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News: Music Industry

Rob Perry, the Face of Jazz Alley, Soon to Retire

July 28, 2011

“Rob is a jewel," says longtime Seattle jazz patron David Marriott Sr. of Rob Perry, the svelte, silver-haired manager of Dimitriou's Jazz Alley for the past 27 years. “After you come down those stairs, you know you've got a good friend there. He's going to take care of you. He sets the tone." Perry, 60, the ...

News: Festival

Roxbury International Film Festival Runs in Boston July 28 Through July 31

July 28, 2011

The 13th annual Roxbury International Film Festival is taking place in Boston from Thursday, July 28 to Sunday, July 31, 2011 in various cultural venues around the city. Produced by The Color of Film Collaborative, RIFF was launched in 1999 to celebrate films written, produced and directed by filmmakers of color. The opening night film, The ...

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News: Recording

Branford Marsalis - Footsteps of Our Fathers (2002)

July 28, 2011

By Mark Saleski You've gotta love what Branford Marsalis is all about. In today's music industry, where creativity is mostly overlooked in favor of bottom-line issues, Branford made a break in advance of this album from his long-time record label (Columbia) to start Marsalis Music. I first heard about Marsalis Music during a lecture (presented by ...

News: Recording

One Track Mind: Joe Jackson Trio "Sunday Papers" (Live, 2011)

July 28, 2011

Most of the time, good timing is a matter of being lucky instead of being good. For Joe Jackson's very first album Look Sharp! (1979), he wrote and recorded a ditty “Sunday Papers," blasting the British tabloid press with lethal doses of sarcasm. He and his Rain trio (Graham Maby, bass; Dave Houghton, drums) included this ...

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News: Recording

Albert Ayler - Love Cry/the Last Album (Impulse!, 2011)

July 28, 2011

Impulse! Is celebrating their 50th anniversary with several re-issues including a collection of “2-fers," two albums on one compact disc (or mp3 download.) This is one of the most interesting of the bunch, because it contains two relative rarities by the free-jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler. I'll risk the wrath of the cognoscenti by stating up front ...

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News: Recording

Alan Silva's Celestrial Communication Orchestra and the Big Box Set

July 28, 2011

Bassist, key- boardist, sometimes violinist, composer, bandleader, father-figure of the new thing, Alan Silva cannot be dismissed and will not go away. You don't like avant jazz? That's your business. But to anyone else, he's been a seminal force in the new jazz (now coming onto 50 years of age) from the very beginning, playing bass ...

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News: Recording

Impulse! 2-on-1 - Celebrating 50 Years of Impulse Records!

July 27, 2011

Impulse! 2-on-1: More Than Just A Label. An Identity. A Statement. Impulse Records was more than just a label. It was an identity. It was a statement. Impulse Records was a musical brand of artistry that provided some of jazz's greatest creators with a platform for making some of their very best music. The new wave ...

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News: Obituary

Frank Foster, 1928-2011

July 27, 2011

Frank Foster died today following a long period of ill health. He was 82.Foster was important to the Count Basie band as a tenor saxophonist, composer and arranger for more than a decade beginning in 1953. In the reed section, he and Frank Wess teamed up as one of the best-known tenor sax tandems in jazz. ...

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News: Interview

Interview: Helen Shapiro

July 27, 2011

Helen Shapiro and Amy Winehouse had a few things in common. In my interview with Helen in today's Wall Street Journal (go here), we touched on what life was like for her at age 14 in 1961, when she had two No. 1 hits and a No. 3 hit on the British pop charts. In 1962, ...

News: Festival

Jazz in the Valley - This Weekend

July 27, 2011

Jazz Port Townsend is not the only major jazz festival this weekend in Washington. The 14th annual Jazz In The Valley takes place July 29-31 in Ellensburg, a two hour drive east of Seattle on I-90. This year' performers include Gail Pettis, Gary Hobbs Quartet, Lloyd Jones Struggle, John Gross Trio, Little Bill and the Bluenotes, ...