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Mike Longo Trio: Sting Like A Bee
by Edward Blanco
Pianist Mike Longo has a couple of things in common with legendary heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali: first, they both employed the same phrase throughout their careers--"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"--and second,, they both deliver quite a punch, Ali with his fists and Longo on the keys. Sting Like a Bee--dedicated to Longo's father, ...
Lionel Hampton Centennial
by Laurel Gross
Lionel HamptonCentennial CelebrationPablo/Telarc - Concord2009 Lionel Hampton Big BandThe European Concerts, 1953-1954Fremeaux & Associes2009 Lionel HamptonMostly BluesNimbus Records2009 Straight out of ...
Grant Green: Matador
by Matt Marshall
Grant Green Matador Blue Note / Music Matters 2009 (1964) This may be the reissue of 2009: a resplendent vinyl pressing of guitarist Grant Green's Matador on two 180-gram, 45-rpm records from Music Matters. This May 1964 recording was, like many Blue Note sets, not released until many years later ...
Sonny Rollins Returns to the Kimmel Center
by Victor L. Schermer
Sonny RollinsVerizon HallKimmel Center for the Performing ArtsPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaSeptember 25, 2009 Sonny Rollins has a large and enthusiastic fan base in Philadelphia so that, even in a time of economic recession, a packed house cheered on Rollins and his group as they provided a solid evening of straight ahead ...
Fred Hersch: No Limits
by Maxwell Chandler
From the start of his career as a sideman in the 1970s for such jazz luminaries as Joe Henderson, Art Farmer and Stan Getz to his own ensembles and solo projects, there has always been a great diversity and intensity to Fred Hersch's art. Having won a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for composition (2003) and having been ...
Jazz Icon Sonny Rollins Kicks Off Kimmel Center Presents 2009/10 Season, September 25
“...Rollins is still the reigning god of the tenor saxophone, one of jazz's most innovative and influential pioneers... a volcano of fierce inventiveness and raw, urgent power." Washington Post “Nobody rivals his fluid mastery..." Boston Globe Jazz icon Sonny Rollins kicks off Kimmel Center Presents 2009/10 season on Friday, September 25, 2009 at 8pm in Verizon ...
Take Five With Tommaso Cappellato
by AAJ Staff
Meet Tommaso Cappellato: Italian drummer and composer Tommaso Cappellato always strived to leave his mark as the founder and creator of numerous musical situations. His curiosity for different styles and continuous will for research led him to travel and explore various countries in the world to meet, learn from and collaborate with influential musical artists. During ...
TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival 2009
by Alain Londes
TD Canada Trust Toronto International Jazz Festival Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 26-July 5, 2009 The TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival enjoyed its 23rd edition this year with a structure similar to that of recent years. The Mainstage concerts in front of City Hall were a nightly focal point as well ...
Lee Morgan: Tom Cat
by Matt Marshall
Lee Morgan Tom Cat Blue Note / Music Matters 2008 (1980) Tom Cat continues Music Matter's program of re-releasing generally unavailable Blue Note sessions from the 1950s and 1960s on 45-rpm vinyl double albums. As Michael Cuscuna explains in the liner notes from the original 1980 release, Tom Cat was ...
Clifton Anderson: Legacy
by Maxwell Chandler
Clifton Anderson has been on a lifelong journey of artistic evolution. From his start as a child surrounded by a musical family, to formal education mixed with the practical experience of live gigs, Clifton's odyssey is ever-unfolding. Whether playing as a long-standing member of his uncle Sonny Rollins' band, helping to run the Doxy label or ...
