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Article: Wide Open Jazz and Beyond

A Question of Time

by Alan Bryson
September 8, 2009

Imagine you were given the chance to go back in time and witness four musical events (one each from jazz, blues, classical, and rock history.) What would they be? That's an after-dinner topic friends might discuss by candlelight. If your inner-child has completely matured, perhaps you could approach it as a potential film: if you were ...

News: Radio

Popular Song on the Picket Lines

September 7, 2009

For the Labor Day holiday, the Afterglow program “Popular Song On the Picket Lines” features “social significance” music from the 1930s and 40s that had a political message behind it in one way or another, or alluded in humorous or poignant ways to issues and problems of the times. Many artists in those years were involved ...

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Article: Live Review

Leigh Sutherlin at Tango Del Rey, San Diego, CA

by Dan McClenaghan
September 7, 2009

Leigh Sutherlin QuartetTango Del ReySan Diego, CaliforniaAugust 16, 2009San Diego may not have the most robust of jazz scenes, but there are clubs out there doing their share to shine a bright light on artists local and national. Dizzy's In Downtown has been a local mainstay, featuring artists as diverse as ...

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News: Event

Philadelphia Charitable Concert Tribute to Billie Holiday: October 4, 2009

September 4, 2009

Fine and Mellow: Lady Day Remembered in Song. A Philadelphia Tribute to Billie Holiday An Upcoming Musical and Charitable Event: Sunday evening, October 4, 2009, 7:00pm; at Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany; 13th and Pine Steet, Center City, Philadelphia. (An open reception with the musicians fill follow the concert.) This exciting jazz event will ...

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Article: Profile

Lester Leaps In... To His 100th Birthday

by David Amram
August 31, 2009

For Lester Young on his 100th birthdayI just went to a birthday celebration I will never forget. Maybe some in America have forgotten Lester Young, known as Prez (i.e., the president of the tenor saxophone), but people all over the world are still moved every time they hear the classic recordings of ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

A Camera's Eye View: Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2009

by Bill King
August 29, 2009

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 1-12, 2009 There is something truly empowering situated behind the lens of a camera waiting with expectation for the moment when the soul, mind and body of an artist strike bare wires and something electric unexpectedly happens. Privately, ownership ...

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Article: Book Review

The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide

by Jim Santella
August 28, 2009

The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide Scott Yanow Softcover; 280 pages ISBN: 978-087930-825-4 Backbeat Books 2008 Anyone ever asked you to list your favorite CDs for a desert island stayover? What would Tom Hanks and Wilson listen to if they had had the foresight ...

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Article: Music and the Creative Spirit

Amiri Baraka: Perspectives on Music and Race

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
August 17, 2009

Amiri Baraka is the author of the insightful and comprehensive book, Blues People. It is a book that has opened many minds and readers to the African American Diaspora along with the history and roots of African American music. Baraka has now published a new book of essays titled, Digging (The Afro-American Soul of American Classical ...

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Article: Interview

Charles Davis: In the Air

by Terrell Kent Holmes
August 6, 2009

Saxophonist Charles Davis has spent the past few decades making history with such luminaries as Billie Holiday, Kenny Dorham, Abdullah Ibrahim, Clifford Jordan, Dinah Washington and Freddie Hubbard. Although Davis might be best known as one of the baritone players in the Sun Ra Arkestra, his many recordings and excellent performances outside of the Arkestral context ...

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Article: Album Review

April Hall: Fun Out of Life

Read "Fun Out of Life" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
August 2, 2009

The songs that April Hall has selected for Fun Out of Life contain an emotional pull that combines with memories from nearly a century of heart throbs and goose bumps. These songs send a chill down the spine simply because they're favorites and because each one contains a message that shines through comfortable musical elements.