Geoffrey Keezer, Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, Amanda Ekery, The Reddish Fetish With the Jersey City All Stars & More

4 days ago | allaboutjazz.com | Mary Foster Conklin

Home » Jazz Articles » Radio & Podcasts » Camila Meza, Gillian Margot & Geoffrey Keezer, Ayelet Ro...
James Davis' Beveled: Arc and Edge

5 days ago | allaboutjazz.com | Mark Corroto

Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » James Davis' Beveled: Arc and Edge Trumpeter James Davis' sextet is aptly named Beveled—a word that means transforming a sharp, square edge into something smoother, more refined. That concept of reshaping and softening defines both the ensemble's instrumentation and its sonic character.
Jazz news: Backgrounder: Sal Salvador - Colors in Sound ('58)

6 days ago | allaboutjazz.com | Marc Myers

The stereo revolution began in late 1957, when Sidney Frey of Audio Fidelity Records cut the first LP with the new sonic format and played it on December 13 for an audience in the auditorium at The New York Times on West 43d St. Within months, every major label was recording orchestral jazz to show off stereo's new dynamic fidelity. Sal Salvador was among those in the stereo vanguard. Salvador is probably best known as the Stan Kenton Orchestra's guitarist from 1953 to 1955.
Perfection: Phil Urso - P.U. Stomp (1952)

1 week ago | allaboutjazz.com | Marc Myers

Man, tenor saxophonist and arranger Phil Urso could swing! And he pops up all over the place in the tastiest places. He was paired with Art Pepper on Picture of Heath (formerly known as Playboys); with Allen Eager at Birdland with Terry Gibbs in 1952; with Brew Moore in Kai Winding's Septet of 1953; with Zoot Sims in Neal Hefti's orchestra that same year; with Bob Brookmeyer in 1954; with Chet Baker in 1956 and with trumpeter Carl Saunders in 2002.
Vince Guaraldi: Two Albums With a Latin Feel

1 week ago | allaboutjazz.com | Marc Myers

Best known for his success composing and playing music for the Charlie Brown and Peanuts TV specials of the 1960s, Vince Guaraldi actually had a struggling jazz career through much of the 1950s. Born in the North Beach section of San Francisco, he started out playing with local vibraphonist Cal Tjader in 1951. His first leadership recording session for Fantasy took place in 1955, when he regularly performed at the Hungry I nightclub in North Beach.
Jazz news: Joe Diorio: A Guitarist's Guitarist

1 week ago | allaboutjazz.com | Marc Myers

I first became aware of guitarist Joe Diorio in the1970s, when I bought a pair of Sonny Stitt albums on the Argo label—Move on Over (1963) and My Main Man (1964). I was instantly struck by how tasty Diorio played behind Stitt, especially his driving rhythm figures and fills. Born in Waterbury, Ct., in 1936, Diorio was inspired to take up the guitar by his uncle and studied in the early 1950s.
Fievel Is Glauque: For Ma Clément Anything Goes But Be Careful

1 week ago | allaboutjazz.com | Dean Nardi

This interview is with Ma Clément, who is the vocalist half of the Fievel Is Glauque compositional duo, in partnership with Zach Phillips. The tandem typically eschews digital correspondence, opting to meet in either Brussels or New York when the muse is calling. Assuredly, they would appreciate the muse even more if it would purchase air fare. All About Jazz corresponded with Clément in French, so the text is a translation from both the interviewer and her.
Enrique Thompson, Artemis, and Mehmet Ali Sanlikol

1 week ago | allaboutjazz.com | Jerome Wilson

Home » Jazz Articles » Radio & Podcasts » Enrique Thompson, Artemis, and Mehmet Ali Sanlikol Click the play button to listen This wide-ranging program of modern jazz features work from Enrique Thompson, Gerry Gibbs, Artemis, Marc Ribot, Houston Person, and Mehmet Ali Sanlikol.