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Enter the Motema Music 4-CD Giveaway!

Source: All About Jazz
January 1, 2010

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Motema Music 4-CD giveaway contest starting today. Five winners will win all four CD's listed below at the conclusion of the contest on February 1st. Click here to enter the contest

(Following Lynne Arriale at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)

Good luck! Your Friends at Motema Music

Lynne Arriale - Nuance

Critically acclaimed for her 'singular voice' as a pianist, leader, composer, arranger ...

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AAJ Top 100 Most Read CD Reviews: 2009

Source: Michael Ricci
December 31, 2009

All About Jazz tracks how often a CD review is read, and the CD reviews listed below represent our top 100 published in 2009.

1. Henry Cow - Henry Cow: The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set by John Kelman Published: January 12, 2009 2. Tore Brunborg - Lucid Grey by John Kelman Published: February 18, 2009 3. ...

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AAJ Top 100 Most Read Articles: 2009

Source: Michael Ricci
December 31, 2009

All About Jazz tracks how often an article is read, and the articles listed below represent our top 100 published in 2009.

1. Bill Anschell's Notes from the Lobby Careers in Jazz by Bill Anschell Published: August 18, 2009 2. General Articles Separated at Birth 2009 by Michael Lorenz Published: February 22, 2009 3. Extended Analysis ...

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AAJ Top 50 Most Recommended Articles: 2009

Source: Michael Ricci
December 31, 2009

All About Jazz tracks how often an article is recommended, and the articles listed below represent our top 50 published in 2009.

1. Take Five With... Take Five With Charlie Harrington by AAJ Staff Published: May 23, 2009 2. Mikayla's Totally Jazzed Russel Blake: Transcending Expectations by Mikayla Gilbreath Published: March 17, 2009 3. Music and ...

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AAJ Top 50 Most Recommended CD Reviews: 2009

Source: Michael Ricci
December 31, 2009

All About Jazz tracks how often a CD review is recommended, and the CD reviews listed below represent our top 50 published in 2009.

1. Tore Brunborg - Lucid Grey by John Kelman Published: February 18, 2009 2. Samuel Quinto Trio - Salsa' N Jazz by Raul d'Gama Rose Published: August 30, 2009 3. ...

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Sten Hostfalt & Trudy Silver at 5c Cafe NYC New Years Eve

Source: Michael Ricci
December 30, 2009

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Resolution: Jazz from Rehab

Source: Michael Ricci
December 30, 2009

Jazz and recovery meet on two unique early-1960s albums made by guitarist Joe Pass and pianist Elmo Hope. Pass' 1961 Pacific Jazz LP “Sounds of Synanon" was his debut as a leader; although he'd begun to play professionally as a teenager in the late 1940s, stays in prison and rehabilitation centers for drug addiction had hampered his career throughout the 1950s. Hope's “Sounds From Riker's Island" featured an ensemble made up primarily of musicians who had struggled in one way ...

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Ocote Soul Sounds Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
December 30, 2009

Ocote Soul Sound is the brainchild of two incredibly accomplished musicians, who continue to operate just under the radar; one more project to occupy the diminishingly available time of guitarist Adrian Quesada and flautist Martin Perna. With roots in the otherworldly grooves of label mates and benefactors Thievery Corporation, Ocote Soul Sounds' Coconut Rock (ESL, 2009), builds on the band's “Chicanos in Outer Space" groove by adding a cinematic quality reminiscent of David Axelrod, Weather Report and other fusion era ...

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