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News: Performance / Tour

Ed Wise & New Orleans Jazz in Cheltenham, PA on January 4th

Appearing at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts, 439 Ashbourne Rd, Cheltenham PA on January 4th 2012 will be bassist Ed Wise and his New Orleans Jazz Band. One show: 7:30-9PM. Tickets: $10/$5 for students. No advance sales. Free Refreshments! For info: 215-517-8337. This Jazz Bridge Neighborhood Concert Series is sponsored by Jazz Bridge, a 501C3 ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Kim Pensyl

Read "Take Five with Kim Pensyl" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Kim Pensyl: Kim Pensyl is a prolific jazz recording artist, composer and arranger who has twice been named one of Billboard's Top-20 Contemporary Jazz Artists of the Year. A pianist and trumpeter, he has had four Top-10 albums on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz chart. He has recorded with jazz legends such as Toots Thielemans, ...

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News: Recording

Al Hirt Our Man in New Orleans

Al Hirt Our Man in New Orleans

Paul Cacia was Al Hirt's lead trumpet player and contracted the brass section for what Al Hirt called his dream band, formed in the fall of 1979. At the time of receiving the phone call to join Al Hirt, Paul Cacia was first trumpet for the Ray Anthony Orchestra, he immediately gave notice. The Al Hirt ...

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Article: Interview

Tim Hagans: Trumpet and Musical Elegance

Read "Tim Hagans: Trumpet and Musical Elegance" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke


Trumpeter Tim Hagans, it appears at times, can almost fly under the radar. His splendid playing has been heard in a variety of contexts over the years, always creative, expressive, expansive. Maria Schneider expresses glee when he's able to be a part of her orchestra and help interpret her musical creations. He's been part of the ...

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Article: Interview

Peter Nero: The Laughter and The Challenges

Read "Peter Nero: The Laughter and The Challenges" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


Part 1 | Part 2 In July 2009, All About Jazz published an interview with legendary pianist and Philly Pops maestro Peter Nero. That interview jumped between his early musical development and his current 30-year tenure as founder and music director of the Philly Pops. There wasn't time then to ask him about what ...

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Article: Album Review

Mike Barone Big Band: Flight of the Bumblebee

Read "Flight of the Bumblebee" reviewed by Robert J. Robbins


For a quarter-century, Mike Barone provided arrangements for Doc Severinsen's NBC-TV <em>Tonight Show</em> Band, but these were seldom heard by anyone except the studio audiences for the actual telecasts (although excerpts were audible to viewers as intros and exits from commercial breaks). Since the band's dissolution more than fifteen years ago, however, Barone has been recording ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Augustus Pablo: The Mystic World of Augustus Pablo - The Rockers Story

Read "Augustus Pablo: The Mystic World of Augustus Pablo - The Rockers Story" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Augustus Pablo The Mystic World of Augustus Pablo - The Rockers Story Shanachie 2008 Jorge Luis Borges wrote The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim in 1936. On first reading, it's a book review of a detective novel by an obscure Indian lawyer. Except that there was no such book; the “review" is ...

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Article: Album Review

Frank Macchia: Saxolollapalooza

Read "Saxolollapalooza" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Way in the background on some classic big band recordings, there is a high-pitched aural glow, a sustained, ethereal, almost liturgical hum coming from somewhere in the reeds section. Duke Ellington's “There Shall Be No Night," from the great Blanton/Webster Band box set (Bluebird, 1990), has it. Partly it's the recording technology of the time, sufficiently ...

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Al Hirt: King Of Bourbon Street

Label: Tomato Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Stardust/Man With A Horn; Java; Boy Meets Horn; And The Angels Sing; Oh Marie, Marie; Rhapsody In Blue; Gonna Fly Now; Oh Mein Papa/Wonderful By Night; Ciribiribin; A Night In Tunisia; Boy Meets Horn Reprise; Tenderly; Gospel Of No Name City; After You've Gone.

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Article: Extended Analysis

Al Hirt: King Of Bourbon Street

Read "Al Hirt: King Of Bourbon Street" reviewed by Elliott Simon


Al Hirt King Of Bourbon Street Tomato Records 2005 Blowing one of the most potent horns since the Biblical Joshua led a septet outside Jericho, the late Al Hirt (1922-1999) has left us with a trumpet legacy characterized by a singular blend of power and precision. A master of myriad ...


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