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Ellis Marsalis - A New Orleans Christmas Carol (2011)

December 7, 2011

An expanded version of a 2002 Yuletide project, A New Orleans Christmas Carol impressively expands the original collaboration with Marsalis' son Jason (on drums and vibes), bassist Bill Huntington and vocalist Cynthia Liggins Thomas. The result is a tour-de-force for the often under-exposed patriarch of the Marsalis jazz family, and a seasonal record of sumptuous charm. ...

News: Recording

Recent Listening: The Brubeck Birthday Box

December 6, 2011

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: The Columbia Studio Albums Collection 1955-1967 Dave Brubeck turns 91 tomorrow, December 6, and Columbia Records is releasing a CD box containing all 19 of the Columbia albums that his quartet recorded in the studio. The earliest, Brubeck Time, was released in 1955 but recorded in the fall of 1954, three years ...

News: Recording

Jim Manley Releases Brass Poison Too

December 6, 2011

St. Louis trumpeter Jim Manley has released his new album Brass Poison Too as a download at the iTunes store. As the name suggests, the album (pictured) is a followup to Manley's previous release Brass Poison, and features a similar instrumental lineup, with Manley on trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone plus a ten-piece band, playing new ...

News: Recording

Dick Collins: Hidden Treasure

December 6, 2011

Trumpeter Dick Collins had a gorgeous sound in the '50s. Like trumpeters Don Fagerquist and Doug Mettome, Dick had a lyrical quality to his playing that was part brass, part vocalist. Dick's note choices on solos often roamed in just the right places, punctuating distinctly as he ran up and down chords. And Dick always managed ...

News: Performance / Tour

Tenor Sax Standout Seamus Blake Performs at Berklee's 939 Cafe on Wednesday, December 7

December 6, 2011

Jazz saxophonist Seamus Blake is performing at the Red Room at Cafe 939 in Boston on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets to the performance are $10 general admission and can be purchased online. The concert is part of a new NPR/ WBGO Jazz 88 FM concert series called The Check Out—Live at Berklee, ...

News: Recording

Ferit Odman - Autumn in New York (2011)

December 6, 2011

There's something at once familiar, and entirely brand new, about Turkish drummer Ferit Odman's just-released Autumn In New York. Taking his cue from jazz drumming and bandleading legend Art Blakey, Odman investigates a series of tunes associated with the Blakey band, and even includes former members of the Jazz Messengers collective. Odman, however, performs with a ...

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News: Recording

Tony Bennett Complete Collection

December 5, 2011

A bit of Tony Bennett news was lost in the shuffle earlier this fall. Between the media blitz for Bennett's Duets II CD and damage control following his unfortunate 9/11 attack remarks on Howard Stern's radio show, word came that Sony was releasing a box set. Out now is Tony Bennett: The Complete Collection (Sony)—an aircraft ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Greg Osby Sampler

December 4, 2011

This week, let's check out some clips of saxophonist, composer and St. Louis native Greg Osby, who will be returning home to play Wednesday, December 14 through Saturday, December 17 at Jazz at the Bistro. Osby, 51, first left St. Louis in 1978 to study at Howard University, and ...

News: Video / DVD

Muted Art

December 3, 2011

During the years in which Art Farmer (1928-1999) played trumpet as his main horn, his muted work was a pleasure to hear. After he switched to flugelhorn in the early 1960s, his playing took on greater lyricism and depth, but because there were no flugelhorn mutes, a satisfying aspect of his sound went by the wayside. ...

News: Book / Magazine

The Last Sultan: A Portrait of Ahmet Ertegun as the Great Seducer

December 3, 2011

"The Last Sultan," Robert Greenfield's biography of iconic Atlantic Record's founder Ahmet Ertegun, offers a very readable account of a man whose career began in the 1940s with recordings of African American music, extending through the development of rock and into the digital age. His work was cut short only by his death in 2006; and ...