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Article: Live Review

Steely Dan at Jacobs Pavilion

Read "Steely Dan at Jacobs Pavilion" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan


Steely DanJacobs Pavilion at NauticaCleveland, OhioJuly 23, 2013Time flies when you are having fun and it's hard to believe that Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, collectively known as Steely Dan, are well into that life niche known as the senior years. Fortunately, they still have a thing for the road, which ...

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Article: Album Review

Pharez Whitted: For The People

Read "For The People" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Saxophonist Pharez Whitted has had an unusual recording career. Fourteen years separated Mysterious Cargo (Motown Records, 1996) from Transient Journey (Owl Studios, 2010), as Whitted dedicated himself to jazz education and sideman appearances with the likes of drummer Elvin Jones, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and pianist Ramsey Lewis. In this context, For the People comes after a ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bobby Broom

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bobby Broom

All About Jazz is celebrating Bobby Broom's birthday today! Most musicians would be happy to experience one artistic breakthrough. Thirty years into his distinguished, wide-ranging career in jazz, guitarist Bobby Broom seems to have an endless supply of them. His 2009 album Bobby Broom Plays for Monk hit an artistic high-water mark with its “daring arrangements” ...

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Upper Westside Story

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2012

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Article: Live Review

Exit Zero International Jazz Festival: Cape May, NJ, November 9-11, 2012

Read "Exit Zero International Jazz Festival: Cape May, NJ, November 9-11, 2012" reviewed by Sandy Ingham


Exit Zero International Jazz FestivalCape May, NJNovember 9-11, 2012After the beating the Northeast took from Hurricane Sandy and a snowy nor'easter, people were ready for something positive, and for some it came in the form of the first Exit Zero International Jazz Festival in Cape May, New Jersey.Pianist Ramsey Lewis, bassist ...

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Article: Album Review

Caroline Davis: Live Work & Play

Read "Live Work & Play" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


It's easy to become jaded in an ocean of music where many recordings sound so much alike. But every now and then something piques even great curiosity, as is the case with Live Work and Play , the captivating debut by saxophonist/composer Caroline Davis. Her abilities as a musician and leader signal not just another new ...

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Article: Album Review

Pharez Whitted: For The People

Read "For The People" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Indianapolis-born trumpeter Pharez Whitted has kept a low profile in the new millennium. He's busied himself with teaching, attending to his duties as Director of Jazz Studies at Chicago State University, performing live and appearing as a sideman on a scant number of under-the-radar albums, but none of this has helped to boost his reputation beyond ...

News: Performance / Tour

Bobby Broom and Deep Blue Organ Trio Playing Thursday, September 13 at Robbie's House of Jazz

Bobby Broom and Deep Blue Organ Trio Playing Thursday, September 13 at Robbie's House of Jazz

Guitarist Bobby Broom and the Deep Blue Organ trio are coming to St. Louis to perform at 8:30 p.m. next Thursday, September 13 at Robbie's House of Jazz. Broom (pictured), a New York native who now lives in Chicago, may be best known to jazz fans as a member of saxophonist Sonny Rollins' band from 1982 ...

News: Contest

Enter the "Bobby Broom - Upper West Side Story" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Enter the "Bobby Broom - Upper West Side Story" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Origin Records “Bobby Broom - Upper West Side Story“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on August 20th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Bobby Broom at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! ...

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Label: Origin Records
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