News from allaboutjazz.com | January 23, 2002



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JANUARY GREETINGS: Why We Do It

A monthly page to welcome you to All About Jazz -- it's the quickest way to discover the latest and greatest features on our ever-expanding site.

For what's hot this month, be sure to check out all the items under IN THE SPOTLIGHT.

JAZZ NEWS, BIRTHDAYS & BIOS

We're now posting headline news on the home page. Our goal is to make AAJ your source for daily jazz news. If you're an industry person and have news (cd releases, special events, etc.) to share with the AAJ readership, please submit your press release here.

We're also posting artist birthdays under the featured column on the home page.

And we've added over 11,000 links to artist biographies.

130+ CD REVIEWS

Another monthly dose of reviews by our squad of expert reviewers: Explore new releases from One For All, Robert Walter, John Hollenbeck, Bill O'Connell Latin Jazz Project, The Derek Bronston Group, Mika Pohjola, Donna Antonow, Steve Tyrell, Ray Barretto, Gianluca Petrella... plus many more.

C. Michael Bailey counts down the TOP TEN BEST LIVE JAZZ RECORDINGS continuing with #7 - John Coltrane: Live at Birdland.

Don't forget about our Combing the Catalog Series: reissue coverage from Fantasy, Blue Note, Bluebird and Verve.

Rob Evanoff's Ten 2 Entrance provides monthly recommendations to those who dig down-tempo, chill-out, DJ and electronica music.

ARTICLES GALORE!

Plenty of great new articles this month at AAJ.

Ask Ken (about hard-to-find/out-of-print recordings) by Ken Dryden
Marketing Your Music Independently Using OMD Sites by Chris Burnett
Back to the Future by Chris M. Slawecki
Big Band Report: Another Year, Another List by Jack Bowers
Jazz Poetry by Gerard Cox
Jacquet and Granz: Class Acts by Marshall Bowden
Saturdays With Mort (Fega) by Rob Mariani
Dave Holland Quintet at Birdland by Laurence Donohue-Greene
Drummer Matt Wilson by Peter Madsen
Jazz and the Modern Bachelor by Jeff Fitzgerald

Other articles include: Paul Desmond-isms, Flying with Kurt Elling, Remembering Jack Crystal and The Birth of NU Jazz.

for more articles click the ARTICLES menu  

BUILDING A JAZZ LIBRARY

Looking to chill... jazz style? We have the perfect recommendations: Mellow Moods, Art Pepper and Jazz Vocals, Volume 2. Be sure to check back from time to time 'cause we'll be posting new recommendations.

TEN CDs I'M LISTENING TO NOW

Ever wonder what jazz musicians listen to? Find out in our second installment of "Ten CDs I'm Listening to Now". This month, picks from Dean Brown, Cary DeNigris, Kenwood Dennard, Satoko Fujii, Bill Kirchner, Christian McBride, Ben Monder, Kevin Norton, Mika Pohjola and Rob Reddy.

ARTIST PROFILES

Meet the super group One For All, saxophonist Elton Dean and organ wiz Robert Walter.

FROM THE HIP - Asim Memon shoots from the hip on cool jazz concepts. This month: Exotic Ivories: Hard Bop Piano and World Beat Rhythms.

for more profiles click the PROFILES menu  

INTERVIEWS

This month, we shine the jazz spotlight on bassist/composer Michael Formanek, piano legend Ahmad Jamal, Mulgrew Miller, guitarist Ben Monder, singer Jane Monheit, Danilo Perez, Experience Music Project's Bob Santelli and UK saxophonist Harrison Smith.

more interviews...  

PHOTO GALLERIA

We've posted several new photo exhibits over the last two months...

This month: Brotherhood with Jazz by Pat Robinson, Motor City Jazz, Part 2 by Chris Hovan and Jazzy Linen by Dianne Pollock.

Last Month: Jazz Bassist by Joe Smith, Off Camera by Jeffrey Kliman and Motor City Jazz by Chris Hovan.

more exhibits...  

Enjoy!

Mike & Chris