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News: Festival

Sailing Away ... to Lake George (Roseanna Vitro, Mark Soskin, Christian Scott)

September 26, 2010

Blogging again. (apologies for the gap in submissions. Hectic summer with other things to deal with. Nuff said.) The festival season in the Northeast has wound down, but came to a nice end in lake George, NY, with the village's annual Jazz Weekend. It featured outstanding musicians like David Amran, Buster Williams—who carried Mulgrew Miller, Cindy ...

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News: Recording

Henry Grimes and Rashied Ali - Spirits Aloft (Porter Records, 2010)

September 25, 2010

This recoding documents a live meeting between two of the legends of the “new thing" free jazz movement of the 1960's, drummer Rashied Ali, who was best known as John Coltrane's last drummer, but was also a loft jazz club entrepreneur and label owner, along with being musical pioneer and longtime band leader. Henry Grimes, playing ...

News: Video / DVD

Weekend Extra: Joan Stiles

September 26, 2010

The pianist, composer and teacher Joan Stiles runs one of the hippest sextets in New York. Her circle of insider admirers encompasses many of the best-known musicians injazz today and is widening to include a substantial number of listeners in the general audience. Stiles achieves identifiable individuality in her own compositions and in her arrangements of ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Stanton Moore Trio's "Groove Alchemy"

September 26, 2010

The subjects of our video scrutiny this week are the Stanton Moore Trio, who will be in St. Louis next Saturday, October 2 to play at 2720 Cherokee. Underpinned by Moore's hopped-up New Orleans-style grooves, the trio seems to draw considerable inspiration from NOLA's funk standard-bearers The Meters as ...

News: Opinion

The End?

September 26, 2010

With a great deal of sadness I have decided to discontinue Prague Jazz, for now at least. This is in no way because of a lapse in enthusiasm for the music of this great city. My love of the music is as strong as before, and you will still see me around at the front tables ...

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News: Interview

A 1977 Interview with Jaco Pastorius: The Florida Flash

September 26, 2010

By Neil Tesser (Downbeat, January 27, 1977) “There's a real rhythm in Florida," Jaco Pastorius says in a voice saturated in matter-of-fact. “Because of the ocean. There's something about the Caribbean Ocean, it's why all that music from down there sounds like that. I can't explain it, but I know what it is." He pauses to ...

News: Music Industry

2010 Is a Very Sonny Year

September 26, 2010

The Chinese Lunar Calendar considers 2010 as the Year of the Tiger, but in the jazz calendar this is the Year of the Colossus. Why? All of the deserved attention focused on tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, who turned 80 on September 7—still a vibrant musical force and restless explorer. (At right, Sonny Rollins at Newport, August ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Chicago Live Jazz Music (September 24 - October 1, 2010) Schedule

September 26, 2010

Here is what's happening with the live music Chicago Jazz Scene for the dates September 24th thru October 1st, 2010... (image: Hyde Park Jazz Fest Logo—http://hydeparkjazzfesival.org/) Andy's Jazz Club11 East Hubbard St. Chicago, IL 60611 312.642.6805 ANDY'S WEEKENDS FRIDAY & SATURDAY HEADLINERS! $10 Admission until 8:30 pm; $15 Admission after 8:30 pm Upcoming performances September & ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Curtis Fuller - Live in Chicago

September 26, 2010

While on vacation last week, I had the pleasure of catching legendary hard bop trombonist Curtis Fuller at Andy's Jazz Club in Chicago on September 16. Andy's, just north of the Loop, was founded in 1951 by Andy Rizzuto and it is still one of the best places to hear jazz in Chicago, every day of ...

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News: Recording

Exploding Star Orchestra - Stars Have Shapes (2010)

September 26, 2010

By Pico Cornet player Rob Mazurek has got to be one of the busiest guys on the robust Chicago fringe jazz scene. We loved Sound Is when it came out last year, which introduced his new quintet, but Mazurek has by then helmed or co-helmed so many other projects that starts with jazz and ends up ...