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Article: Album Review

Daniel Smith: Bassoon Goes Latin Jazz!

Read "Bassoon Goes Latin Jazz!" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

The bassoon seems to be the homebody of the orchestral woodwind family. This double-reed dynamo rarely leaves the confines of the classical world, instead finding contentment in its comfort zone, playing classic works of yore. On the rare occasion that the instrument does wander outside of its safety net to converse in other musical environments, it ...

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Article: Live Review

Samba Jazz & The Music of Jobim: New York, NY, April 28, 2011

Read "Samba Jazz & The Music of Jobim: New York, NY, April 28, 2011" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes

Samba Jazz & The Music of Antonio Carlos JobimDizzy's Club Coca-ColaNew York, NYApril 28, 2011 The music of Antonio Carlos Jobim was at the center of this five-day (April 28-May 3) residency featuring Duduka Da Fonseca (drums), Helio Alves (piano), Claudio Roditi (trumpet), Toninho Horta (electric and acoustic guitars, vocals), George ...

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Article: Interview

Omar Sosa: Bringing The World To The World

Read "Omar Sosa: Bringing The World To The World" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Pianist/composer Omar Sosa was born in Cuba in the first decade of Fidel Castro's rule over the island, and grew up listening to forbidden American jazz with his music school friends in secret, the radio discretely turned low, though eventually the rules changed and the music was broadcast in Cuba, too. After Cuba and a short ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Omar Sosa: A Week At The Blue Note And Across America

Omar Sosa: A Week At The Blue Note And Across America

The impressionistic, universal sound of Omar Sosa comes to America for three weeks with his Afreecanos Quartet, beginning on April 27, 2011 at Dakota Jazz Club, Minneapolis and ending on May 18 at Yoshi's in San Francisco, the place where it all started for the Cuban-born world jazz creator in the late '90s. During the tour, ...

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Article: Album Review

Valeria Proano: Retrato En Blanco Y Negro

Read "Retrato En Blanco Y Negro" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

Valeria Proaño began her professional singing career at the age of 15 and for the past 16 years has been performing in the U.S. and around the world, singing jingles for TV and radio as well as performing as backup vocals for major Latin music artists. Retrato En Blanco Y Negro (portrait in black and white) ...

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News: Recording

Sachal Jazz: Jazz Standards Recorded in Lahore, Pakistan

Sachal Music presents Sachal Jazz: Interpretations of Jazz Standards & Bossa Nova by the Sachal Studios Orchestra, Lahore Recorded at Sachal Studios Lahore, Pakistan and Abbey Road Studios, London, a collection of jazz classics fused with the traditional classical music of Pakistan and India Physical release date May 17th; Digital release date April 12th On May ...

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Article: Album Review

Mark Weinstein: Jazz Brasil

Read "Jazz Brasil" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

Mark Weinstein has quietly established himself as one of the most wildly inventive flutists in modern memory. He is also one of the finest virtuoso players in the entire spectrum of 20th and 21st century music. His only rivals may well be the late Eric Dolphy, the Canadians, Jane Bunnett and Bill McBirnie, and, of course, ...

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News: Recording

"JAZZ ROOTS: Music of the Americas" Out April 5th!

Sony MASTERWORKS Jazz in partnership with producer Larry Rosen will release JAZZ ROOTS: The Music of the Americas, the first compilation of this new branded series which traces the story of Jazz starting with the “Drums from Africa" and their effect on the musical DNA of the Americas. The historical descriptions for the package have been ...

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Article: Album Review

Peter Scharli Trio featuring Ithamara Koorax: O Grande Amor

Read "O Grande Amor" reviewed by Douglas Payne

by Douglas Payne

In their second recording together, Swiss trumpeter Peter Schärli and Brazilian singer Ithamara Koorax have come up with a beautiful reflection on Brazilian music that goes far above and beyond expectation. Schärli, whose attractive sound and complimentary interjections suggest the influence of Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko, and Koorax were first brought together in 2006 ...

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Article: Live Review

The Evan Moore Quartet: Little Rock, March 5, 2011

Read "The Evan Moore Quartet: Little Rock, March 5, 2011" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

The Evan Moore Quartet Featuring Brittany CampbellJerry B'sLittle Rock, ArkansasMarch 5, 2011 Few will mistake Little Rock, Arkansas for a jazz mecca. The city was not the jazz hotbed that Kansas City and Memphis were. but that does not mean that there is no jazz in the city. In the ...


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