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News: Recording

The Nu Band - Live in Paris (No Business, 2010)

October 24, 2010

Celebrating ten years together, The Nu Band: Roy Campbell, on trumpet, pocket trumpet, flugelhorn and flute, Mark Whitecage on alto saxophone and clarinet, Joe Fonda on bass and Lou Grassi on drums and percussion remain committed to spontaneous composition and improvisation and creating music in the moment. This live album from Paris is an excellent example ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Suresh Singaratnam

by AAJ Staff
October 23, 2010

Meet Suresh Singaratnam: Suresh Singaratnam is a trumpeter of uncommon breadth; unique, not only for the small crowd he inhabits as a virtuoso of both classical and jazz styles, but also for the continuity and clarity of his voice across both idioms. Suresh studied with Canadian trumpet virtuoso Norman Engel throughout high school, ...

News: Festival

National Folk Festival: 9/2-9/4 2011 in Nashville

October 22, 2010

LABOR DAY WEEKEND 2011 The National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA) announced with Mayor Karl Dean and the Compass Records Group that Labor Day weekend, September 2-4, 2011, has been chosen as the date for the 73rd National Folk Festival. One of the nations largest and most prestigious celebrations of traditional music and culture, the ...

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News: Video / DVD

Weekend Extra: McChesney Heard and Seen

October 23, 2010

My biography of Paul Desmond includes Desmond solos that Bill Mays, Bud Shank, Brent Jensen, Gary Foster and Paul Cohen transcribed for the book. They analyze or comment on the solos and John Handy analyzes Cohen's transcription of “Take Five." In the text I suggest that playing the recordings and following along with Desmond would help ...

News: Performance / Tour

Dennis Owsley to Teach Class on "The Great Jazz Singers" Starting Thursday, October 28

October 23, 2010

Jazz DJ, historian and photographer Dennis Owsley will teach a course called “The Great Jazz Singers" beginning at 7:00 p.m. next Thursday, October 28 at the Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Rd. Owsley, who hosts “Jazz Unlimited" from 9:00 p.m. to midnight Sundays on KWMU (90.7 FM), tells StLJN that course is based on ...

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News: Interview

Frank O'Hara on Billie Holiday

October 23, 2010

If you're unfamiliar with Frank O'Hara, you're in for a treat. O'Hara was part of the New York School of poetry that emerged in the 1950s. What made this school singular is how its poets used words. Rather than stick rigidly to traditional form and meter, they expressed themselves freely and often journalistically. They also prized ...

News: Interview

An Unlikely Pairing? Think Again... the Rudresh and Bunky Show

October 23, 2010

One of the most potent new recordings released this fall, and one bound to receive top ten critic's considerations at year's end, is Apex, a partnership between kindred alto saxophone spirits Rudresh Mahanthappa and Bunky Green on the PI Recordings label. In addition to the cross-generational pairing of these two penetratingly original alto saxophonists, they are ...

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News: Radio

Jazz Radio Commentaries PT. 3: Rusty Hassan

October 23, 2010

Rusty Hassan is one of the more venerable and hippest enthusiasts on the DC-area jazz scene. Dial up most any worthwhile jazz performance in the Washington-Baltimore area and you're more than likely to find Rusty on the scene, sometimes with his eager young grandson in tow. Friend and confidante of many musicians, and one of the ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jack Johnson | Santa Barbara | Review | Pics

October 23, 2010

Words & Images by: L. Paul Mann Jack Johnson :: 10.13.10 :: Santa Barbara Bowl :: Santa Barbara, CA Jack Johnson brought his feel good road show to the Santa Barbara Bowl for the first of two sold out nights. In fact, the shows had sold out shortly after they went on sale last April. Johnson, ...

News: Performance / Tour

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe: A Heroween Experience in Denver

October 23, 2010

HEROWEEN AT CERVANTES; REVOLUTION OF SOUL TOUR Karl Denson's Tiny Universe hits the road this fall with highlights including two special late-nightshows in Las Vegas at the House of Blues on Oct. 23, and in Atlantic City at Trump Plaza on Oct. 29. The band will also make an appearance at The Southern Monster Smash on ...