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Article: Album Review

Peter Appleyard And The Jazz Giants: The Lost 1974 Sessions

Read "The Lost 1974 Sessions" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


While the aggregation of all-star jazz men featured on this previously unreleased, decades-old session may seem random at first glance, the great Benny Goodman is actually the musical tie that binds them all. In September of 1974, vibraphonist Peter Appleyard was part of a particularly strong Goodman sextet that appeared at Carnegie Hall. Appleyard had his ...

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News: Recording

Naxos of America and Arthaus Musik Announce the March 27 U.S. Launch of the Jazzhaus CD/DVD Series

Naxos of America and Arthaus Musik Announce the March 27 U.S. Launch of the Jazzhaus CD/DVD Series

Previously Unreleased “Live" Radio and Television Performances of Jazz Greats From the Archives of Sdwestrundfunk Stuttgart, Baden-Baden and Mainz First Quarterly Release (March 27) Includes CDs by Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Gerry Mulligan Sextet, Benny Goodman Orchestra featuring Anita O'Day JAZZHAUS—Label Story JAZZHAUS is a new music label featuring an indefinite number of audio and video jazz ...

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Article: Race and Jazz

BAM or JAZZ: Part Two!

Read "BAM or JAZZ: Part Two!" reviewed by Greg Thomas


Jazz, an art form given birth in the United States by descendents of the formerly enslaved, has a complicated relationship with race. Although race, as a popular idea, has no basis in biology, many people mentally adhere to the idea of dividing groups of people based on “race" as opposed to understanding how groups of people ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Bob Brookmeyer: Jack of All Trades, Master of Valves

Read "Bob Brookmeyer: Jack of All Trades, Master of Valves" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Bob Brookmeyer, a Renaissance man among jazz musicians who died December 15, 2011, four days before his eighty-second birthday, will be remembered as many things: composer, arranger, musician, educator, outspoken arbiter who brooked no nonsense and wasn't shy about letting others know when he believed they were not giving the music he loved the best they ...

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News: Obituary

MCG Jazz Remembers John Levy, Our Friend

MCG Jazz Remembers John Levy, Our Friend

John Levy, manager to countless jazz luminaries, dies at age 99. John Levy, a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and renowned personal manager for many jazz greats, died on January 20th, less than three months shy of his 100th birthday. His wife, Devra Hall Levy said he was sleeping peacefully in her arms at ...

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Article: Book Excerpts

Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion

Read "Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion" reviewed by Kevin Fellezs


This article appears in Chapter 3 of Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion by Kevin Fellezs (Duke University Press, 2011). Vital Transformation: Fusion's Discontents Ironically, fusion was, on the one hand, largely a concern for jazz participants and observers even though they largely denied its value or ...

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Article: Big Band Report

SuperSax Me

Read "SuperSax Me" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Back in the early 1970s bassist Buddy Clark and saxophonist Med Flory conceived a brilliant idea: to form a group (primarily a reed section with rhythm) that would use orchestrated arrangements of saxophonist Charlie Parker's transcendent bop solos as the basis for its music. As for a name, nothing less than SuperSax would suffice. The nine-piece ...

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Article: Year in Review

2011: The Year In Jazz

Read "2011: The Year In Jazz" reviewed by Ken Franckling


The ebb and flow of jazz in 2011 was marked by a Grammy Awards coup, a Grammy dustup, economic changes that consolidated the recording industry a bit, impacted clubs in various locales, and provided some new opportunities. The U.S. Postal Service literally put its stamp on jazz, even as the government wrestled with the future of ...

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Anthology

Label: Sonar Kollektiv
Released: 2011

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News: Book / Magazine

"Harlem Jazz Adventures" Set for January 2012 Release

COPENHAGEN: The first English edition of Harlem Jazz Adventures—A European Baron's Memoir, 1934-1969, is set for release in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom in January. Timme Rosenkrantz, the author, was a young Danish baron, son of a distinguished family, and the first European journalist to cover New York's blossoming Harlem music scene during ...


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