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Steve Elman

Jazz Review and Conversation: Jane Ira Bloom’s Pandemic Duets

Jane Ira Bloom responded to her pandemic isolation with a CD of duets with bassist Mark Helias and a CD of duets with drummer Allison Miller. These two sessions are unique projects in her discography and beautiful testaments to her ingenuity.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Jazz Tagged: Allison Miller, Jane Ira Bloom, Mark Helias, Some Kind of Tomorrow, Steve Elman, Tues Days

Jazz Performance Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant and Sullivan Fortner at Home

To hear this performance properly. you must do a bit more work than you might do ordinarily . . . but great art deserves such work.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Cécile McLorin Salvant, GHESKIO, Steve Elman, Sullivan Fortner

Jazz Album Review: Miguel Zenón’s Law Years Band & Christian McBride’s New Jawn Band

Two pianoless quartets + two restless leaders = some of the best music of the last few years.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Celebrity-Series, Christian McBride, Law Years, Miguel Zenón, Ornette Coleman, Stave Sessions

Music Profile: Violinist, Teacher, Composer, and Arranger Mimi Rabson — Making a Life in Art

The life of a working musician is not a second-class life, and Mimi Rabson’s is Exhibit A: “I try to get past the limits of the definitions and get to the joy.”

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Jazz, Music Tagged: Berklee College of Music, David Harris, Jazz Composer Alliance, Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra, Klezmer Conservatory Band, Mimi-Rabson, RESQ, Steve Elman, Strings Theory Trio, Triarky

Jazz Appreciation/Album Review — Carla Bley, 84 and Counting

Carla Bley’s last three CDs are not a casual sequence, and hearing all of them together, as I did recently, provides a refreshing reminder of her greatness.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Andy Sheppard, Carla Bley, Steve Elman, Steve Swallow

Jazz Album Review: “The Prospector” — A Saxophone-Bass-Drums Combination to Treasure

Nothing detracts from the essentials here – three fine players in creative conversation.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Allan Chase, Austin McMahon, Bruno Råberg, Orbis Music, Steve Elman

Arts Commentary: Meditations on Separation

This is what I feel can add: the perspective of a native-born son of the Rochester metro; and a view from the bridge through jazz-colored glasses.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Alice Randall, Black Bottom Saints, Frederick Douglass, How to be an Antiracist, Steve Elman

Jazz Preview and Appreciation: Cécile McLorin Salvant Is Coming to Jordan Hall

Cécile McLorin Salvant understands that she is heroic.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Preview Tagged: Cécile McLorin Salvant, McLorin Salvant

Jazz Review and Perspective: Stan Getz (and Everyone Else) in 1961 – “Getz at the Gate”

Saxophonist Stan Getz knew whom to listen to and whom to borrow from, and the repertoire for the 1961 Village Gate gig was particularly satisfying.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Getz at the Gate, John Neves, Stan Getz, Steve Elman, Steve Kuhn, Verve Records

Jazz Review and Appreciation: The Music Never Stops – Betty Carter Live (Again)

A landmark concert from 1992 is a chance to rediscover Betty Carter’s greatness, to appreciate again how this artist was special to the very essence of her soul.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Betty Carter, Blue Engine, The Music Never Stops

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