"All About Jazz" Reviews

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

This is turning out to be a good source to bring my attention to CDs that might interest me. Several categories of music other than jazz get reviewed here, and I have noticed that a lot of the music I am interested in these days is on the fringes of jazz (which is actually one of the review categories). I am not necessarily praising the reviews (though they generally seem okay to me), but I find the scope impressive.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree AAJ is an interesting review website, indeed the fringes of jazz including jazztronica [electro-jazz] and jazz-rock are becoming very fertile grounds of creative talent as this decade evolves.

More people into post-rock/avant rock and experimental electronic music - should definately monitor these contemporary jazz developments on websites like AAJ, Bagatellen, BBC Jazz and One Final Note.

Bagatellen
http://www.bagatellen.com/

BBC Jazz
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/jazz/

One Final Note
http://www.onefinalnote.com/

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think I've ever seen a negative review on AAJ, but I might be wrong.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Another good site for the more adventurous fringes of jazz:

http://www.squidco.com/ear/

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Begs2Differ, I have seen some negative reviews there. It does tend to be more positive than not.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

They also have this nice new upcoming release feature.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't put much stock in their reviews (they are almost universally positive), but it's good to keep up with what's being released and their interviews are fantastic (and the archive immense).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

"...promising new groups, of any genre, to emerge in some time, and they have made a great album. But is it a great jazz album? This is more debatable..."

This annoys me for some reason, I can't quite articulate why, but I automatically started thinking along the lines of 'well who says what is jazz and what isn't jazz'.

[Especially in jazz, which in my mind covers such a huge amount of music that it is essentially useless as a word to describe a particular sort of music. The amount of times I've just randomly hit a major 7th at a gig, or at a jam with some friends or something, and someone will say "jazz" I'm like, what the fuck?]

To people on here who review stuff; do you judge an album by how good it measures up to other albums in its genre? Or just how good it sounds to your ears? Or in relation to all music ever recorded? Or does it depend on the album? Would you judge an album differently if it proclaimed on the press release to be 'the best' in a particular genre?

― TomB (TomB), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, just today I read a review of the new Greg Osby album on there and ran across the completely unnecessary phrase, "the world may not need another jazz live album but Greg Osby blah blah blah." As in, ok, I guess there's room for ONE more, WTF?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.