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Article: Jazz in the Aquarian Age

Dave Brubeck: The Inspired Moment of Unity

by Bob Kenselaar
April 17, 2012

[Standing tall with a flowing salt-and-pepper mane, Dave Brubeck had a broad smile and was quick to laugh when I met him in the fall of 1978 at publicist Peter Levinson's New York office for this interview. He was enjoying his tour with the New Brubeck Quartet, the group he formed with his sons. He reminisced ...

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Article: Interview

Michael Bisio: Stepping Into the Limelight

by Gregory Applegate Edwards
April 19, 2011

Bassist Michael Bisio has become an increasingly visual and aural presence on the jazz/improvisation scene in the time since he moved from the west coast to New York. Yet he has been a significant contributor in jazz circles for years, and success was no overnight thing. Among other ongoing associations, Bisio is currently the bassist in ...

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Folk Jazz

By Bill Smith

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. A-Roving 2. Greensleeves 3. Nobdy Knows the Trouble I've Seen 4. John Henry 5. Wayfaring Stranger 6. Three Blind Mice 7. Go Down, Moses 8. Blow the Man Down 9. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair 10. Reuben, Reuben 11. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen [Alternate Take 1] 12. Reuben, Reuben [Alternate Take 14].

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Article: Album Review

Bill Smith: Folk Jazz

Read "Folk Jazz" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert
June 25, 2003

Those few who recognize Bill Smith probably remember the recordings he made with the Dave Brubeck quartet replacing Paul Desmond in the horn chair (and fewer still have probably actually heard these recordings.) Yet the presence of West Coast luminaries like Jim Hall, Monty Budwig, and Shelley Manne certainly offers the possibility of a little-heard West ...

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Journey Without Maps

By Stan Keen

Label: Keen
Released: 1980
Track listing: Side 1: Matt; Turning To Spring; Violin Concerto in A Minor, 1st mvt.; Apache Nightmare Side 2: A Song for M; My Ship; Laura; Rockavibabe; Journey Without Maps