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Article: Interview

Tony Miceli: Vibes Matter

Read "Tony Miceli: Vibes Matter" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer

by Victor L. Schermer

Tony Miceli is a long-time master vibraphonist who, until a few short years ago, was relatively unknown outside of the Philadelphia area, when he started getting requests to perform and teach all over the world. Now, he is in demand in Ireland, South Korea, Argentina, and Australia, not to mention New York and the West Coast, ...

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Article: Album Review

Charles Lloyd: Manhattan Stories

Read "Manhattan Stories" reviewed by Vic Albani

by Vic Albani

È sempre più raro che il mercato discografico possa riesca a mettere le mani su, e poi pubblicare, gemme di particolare bellezza magari dimenticate in qualche cassetto oppure mai pubblicate prima per i più svariati motivi. Con l'incredibile meticolosità di sempre, la Resonance di Zev Feldman e George Klabin recupera oggi due scintillanti concerti di sua ...

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Article: Album Review

Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Blue

Read "Blue" reviewed by Maurizio Comandini

by Maurizio Comandini

Una domanda sorge spontanea: ma con questo Blue cosa volevano dimostrare? Il gruppo di Moppa Elliott si è scelto da subito un nome molto intrigante, Mostly Other People Do the Killing, che di sicuro non li fa passare inosservati. Poi, dal 2003, il quartetto ha cominciato un percorso artistico molto interessante che per certi versi fa ...

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Article: Live Review

Kurt Elling's Passion World at Jazz at the Kimmel

Read "Kurt Elling's Passion World at Jazz at the Kimmel" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer

by Victor L. Schermer

Kurt Elling: “Passion World" Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Perelman Theater Philadelphia, PA October 5, 2014 Kurt Elling has repeatedly proved his mettle as a vocalist, accumulating so many Downbeat awards and Grammy nominations that it seems superfluous to once again critique any of ...

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Article: Jazz Near Me

Mauricio de Souza Strikes the Right Note

Read "Mauricio de Souza Strikes the Right Note" reviewed by Gloria Krolak

by Gloria Krolak

Moonstruck Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge owners Luke Magliaro and Howard Raczkiewicz hired a trio not long ago for a Friday night gig at their popular bistro in Asbury Park, and they got a quartet. Drummer Mauricio de Souza and bassist Gary Mazzaroppi teamed up with pianist-trumpeter Alan Chaubert. Close your eyes and you hear a quartet. ...

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Article: Album Review

Toby Koenigsberg Trio: Drift

Read "Drift" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Pianist Toby Koenigsberg explored some of bop icon Bud Powell's tunes, the Great American Songbook gem “My Foolish Heart," and Bill Evans' “Show Type Tune" on his outstanding 2005 Origin Records release, Sense. And there was a warped (in a good sense) take on the “Stella By Starlight," also from the Great American Songbook. All of ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Marcin Wasilewski Trio w/ Joakim Milder: Spark of Life

Read "Marcin Wasilewski Trio w/ Joakim Milder: Spark of Life" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

What do you do when you've released three albums as a trio (more, if you include albums released in Poland, prior to coming to the label) for a producer who traditionally seems to like shaking things up after that magic number? For Polish pianist Marcin Wasilewski and his longstanding trio--first coming together in their teens, they've ...

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Article: Live Review

Outbeat Jazz Festival 2014

Read "Outbeat Jazz Festival 2014" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer

by Victor L. Schermer

Outbeat Jazz Festival Philadelphia, PA September 18-21, 2014 The Outbeat Jazz Festival, touted as “America's First Queer Jazz Festival," where the “Q-word" has become an “in" word, proved to be an innovative event that brought the public's attention to the important role of gay (LGBT) jazz musicians and composers. A series ...

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News: Performance / Tour

A Jazz Matinee with Larry Camp, Marty Morell, Bruce Wallace

A Jazz Matinee with Larry Camp, Marty Morell, Bruce Wallace

Bassist Bruce Wallace opened the South County Jazz Club's 2014-15 concert season Friday afternoon with a top-notch trio whose members had never worked together in this personnel grouping. It featured guitarist Larry Camp and drummer Marty Morell, best known in jazz circles for his seven-year stint in pianist Bill Evans' trio from 1968 to 1975. Musically, ...

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Article: Album Review

Marcin Wasilewski Trio with Joakim Milder: Spark of Life

Read "Spark of Life" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

At about the same time Louis Armstrong was “inventing" modern improvised jazz--Poland was already immersed in a jazz tradition that included American influences and an ethnic take on swing. Despite bouts with repressive regimes that sent jazz underground, Poland continued to be a progressive haven for the form. Through the 1950s and 1960s pianist/composer Krzysztof Komeda ...


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