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Article: Live Review

Dave Kline At Blues Alley

Read "Dave Kline At Blues Alley" reviewed by Mark Edelman


Dave Kline Blues AlleyWashington, DC June 20, 2025 Keyboard, guitar, bass and drums: a standard jazz quartet, no doubt, no argument. But add electric violin, trombone and the Chinese dulcimer and you've got something entirely different. Dave Kline and friends brought that unique line-up and a passel of original tunes to ...

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Article: Album Review

Freddie Hubbard: On Fire: Live At The Blue Morocco

Read "On Fire: Live At The Blue Morocco" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard (1938 -2008) began his professional jazz journey in 1960 as a full-blooded hard bopper, recording his first album in that year for Blue Note Records, Open Sesame. Much of the ensuing decade saw him in several Blue Note outings under his own name and as a side man. He also recorded sets for ...

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Article: Album Review

Hans Luchs: The Spell is Broken

Read "The Spell is Broken" reviewed by Artur Moral


The third record by NYC-based guitarist Hans Luchs arrives six years after his praiseworthy--but largely overlooked--sophomore release, Until Next Time (Self Produced, 2018). As with that album, the Chicagoan embraces the well-known motto of “less is more," distilling his guitar expertise and writing talent into less than forty minutes across eight new original compositions.

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Article: Liner Notes

Nathan Davis Quintet: The Hip Walk

Read "Nathan Davis Quintet: The Hip Walk" reviewed by Ken Dryden


There are numerous examples of talented American jazz musicians who had long careers but were overlooked by critics, broadcasters and much of the jazz audience, often because they spent decades as full time jazz educators, which limited their opportunities to tour in support of their recordings. Nathan Davis, primarily known as a tenor and soprano saxophonist, ...

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Article: Chats with Cats

The Musician / Entrepreneur: Eddie Roberts

Read "The Musician / Entrepreneur: Eddie Roberts" reviewed by B.D. Lenz


Throughout my Chats with Cats columns I've tried to seek out information and advice from professionals across the jazz spectrum to give musicians, like myself, the tools to forward their own careers. This is an unprecedented time where technology has put it all out there for the taking. I discuss all of this in my Mind ...

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Article: Album Review

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk (Deluxe Edition)

Read "Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk (Deluxe Edition)" reviewed by Chris May


Rhino's new series of reissues of historic albums from the late 1950s/early 1960s hit the ground running in 2020 with John Coltrane's Giant Steps (Atlantic, 1960). Spring 2022 has already seen Charles Mingus' Trio (Jubilee, 1957) and Coltrane's My Favorite Things (Atlantic, 1961). Hot on their heels comes Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious ...

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Article: Album Review

Quentin Collins Sextet: Road Warrior

Read "Road Warrior" reviewed by Chris May


Hard-bop with a modern twist from the British trumpeter Quentin Collins, who is probably best known for his work with the Kyle Eastwood Band and who leads his own transatlantic group on Road Warrior. The frontline is completed by two British-based saxophonists, Leo Richardson on tenor and Meilana Gillard on alto. The rhythm section is out ...

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Article: Profile

A Vintage Year For Jessica Felix And The Healdsburg Jazz Festival

Read "A Vintage Year For Jessica Felix And The Healdsburg Jazz Festival" reviewed by Arthur R George


It's a 20th anniversary vintage year for the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, pouring over the first ten days of this coming June, in the Sonoma County “wine country" 70 miles north of San Francisco. That there is a festival at all is due to the tenacity of its artistic director Jessica Felix, who planted jazz in Healdsburg ...

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One By One

Featuring the music of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
Duration: 8:46

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, featuring Terence Blanchard on trumpet, Donald Harrison on alto sax and Jean Toussaint on tenor sax, Charles Fambrough on bass and Johnny O'Neil on piano.
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Along Came Betty

Featuring the music of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
Duration: 9:34

All-star jazz bands don't get any more "all-star" than this! From a German TV special in 1989 celebrating Art's 70th birthday, we get to watch a group of Blakey sidemen past and present play "Along Came Betty". Bryan Lynch tp, Freddie Hubbard tp, Terence Blanchard tp, Jackie McLean as, Donald Harrison as, Javon Jackson ts, Wayne Shorter ts, Benny Golson ts, Frank Lacy tbn, Curtis Fuller tbn Geoff Keezer p, Walter Davis Jr. p, Buster Williams b, Roy Haynes d.

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