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Article: Album Review

Fay Claassen with WDR Big Band Cologne: Sing!

Read "Sing!" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Internationally recognized Dutch vocalist Fay Claassen joins forces with the Grammy Award-winning WDR Big Band from Cologne, Germany and Berlin's Rundfunk Orchester, for her sixth album as leader with Sing!. Paying tribute to iconic female vocalists, the repertoire contains songs associated with jazz divas from Betty Carter, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington to singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell ...

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Article: Album Review

Chie Imaizumi: A Time Of New Beginnings

Read "A Time Of New Beginnings" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Composer and arranger Chie Imaizumi's second album, A Time Of New Beginnings, is filled with star players from the jazz world. It's a beautifully crafted, beautifully played album, with a warm and familiar feel to its nine tunes that, at times, creates a real sense of nostalgia. Imaizumi began her musical career in ...

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Curtis Fuller: I Will Tell Her

Read "I Will Tell Her" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Legendary trombonist Curtis Fuller and saxophonist Keith Oxman have performed a regular gig at the Dazzle nightclub in Denver leading to this first recording for Fuller on the Capri label. I Will Tell Her is a special album in several ways, dedicated to Fuller's late wife Cathy, the album is also the 100th of the Capri ...

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Article: Album Review

Ran Blake / Christine Correa: Out of the Shadows

Read "Out of the Shadows" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


The spectacular second coupling of pianist Ran Blake and vocalist Christine Correa, Out of the Shadows is one of the most extraordinary albums of 2010. Both are wonderful storytellers in their own right. Music appears to flow and gush and foam through Blake's body, breaking in waves from his hands and fingertips as they flutter and ...

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Article: Album Review

The Mark Lomax Trio: The State Of Black America

Read "The State Of Black America" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Drummer/composer/band leader Mark Lomax must not be afraid of ghosts. Because with all the spirits hovering over his recording The State Of Black America, it would be understandable that he and his band of saxophonist Edwin Bayard and bassist Dean Hulett might be a bit intimidated to bridge the firebrand music of the 1960s from today's ...

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Curtis Fuller: I Will Tell Her

Read "I Will Tell Her" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


The title song and two-disc set are dedicated to a true love, but the music is clearly for the audience. I Will Tell Her, by trombonist Curtis Fuller, achieves plenty. The title song was written for Fuller's wife of 30 years, Cathy, who died before getting a chance to hear the music. The artist ...

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George Cotsirilos Trio: Past Present

Read "Past Present" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


This recording delivers vintage jazz guitar but nothing that sounds trite or old. The George Cotsirilos Trio delivers that with a mix of original tunes and standards on Past Present. Born in Chicago, Cotsirilos has been a fixture in the San Francisco area since the early 1990s. Trained with the violin, he switched to ...

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News: Music Industry

New Music Management & Booking Firm Founded by Music Industry Veteran Scott Foster

New Music Management & Booking Firm Founded by  Music Industry Veteran Scott Foster

SCOTT FOSTER MANAGEMENT provides representation for superb jazz artists ADA ROVATTI, ARLEE LEONARD, PATRIZIA SCASCITELLI, and JAMIE BAUM Music industry veteran SCOTT FOSTER has announced the formation of a new artist management organization, SCOTT FOSTER MANAGEMENT, with a unique spotlight on female jazz artists. Scott Foster's many years in the jazz festival business make him ideally ...

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News: Recording

Torben Waldorff Tour USA and New CD on Artistshare "American Rock Beauty"

Torben Waldorff Tour USA and New CD on Artistshare "American Rock Beauty"

GUITARIST TORBEN WALDORFF CELEBRATES RECENT ARTISTSHARE CD “AMERICAN ROCK BEAUTY" With Performances in Toronto, Rochester, Seattle and Brooklyn “Music full of great playing and soul." -- John Heidt, Vintage Guitar “Danish guitarist Torben Waldorff is a supple and respectful player and a composer of breadth and depth." -- Carlo Wolff, JazzTimes “The dialog between Waldorff and ...

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Article: Album Review

Bryan and the Haggards: Pretend It's the End of the World

Read "Pretend It's the End of the World" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Can a saxophone “twang?" If it's a set of music celebrating the sounds of Bakersfield, California's county music legend, Merle Haggard, it had better do just that. And strangely, with Pretend It's the End of the World, by Bryan and the Haggards, the saxophone blowing of altoist Jon Irabagon and the tenorist/leader Bryan Murray find that ...


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