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Craig Handy: The Busiest Man In Jazz

by Robert Dugan
March 22, 2010

Saxophonist Craig Handy is a musician's musician. Those “in the know" know about him, which is why he's been a first call player in New York for over two decades. He is a careful, thoughtful improviser—expansive and precise. His solos build on a rich knowledge of the tradition at the same time as they often set ...

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Kenny Burrell: Prime: Live at the Downtown Room

Read "Prime: Live at the Downtown Room" reviewed by Graham L. Flanagan

by Graham L. Flanagan
March 7, 2010

Guitarist Kenny Burrell remains one of the few living jazz giants to emerge from the hard bop movement of the mid-1950s. Set to turn 79 this summer [2010], Burrell still occasionally performs, when he isn't too busy with his position as Head of Jazz Studies at UCLA, including a week at Yoshi's that was culled into ...

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Nancy Harms: In the Indigo

Read "In the Indigo" reviewed by Bridget A. Arnwine

by Bridget A. Arnwine
March 4, 2010

Jazz vocalist Nancy Harms presents In the Indigo, a sultry yet intelligent offering of old standards, original material, and the occasional pop cover. She sings like a woman who's sure of herself. Whether singing John Mayer's “Great Indoors" or Irving Berlin's “Blue Skies" she has a way of making even the simplest lyric sound like a ...

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Youn Sun Nah: Seoul to Soul

by Ian Patterson
March 2, 2010

Since she moved to Paris in 1995, Korean jazz singer Youn Sun Nah has won over French and Korean audiences alike with her rather special voice; dramatic, sensuous and bluesy, it is a tantalizing cross between Bjork and Melody Gardot. Hers is a jazz soul.For years, she led the Youn Sun Nah 5Tet and ...

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Nik Turner: Bringing the Music to the People

by Jack Gold-Molina
February 24, 2010

Nik Turner is perhaps best known as the founding saxophonist and flautist for pioneering “space rock" band Hawkwind. As well as contributing to the profound influence that this band has had on rock and punk with its focus on community and grassroots movements--including its many benefit shows and long-standing support of England's free festivals, Turner may ...

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Vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater Interviewed at AAJ

February 22, 2010

It is almost inevitable for most people to think of Billie Holiday as a wounded human being who suffered, struggled and eased her pain with drugs and song lyrics on her way to self destruction in 1959. In her greatness, Billie was as devastating and as devastated as a summer with no water. And yet her ...

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Dee Dee Bridgewater: Dee Dee on Billie

by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
February 22, 2010

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Maria Neckam: Deeper

Read "Deeper" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
February 16, 2010

It's not often that a singer like Maria Neckam comes along. Blessed with a voice that she can set free as it flutters and streaks into stellar regions of music, Neckam is still able to keep it in control. She has a natural ability for heartbreaking emotion, in much the same way that Billie Holiday did. ...

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Article: Book Review

Subway Moon

by Jakob Baekgaard
February 10, 2010

Subway Moon Roy Nathanson Soft cover; 134 pages ISBN 978-3-00-025376-8 Buddy's Knife 2009 Poetry, like music, is about movement. Both art forms move from one note, or word, to another, trying to catch the essence of the moment. Saxophonist and composer Roy Nathanson has long worked ...

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Indra: Indra

Read "Indra" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
February 5, 2010

Thanks to the unpredictable ways of life, Indra Rios-Moore, a female jazz singer from Manhattan, has ended up in Denmark where she now lives with her husband whom she met in New York in the spring of 2006. The reason for the move was love, but in the case of Indra, love and ...