The Big Question
Physical, Digital Or Streamed? How Do You Like Your Recorded Jazz?

The Big Question is: which format do you prefer and why do you prefer it? Audio quality, artist and composer remuneration, convenience, price, storage, the listening experience, tactile and visual considerations, all these things and more may be factored in. #jazz #vinyl

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/physical-digital-or-streamed-how-do-you-like-your-recorded-jazz

Album Review
Ron Carter: An Evening With Ron Carter, Richard Galliano (Live At The Theaterstübchen, Kassel)

The odds are that most readers are not intimately familiar with jazz accordion. Undoubtedly, that is because there are not very many of them. The Franco-Italian Richard Galliano should probably hold contemporary pride of place among accordionists... #jazz

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/an-evening-with-ron-carter-richard-galliano-live-at-the-theaterstubchen-kassel-ron-carter-inout-records

Was at this! It was a great night and a real treat to have Nubya Garcia, who I am a big fan of, rock up! I was also at her RFH show with the wonderful Nu Civilisation Orchestra!

#Jazz #London #Gigs #LiveMusic

Live Review

Balimaya Project At Barbican Centre

Founded in 2019 by London-based djembe player Yahael Camara-Onono, the eighteen-piece Balimaya Project is an all-male ensemble dedicated to celebrating its members' African musical heritages, which it approaches as evolving, future-facing entities. The band blends West African traditional music—with a special emphasis on Mandé culture—with #jazz and other sounds of Black Britain.

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/balimaya-project-at-barbican-centre

Album Review

Samara Joy: Linger Awhile [Deluxe Edition]

Samara Joy is the real deal. She is a multi-generational talent, with the potential to be the greatest mainstream female #jazz singer since Vaughan, McRae and Betty Carter. That is high praise and is not made lightly.

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/linger-awhile-deluxe-edition-samara-joy-verve-records

Film Review

Impressions Of Zero Gravity

We published Peter Jones's review of Zero Gravity the other week, but other staffers wanted to share their thoughts on the Wayne Shorter documentary, so we collected them and presented them here. #jazz #WayneShorter

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/impressions-of-zero-gravity-wayne-shorter

Album Review: Jaimie Branch: Fly Or Die Fly Or Die Fly Or Die ((World War))

As the malign forces of Amerikkka gather for their 2024 assault on truth, justice and democracy, an assault from which, if it is successful, there may be no peaceable reversal available four years down the line, the American #jazz world should hang its head in shame...

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/fly-or-die-fly-or-die-fly-or-die-world-war-jaimie-branch-international-anthem-recording-company

Inizia #tuscia in #jazz !

http://www.tusciaweb.eu/2023/10/tuscia-jazz-unedizione-favore-della-ricerca-sulla-sla/

72 Jazz Thrillers

The Most Exciting Jazz Albums Since 1969: 1969-1983

As a teenager of 18 in 1970, I was heavily into rock music, The Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead. I subscribed to Rolling Stone Magazine and really enjoyed the record reviews. One fateful day in May 1970, I read their review (by Langdon Winner) of Miles Davis's Bitches Brew.... So, I picked up the album and listened, and my life was never the same. #jazz

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-most-exciting-jazz-albums-since-1969-1969-1983

Ornette Coleman: An Innovator Of The First Order, But Certainly No Messiah

At the remove of sixty years, there is a temptation to say, "Ornette Coleman, so what?" His early music does not sound particularly out there. And by contemporary standards, it is not. The initial shock of Ornette Coleman in the mid 1950s wore off decades ago.
#jazz #freejazz

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/ornette-coleman-an-innovator-of-the-first-order-but-certainly-no-messiah