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Martin Wind, Jim McNeely and Ed Neumeister 'Counterpoint' — Playful Dialogue Of Bass Instruments
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Some projects can't be planned, they just happen as a lucky coincidence. In the case of Martin Wind's new album Counterpoint it all started with an email he received from a musician in Europe. Wind, who has lived in Teaneck, New Jersey, for 25 years and has made a name for himself as a bassist and composer in New York City, recalls, “He suggested that we record an album together and asked if I could arrange some gigs in New ...
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Mosaic: Complete Sonny Clark Blue Note Sessions
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
If jazz musicians were among the most beautiful creative “flowers" ever produced by America, then heroin can be likened to a fungus that destroyed a large number of them. Today, it's hard to figure how so much heroin was able to enter the United States after World War II and why its import wasn't stopped more aggressively by the FBI. Heroin has a long history that dates back centuries. In the U.S., the drug was legal and marketed by the ...
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Backgrounder: James Moody - Return From Overbrook
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
This James Moody CD came out in 1996 and covered two great albums by the saxophonist and flutist—Last Train From Overbrook (tracks #1-10; recorded in 1958) and Flute 'N' the Blues (tracks #11-20; recorded in 1956). Both were released on Chess's Argo label. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Moody, these two albums are great introductions. For those of you who know Moody's work well, you probably haven't heard them in some time and they'll serve as a ...
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Saxophonist-composer Benjamin Boone Adds New Layers To His Experiments With Poetry And Jazz On 'Caught In The Rhythm,' Set For September 15 Release On Origin Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Benjamin Boone’s large-scale project fusing jazz with contemporary poetry reaches its deepest, richest point yet on Caught in the Rhythm, to be released September 15 on Origin Records. The fourth album in the saxophonist-composer’s series matches his remarkable assemblage of revered poets—including Edward Hirsch, Tyehimba Jess, and Patrick Sylvain—with an equally remarkable group of jazz improvisers that include Ambrose Akinmusire, Greg Osby, Kenny Werner, and Ben Monder. Boone’s fascination and ingenuity with poetry and jazz are well established. The two-volume ...
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Cynthia Basinet Releases Stunning Version Of ‘if Every Day Was Like Christmas’
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Cynthia "c." Basinet
There are few talents in the world who can claim to have been a fashion model, an actress, a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and a jazz vocalist, but celebrated singer—songwriter Cynthia Basinet has ticked all those boxes, having built her career in the entertainment industry while being heavily involved in humanitarian work too. Spending many years between the metropolis of Los Angeles, New York and the music capital of Nashville, Cynthia Basinet first made a name for herself in the ...
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Backgrounder: Jones/Lewis - Consummation
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Recorded over four sessions in January 1970 and released later that year, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra's Consummation was one of the finest big band albums of the decade. A hit album and Grammy nominee, the LP's eight tracks were composed and arranged by Thad Jones. At the Grammy's the album lost out to Miles Davis's Bitches Brew. The combined personnel over the four sessions included Thad Jones (fluhrn); Snooky Young, Danny Moore, Al Porcino and Marvin Stamm (tp); Eddie ...
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Madd For Tadd Marks Its Second Celebration Of Tadd Dameron With 'Central Avenue Swing & Our Delight,' Set For August 25 Release By Tighten Up Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Kent Engelhardt doubles down—literally—on his pursuit of big-band arrangements of the works of Tadd Dameron with Madd for Tadd’s August 25 release of Central Avenue Swing & Our Delight (Tighten Up). The two-disc set (a follow-up to their 2018 debut The Magic Continues) finds MFT, Ohio-based alto saxophonist Engelhardt’s 15-piece Dameron big band—co-led and conducted by trumpeter Stephen Enos—performing 21 new orchestrations of the totemic composer’s tunes as well as a new original composition by Engelhardt. As the title suggests, ...
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Greg Chako And Mason Daugherty Double The Bass For Album Of Duets
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Christine King
With a professional music career that has logged 35 years of work, composer/guitarist Greg Chako still hasn't achieved the mainstream recognition that he deserves. His latest album, A Place for Bass—Chamber Jazz Duets, continues to showcase his artistry and, in this project, his versatility as well. After all, Chako leaves his guitar in its case in this continuously engaging and spirited effort. Instead, he and Mason Daugherty display their bass-playing skills. However, they're not competing with one another. A Place ...
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