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Terell Stafford: Brotherlee Love: Celebrating Lee Morgan

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by C. Andrew Hovan
July 21, 2015

Over the past several decades, trumpeter Terell Stafford has built a solid reputation based on the fact that he is a thoroughly accomplished musician who has been heard in the bands of Bobby Watson, Matt Wilson, The Clayton Brothers, and Dana Hall. Although he has digested the complete history of the jazz trumpet cannon, Stafford remains ...

Article: The Vinyl Post

Frank Sinatra: Ultimate Sinatra

by C. Andrew Hovan
July 17, 2015

Come this December, the world will celebrate the 100th year anniversary of the birth of Frank Sinatra. In a recording career that spanned well over fifty years, Sinatra's iconic voice managed to speak to generations of fans across the globe. To mark this special centennial, Universal Music has opted to put together several configurations of a ...

Article: Live Review

Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland 2015

by C. Andrew Hovan
July 15, 2015

2015 Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland Playhouse Square Cleveland, Ohio July 9-11, 2015 For the second time in its 36-year history, Tri-C JazzFest lit up downtown Cleveland with a three-day midsummer jazz festival that mixed paid shows from national headliners with free outdoor performances featuring musicians from Northeast Ohio. Home to all these ...

Article: Live Review

Joyce Moreno at Nighttown

by C. Andrew Hovan
June 29, 2015

Joyce Moreno Nighttown Cleveland Heights, Ohio June 23, 2015 Many folks entranced by the magic of jazz also find their tastes gravitating towards artists form the Latin and Brazilian musical worlds as well. These musical styles actually share more in common with jazz than what might seem possible at first glance. ...

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Eddie Henderson: Collective Portrait

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by C. Andrew Hovan
April 22, 2015

One of the nice surprises of 2014 was the formation of the Smoke Sessions label. Their first several issues were actual performances recorded at the club. However, they seemed to have focused their efforts lately on live studio sessions cut at the wonderful Sear Sound studio in New York. The overall sound of these releases continues ...

Article: Album Review

Steve Turre: Spiritman

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by C. Andrew Hovan
April 21, 2015

There seems to be two schools among the current generation of jazz trombonists. On the one hand you have those who favor the lush and melodic voices of Frank Rosolino, Lawrence Brown, Carl Fontana, and those of a similar ilk. By contrast are the bop inflected approaches of J.J. Johnson and Curtis Fuller. Turre has gone ...

Article: The Vinyl Post

Music Matters and Blue Note's 75th: Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch

by C. Andrew Hovan
March 6, 2015

Those deep collectors of classic Blue Note titles are already well aware of Music Matters' impressive catalog of reissue titles going back to 2007. Aside from a vintage era release with Van Gelder in the dead wax, these reissues have been the gold standard for hearing Blue Note's iconic classics in their best light. Joe Harley ...

Article: Year in Review

C. Andrew Hovan's Top 10 for 2014

by C. Andrew Hovan
January 4, 2015

This will be a first in some time. For a variety of reasons, I had to curtail my writing activities about five years ago. As a result, my limited work for All About Jazz consisted mainly of photography and live reviews. As a result, I felt less then prepared in previous years to present any kind ...

Article: The Vinyl Post

Bill Evans: The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961

by C. Andrew Hovan
December 18, 2014

Those of us who are diehard jazz collectors often loathe answering questions from neophytes as to a good starting place for building a jazz collection. Nonetheless, a short go-to list would probably include the iconic live sessions of Bill Evans and his trio captured on tape by Riverside Records back in June of 1961. For sheer ...

Article: Book Review

Uncompromising Expression: 75 Years of the Finest in Jazz

by C. Andrew Hovan
November 11, 2014

Uncompromising Expression:75 Years of the Finest in Jazz Richard Havers 400 pages ISBN: # 978-1-4521-4144-2 Chronicle Books 2014 It's probably still a bit of an understatement to suggest that Blue Note Records has become one of the most iconic labels associated with recorded jazz. Now in its 75th year, ...