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All About Jazz is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995. A volunteer staff publishes news, album reviews, articles, videos, and listings of concerts and other events having to do with jazz. Ricci maintains a related site, Jazz Near You, about local concerts and events.
The Jazz Review was a jazz criticism magazine founded by Nat Hentoff and Martin Williams in New York City in 1958. It was published till 1961. Hentoff and Williams were co-editors throughout its brief existence (23 issues). Many issues of The Jazz Review are available at Jazz Studies Online, which assesses its quality as follows:
Bill Milkowski from The Absolute Sound calls Potter "the most potent and impactful tenor saxophonist of his generation", giving the album a five star review. [4] Jon Turney from London Jazz News calls the record outstanding and an "impressive display of twenty-first century jazz playing in full flow". [5]
The founders were jazz writer (and former editor of The Wire) Richard Cook and Roger Spence of the talent management agency Direct Music Limited of Edinburgh, Scotland. Jazz Review covered the entire range of jazz history from early jazz through swing to bebop , modern jazz and the avant-garde, and was known for its scholarly approach and ...
Response to the record was positive, with Metacritic assigning the album an aggregate score of 81 out of 100 based on 4 critical reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [2] The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek stated: "It's simply instrumental, Americana-tinged rock with a smattering of jazz improvisation and other exotic touches woven in ...
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow noted "although these concise interpretations are not essential, the music is quite pleasing". [5] On All About Jazz Jack Bowers said "One can’t help noticing that, unlike many of today’s inseparable clones, Kenton’s soloists — most of them, anyway — are almost instantly identifiable.
All About Jazz reviewer Rex Butters felt: This is crucial listening for anyone who cares about this catalogue of songs, Braxton shoulders open a doorway to a viable jazz future. Rather than presenting an airless mummified Sunday afternoon at the Jazz Museum, the band's ability to dance with history and buy it a drink resembles the time ...
The All About Jazz review by Mark F. Turner describes the album as "the exceptional debut by a newly formed collective who sound like they've been playing together for decades." [ 3 ] In his review for JazzTimes Mike Shanley notes that "All four of these musicians are involved in several different projects, but hopefully they’ll have ...