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News: Radio

The Jazz Session #185: Marc Copland

July 26, 2010

Pianist Marc Copland joins Dave Liebman, Billy Hart, Drew Gress and John Abercrombie in the band Contact. Their new album is Five On One (Pirouet Records, 2010). In this interview, Copland talks about the formation of the band and his relationships with the individual members; his years in D.C. and his switch from saxophone to piano; ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Meets Classical at the Miller Theater

July 26, 2010

Improvisation, a fundamental quality of jazz, is by nature a risky business. The act usually involves a confrontation between two perspectives--that of a composer and that of a performer or performers--with the goal of achieving a combination informed and enriched by both perspectives. At its idealistic peak, as in recent large-ensemble works by the composer and ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Chicago Live Jazz Music (July 24-July 30, 2010) Schedule

July 26, 2010

Here is what's happening with the live music Chicago Jazz Scene for the dates July 17th thru July 24th, 2010...Andy's Jazz Club11 East Hubbard St.Chicago, IL 60611312.642.6805ANDY'S WEEKENDSFRIDAY & SATURDAY HEADLINERS!$10 Admission until 8:30 pm; $15 Admission after 8:30 pmUpcoming performancesJuly & AugustSundays--5pm Jordan Baskin ...

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News: Award / Grant

JEN and Berklee join to present John LaPorta Jazz Educator of the Year Award

July 26, 2010

The Jazz Education Network and Berklee College of Music will collaborate to present the John LaPorta Jazz Educator of the Year award. The award is named after legendary jazz educator John LaPorta who served as a distinguished professor at Berklee for more than three decades prior to his death in 2004 and played a pivotal role ...

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News: Festival

Ybor Jazz Festival Set for Nov. 2-7 at the HCC Campus

July 26, 2010

Jazz festivals in Tampa have come and gone, and most--like the USF Jazz Festival and the Ybor Jazz Festa--have been short-lived, if often impressive. Now here comes the first Ybor Jazz Festival, and its slogan and lineup make clear its musical intentions: “There's nothing smooth about it!" Some of the area's finest jazz artists, including pianists ...

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News: Recording

Prince, "20ten" (2010)

July 26, 2010

By Nick DerisoPrince, on “20Ten," sounds like his old self again. The one you used to go buy.That starts with “Compassion," this thunderous, ass-shaking opener, in the style of every Prince album that mattered back in the day. “Beginning Endlessly," firing off with a titanic keyboard riff reminiscent of Yarbrough and Peoples' ...

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News: Recording

One Track Mind: Tom Waits "Please Wake Me up" (1987)

July 26, 2010

After listening to certain Tom Waits songs, I get to thinking about what the man might have stored in his garage. Sure, it's become sort of a cliché, doing a mental inventory of Waits' collection of bullhorns and whatnot, but it sure is fun.Even more fun is doing an inventory of my own garage ...

News: Opinion

Safety in Numbers

July 26, 2010

The trigger for this was reading that today is Annie Ross' birthday. As far as I'm concerned (and it's a safe bet no one else is), there has never been a greater female 'parts' singer than Annie. Not just parts, but the vocalese solos she sang with Lambert and Hendricks. Fantastic range, intonation and phrasing. I ...

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News: Obituary

Award-Winning Blues Guitarist and Vocalist Phillip Walker, 1937 - 2010

July 26, 2010

Celebrated blues guitarist and vocalist Phillip Walker passed away as the result of heart failure in Palm Springs, CA (near his hometown of Los Angeles) on July 22, 2010. He was 73. Over the course of his 50-plus year career, Walker recorded many solo albums, toured with zydeco master Clifton Chenier and played behind countless blues ...

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News: Video / DVD

Connee Boswell, 1934: "Isn't It a Shame?"

July 25, 2010

Even though Ella Fitzgerald insisted that Connee Boswell was her first and perhaps greatest influence, Connee hasn't been given her due. Perhaps because there hasn't been a proper reissue of her solo recordings (as opposed to the well-deserved attention given to the recordings she made with her sisters) listeners don't pay enough attention to her solo ...