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Article: Big Band Report

Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, It's Off To Jazz We Go . . .

Read "Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, It's Off To Jazz We Go . . ." reviewed by Jack Bowers


Just west of Albuquerque, across the Rio Grande River, lies the picturesque village of Corrales (population around 7,500). Among its residents (and natural resources) is world-renowned jazz trumpeter Bobby Shew. With a musician of his caliber within arm's reach, it would have been imprudent not to call upon him to take part in the village's Music ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Gerry Mulligan / J.J. Johnson / Sarah Vaughan / Misha Mengelberg & Piet Noordijk: Live At Concertgebouw

Read "Gerry Mulligan / J.J. Johnson / Sarah Vaughan /  Misha Mengelberg & Piet Noordijk: Live At Concertgebouw" reviewed by David Rickert


The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam was a stop for quite a few notable jazz musicians during the 1950s and '60s, and for the past few years the Dutch Jazz Archive has released a concert from their archive at the rate of one per year. Judging by what has been released, it seems that many of these musicians ...

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Article: Interview

Ray Scro: What Jazz Education Means

Read "Ray Scro: What Jazz Education Means" reviewed by Andrew J. Sammut


For Ray Scro, music education is a redundancy. He's been performing, studying and teaching music for nearly fifty years in his home of Staten Island, and throughout New York City. In the early seventies Scro studied under saxophonist and guru Lee Konitz, and he's played with Jimmy Knepper, Chuck Wayne, Charlie Persip, and Chico Hamilton, among ...

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News: Event

Celebration of Fred Smith's Birthday with Travel Through the History of Jazz: Part 2-- The Jazz Age: Swing is the Thing

Celebration of Fred Smith's Birthday with Travel Through the History of Jazz: Part 2-- The Jazz Age: Swing is the Thing

Fred Smith is an icon of our times. He has amassed an incredible wealth of experience as a performing musician and jazz historian. To celebrate Fred's birthday is a celebration of Fred's life. To experience Fred Smith is but a gift! Jazz historian Clarence Irving, multi-instrumentalist Premik Russell Tubbs and many others will be on board ...

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Article: Interview

Sam Stephenson: A "Loft-y" Vision of Jazz

Read "Sam Stephenson: A "Loft-y" Vision of Jazz" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


When, in 1997, writer, scholar, and archivist Sam Stephenson serendipitously came across audio tapes, photographs and other documents involving jazz musicians congregating in photographer W. Eugene Smith's Manhattan loft in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he was surprised as anyone. The wall of cartons had been unopened since before Smith's death in 1978. Stephenson and ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Mike Barone / National Youth Jazz Orchestra / Vaughn Wiester / Dutch Jazz Orchestra

Read "Mike Barone / National Youth Jazz Orchestra / Vaughn Wiester / Dutch Jazz Orchestra" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Mike Barone Big Band Class of '68 Rhubarb Recordings 2009 While some may deem composer / arranger / trombonist Mike Barone's latest album gratuitous, those who were introduced to Barone's music via the band's superb recording Live at Donte's, 1968 should take enormous pleasure in hearing further inspired ...

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Night Lights

Label: Phillips
Released: 1963
Track listing: Night Lights; Morning Of The Carnival From Black Orpheus; Wee Small Hours; Prelude In E Minor; Festive Minor; Tell Me When.

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The Street Swingers

Label: Artist
Released: 1958
Track listing: Street Swingers; Hot Buttered Noodling;

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Stan Getz Plays

Label: Verve Records
Released: 1955


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