Featured: 2011-09-15
Dirigibles (06:47)
Josh Nelson
From: Discoveries
Steel Bird Music
Featured: 2011-09-13
Carbulator (3:58)
Mojo Mancini
From: Mojo Mancini
Self Produced
Featured: 2011-09-12
Thesis (04:08)
Matthew Shipp
From: Duos With Mat Maneri & Joe Morris
Hatology
Featured: 2011-09-10
Roots (06:25)
Indigo Jam Unit
From: Roots
Basis Records
Featured: 2011-09-01
Sail Away (05:46)
Roseanna Vitro
From: Roseanna Vitro and The Music of Randy Newman
Motema Music
Friday, September 16, 2011
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra: MTO Plays Sly
Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra MTO Plays Sly
The Royal Potato Family
2011
The Sly Stone songbook is a solid gold thing, and it is strange that it is so rarely revisited. Then again, repertory tributes are generally paid to artists who have passed. Stone is still with us, although, it sometimes seems, only just: over the last few decades, he has been ravaged by "personal problems" which would likely have finished off any mere mortal. The man who promised the late 1960s/early 1970s counterculture that he wanted to take it higher, and whose pre-Family Stone band was simply called The Stoners, has himself gotten higher than most—and the subsequent crash and burns have not been pretty.
Step forward downtown NYC trumpeter Steven Bernstein and his little big band, the Millennial Territory Orchestra. As a pre-teen growing up in Berkeley, California at the time of Stone's post-Woodstock ascent, Bernstein was aware of the Family Stone, but too young to be a card-carrying fan. He plugged in later. When, in 2009, he was asked to come up with a strand for NYC's River To River Festival, which was that year celebrating Woodstock's 40th anniversary, he suggested a Sly & The Family Stone tribute.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
New CD Box Sets at shop.allaboutjazz.com
Miles Davis: Live In Europe 1967—The Bootleg Series Vol. 1
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Yusef Lateef: Eastern Sounds Turns 50
Think back fifty years to the days portrayed on the TV series Mad Men. In 1961, John Kennedy and Billboard's Easy Listening Chart were inaugurated, a freedom riders bus was fire-bombed in Alabama, Rock Hudson was on the big screen, and Doris Day was selling albums.
As teenagers and their swinging parents were twisting their brains out to Chubby Checker or the "authentic music by the King Curtis Combo," East German communists began construction of the Berlin Wall, the Beach Boys formed in California, and The Beatles performed, for the first time, at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.
At this time, saxophonists Yusef Lateef and John Coltrane were pioneering an approach to music that transcended convention, cultures, borders and labels; concomitantly, Robert E. Brown, a young professor of ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University, coined the term "world music."
September 5, 2011 marked the 50th anniversary of Lateef's groundbreaking album Eastern Sounds (Moodsville, 1961), engineered and mastered by the legendary Rudy Van Gelder. Although this column will generally be a conversation about the blues, it seems fitting to launch it by commemorating this classic album, arguably one of the first commercially viable examples of world music.
Seen in its historical context it was an extraordinary achievement. When this album was released, Lateef was in a supporting role in Cannonball Adderley's group. He had been given a chance to record a session under his own name on the Moodsville label, and obviously the label expected something that could be played at a party hosted by Don Draper. For his part, Lateef had been immersing himself in the music of many cultures, and was eager to explore these influences on an album, something not even John Coltrane had done at this point.
All About Jazz Tops 7 Million MP3 Downloads
All About Jazz recently topped 7,000,000 free MP3 downloads.
Since its inception in 2005, the All About Jazz Download Center has averaged over one million MP3 downloads annually through its MP3 Download of the Day program. The service is free to musicians and readers and it continues to be one of the most active sections at AAJ over the last six years.
"Download of the Day was popular from the outset, but it has really come into its own more recently thanks to the efforts of Dave Sumner, AAJ's new Download of the Day editor. Dave has done a fantastic job with musician outreach and spreading the word about this terrific opportunity for musicians and record labels. He has also more tightly integrated the download of the day schedule with AAJ editorial," says Michael Ricci, All About Jazz's founder and publisher.
Adds Sumner, "focusing my attention on jazz in the present tense has been one of the most rewarding music decisions I've ever made. I'm thrilled at the opportunity, through the Download of the Day, to help spotlight some of the great jazz being recorded today. It's an exciting time to be a jazz fan and I hope to give AAJ readers further evidence of it one day at a time."
Download a dozen of our recently featured MP3s!
Publisher's Picks
 Avishai Cohen Seven Seas |
 Chris Dingman Clear the Rain |
 Michael Simon New York Encounter |
 Jacob Karlzon 3 The Big Picture |
 Bill Frisell 1968 |
 Travis Sullivan Jamia's Dance |
Editor's Picks
 Kekko Fornarelli Room of Mirrors |
 Will Collier Septet Those Who Wait |
 Rafal Sarnecki Bucaramanga |
 Bram Weijters What Did I Say? |
 Paul Lieberman Azul No Verde E Amarelo |
 Chris Schlarb White Dove in the Psychic Temple |
Some of our featured artists and bands
AAJ has offered a free daily download since November 2005 from artists spanning all genres of jazz including Bill Frisell, Gary Burton, Brian Blade, Matthew Shipp, Jon Hassell, Kenny Garrett, Dave Holland, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Aaron Parks, Terence Blanchard, Craig Taborn, Mike Moreno, Cuong Vu, SF Jazz Collective, Ted Nash, Mingus Big Band, Exploding Star Orchestra, David Weiss, Bob Mintzer, Microscopic Septet, Roseanna Vitro, Ben Allison, Greg Tardy, Ingrid Jensen, John McNeil, Wycliffe Gordon, Mario Pavone, Scott Kinsey, Matt Jorgensen, Charlie Hunter, Erik Friedlander, Maria Schneider, Rez Abbasi, Matthew Shipp, Avishai Cohen, Paul Bollenback, Wayne Horvitz, Joel Harrison, John Ellis, Christian McBride, George Colligan, Club d'Elf, Jeremy Pelt, Vic Juris, Hiromi, Jonathan Kreisberg, Eddie Gomez, Monty Alexander, Either/Orchestra, Moutin Reunion Quartet, Tommy Smith, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Alan Pasqua, Jenny Scheinman, Roberto Magris, Ken Vandermark, Dave Stryker, Bill Carrothers, Chris Dingman, Bob Brookmeyer, Marc Copland, Mark Egan, Charles Gayle, Donald Harrison, Phil Woods, Joe Locke, Scott Amendola, Claudio Roditi, Eddie Daniels, Steve Coleman and many more.
Download a Free MP3!
Readers can download MP3s from nearly 80 download pages, from a musician's profile page (example), from an event page, article page, news page or by searching for top downloads.
If you're a musician, this is one of the most effective ways to spread the word about your music and drive traffic to a retail page. Submit a track for consideration today.
Place AAJ's Download of the Day Widget on your website or blog.
All About Jazz Launches New Photo Gallery with Slideshow
All About Jazz upgraded its photo gallery with a new look and a slideshow, so viewers can now quickly cycle through new photos or photos by their favorite photographer. In addition to an improved presentation, we've added increased security to further protect images uploaded to AAJ.
Click here to read about all the changes.
You can access all related photo gallery links by dragging your mouse over “Photos" on the navigation bar.
If you upload photos to our gallery, please tag and title them. You can tag multiple photos from your manage photos page.
About the All About Jazz Photo Gallery
With nearly 70,000 images and new photos added daily, the All About Jazz Photo Gallery represents the largest repository of professional and amateur photographs on the internet. Photos are featured daily as part of AAJ's photo of the day program (see photo strip at the bottom of every page) and presented in AAJ's photo of the day widget. AAJ also features outstanding photos weekly on our Photos of the Week page.
If you are a professional photographer and would like to feature your work at AAJ, please contact Michael Ricci about getting started. Publicity, live, and archivial photos are all wanted.
Click here to read about all the changes.
You can access all related photo gallery links by dragging your mouse over “Photos" on the navigation bar. If you upload photos to our gallery, please tag and title them. You can tag multiple photos from your manage photos page.About the All About Jazz Photo Gallery
With nearly 70,000 images and new photos added daily, the All About Jazz Photo Gallery represents the largest repository of professional and amateur photographs on the internet. Photos are featured daily as part of AAJ's photo of the day program (see photo strip at the bottom of every page) and presented in AAJ's photo of the day widget. AAJ also features outstanding photos weekly on our Photos of the Week page.
If you are a professional photographer and would like to feature your work at AAJ, please contact Michael Ricci about getting started. Publicity, live, and archivial photos are all wanted.
Monday, August 22, 2011
All About Jazz Adds Related Audio to Article and News Pages!
Earlier this month we upgraded our two most popular pages: article and news. And in the process, we dramatically increased their page speed.
We've now added audio capability, so readers can sample music related to an article or news announcement.
Here's an example of three free MP3s on a Take Five article and here's an example of the audio player on a CD Review. (We'll announce the launch of our new audio service soon, so stay tuned.)
Musician? Feature an MP3 track or associate an MP3 with a news announcement or article by submitting your track here.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
All About Jazz Article and News Pages Improved!
AAJ's optimization effort continues with the upgrade of our two most popular pages: article and news. The upgrade resulted in over a 60% improvement in page load time.
We also moved the Google +1 button up to the social section where we currently display the Twitter Tweet button and Facebook Like button.
We'll have news about our new photo gallery pages soon.
Enjoy!
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