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News: Performance / Tour

Lowertown's New Music

April 26, 2011

If the Twin Cities is a fertile playground for experimental and improvised music, then St. Paul's Lowertown is one of its hottest incubators, and particularly that short path between the Black Dog Café and Studio Z. Studio Z has been home to the Zeitgeist ensemble, sitting somewhere between modern classical, avant-garde jazz and free-wheeling “improvised" soundscapes, ...

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News: Recording

George Shearing "Bossa Nova"

April 26, 2011

The Japanese branch of EMI Toshiba has just issued 50 budget-priced CDs as part of its “Jazz 999 Best & More" series, including the tremendous George Shearing Bossa Nova, the late pianist's lovely 1963 album, his first such experiment in the Brazilian fad that swept the Western world in the early half of the 1960s. Caught ...

News: Video / DVD

Weekend Extra: Joe Henderson

April 25, 2011

A friend just pointed out that this is the birthday of Joe Henderson (1937-2001). The Rifftides time clock says that I'm punched out for the holiday, but to post a remembrance of Joe I'm sneaking past the security guards and putting up this remarkable performance of a piece associated nearly as closely with Henderson as with ...

News: Opinion

My Stereo System

April 25, 2011

Readers constantly ask what kind of system I use to listen to music. Some emailers grouse about the coldness of CDs, others about the dimness of downloads while still others insist that LPs still rule. All may be true, but I'm quite content with my iTunes library. That's probably because my system is pretty tricked out ...

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News: Video / DVD

Stageit Review: A Free Streaming Video Service for Live Performances

April 25, 2011

StageIt is a free live streaming video service primarily focused on musicians though comedians have used it and it could potentially accomodate any live performance or event. StageIt launched around six months ago and was founded by Evan Lowenstein of Evan & Jaron. I was informed of its existence via a positive comment by Madalyn Sklar, ...

News: Recording

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - The Sesjun Radio Shows (2011)

April 25, 2011

Art Blakey is spoken about a lot in our little 'berg on the internet, and like most other admirers of his Jazz Messengers body of work, we tend to focus more on the late 50s-mid 60s era that included so many future jazz icons like Freddie Hubbard, Johnny Griffin, Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons, Benny Golson, Wayne ...

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News: Recording

Steely Dan Sunday: "Only a Fool Would Say That" (1972)

April 25, 2011

This is probably my favorite deep cut from Can't Buy A Thrill, which was on the flip side of the “Reelin' In The Years" single. More than any other track from this album, “Only A Fool Would Say That" points the way to what the band would evolve into: mocking lyrics, a fondness for Caribbean styles ...

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News: Recording

Terell Stafford - This Side of Strayhorn (Maxjazz, 2011)

April 25, 2011

The great composer, arranger and pianist Billy Strayhorn's compositions were a staple of the Duke Ellington songbook and remain a great inspiration to modern jazz musicians. Trumpeter Terell Stafford presents his view of some of the more well known compositions on this album where he is accompanied by Tim Warfield on tenor saxophone, Bruce Barth on ...

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News: Recording

Jared Gold - All Wrapped up (Posi-Tone, 2011)

April 25, 2011

Organist Jared Gold builds a fine mainstream outing of hard-bop, blues and ballads on this album in conjunction with Ralph Bowen on tenor saxophone, Jim Rotondi on trumpet and flugelhorn and Quincy Davis on drums. They open the the record fast with a couple of fine cookers, “My Sentiments Exactly" and “Get Out of My Sandbox," ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Martin Vejarano - Chia's Dance Party

by AAJ Staff
April 24, 2011

Meet Martin Vejarano--Chia's Dance Party: CHIA's Dance Party is a New York City-based quartet/quintet. The band delivers a unique musical experience, where infectious, danceable grooves mix harmoniously with extensive compositional and improvisational work. The band performs original material inspired by the Colombian rhythmic and melodic traditions, yet explores different genres and compositional approaches. CHIA's Dance Party ...