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Robert Levin: The War is Over - A Conversation About Jazz

by AAJ Staff
August 21, 2010

[Editor's Note: Interview conducted by Eleanor Brietel, New York Editor of The Drill Press. Most of this interview, originally published on the Buzzle website, was conducted via email.] Eleanor Brietel: You've published fiction and you also write essays on a variety of subjects. I want, however, to confine this discussion to your ...

Jazzwax List: The Midgets

August 21, 2010

Last Friday, I assembled a band based on the beefy names of artists. This week, I offer a new ensemble featuring musicians with mini monikers or slight of height names. For those adding Comments, this list is about the names only, not whether they were truly big or small: Peanuts Hucko (clarinet) [pictured] Budd Johnson and ...

Blues Legend John Lee Hooker Jr. Plays at the Iron Horse in Northampton on August 24

August 21, 2010

John Lee Hooker Jr, Detroit's legendary bluesman, is performing at the Iron Horse in Northampton on Tuesday, August 24 at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $12.50 in advance and can be purchased online, or $15 at the door. As a child in the 1970s, Hooker learned the blues from Delta blues masters, including his father John Lee ...

A Tapestry for (from) Bill Dixon

August 21, 2010

When I mentioned to friends that I would be attending the memorial service for Bill Dixon at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery the last weekend in July, as with any situation where one mentions “death" and “funerals," the response was unequivocally apologetic. Those same people were probably surprised when I said it was something I ...

Other Places: The BBC on Herman Leonard

August 20, 2010

Jazz This Week: Euge Groove, Andre Delano, and More

August 20, 2010

With many summer concert series having run their course, and the fall presenting season yet to get underway, it's a relatively light week for live jazz in St. Louis. All the more reason, then, to turn out for saxophonist, vocalist, and East St. Louis native Andre Delano (pictured). who's back home to perform Friday night on ...

Bud Shank and the Sax Section

August 20, 2010

Whenever a jazz artist is packaged on an album as joining, meeting or leading a “sax section," I'm instantly hooked. In every case, the result is exciting, since no one in his right mind would be paired with a sax section unless the results and collective talent were sterling. Examples of this approach that come to ...

Euforquestra: Live Download w/Members of Sci

August 20, 2010

NEW ALBUM SOUP OUT NOW Self-proclaimed purveyors of “Afro-Caribbean-Barnyard-Funk" Euforquestra recently played at the Camp Euforia festival on July 17 in Lone Tree, Iowa. During their performance the band playing the String Cheese Incident song “MLT," with half of SCI: Kyle Hollingsworth, Michael Travis, and Jason Hann. Hollingsworth sat in with the band on keyboards the ...

Eric Clapton: Clapton

August 20, 2010

STEVE WINWOOD, WYNTON MARSALIS, DEREK TRUCKS, ALLEN TOUSSAINT GUEST Guitar icon and three time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Eric Clapton announced today that he will release his 19th solo studio album on September 28, 2010 simply titled Clapton. Co-produced by guitarist and long-time collaborator Doyle Bramhall II, the album features an all star ...

The New Mastersounds: Coals to Newcastle Screenings

August 20, 2010

DOCUMENTARY ABOUT UK FUNKANAUTS Coals to Newcastle: The New Mastersounds: From Leeds To New Orleans will have several screenings this fall, beginning on the West Coast and heading for two premieres along the East Coast before traveling to Leeds for the film's European premiere: Sep 15-19, Temecula Valley Int'l Film and Music Festival, CA Oct 14-17, ...