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Steve Wilson on CW Network TV, Jazziz, NY Times
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Seth Cohen PR
Steve Wilson prepares for multi-night tribute to Joe Zawinul at the Jazz Standard in NYC, December 17-20, 2009. Wilson appeared on THE CW NETWORK/WGN TV yesterday--the live appearance aired on over 200 stations nationwide, including in Chicago, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and elsewhere. Check out this terrific preview column from JAZZIZ.com. In his NY TIMES preview column today, Nate Chinen praises Steve as “an endlessly adaptable alto and soprano saxophonist, at home in myriad settings.": STEVE WILSON ENSEMBLE (Thursday) ...
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Garage a Trois 2.0
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JamBase
By: Court Scott
Garage A Trois When a member of a music group decides to leave and the remaining band continues, it can be risky and the results can be unpredictable. Fortunately, though, Garage A Trois is a band built on risk taking, unpredictability, and capricious malleability. When guitarist and founding member, Charlie Hunter, decided to pursue other projects, the group added keyboardist Marco Benevento, seeing it as an ...
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John Digiovanni, Band Leader, Special Interview
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Michael Ricci
Band leader, John DiGiovanni, discusses Kombu Combo on “Jazz on My Mind" website.
John discusses his goals for the band: to make jazz accessible to music-lovers from all genres. “A lot of jazz is presented more for musicians and jazz-lovers" says Kombu's creator and drummer, John DiGiovanni. “We wanted a band that includes a wider audience in the experience. Our fans come to us from rock, pop, funk, bebop, classical music, as well as traditional jazz".
John describes his personal ...
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John Pizzarelli Interview Part One and Two
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Sortiesjazznights.com PR
Check out this interview with jazz singer and guitarist John Pizzarelli in Montreal, Thursday December 3rd.
Part 1 | Part 2
About John Pizzarelli John Pizzarelli has cultivated a winning international career by singing classic standards and late-night ballads, and by playing sublime and inventive guitar. Using greats like Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra and the songs of writers like Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen as touchstones, Pizzarelli is among the prime revivalists of the great ...
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Guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
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All About Jazz
Broadly acknowledged as one of jazz's foremost artists, Kurt Rosenwinkel has established a reputation as an innovator and constant seeker on the guitar. He has carved out a unique sound over many years of experiment and refinement and today commands respect for his singular voice as a player and bandleader.
As a follow-up to the successful double live album The Remedy (ArtistShare, 2008), Rosenwinkel recently released Reflections (Wommusic, 2009), an elegant collection of standards.
AAJ Contributor Franz A. Matzner spoke ...
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British Group Partisans Interviewed at AAJ
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All About Jazz
Partisans has been gigging in cyberspace--playing a virtual nightclub in Second Life. Over 13 years and four acclaimed albums, Partisans has developed a strong reputation as one of the most exciting and innovative bands on the British jazz scene. One of the band's strengths is its willingness to keep up to date with technology and experiment with it whenever this might help to expand their work.
The night of Friday November 6, 2009 saw Partisans' debut gig in Second Life, ...
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Bassist Charnett Moffett Interviewed at AAJ
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All About Jazz
"I enjoy all of the music, just as I enjoy different aspects of color in paintings, or different people, or different types of food, or things of that nature. For me, it seems to be a more interesting way of life to have an appreciation for all that is offered on the planet."
With that simple statement, bassist Charnett Moffett says a lot about his career in music that began as young a child, and was pretty much inevitable from ...
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Interview: Terry Teachout (Part 5)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The more time you spend looking at Louis Armstrong on film and listening to him on record, the more you come to a single realization: Armstrong has done more than any other performer to shape America's collective personality. Virtually every entertainer from the late 1930s onward was influenced by Armstrong's folksy sense of humor, relaxed demeanor and high artistic standards. In turn, all of those virtues rubbed off on Americans consuming that entertainment. We experience Armstrong today, and without hesitation ...
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