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Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2010
by Jakob Baekgaard
Copenhagen Jazz FestivalVarious VenuesCopenhagen, DenmarkJuly 2-11, 2010 With the current crisis of the major record labels and the folding of venues all over the world, it could be argued that jazz, as an art form, has entered the age of survival where it is simply a basic matter of keeping ...
Remembering Hank Jones
Hank Jones Biography Henry “Hank" Jones (born July 31, 1918; died May 16, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer. Critics and musicians have described Jones as eloquent, lyrical, and impeccable. In 1989, The National Endowment for the Arts honored Hank Jones with its highest honor in jazz, the NEA Jazz Masters Award. He ...
Hank Jones: With Oliver Jones & the Great Jazz Trio
by Joel Roberts
Oliver Jones and Hank JonesPleased to Meet YouJustin Time2010 The Great Jazz TrioMoreoverTest of Time2010 Hank Jones continues his remarkable late-in-life surge of activity with this new release documenting his ...
Take Five with Assaf Kehati
by AAJ Staff
Meet Assaf Kehati:Israeli/Bostonian jazz guitarist Assaf Kehati has been performing with legendary drummer Billy Hart and up-and-coming bassist Noam Wiesenberg for the past two years. For a recent Regattabar concert, Kehati's trio expanded to a quartet after renowned saxophonist Eli Degibri (Al Foster's Band) joined the group. The quartet plays both Kehati's and Hart's ...
Introducing Assaf Kehati
by Timothy J. O'Keefe
Boston's local jazz scene draws from a fertile ground of musicians attending the Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory. Within the city's various clubs, it's possible to frequently catch young musicians while they're still establishing their careers. One such musician presently on the Boston scene is Israeli guitarist Assaf Kehati. Kehati's ...
Love, Peace and Jazz!
By Al Foster
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Released: 2009
Track listing:
01. The Chief (Al Foster) - 10:35; 02. ESP (Wayne Shorter) - 11:35; 03. Blue in Green (Miles Davis) - 14:14;
04. Peter's Mood (Al Foster) - 10:51; 05. Brandyn (Al Foster) - 13:44; 06. Fungii Mama (Blue Mitchell) - 8:27.
Django Reinhardt Festival, Steve Gadd, Steve Grossman, Bucky Pizzarelli and Ken Peplowski
by Martin Longley
The 10th Anniversary Django Reinhardt NY FestivalBirdlandNovember 4, 2009 This six-night residency celebrated a decade of Djangofests at Birdland, where the principle aim is to see how many Reinhardt guitar disciples can be jammed onstage at any one time. Over the years, the organizers, Pat Philips and Ettore Stratta, have ...
Roberta Gambarini: Making Listeners Fall 'So In Love'
by R.J. DeLuke
It's been an out-of-the-ordinary career trip for Roberta Gambarini--a trip that's seen her go from a young girl in Italy, scatting along with records by American singers Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, to struggling to get singing gigs in her native land, to grabbing an opportunity to come to the United States, to gaining recognition by ...
New Morning Paris Concert
by Chris Kompanek
Al Foster New Morning Paris Concert Inakustik 2009 Al Foster played with Miles Davis for several years in the '70s, appearing on Get Up With It, On The Corner, Big Fun, Dark Magus, Agharta, and reuniting with him in the '80s for The Man With The Horn, We ...
Roberta Gambarini: So In Love
by C. Michael Bailey
In his book The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide, music writer Scott Yanow presents a list of the 30 most important jazz singers. One name most likely to join that group, Yanow believes, is that of Roberta Gambarini. Very quickly, this talented Italian singer has established herself as an artist to be considered seriously in the ...
