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Jazz Week 2011 Marks Fifth Anniversary with Salutes to Eric Jackson, Hundreds of Events in Greater Boston
With the theme “This Is Jazz," from April 29 to May 8 Greater Boston's Jazz Week '11 celebrates a music that defies definition and recognizes no boundaries. For the fifth straight year, Jazz Week is being coordinated and promoted by the nonprofit JazzBoston, which also marks its fifth anniversary in 2011. More than 200 events at ...
Accurate Records: Growing Out of Boston
by Jakob Baekgaard
In the age of globalization, when almost every musician churns out his or her own record digitally, the boundary between being a one-man business and a record company is porous. However, while many of the new labels remain dedicated to a small circle of artists, there is also the more rarified example of the musician-based label ...
Saxophone Summit on Reeds and Deeds II
This Sunday's broadcast of “Reeds & Deeds II" will feature an exclusive backstage interview with the Saxophone Summit: Ravi Coltrane, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart and Phil Markowitz. The Saxophone Summit will be performing in New York City at Birdland this weekend through Saturday. The segment will be broadcast during the February 6th ...
Dave Liebman: A New York Story
by John Kelman
A few months shy of 65, saxophonist Dave Liebman may be having the busiest time of his career, now in its fifth decade. In the past 12 months, nearly a dozen releases have demonstrated the tremendous stylistic breadth of a musical oeuvre that kicked into high gear early, when, in the short span of three years, ...
Kurt Rosenwinkel, Charles Lloyd and Chucho Valdes at the Barcelona Jazz Festival
by Joao Moreira dos Santos
Translated from Portuguese. Kurt Rosenwinkel Standards Trio42 Barcelona Voll-Damm Internacional Jazz FestivalLuz de GasNovember 14, 2010 Every year, from October to December, the city of Barcelona, in the north of Spain, becomes a true European jazz center. Musicians and journalists from all over the world converge ...
Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz - "New Jazz, Straight Ahead (part 2)"
Soulandjazz.com Presents: Continuum—A Journey Through Jazz Episode 24: “New Jazz, Straight Ahead (Part 2)" Hosted & Produced by J. Scott Fugate, “The Jazz Evangelist" As it has been with the past 23 episode (which are still available on the soulandjazz.com website, by the way) the show is absolutely free, completely legal, fun ...
The Cookers and the Vijay Iyer Trio, at Charlie Parker Jazz Festival 2010
by Ernest Barteldes
Charlie Parker Jazz FestivalTompkins Square ParkNew York, NYAugust 29, 2010After a blistering blues-based set by New York-based singer Catherine Russell, the 7-piece hard-bop ensemble The Cookers (Billy Harper: tenor sax; Eddie Henderson and David Weiss: trumpets; Craig Handy: alto sax and flute; George Cables: piano; Cecil McBee: bass and Billy Hart: ...
Andrew Cyrille: Tell Us Only the Beautiful Things; Opus de Life & The Dark Tree
by Clifford Allen
Walt DickersonTell Us Only the Beautiful ThingsWhynot-Candid1975 (2009) Profound Sound TrioOpus De LifePorter2009 Horace TapscottThe Dark TreeHat Hut1991 (2009) Percussionist Andrew Cyrille ...
Zbigniew Seifert: Man of the Light
by John Kelman
If ever a title was in need of the wider exposure it eluded when first released, it's Polish violinist Zbigniew Seifert's unparalleled Man of the Light--finally seeing the light of day thanks to Promising Music's ongoing series of remastered re-releases from the German MPS label of the 1960s and '70s. Seifert's death from complications from cancer ...
Craig Handy: The Busiest Man In Jazz
by Robert Dugan
Saxophonist Craig Handy is a musician's musician. Those “in the know" know about him, which is why he's been a first call player in New York for over two decades. He is a careful, thoughtful improviser—expansive and precise. His solos build on a rich knowledge of the tradition at the same time as they often set ...
