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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Charles Lloyd: Defiant Warrior Still On Song

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by Chris May

As fool's errands go, few compare with selecting a Top Ten Albums collection from Charles Lloyd's extensive top-drawer output. But here goes. Lloyd newbies could consider the list a launch pad, and seasoned fans can compare the choices with their own... Anyone going to jazz festivals in summer 1966, and lucky enough to ...

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Article: Album Review

Charles Lloyd: The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow

Read "The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic

For a long, grateful while now the music of Charles Lloyd has rippled out from that rarified space where the ego does not prevail. A pool of depth and wonder which culminates in one masterful artwork after another, for example Wild Man Dance (Blue Note, 2015) and 8: Kindred Spirits Live from the Lobero Theater (Blue ...

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Article: Album Review

Chris Potter: Eagle's Point

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by Chris May

The question that comes to mind after listening to Eagle's Point is this: why have the four musicians, who have known each other since the 1990s, never recorded together before? For the combination of Chris Potter, Brad Mehldau, John Patitucci and Brian Blade is a real meeting of minds; the stars are in perfect alignment.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

John Zorn’s Masada, Tommy Flanagan, Jeff Parker

Read "John Zorn’s Masada, Tommy Flanagan, Jeff Parker" reviewed by David Brown

by David Brown

This week a trio of works featuring guitarist Jeff Parker, we then work our way tough a pile of recently acquired '80s LPs featuring lots of Tommy Flanagan, some Mulgrew Miller and Ronnie Mathews; and finally, we revisit John Zorn's Masada Quartet--leaders of the Radical Jewish Cultural movement of the '90s--who made their first recordings 30 ...

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Article: Opinion

When is a Jazz Festival (Not) a Jazz Festival?

Read "When is a Jazz Festival (Not) a Jazz Festival?" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

This article was first published at All About Jazz on May 20, 2011. It's becoming almost pandemic for jazz festivals around the world to be challenged for deciding to broaden their programming into areas either peripherally related to jazz... or, in some cases, away from jazz entirely. Festivals like the near-iconic Montreux Jazz Festival, ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Alex Hitchcock, Sylvie Courvoisier, Chris Potter

Read "Alex Hitchcock, Sylvie Courvoisier, Chris Potter" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu

Chris Potter's upcoming album and then two tunes which were recorded without a concern for time constraints, either in studio or live on stage, a place where suddenly the perception of time is altered in the midst of the creative flow. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Lafayette Gilchrist, John McLaughlin, Cannonball Adderley and More

Read "Lafayette Gilchrist, John McLaughlin, Cannonball Adderley and More" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson

This is an older show from December 2021 that features several different pianists and saxophonists. Musicians heard include Lafayette Gilchrist, Cannonball Adderley, John McLaughlin, Noah Haidu, Chet Doxas, and more. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) ...

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Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

Read "Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu

If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

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Where Are We

By Joshua Redman

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: After Minneapolis (face toward mo[u]rning); Streets Of Philadelphia; Chicago Blues; Baltimore; By The Time I get To Phoenix; Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?; Manhattan; My Heart In San Francisco (Holiday); That’s New England; Alabama (Intro); Stars Fell On Alabama; Alabama; Where Are You?.

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Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17

By Bob Dylan

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Disc 1: Love Sick; Dirt Road Blues; Standing In the Doorway; Million Miles; Tryin' to Get to Heaven; 'Til I Fell in Love With You; Not Dark Yet; Cold Irons Bound; Make You Feel My Love; Can't Wait; Highlands. Disc 2: The Water is Wide; Dreamin' of You; Red River Shore - version 1; Love Sick - version 1; 'Til I Fell in Love with You - version 1; Not Dark Yet - version 1; Can't Wait - version 1; Dirt Road Blues - version 1; Mississippi - version 1; 'Til I Fell in Love With You - version 2; Standing In the Doorway - version 1; Tryin' to Get to Heaven - version 1; Cold Irons Bound. Disc 3: Love Sick - version 2; Dirt Road Blues - version 2; Can't Wait - version 2; Red River Shore - version 2; Marchin' to the City; Make You Feel My Love - version 1; Mississippi - version 2; Standing in the Doorway - version 2; 'Till I Fell in Love with You - version 3; Not Dark Yet - version 2; Tryin' to Get to Heaven - version 2; Highlands. Disc 4: Love Sick; Can't Wait; Standing in the Doorway; Million Miles; Tryin' to Get to Heaven; 'Til I Fell in Love with You; Not Dark Yet; Cold Irons Bound; Make You Feel My Love; Can't Wait; Mississippi; Highlands. Disc 5: Dreamin' of You; Red River Shore - version 1; Red River Shore - version 2; Mississippi - version 1; Mississippi - version 3; Mississippi - version 2; Marchin' to the City - version 1; Marchin' to the City - version 2; Can't Wait - version 1; Can't Wait - version 2; Cold Irons Bound - live; Tryin' to Get to Heaven - live.


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