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Article: Album Review

Tamir Hendelman: Destinations

Read "Destinations" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
September 1, 2010

Destinations, pianist Tamir Hendelman's second CD as leader, is a bold and satisfying follow-up to his 2008 debut, Playground (Swing Bros). There are many fine pianists with impressive technique and swing who are convincing in a number of styles, play with real feeling, and contribute a tuneful original or two. What increasingly distinguishes Hendelman is his ...

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Article: Album Review

Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society

Read "Chamber Music Society" reviewed by Eugene Holley, Jr.

by Eugene Holley, Jr.
August 29, 2010

The jazz world hasn't been the same ever since the twenty-something Esperanza Spalding--the Oregon-born, Texas-based bassist/singer/composer/educator--burst on the scene at the change of the century. Her story as a self-taught, home schooled prodigy who graduated from Berklee and became that institution's youngest instructor; who gigged with everybody from Patti Austin and Pat Metheny to Joe Lovano; ...

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Article: Interview

Nobu Stowe: Beyond Free

by Glenn Astarita
August 25, 2010

The music of NS (Nobu) Stowe is synonymous with the musical storytelling characterized with spontaneity and melodic romanticism--a true rarity in the field of fully improvised music. Stowe has not only mastered the art of total improvisation--a method of fully improvised music that embraces song-like melody, tonal harmony and rhythmic propulsion as well as more commonly ...

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Article: Album Review

Junji Delfino: Here I Am

Read "Here I Am" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
August 22, 2010

Despite singing jazz for thirty years, Here I Am is Junji Delfino's first solo recording. Delfino has notable jazz pedigree: her father, Bert Delfino, was a leading jazz figure in post World War II Manila, playing drums in a trio with pianist Fred Robles--who founded the Musicians' Guild in the Philippines--and bassist Rudy Adriano, in the ...

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Article: Album Review

Fay Claassen with WDR Big Band Cologne: Sing!

by Edward Blanco
August 18, 2010

Internationally recognized Dutch vocalist Fay Claassen joins forces with the Grammy Award-winning WDR Big Band from Cologne, Germany and Berlin's Rundfunk Orchester, for her sixth album as leader with Sing!. Paying tribute to iconic female vocalists, the repertoire contains songs associated with jazz divas from Betty Carter, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington to singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell ...

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Article: Album Review

Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society

Read "Chamber Music Society" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes
August 3, 2010

On the opening track of her much-lauded, self-titled major label debut, Esperanza (Heads Up, 2008 ), bassist/vocalist Esperanza Spalding covered Milton Nascimento's timeless gem, “Ponta de Areia." Rather than covering another of the singer/composer's tunes on Chamber Music Society, Spalding recruits Nascimento to perform on her own “Apple Blossoms." It's but one example of a highly ...

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News: Festival

Chopin, Bobby McFerrin, NDR Bigband (y Jaques Morelenbaum y Omar Sosa)

August 2, 2010

El 200 aniversario del nacimiento de Fryderyk Chopin va a tener este mes de agosto una especial celebración en el prestigioso Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, con el estreno el próximo 10 de agosto del espectáculo Bobby meets Chopin. Con arreglos y dirección de Gil Goldstein, Bobby McFerrin se ha unido en esta ocasión a la NDR Bigband. ...

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Article: Album Review

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim: Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim: The Complete Reprise Recordings

Read "Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim: The Complete Reprise Recordings" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
July 28, 2010

Finally.The Complete Reprise Recordings compiles every tune--all 20--that America's supreme vocalist recorded with Brazil's preeminent composer during their legendary late 1960s summits. The first ten comprise the famous, fantastic Francis Albert Sinatra / Antonio Carlos Jobim album arranged and orchestrated by Claus Ogerman, released by Reprise in 1967. Sinatra and Jobim reconvened two years ...

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Article: Live Review

Jazz Gunung 2010, Bromo, Indonesia

by Ian Patterson
July 15, 2010

Jazz Gunung 2010Bromo, IndonesiaJuly 3, 2010 Gunung is not the name of the town which hosts Jazz Gunung; in Bahasa--the predominant language of Indonesia--it means mountain. Mountain Jazz is as good a name as any given that this one-day festival is staged among the swirling clouds, some two thousand meters above sea ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Fred Hess Big Band / Timucua Jazz Orchestra / Michael Treni

by Jack Bowers
July 4, 2010

Fred Hess Big Band Hold On Dazzle Records 2010 When listening to Hold On, composer / arranger / saxophonist Fred Hess' fourteenth album as leader but first in front of a big band, one question immediately arises: What took him so long? As it turns out, recording his ...