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Detroit Jazz Festival: Detroit, MI September 2-5, 2011
by C. Andrew Hovan
32nd Annual Detroit Jazz FestivalDetroit, MISeptember 2-5, 2011 As chance would have it, over the past 20 years or so attending the Labor Day festivities at the Detroit Jazz Festival, there have only been a handful of weekends marked by less than optimum weather conditions. On average, the gods have largely smiled down ...
Matt Penman: Down on James Farm
by R.J. DeLuke
Matt Penman and his bass have inhabited a variety of musical places and spaces in recent years, all of them on a very high level. That speaks to his abilities on his instrument, and his adaptability to diverse situations. He of the fluid hands, rich sound and steady, melodic pulse always comes through. That's why he's ...
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 ...
Wycliffe Gordon: What This is All About
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
Versatility is an important part of a well-developed artistic soul. The arts provide a wide range of outlets of expression that can be nurtured and grown into their finest results. Music could very well be a reason to believe in the extraordinary, and jazz musicians are no exception; they might even be a norm. It is ...
Michael Cuscuna of Mosaic Records
by C. Andrew Hovan
This interview was originally published in July 2000. Founded in 1983, Mosaic Records continues to set the standards as one of the finest reissue companies on the scene. Their definitive boxed sets have culled the vaults of such labels as Blue Note, Pacific Jazz, Capitol, CBS, Verve, Roulette, Decca, Atlantic, and Reprise. Some of ...
Steely Dan Plays Aja in Akron, OH
by C. Andrew Hovan
Steely Dan E.J. Thomas Hall Akron, Ohio November 16, 2009 Since coming back on the scene in 2000, hit makers Donald Fagen and Walter Becker have made it a habit to regularly hit the road each summer tour season, a practice that in their earlier years was looked ...
Bill Charlap Trio in Ann Arbor
by C. Andrew Hovan
Bill Charlap Trio University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan October 2, 2009While much of the credit for reinventing the standard repertoire via the piano trio can go to Keith Jarrett, the pianist's muse is more about using such chestnuts as a launching point for his own self-probing and extended ...
30th Annual Detroit International Jazz Festival: In Pictures
by C. Andrew Hovan
30th Annual Detroit International Jazz Festival Detroit, Michigan September 4-7, 2009With perfect temperatures and wall-to-wall sunshine, Detroit recently celebrated a tradition that has brought jazz to the city every Labor Day weekend for the past 30 years. Billed as the largest free jazz festival in North America, this year's festivities ran ...
New Blue Note RVGs: Three Tenors, a Bone, and Sonny
by C. Andrew Hovan
Recently named an NEA Jazz Master, iconic jazz recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder continues to a be a marvel of the jazz industry. Not only has he continued through the years to record new music from his studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, but he also keeps revisiting gems from the jazz pantheon. Now in its ...
C. Andrew Hovan's Top Jazz Picks For 2008
by C. Andrew Hovan
Well it's that time of year again. The task of going through the stacks of music that have reached my door over the past twelve months. While the economy and the weak state of the record industry would tend to suggest that things might be on the slim side, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that ...
