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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Rolando Grooscors

Read "Take Five With Rolando Grooscors" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Rolando Grooscors: Guitarist Rolando Grooscors is a rare find on today's jazz/world music scene, a unique voice that strengthens and expands the jazz idiom with sensitivity,clarity, and uncompromising integrity, Rolando's warm,expressive tones and impeccable phrasing have been delighting audiences wherever he goes. The 2 times latin grammy nominee Rolando Grooscors was born in Caracas, Venezuela. ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Eberhard Weber: Colours

Read "Eberhard Weber: Colours" reviewed by John Kelman


As the jazz-rock fusion movement gained ground from its early years in the late 1960s through its glory days in the early-to-mid-1970s—blending the more sophisticated harmonies of jazz with rock music's rhythmic power and high volume—all too often it was about muscular chops and complex writing for the sake of it. Little attention was paid to ...

Article: Album Review

Allan Holdsworth: Blues for Tony

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Questo doppio CD, registrato nel 2007, racchiude il meglio di un tour che ha visto Allan Holdsworth, Alan Pasqua, Jimmy Haslip e Chad Wackerman scendere in campo per omaggiare il batterista Tony Williams. Il chitarrista Holdsworth e il tastierista Pasqua hanno militato nel New Tony Williams Lifetime, il quartetto che registrò gli album Believe It e ...

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Blues For Tony

Label: Ash Records
Released: 2009

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The Winterfold Collection 1978-1986

Label: KOCH Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Back To The Beginning; Seems Like A Lifetime Ago Pt.1; Seems Like A Lifetime Ago Pt.2; Hell's Bells; Travels With Myself, And Someone Else; Age Of Information; The Sliding Floor; Symmetry; Blue Brains; Flags; Everything You've Heard Is True; Sample And Hold; Adios A La Pasada.

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Pete McCann: Looking Forward

Read "Pete McCann: Looking Forward" reviewed by Matthew Warnock


Jazz guitarist and educator Pete McCann has been a first-call sideman and bandleader on the New York scene for almost twenty years. Possessing a musical style that draws from the blues, jazz and rock genres, McCann's playing and writing styles are as diverse as his influences. Having worked with such world-class performers as Lee Konitz, Chris ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Konnex Records

Read "Konnex Records" reviewed by Celeste Sunderland


One night in the early '70s, saxophonist Trevor Watts and drummer John Stevens were playing a concert in West Berlin. After the show, a tall, elegant, German man by the name of Manfred Schiek asked if he could buy one of their records. But they didn't have one. “There was an oil crisis at the time ...

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Article: Album Review

Jakko M. Jakszyk: Waves Sweep The Sand

Read "Waves Sweep The Sand" reviewed by John Kelman


It's rare that an album of outtakes and rejected music not only succeeds, but actually hangs together as a cohesive work in its own right. As the only member of 21st Century Schizoid Band (performing late-1960s/early-1970s-era Crimson repertoire) who wasn't a King Crimson alum, Jakko M. Jakszyk not only handled the daunting challenge of Crimson co-founder ...

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Article: Interview

Jonathan Kreisberg: Unearthed

Read "Jonathan Kreisberg: Unearthed" reviewed by Matthew Warnock


The world of jazz guitar has long been filled with some of the most storied names in jazz history. Artists such as Charlie Christian, Johnny Smith, Wes Montgomery, Pat Metheny and John Scofield have all become recognized as some of jazz's greatest innovators and most prolific performers.In a day and age when it seems ...

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Article: Live Review

Allan Holdsworth Trio: Gatineau, Canada

Read "Allan Holdsworth Trio: Gatineau, Canada" reviewed by John Kelman


Allan Holdsworth TrioMaison de la Culture de Gatineau Gatineau, Canada September 28, 2009 In a trio, changing only one member can make a tremendous difference. It's been two years since guitar legend Allan Holdsworth last performed in eastern Canada but, with an eight-city tour focused largely in the province of Quebec, it's ...


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