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<title>Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop Jeremy Yudkin Indiana University Press ISBN: 978-0-253-21952-7 184 pages 

More books have been written about trumpeter Miles Davis than any other jazz musician, leaving authors who want to tackle him with little option other than to present their own unique take on his legacy...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>David Rickert</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-05-14T21:05:44-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Ben Wolfe -- If I can make it here...</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Ben Wolfe 

 In late October of 1985 I loaded my car with my string bass, electric bass, Polytone amp, record collection, some cassettes a friend gave me for the drive, a boombox, my clothes, a thermos for the enormous amount of black coffee I would drink, a full-length down jacket which I would use for a blanket when sleeping in my car at night and a pile of blankets that would be my bed in Brooklyn. With my belongings loaded I started my journey to New York City. I still remember the strange feeling of excitement I had driving down a familiar 37th Avenue in Portland, Oregon and having no idea of what lay ahead. New York was a very romantic idea to me; it represented jazz--you had to go there if you were serious, you had to go there if you really wanted to learn to play. I moved to New York to play jazz and to learn how to play jazz. That was it. It wasn't for fame or fortune or anything else. At that point in time, at 23 years old, nothing else seemed to matter to me. Jazz music was my life. The drive was basically five days. I arrived through the Holland Tunnel Sunday morning Nov. 3rd and immediately felt the energy of New York City. I had been here before, having come for a month to study with Cecil McBee, but coming here to live was an entirely different feeling. I knew a friend of mine from Portland, drummer Alan Jones, had needed a roommate and that solidified my decision to move...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>AAJ Staff</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-05-14T21:05:39-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Ahmad Jamal: It's Magic</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When asked what he's thinking about when he's at the piano, NEA Jazz Master and Kennedy Center Jazz Legend Ahmad Jamal replies, "Those songs that come up on my recordings or my concerts, sometimes I pull some things that are very distant and written years before I was here, things written by Mozart. That's the wonderful thing about music, the ability to interpret the good things beyond the wildest dreams of the composer. I'm doing what I do based on three different eras of music. The first era was as a fan, as a kid listening to Benny Goodman, Count Basie and Jimmie Lunceford. Then I was also in my teenage years, listening to the revolutionary works of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Then I'm still around in the so-called electronic age. So I am drawing on a great body of work. The greater the body of work, the broader the results...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Andrew Velez</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-05-14T00:21:01-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Herbie Hancock -- Herbie's Take on Joni Mitchell, and the Value of Gigging</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Herbie Hancock, winner of the 2008 Album of the Year Grammy for River: The Joni Letters, took the stage with collaborator and inspiration Joni Mitchell when he taped a show for Nissan Live Sets that debuted April 1 on Yahoo! Music. Mitchell sang three of her songs, "River," "Tea Leaf Prophecy" and "Hana." Hancock, backed by guitarist Lionel Loueke, bassist Marcus Miller, drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, saxophonist Bob Sheppard, vocalist Sonya Kitchell and DJ C-Minus, also played such classics as "Chameleon," "Watermelon Man," "Maiden Voyage" and "Rockit." The performance, including video streams of 10 songs and an audience Q&amp;A, was posted on April 1. Hancock begins an international tour in May with stops in Brazil, Europe and many dates in the U.S. and Canada, including the Playboy Jazz Festival in Los Angeles. More info at music.yahoo.com...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Fradley Garner</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-05-14T00:20:54-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Hugh Hopper: Idiom As A Means To No End</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hugh Hopper started out on his path through music as a stalwart of the British Canterbury scene, from which came bands including Soft Machine, of which Hopper was a member for five years, Caravan and Hatfield and The North. In a sense he's embodied the music which emerged from that scene, which might be best described as an idiosyncratic take on jazz-rock fusion. Any pigeonholing this might imply does him an injustice however, as it takes no account of his interest in the use of tapes, looping and the mechanical manipulation of sound for musical ends...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Nic Jones</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-05-13T00:21:15-06:00</dc:date>
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<description><![CDATA[Dave Liebman Group CafA(C) Paradiso Ottawa, Canada April 24, 2008

Aside from the annual TD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival, it's rare that Ottawans get to experience a group that has, for many years, successfully brought together a lifetime's worth of experience into a sound encompassing all that makes jazz what it is in the 21st Century. Local bassist John Geggie brings six shows a years to the city's Fourth Stage--musical high points where artists from near and far are brought together, most often with little to no safety net, for evenings of music that are all about risk, often serendipitous chemistry and occasionally even a little bit of background preparation/rehearsal...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>John Kelman</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-05-13T00:21:07-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Nicholas Payton: Playing Strong and Playing Blue</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Trumpeter Nicholas Payton started out years ago as a musician known for being steeped in the traditions of his New Orleans origins. The "young lion" of about fifteen years ago had a brash, bold sound. He even produced a Luis Armstrong tribute--Dear Louis (Verve, 2001)--and did an album working with the classy Armstrong contemporary Doc Cheatham--Doc Cheatham and Nicholas Payton (Verve, 1997). But he continued to grow and explore other avenues, showing contemporary influences with the release of Sonic Trance for Warner Brothers records in 2003...]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-05-12T00:21:09-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>About AAJ's Open Jazz Project</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Join us on our mission to further jazz on the web!

 Since we began back in 1995, and through the constant volunteer support of jazz enthusiasts, jazz musicians, industry professionals and web technicians, All About Jazz has established itself as THE essential web destination for jazz music. The site's importance grows with each passing year and as we further expand what we do, our dependency on folks like yourself grows as well. We're committed to building a comprehensive website that embraces a global community of members...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Michael Ricci</dc:creator>
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<title>Cape May Jazz Festival -- Cape May Looks to the Future</title>
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<description><![CDATA[After producing 28 jazz festivals in 14 years, Cape May Jazz Festival Co-Founder Carol Stone and her team found themselves at a bit of a turning point when they began planning this spring's 29th edition. The festival has featured weekends each April and November that extend the tourist season in New Jersey's historic southernmost city...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Ken Franckling</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-05-12T00:20:56-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Another Timbre</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Another Timbre is the newest label to appear on the UK scene. Its first batch of releases appeared in autumn 2007--to considerable acclaim--and its second batch in spring 2008. The music that Another Timbre releases is a fascinating blend of improv, eai and modern composition, unlike that of any other current label...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>John Eyles</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-05-11T05:38:38-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Shibutabihazime: Shibusashirazuat at Shibuya O-East</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Shibusashirazu Shibutabihazime: Shibusashirazu at Shibuya O-East, 2006/01/14 Avex-io 2007

There's no other ensemble like the Shibusashirazu (loosely translated from Japanese as "never be cool"). It's not only the huge number of musicians on stage (more than thirty including dancers and one painter), but also the breadth of its stylistic spectrum. Think of the manic energy of any of Peter Brotzmann's outfits, add Steven Bernstein's Sex Mob inclination to disassemble pop songs and reassemble them as avant-garde improvisations, inject some vivid arrangements that sound borrowed from Klezmer or Balkan wedding band music, flavor it with the extravaganza of progressive rock bands, mix in the Japanese equivalent of country music, Enka, and stir it with tons of Japanese eccentric humor. Now imagine this enormous sonic mammoth improvise on themes of popular TV action series, but real fast, in front of half naked Butoh dancers and two beautiful go-go dancers, with MCs who keep encouraging the audience to take an active role in this experience. And don't forget the 15-meter-long flying dragon. Now you begin to come close to what it is to be in Shibusashirazu concert...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Eyal Hareuveni</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-05-11T05:38:28-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>New Chicago Underground: Jason Adasiewicz and Tigersmilk</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It is sometimes said that what separates Chicago from other music towns is a wide-open expansiveness in the music's sound, as compared to the condensed urbanity of New Yorkers. But something more poignant comes through when talking with some Chicago musicians--that no matter what the subset, there's a feeling that the Chicago playing field is a lot more about a collective sense than individual soloists...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Clifford Allen</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-05-11T05:38:21-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Dark Magus: The Jekyll and Hyde Life of Miles Davis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dark Magus: The Jekyll And Hyde Life Of Miles Davis Gregory Davis Hardcover; 224 pages ISBN: 0879308753 Backbeat Books 2006 

 What separates the latest book on jazz legend Miles Davis is that it is written by Gregory Davis, his oldest son. More of a set of observances and anecdotes than a chronological biography, the book presents a bittersweet, but inconsistent portrait of a genius...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Karen Hogg</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-05-11T05:38:17-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Pipi Piazzolla: Argentina's Rhythm Shark</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ask the Argentine drummer Daniel 'Pipi' Piazzolla about the role of claves in his music and you shouldn't expect an answer so much as an exuberant lesson. Piazzolla, the leader of the celebrated Buenos Aires-based sextet Escalandrum, loves claves--the way they "naturalize" complex time signatures; the infinite rhythmic possibilities they present; the mathematical derring-do of fitting the square-peg of a clave inside the round-hole of a given meter...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Eric Benson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-05-10T00:21:19-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Saxophonist/Flutist Roxy Coss at William Paterson U., New Jersey</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Roxy Coss William Paterson University Wayne, New Jersey April 7, 2008 

 "I wanted to show you all of the different music I like," said Roxy Coss, after remarking that she doesn't talk very much on stage. The absence of between-songs patter didn't matter because Coss's talents as an instrumentalist (tenor sax, soprano sax, and flute), arranger, and bandleader spoke for themselves. In many ways Coss's Senior Recital was a jazz fan's dream: the opportunity to catch a gifted young performer before the word gets out, and feeling certain that she's only going to get better...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>David A. Orthmann</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-05-10T00:21:14-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Bireli Lagrene</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bireli Lagrene Djangologyand To Bi or Not to Bi Dreyfus Records 2007 Bireli Lagrene Gipsy Project Just the Way You Are Dreyfus Records 2007 Sara Lazarus with Bireli Lagrene Gipsy Project It's All Right With Me Dreyfus Records 2006 

Born September 4, 1966 in Saverne, France, Bireli Lagrene came under the influence of Django Reinhardt and impressed the world from age 13 as a prodigy who handled the guitar with a love for the swing that it could muster. These four albums, recorded after the turn of the century, find Lagrene proving that his heart lies with that distinctive era...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Jim Santella</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-05-10T00:21:07-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>The Music of Duke Ellington: Live in Zurich 1950 + Thank You, Uncle Edward</title>
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<description><![CDATA[

 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra Live in Zurich, Switzerland 2.5.1950 TCB 2007 Duke Ellington Legacy Thank You, Uncle Edward Renma 2008 

 Duke Ellington's half-century of commercial recordings provides a ready comparison for any jazz group that chooses to explore his music. A newly discovered Ellington concert and a band led by tenor saxophonist Virginia Mayhew with Ellington's grandson, guitarist Edward Ellington II, both provide their share of pleasing moments...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Ken Dryden</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-05-10T00:20:59-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Blaise Siwula: Projection: Zero; Transphonic Dimensions and Hommage an Klaus Kinski</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Blaise Siwula / Carsten Radtke Projection: Zero Konnex 2008 W.O.O. Presents Mambo Mantis Transphonic Dimensions Konnex 2007 Nobu Stowe-Lee Pembleton Project Hommage an Klaus Kinski Soul Note 2007 

Saxophonist Blaise Siwula has been an active participant in New York's 'underground' jazz scene for the past two decades. Although he released several recordings on independent labels, it wasn't until the millennium that he started garnering attention. Siwula is a committed free player and his highly unique sound couples a dry throaty wail with a command of his instrument's entire range and a wavering vibrato that's very effective...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Robert Iannapollo</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-05-10T00:20:48-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Pat Metheny Group: Imaginary Day Live</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some artists are revolutionary, others are evolutionary. Some manage to be both, and guitarist Pat Metheny is one of a small group of artists who, always moving forward, occasionally make more striking stylistic leaps. With a string of consistently strong albums that began with Pat Metheny Group (ECM, 1978), Metheny's flagship group has evolved, sometimes in baby steps, other times in larger increments, culminating with the groove-happy We Live Here (1994, reissued Nonesuch, 2006) and stripped down and loosely improvisational Quartet (1996, reissued Nonesuch, 2006). Metheny continues to pursue other interests outside the purview of the group, but invariably brings experiences gained from those other projects back to the group in some form...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>John Kelman</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-05-09T00:06:06-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Ricardo Gallo Cuarteto: Udimbres y Maranas</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ricardo Gallo Cuarteto Udimbres y Maranas La Distritofonica 2008 

 The Ricardo Gallo Cuarteto's sound is complex--and not just because the Cuarteto is born out of a marriage between avant-garde jazz and Colombian rhythms. What adds further depth to their music is the emotional density that shows itself almost immediately on Urdimbres y Maranas...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>James Nichols</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-05-09T00:06:00-06:00</dc:date>
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