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News: Recording

How Steely Dan Got Wayne Shorter

July 15, 2011

Steely Dan's Aja is one of the finest albums of the 1970s and easily one of the group's most exotic and captivating works. The title track has always been particularly special, since it features an extended robust solo by tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter [pictured]. Donald Fagen and Walter Becker specifically wanted Shorter, but he almost wasn't ...

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News: Festival

Bond-Fire Fest: George Clinton, Soulive, NMS, Particle

July 15, 2011

The Innagural Bond-Fire Art & Music Festival set to be held December 30, 2011 to January 1, 2012 in Lake County Florida, is proud to announce a unique New Years Weekend festival experience with the George Clinton & Parliament FunkadelicT he New Mastersounds and many others. The Bond-Fire features: 50+ hours of music on three stages; ...

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News: Recording

Marc Johnson - Shades of Jade (2005)

July 15, 2011

By Mark Saleski If you're at all familiar with jazz bassist Marc Johnson you surely know about his classic 1987 album Second Sight (by his group Bass Desires). On that record, Johnson teamed up with Peter Erskine (drums) and the phenomenal guitar duo of Bill Frisell and John Scofield. Second Sight is the kind of record ...

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Orrin Evans - Freedom (Posi-Tone, 2011)

July 15, 2011

Pianist and composer Orrin Evans has been on quite a roll lately, leading his own groups and then co-leading progressive groups like The Captain Black Big Band and Tarbaby, both of which were featured at recent jazz festivals and received acclaim by both fans and press alike. Riding this increasing crest of fame, he releases a ...

News: Recording

Bob Nell, Pianist, Puts One Through with "Soft and Bronze"

July 15, 2011

Those who read my blogs know that I cover many of the very new releases but also think it worthwhile to cover things that might be a few years young, when there is something good about them to contemplate and dig. And so it is that, in the course of interviewing bassist Michael Bisio for All ...

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News: Performance / Tour

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, July 15-21

July 15, 2011

Seems every summer, it feels like I go from one festival to another. And it is a great way to sample a lot of music within a short period of time, to revisit favorites but also an easy way to check out new music. The second (annual?) Dakota Street Fest will take place on Nicollet Mall ...

News: Performance / Tour

Twin Cities Jazz Week in Review: Lift Every Voice

July 15, 2011

A perfectly lovely week of jazz in the Twin Cities, from Ellington and Strayhorn via Hixson and Newell to another exquisite partnership, Cavanagh and Hagedorn. In between, a surprise vocal from Dave Karr, wide-ranging vocals from Pippi Ardennia and Jamecia Bennett, and the truly stunning voice of Rene Marie. Maud Hixson and Lucia Newell, Tribute to ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Around Town: No Summer Doldrums Here...

July 14, 2011

Thursday, July 14, 2011 Po' Boys Brass Band @ Hochstein at High Falls Noontime Concerts, 12:15 pm Spanish Harlem Orchestra @ Party In The Park at Riverside Festival Site, 5:00 pm Wine & Jazz with the Swooners @ Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 5:30 pm John Pallocy Trio (Jazz Dawgs) @ Bistro 135, 6:30 pm Joe Santora ...

News: Event

Funky Butt Brass Band to Celebrate CD Release This Friday, July 15 at Broadway Oyster Bar

July 14, 2011

The Funky Butt Brass Band has a new CD, You Can Trust The Funky Butt Brass Band, ready for release, and they'll celebrate with a performance at 10:00 p.m. this Friday, July 15 at the Broadway Oyster Bar. In an email interview last week, FBBB's guitarist and singer Tim Halpin gave me the lowdown on the ...

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News: Recording

Trumpeter/Composer John Daversa Releases New Big Band Recording "Junk Wagon" on BFM Jazz.

July 14, 2011

It's kind of a cheap play on words, but let's go for it anyway: What makes the music on John Daversa's Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album so exciting and so innovative is its Daversa-ty. As Bob Mintzer, the renowned saxophonist and longtime Yellowjackets member, puts it in his liner notes, “This CD is not Basie, ...