All About Jazz — By PicoIf blogs had been around in the late 70s or the 80s I wouldn't have thought for a second to write about Keith Jarrett's watershed album The Koln Concert, because every jazz enthusiast with a computer keyboard and a Blogger account would have a... more info

All About Jazz — A year-and-a-half ago, I wrote a piece about Al Cohn for The Note, the newsletter of The Al Cohn Memorial Jazz Collection at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. The school is a part of the state system of higher education and of a jazz commu... more info

All About Jazz — Herbie Hancock performs June 27 at Montreal's Theatre Maisonneuve of Place des Arts. Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette will perform July 3, organizers for the Montreal International Jazz Festival revealed Tuesday while announcing the... more info

Guardian Music — (Edition)Regular jazz lineups are hard to sustain in the choppy waters of the jazz economy. Worthy successors to head-turning first albums are just as tough a proposition. And running an influential jazz record label is probably harder than both. The... more info

All About Jazz — By PicoHe looks like a young Keith Jarrett, even hums along to his piano lines a little like Jarrett, but Jacky Terrasson is defying straight comparisons to anybody. This 1993 winner of the Thelonious Monk competition can conjure the big, train-like ... more info

Guardian Music — (ECM, 3 CDs)This is three Corea solo piano albums, from 1971 and 1983, reissued as a box, the first pieces being recorded for ECM when the pianist was still at work in the adventurous free-jazz group Circle. The 1983 music is from Corea's Children's ... more info

All About Jazz — By: Joe Lang Larry Coryell and Bombay Jazz :: 03.18.10 :: Dakota Jazz Club :: Minneapolis, MN Larry Coryell and Bombay Jazz The realm of ethnic fusion is a slippery one. For some the experimentation manifests itself in a sole desire to be super c... more info

Guardian Music — Two new albums show a surge in forward thinking in a derivative ageIt probably helps that you like jazz when it comes to swashbuckling new albums by Polar Bear (Peepers – quick-witted, feisty, melancholy) and Brad Mehldau ( the two-CD Highway ... more info

Guardian Music — Paul Morley delves into experimental jazz with Mercury-nominated Shoreditch quintet Polar Bear and Florida-born pianist Brad Mehldau It probably helps that you like jazz when it comes to swashbuckling new albums by Polar Bear (Peepers – quick-... more info

Mercury News, California — To Keith Jarrett, 64 years old keyboard giant and among the most revered figures in jazz, coughs are signs of ingratitude and insufficient attention. They break his concentration, interrupt his creative flow. It's been an issue at his concerts for fo... more info