Friday, February 6, 2015

DownBeat Magazine

COVER
Jamie Cullum
The Human Quality
By Ken Micallef
Possessed of that peculiarly English gift for reconstructing American standards with a refreshingly lyrical bent, Cullum breathes life into material that has been set in stone for decades on Interlude, the pianist-vocalist’s new studio album recorded with Nostalgia 77.


FEATURES
Jacky Terrasson
On the Edge
By Ted Panken
On Terrasson’s forthcoming album Take This!!!!!, he augments his current trio with bassist Burniss Earl Travis and drummer Lukmil Perez Herrera by adding beatboxer-vocalist Sly Johnson and Malian percussionist Adama Diarra to the mix. The pianist also sat for a DownBeat Blindfold/Winefold Test at the 2014 Voll-Damm Barcelona International Jazz Festival.


Rez Abbasi
Unplugged Fusion
By Allen Morrison
The guitarist’s Acoustic Quartet reinterprets jazz-rock tunes of the 1970s in unplugged fashion, with astonishing results.


Sam Newsome
Cross-cultural Sounds
By Phillip Lutz
The former tenor player explores the soprano saxophone’s possibilities in extraordinary depth, combining a range of extended techniques in the studio to create sonic hybrids that have few antecedents.


2015 International Jazz Camp Guide
Detailed listings for more than 100 jazz camps in the U.S., Canada and around the world

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