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Article: Album Review

Yellowjackets: Timeline

Read "Timeline" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner

To have worked thirty years in the business is exceptional for any band, especially in jazz. But since 1981, pianist/keyboardist Russell Ferrante and bassist Jimmy Haslip have maintained the award-winning Yellowjackets--from that year's eponymous Warner Bros. debut, with its infectious blend of fusion and funk, featuring guitarist Robben Ford, and the incorporation of jazz and strings ...

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Article: Album Review

Vladimir Kostadinovic: Course Of Events

Read "Course Of Events" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza

The first choice of instrument may not always be the one that lasts through life. Serbian born drummer Vladimir Kostadinovic began playing the accordion when he was seven. When he got his first drum set from his brother four years later, the instrument became his passion. He attended music school in Belgrade, and graduated from the ...

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Peter Erskine / Bob Mintzer / Derek Oles / Alan Pasqua: Standards 2, Movie Music

Read "Standards 2, Movie Music" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

While the songs featured on Standards 2, Movie Music were given an initial audience through the medium of film, some of them have led a fruitful existence beyond the borders of the silver screen. Some melodies--like Tara's Theme," from 1939's Gone With The Wind--will always be associated with their point of origin, but much of Cole ...

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Peter Erskine / Bob Mintzer / Darek Oles / Alan Pasqua: Standards 2, Movie Music

Read "Standards 2, Movie Music" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Composers of movie soundtracks have crafted some of the most enduring tunes for jazz treatment. Names like Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter, Krzysztof Komeda, and Ennio Maricone show up in the credits of innumerable albums, with tunes that shape moods and atmospheres, and supply jazz artists with engaging melodies galore.Drummer Peter Erskine has collected a ...

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News: Festival

Newport Beach Jazz Party: Feb. 17-20, 2011

Newport Beach Jazz Party: Feb. 17-20, 2011

The upcoming Presidents' Day Weekend marks the opening of the 11th Annual Newport Beach Jazz Party, which spotlights “Right Down The Middle And Straight Ahead" jazz at the Marriott Newport Beach Hotel in Southern California. The four-day event, Feb. 17 through 20, 2011, kicks off Thursday, 8 p.m., with guitarist/vocalist John Pizzarelli's tribute to Duke Ellington, ...

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La vita è bella

By Bob Mintzer

Label: Abeat Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: 1. The Gathering; 2. La vita è bella; 3. Re re; 4. Kind of Bill; 5.Bradley’s, 2 AM?; 6. After; 7. Ninna Anna; 8. Invitation.

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Standards 2, Movie Music

By Peter Erskine

Label: Fuzzy Music
Released: 2010
Track listing: Tara's Theme; Somewhere; Dr. Kildare; Three Stars Will Shine Tonight; Night and Day; Rosemary's Baby; Cinema Paradiso Intro; Cinema Paradiso; I Concentrate on You; For All We Know.

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Canyon Cove

By Bob Mintzer

Label: Pony Canyon Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Somewhere Up There; Bebop Special; Papa Lips; Bugaloo to You; Thaddeus; When I Fall in Love; Improv #3; Road Well Traveled; Truth; Mr. Fonebone; Improv #2; Canyon Cove; Improv #1.

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Winnie Dahlgren

Read "Take Five With Winnie Dahlgren" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Winnie Dahlgren: A native of Denmark Winnie Dahlgren started playing percussion at age fifteen, and received both her B.M. in music education and her M.M. in Performance from the Vestjysk Academy of Music in Esbjerg, Denmark. In the middle of her classical studies at the conservatory she took two years off to study jazz at ...

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Article: Live Review

Great vibes in Cape May N.J.

Read "Great vibes in Cape May N.J." reviewed by Sandy Ingham

by Sandy Ingham

Cape May Jazz FestivalCape May, NJNovember 12-14, 2010 Just a few bars into his first tune, “All Blues," I knew Joe Baione would make my day. Or night, as it were.Vibraphonist Baione's quartet wasn't a headliner at the 34th semiannual Cape May Jazz Festival. Those honors belonged to Les McCann ...


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