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Article: Live Review

North Sea Jazz Festival, July 8-10, 2011

Read "North Sea Jazz Festival, July 8-10, 2011" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke

by R.J. DeLuke

North Sea Jazz FestivalJuly 8-10, 2011AhoyRotterdam, The Netherlands The North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands is staggering in size, touted as the world's largest indoor jazz festival and that's certainly a good bet. With 13 stages running from late afternoon until the early morning hours, it's far more than a ...

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News: Radio

Cole Porter's Songs This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

Cole Porter's Songs This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, singer Nina Ferro joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for a concert of Cole Porter compositions live from the Filoli Estate in California. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on- demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You could ...

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News: Recording

Putumayo Presents "Jazz," a Collection of Exceptional Recordings by Jazz Legends

Putumayo Presents "Jazz," a Collection of Exceptional Recordings by Jazz Legends

Putumayo announces the May 3rd release of Jazz, featuring a veritable who's who of jazz legends performing beloved standards. The 1950s was a golden age for jazz and three-quarters of this collection was recorded during this era. Many of these recordings have been remixed and remastered, providing a level of sound quality not available until recent ...

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Article: Film Review

Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm - Portrait Of A Jazz Legend

Read "Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm - Portrait Of A Jazz Legend" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Stan KentonArtistry In Rhythm: Portrait Of A Jazz LegendJazzed Media2011 “I thought that [Stan] was an echo of life itself: that life is precious, life is exquisite, and life is magnificent. He lived it, and his legacy points to some of those values. Whether we are able ...

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News: Recording

Putumayo Presents "Jazz," a Collection of Exceptional Recordings by Jazz Legends

Featured Artists: Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans * Mose Allison * Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson * Chet Baker * Blossom Dearie * Hampton Hawes * Billie Holiday * The Nat King Cole Trio * Anita O'Day * Nina Simone * Zoot Sims * Maxine Sullivan Putumayo announces the May 3rd release of Jazz, featuring a ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Caravan Palace and The Spirit of Zazou

Read "Caravan Palace and The Spirit of Zazou" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

Caravan PalaceCaravan PalaceWrasse Records2011 Caravan Palace is a Paris-based sextet which, augmented on its debut album by seven guest musicians, is propelling manouche (French Gypsy jazz) into the digital age. It is to the genre something like the Gotan Project is to tango, but without the dark ...

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Anita Sings For Oscar

By Anita O'Day

Label: Specific Jazz
Released: 2010

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Scott Lee

Read "Take Five With Scott Lee" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Scott Lee:Scott Lee switched from a career in tennis at UNC-CH to jazz, after hearing the Bill Evans Trio. Arriving in NY in the '70s, he worked with Chet Baker, Lee Konitz, Al Cohn, Red Rodney, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Lovano, Kenny Werner, Andy Statman, Chris Conner, Morgana King, Helen Merrill, Betty Buckley, and ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

Online Jazz Bookshop Thrives in Ontario Hills

Read "Online Jazz Bookshop Thrives in Ontario Hills" reviewed by Fradley Garner

by Fradley Garner

Would you pay $8,750 for a used but pampered hardcover copy of the classic Lady Sings the Blues, autographed by Billie Holiday? If you were a jazz bibliophile with deep pockets, and the book was a declared first edition, “boldly and handsomely SIGNED and inscribed at the first blank page"-- and, according to ...

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Article: Album Review

Lauren Hooker: Life Of The Music

Read "Life Of The Music" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Singer and pianist Lauren Hooker takes chances on Life Of The Music, her second album. She sets her own compositions up against classics of American music, re-works old favourites and uses some vocal shifts and inflections that other singers might think twice about. And thank goodness she does, because in doing so Hooker has assembled a ...


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