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Take Five With Boris Kozlov
by AAJ Staff
Meet Boris Kozlov: Currently serving as a bassist, arranger and Musical Director for the Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty and The Orchestra, as well as leading his own projects, he has also been a first-call bassist for such important jazz acts as Michael Brecker, John Blake, Ray Barretto's New World Spirit, Lew Tabackin, David Kikoski, Alex ...
Bobby Watson and UMKC Jazz Orchestra / UNT One O'Clock Lab Band / Kurt Rosenwinkel
by Jack Bowers
Bobby Watson / UMKC Concert Jazz OrchestraThe Gates BBQ SuiteLafiya Music2010 When alto saxophonist Bobby Watson returned in 2001 to his native Kansas City area to assume the position as director of Jazz Studies at the University of Missouri--Kansas City, he mentioned to Ollie Gates, proprietor of ...
Under the Big Top: Detroit's 31st Year Hits a High Note
by C. Andrew Hovan
31st Annual Detroit Intermational Jazz FestivalHart PlazaDetroit, MichiganSeptember 3-6, 2010Last year may have been their 30th anniversary year, but this past Labor Day weekend, The Detroit Jazz Festival pulled out all the stops for what had to be one of the most memorable line-ups of recent memory. Mother Nature would cooperate ...
A Beautiful Friendship: Benjamin Koppel and Kenny Werner
by Jakob Baekgaard
A good friendship is all about communication--two people being able to understand and correspond with each other, creating a sense of togetherness which leaves room for the kind of conversation that goes beyond the mere chitchat of everyday life. Pianist Kenny Werner and saxophonist Benjamin Koppel have developed a unique musical friendship. Strong ...
Bobby Watson Set To Release Seven-Part, "The Gates BBQ Suite," on Lafiya Music - September 14
Self-Produced Album Celebrates Kansas City's Music, Most Famous Food—And a Watson Family Tradition “Kansas City is the Napa Valley of barbeque. Gates Barbeque stands alone as king of the valley!"—Bobby Watson Bobby Watson, famed Kansas City-area native, William and Mary Grant/Missouri Endowed Professor of Jazz and esteemed director of Jazz Studies at University of Missouri-Kansas City ...
Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2010
by Jakob Baekgaard
Copenhagen Jazz FestivalVarious VenuesCopenhagen, DenmarkJuly 2-11, 2010 With the current crisis of the major record labels and the folding of venues all over the world, it could be argued that jazz, as an art form, has entered the age of survival where it is simply a basic matter of keeping ...
Bobby Watson at the Saville Theater, San Diego, CA
by Robert Bush
Bobby Watson Quartet Saville Theater (San Diego City College) San Diego, CA May 11, 2010 Currently based in Kansas City, where he teaches at the University of Missouri/ Conservatory of Music, Bobby Watson has a long, storied career. He attended music school in Miami in the 1970's, where ...
Tobias Gebb & Unit 7: free at last
by Terrell Kent Holmes
On free at last, drummer Tobias Gebb shows great depth and maturity as a composer and arranger. This recording is a balanced mix of originals and standards, from various musical genres, combined to produce rich sounds and vibrant colors. Veteran altoist Bobby Watson and young tenor lion Stacy Dillard take star turns on ...
Orrin Evans: Faith in Action
by Raul d'Gama Rose
On Faith in Action, his reverent homage to an old boss, saxophonist Bobby Watson, Orrin Evans plays with his heart on his sleeve, gliding right down to his bare fingertips. Here is a pianist who channels masters from Thelonious Monk to Bud Powell and Bill Evans. However, through it all Evans is his own man, a ...
Thinkin' About Jackie
At the recent and successful launch of the Mid Atlantic Jazz Festival (check Facebook for the Jazz Video Guy Bret Primack's clips from the festival), successor to the mid-winter DC classic East Coast Jazz Festival, the event was capped off by a joyous Saturday night tribute to Charlie Parker. “Word on Bird" (title liberally lifted from ...
