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Toshiko Akiyoshi: United Notions
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Globalization once was a guiding principal for the United States. With the proliferation of Communism in the 1950s, America moved quickly to make friends with as many countries around the world as it could. The United Nations was a big deal, Sixth Ave. in New York was known as Avenue of the Americas and the U.S. favored nations in Asia and Africa winning their independence after years of colonial rule. On the cutting edge of American international diplomacy was jazz. ...
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Woody Shaw: The Tour, Vol. 1
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Let's stick with 1976. Yesterday I posted about Dolo Coker's California Hard, a superb album recorded by the pianist for Xanadu in December of that year. Today, let's dig a newly released album by a working band formed by drummer Louis Hayes in '76 to tour Europe. The live album, Woody Shaw and Louis Hayes: The Tour, Volume One (High Note), was recorded in Stuttgart, Germany, on March 22, 1976. Recorded at the height of the jazz-rock fusion movement—when mysticism, ...
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Dolo Coker: California Hard
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Dolo Coker was an insider's jazz musician. The pianist was little known except among his peers. Coker spent much of his career playing and recording as a sideman and didn't record his first leadership date until 1976, when he was 49. One of his most interesting leadership albums is California Hard (Xanadu), featuring Blue Mitchell on trumpet and flugelhorn and Art Pepper on alto and tenor saxophones. The album was digitally remastered from tapes by Don Schlitten of Xanadu and ...
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Vocalist Barbara Dane To Release "Throw It Away...," Her First New Recording In 14 Years, On Her Dreadnaught Music Label, August 19
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Barbara Dane’s extraordinary life has been distinguished by decades’ worth of collaborations with major artists in jazz, blues, folk, and world music as well as by uncompromising public stands for social justice and civil rights. At 89, the indomitable Oakland-based singer is still active, still performing, and, on her new CD Throw It Away…, in inspired form. The disc, her first new recorded work in 14 years, will be released on August 19 by Dane’s Dreadnaught Music imprint. Dane points ...
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Saxophonist Tom Harrison Celebrates Ellington and Strayhorn with "Unfolding In Tempo" Featuring Cleveland Watkiss - Available in October
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Tom Harrison
Rising star saxophonist Tom Harrison unveils his hotly anticipated second release Unfolding in Tempo on October 14th 2016. The long-awaited live album will be released on Lyte Records in October 2016 in the esteemed company of releases by jazz stars Ari Hoenig, Jean Toussaint, Jason Rebello and David Lyttle. The album documents two nights of Harrison’s hugely successful national tour of February 2016 which received high praise from the media, including features on BBC1, in Time Out and Jazzwise Magazine. ...
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More Bird With Strings
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In the wake of my post on the lost string arrangements for Charlie Parker (go here), I was curious about how these scores wound up in the hands of alto saxophonist Clark Gibson and the orchestra he assembled in 2015 for his album, The Lost Arrangements of Bird With Strings (go here). So I reached out to Jeff Sultanof, who helped edit the music scores and parts for publication and availability to the public through ejazzlinescom. For those unfamiliar with ...
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The Inimitable Teddy Edwards
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
As part of its reissue of select albums on the Xanadu label, Resonance Records has just released The Inimitable Teddy Edwards, which was recorded in June 1976. The album is important because it features tenor saxophonist Edwards in spectacular form accompanied by a sterling trio—Duke Jordan (p), Larry Ridley (b) and Freddie Waits (d). By '76, Edwards had been around since the mid-1940s but never seemed to be able to forge a brand image for himself as a leader. Part ...
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Lost Bird With Strings
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Late Friday afternoon, I grabbed coffee with Carl Woideck, the author of Charlie Parker: His Music and Life (University of Michigan Press) and an instructor of jazz, rock and music histories at the University of Oregon. Carl is a long-time JazzWax reader. As we chatted about this and that, Carl mentioned that he had just returned from the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey and asked if I knew that there were many more string arrangements ...
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