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What Makes Saxophone Stalwart Mel Martin Tick?

August 26, 2011

Playing alongside giants such as Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Boz Scaggs, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, James Brown, and B.B. King, Mel Martin has cut his teeth in the company of some of the jazz history's finest. With his outings as both a leader and solo artist, Martin has collected honors such as ...

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Catching up with Kristin Korb

August 25, 2011

Kristin Korb, you may recall, plays the bass as she sings or sings as she plays the bass. Take your pick; she does both equally well. This video is from a house-party concert she gave last year. The event was called Spring Soiree. The house provided a splendid view of the lights of Los Angeles. Korb's ...

News: Recording

Nels Cline Trio - Silencer (Enja, 2011) ****

August 25, 2011

By Paul Acquaro There is some quality to the Nels Cline Trio's Silencer that keeps making me think of the first album by the jazz-rock trio Gateway. Cline's guitar here is often a clean and clear fluid mix of single note runs and well placed double stops that echoes Abercrombie's work decades earlier. Likewise, Cline dirties ...

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John Scofield Trio - Enroute (2004)

August 25, 2011

By Mark Saleski It was at a small Japanese restaurant north of Boston (or south of Concord, New Hampshire, depending on your level of Hub-centricness). Sushi. Never had it before. You read about things like this for years. Suddenly, it's your turn. Step right up, it's time to end the mystery. Tuna, soy, wasabi, ginger ... ...

News: Recording

Average White Band - Live at Montreux 1977 (2011)

August 25, 2011

Improperly named, the Average White Band was anything but. First off, one of the rhythm guys, at least by this point, wasn't white. Second, and this is far more important, they funked it up with a vigor and style that would never be confused with average. Initially formed in the late 1960s by Scots saxophonists Malcolm ...

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Craig Taborn - Avenging Angel (2011)

August 25, 2011

Finally. After more than four years of noting on this space his key contributions to other people's records, including list-topping performances led by David Torn, Chris Potter and Michael Formanek, we get to talk about a record actually led by one of the very top keyboardists working in downtown New York today. That's because a few ...

News: Recording

Reed Trio - Last Train to the First Station (Kilogram Records, 2011)

August 25, 2011

The Reed Trio is a group consisting of Ken Vandermark, Mikolaj Trzaska and Waclaw Zimpel on various saxophones and reed instruments. For some reason I thought this music was recorded for a film soundtrack, and if so it makes quite a bit of sense. The music moves through a wide variety of textures and nuances in ...

News: Recording

The Bebop Trio Takes a Tradition and Makes It Personal

August 25, 2011

You hear a name like the Bebop Trio and you think, “Oh, OK, I think I know what this one is going to sound like." In the case at hand, you'd probably be wrong. The trio's self-titled debut (Creative Nation Music 018) is not at all the business-as-usual rehashed bebop bag. It has an unusual instrumentation: ...

News: Education

The Dakota Combo: Peer Support and All That Jazz

August 25, 2011

Another year, another Dakota Combo. Every September (since 2006), the MacPhail Cener for Music and Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education have joined forces to bring an intensive year of jazz studies to a highly selected, small ensemble of the area's top high school jazz artists. And every summer, there's that final performance of the Combo, the ...

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Spencer Bohren - Blackwater Music (2011)

August 25, 2011

Spencer Bohren, a Wyoming native now based in New Orleans, has travelled all over, yet still possesses a strong sense of place. He mounted an almost never-ending tour throughout the 1980s, but did so in an Airstream trailer with his wife and kids. In keeping, the spare and simply put Blackwater Music is a family recording ...