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Article: Interview

Chucho Valdes: The Music Never Ends

Read "Chucho Valdes: The Music Never Ends" reviewed by Joan A. Cararach

by Joan A. Cararach

Chucho Valdés arrived at his All About Jazz interview confident: of his music and of Spain's victory in the South African FIFA World Cup. It was July 11th 2010, and for the first time in its history, Spain's national team had reached a World Cup final, in South Africa. A Cuban interested in football? “A lot ...

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Article: Interview

Chucho Valdés, música sin fin

Read "Chucho Valdés, música sin fin" reviewed by Joan A. Cararach

by Joan A. Cararach

Chucho Valdés acude al encuentro con AllAboutJazz confiado. En su música y en la victoria de España en el Mundial de fútbol de Sudáfrica. Es el 11 de julio del 2010, y por primera vez en su historia la selección española ha llegado a una final del Mundial, en Sudáfrica. ¿Un cubano interesado en el fútbol? ...

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Article: Album Review

Mitchel Forman: Lost and Found

Read "Lost and Found" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

This wonderfully strange disc, Lost and Found is the result of a confluence of spirits. Recorded in 1979, pianist Mitchel Forman was performing with Gerry Mulligan's quartet. Forman was invited to the Tuscan villa of Franca Mulligan's parents, Gerry's in-laws. There, Mulligan recorded the young pianist performing originals and Mulligan compositions. Besides a church-arty “Jeru," Forman ...

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Article: Album Review

Punch Brothers: Antifogmatic

Read "Antifogmatic" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

The bluegrass/newgrass envelope was updated and pushed by Nickel Creek. Mandolinist extraordinaire Chris Thile broke away for some solo excursions, returning with a quintet called The Punch Brothers, circa 2006. The group's third recording, Antifogmatic, shows their expansion of wooden music to not be slowing down. “Rye Whiskey" is a song in the tradition, but updated ...

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Article: Old, New, Borrowed and Blue

On The Sunny Side Of Jazz

Read "On The Sunny Side Of Jazz" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Summer is a time of joy for many people. Children are treated to a well-deserved vacation, allowing them to recharge for the following school year, and barbecues are held in backyards, en masse, throughout every corner of America and beyond. Those fond of the surf and sand flock to the beach, and it's all-too-common to see ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions 1956-62

Read "The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions 1956-62" reviewed by Eugene Holley, Jr.

by Eugene Holley, Jr.

"When I listen to these records now... when I listen to the Pershing, it's phenomenal, I must say. What they were doing, phenomenal, the lines and the purity. It's so pure ... It was sheer joy working with these two individuals. Master musicians," writes pianist/bandleader Ahmad Jamal in the liner notes to this collection.

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WartaJazz.com: An Indonesian Jazz Mission

Read "WartaJazz.com: An Indonesian Jazz Mission" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

In his book The Miracle: The Epic Story of Asia's Quest for Wealth (HarperCollins, 2009), Michael Schuman writes, “In little more than a generation, Asia has emerged from centuries of stagnation to become the rising force of the global economy--a transformation so spectacular that some have called it a miracle." WartaJazz.com founders in 2001, ...

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Jessica Williams: Musical Truths

Read "Jessica Williams: Musical Truths" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Pianist Jessica Williams begins a free-wheeling and fascinating conversation with a fan by thanking him for the kind words he has spoken about her music. Then she adds: “But you don't always have to say kind words, you know, as long as you always say the truth." It's advice that is very much in ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Jessica Williams: Touch

Read "Jessica Williams: Touch" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Jessica WilliamsTouchOrigin Records2010 Pianist Jessica Williams continues to evolve, and what a pure music lover's joy it is to hear an artist entering her sixth decade on a roll, growing and expanding her vision. Classically trained at the Peabody Conservatory, jazz-trained in the bands of Philly Joe ...

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Article: Live Review

Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2010

Read "Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2010" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard

Copenhagen Jazz Festival Various Venues Copenhagen, Denmark July 2-11, 2010With the current crisis of the major record labels and the folding of venues all over the world, it could be argued that jazz, as an art form, has entered the age of survival where it is simply a basic matter of ...


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