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News: Recording

Nu Jazz Entertainment Releases The First Jazz "LP" On iTunes--Ellis Marsalis: An Open Letter To Thelonious

October 7, 2010

(New York, NY)—Nu Jazz Entertainment—a long time producer of high quality audio and video content in the genre of jazz—announced the January 4, 2011 release of the critically acclaimed album, Ellis Marsalis: An Open Letter To Thelonious, from the NEA 2011 Jazz Master inductee, as the first traditional Jazz release in the new iTunes “LP" format ...

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Article: Live Review

Under the Big Top: Detroit's 31st Year Hits a High Note

by C. Andrew Hovan
October 5, 2010

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 ...

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News: Radio

We Brothers Three: the Joneses, Heaths and Montgomerys

September 30, 2010

From Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey to Wynton and Branford Marsalis, the history of jazz includes a number of notable brother acts. Sometimes three brothers have shared the stage or studio space—the focus of this week's edition of Night Lights. “We Brothers Three" features music from the following trio of brotherly trios: Hank, Thad and Elvin Jones ...

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Article: Profile

David S. Ware: Planetary Musician

by Lyn Horton
September 26, 2010

On Sunday, June 27th, 2010, about a half-hour after its scheduled 9:30 pm appearance on the Abrons Art Center main performance stage in New York City, the David S. Ware Trio was setting up. The audience for this night of Vision Festival XV was its usual wandering and low-hum conversational self. William Parker stood by his ...

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Article: Interview

Chucho Valdes: The Music Never Ends

by Joan A. Cararach
September 20, 2010

Chucho Valdés arrived at his All About Jazz interview confident: of his music and of Spain's victory in the South African FIFA World Cup. It was July 11th 2010, and for the first time in its history, Spain's national team had reached a World Cup final, in South Africa. A Cuban interested in football? “A lot ...

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Article: Interview

Chucho Valdés, música sin fin

by Joan A. Cararach
September 20, 2010

Chucho Valdés acude al encuentro con AllAboutJazz confiado. En su música y en la victoria de España en el Mundial de fútbol de Sudáfrica. Es el 11 de julio del 2010, y por primera vez en su historia la selección española ha llegado a una final del Mundial, en Sudáfrica. ¿Un cubano interesado en el fútbol? ...

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News: Interview

Branford Marsalis in Conversation with Sam Stephenson

September 13, 2010

public conversation between saxophonist Branford Marsalis and JLP director Sam Stephenson has been confirmed for the evening of February 10, 2011 at Hayti Heritage Center in Durham, N.C. in association with the Center for Documentary Studies and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (the JLP show opens at Nasher on February 3). As a ...

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Article: Interview

Julian Joseph: Joining Jazz and Baseball

by Bruce Lindsay
September 7, 2010

Julian Joseph is something of a jazz master of all trades. Pianist, composer, bandleader, arranger, broadcaster and educator, Joseph is constantly busy, always working on new ideas and projects, spreading the word about music, encouraging young performers and generally promoting jazz around the world. With Shadowball Joseph has turned his attention to the relationship between jazz ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Branford Marsalis

August 26, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Branford Marsalis' birthday today! Branford MarsalisBranford Marsalis is an uncommon musician. The 44-year-old Grammy award-winning saxophonist has continued to exercise and expand his skills as a performer, a composer and now, at the head of his Marsalis Music label... more Website | Photos | ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Anat Cohen: Clarinetwork Live at the Village Vanguard

by Raul d'Gama Rose
August 19, 2010

Anat CohenClarinetwork Live at the Village VanguardAnzic Records2010 Anat Cohen can make the clarinet sing--literally and figuratively. On Clarinetwork Live at the Village Vanguard her wonderful, flowing melodic lines swoop and soar like arias placating the most high. It is as if--in that spiritualised state of grace--Cohen, ...