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Article: Album Review

Jordan Young Group: Jordan Young Group

Read "Jordan Young Group" reviewed by Chris Mosey


At best, the Jordan Young Group cooks like one of those hard bop organ-led outfits of the 1960s. At worst it PiNGs. The “PiNGs" are short clips from a long improvisation, credited on the sleeve as a composition by its initiator, organist Brian Charette, who calls it “a song with no consequences." Young says, “I felt ...

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Article: Book Review

Herman Leonard: Jazz

Read "Herman Leonard: Jazz" reviewed by Ian Patterson


JazzHerman LeonardHardcover; 320 pagesISBN: 9781848870741Atlantic Books2010 Jazz is billed as the definitive collection of photographer Herman Leonard's jazz photos. When record companies use ths term to promote box sets, appealing to the completist in many jazz fans, it is often not the case, ...

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Take Five With Steve Sacks

Read "Take Five With Steve Sacks" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Steve Sacks: A jazz saxophonist/flutist and Harvard-trained musicologist, Steve, has for 35 years, focused his talents on the richness and diversity of Brazilian and Latin music. An internationalist fluent in five languages, and with twenty years experience on the New York music scene, Steve has performed, recorded and/or written for a wide variety ...

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Article: Interview

Randy Weston: African Stories, African Rhythms

Read "Randy Weston: African Stories, African Rhythms" reviewed by Ian Patterson


In over 60 years as a leader, pianist Randy Weston has achieved an incredible amount. He has recorded nearly 50 albums and has been hailed in the process as the natural heir to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Three times he has been voted Downbeat's composer of the year, and his compositions have been recorded by ...

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Piano Legend Randy Weston Interviewed at All About Jazz

Piano Legend Randy Weston Interviewed at All About Jazz

In over 60 years as a leader, pianist Randy Weston has achieved an incredible amount. He has recorded nearly 50 albums and has been hailed in the process as the natural heir to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Three times he has been voted Downbeat's composer of the year, and his compositions have been recorded by ...

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Take Five With Andy Farber

Read "Take Five With Andy Farber" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Andy Farber:Andy Farber is an award-winning jazz composer, arranger and saxophonist and has spent years performing with the likes of Jon Hendricks and Wynton Marsalis. Since 1994, Farber has been part of the Jazz @ Lincoln Center stable of writers and performers. Through J@LC, Farber has toured with the J@LC ...

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Take Five with Jay Beckenstein

Read "Take Five with Jay Beckenstein" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Status: Jazz artist. Founding member of the group Spyro Gyra. DOB: May 14, 1951 In: Brooklyn, N.Y. First Jazz Memory: “I met Cannonball Adderley when I was 12. He did a school performance around where I lived and I was just blown away." Inspirations: “The greats of jazz. ...

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Take Five With Dan Wilensky

Read "Take Five With Dan Wilensky" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Dan Wilensky:Saxophonist, composer, and author Dan Wilensky has toured and recorded with hundreds of artists, including Ray Charles, Jack McDuff, Joan Baez, Santana, Steve Winwood, Donna Summer, R. Kelly, Melissa Manchester, Faith No More, Hall & Oates, Freddie Jackson, Linda Eder, Mark Murphy, James Brown, Deborah Harry, The Manhattan Transfer, David Bowie, and ...

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Take Five With Chris Massey

Read "Take Five With Chris Massey" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Chris Massey:Chris Massey is fast becoming one of the most talked about young talented players in the world of jazz. Growing up in small town Ohio where he picked up his first pair of drumsticks a the age of nine he took his first steps into his musical career as a Jazz Performance ...

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Article: Interview

Pete Robbins: Balance Dream

Read "Pete Robbins: Balance Dream" reviewed by Gordon Marshall


Pete Robbins is all about balance, in temperament and as an artist. He produces a polished sound on his alto saxophone, with a light tone betraying corners of darkness and complexity. Already an accomplished leader at 31, he grafts his sound onto ensembles of varying sizes with aplomb and equanimity. His style as a leader is ...


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