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Article: Album Review

Jeremy Monteiro: Golden Year Inaugural Volume 1

Read "Golden Year Inaugural Volume 1" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
August 19, 2010

Jeremy Monteiro has come a long way since starting out as a professional jazz pianist when not quite seventeen, back in 1977. As a leader, he's recorded over twenty albums, though it wasn't until Homecoming (Jazznote, 2007) that he released one of all-original compositions. A fine interpreter of The Great American Songbook, Monteiro is also a ...

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Article: Live Review

Jeremy Monteiro Big Band: Grand Ballroom, Ritz Carlton, Singapore

by Ian Patterson
August 14, 2010

Jeremy Monteiro Big BnadGrand Ballroom, Ritz CarltonSingaporeJuly 30, 2010 Since '77 pianist/composer Jeremy Monteiro has helped to place Singapore on the map through his role as a jazz ambassador. To celebrate his fiftieth birthday Monteiro assembled his seventeen-piece big band joined by a number of special guests and led a ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Charlie Haden

August 6, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Charlie Haden's birthday today! Charlie Haden“No other instrument in jazz is more essential than the bass, both backbone and heartbeat, and Haden is its master.” (Francis Davis /August... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow Charlie Haden Put AAJ's Musician of the ...

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News: Music Industry

Blue Note Records Signs Ravi Coltrane

August 5, 2010

EMI's Blue Note Records is proud to announce the signing of saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Ravi Coltrane. Coltrane will be entering the studio in December to record his debut as a leader for the label, which is due to be released in Spring 2011. Coltrane has previously recorded for the label as a member of The ...

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Article: Live Review

24 Hours of Umbria Jazz 2010

by Sara Villa
August 3, 2010

Imagine traveling by car for hours in the summer heat of Italy's July 2010. At last it is early evening, and you reach the borders of a breathtaking medieval town. A soft breeze blows around you while you walk through the steep slopes which lead you to the centre. You follow the sounds you so eagerly ...

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Article: Interview

Steve Cardenas: From K.C. to N.Y.C.

by Matthew Warnock
July 27, 2010

Kansas City has had a long and storied place in jazz history. From Count Basie, to Charlie Parker and Lester Young, some of the best and brightest in the genre have either been raised or cut their teeth in K.C. While there seems to be an historical tinge to the city whenever its contribution to jazz ...

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Article: Interview

Denny Zeitlin: Nothing Halfway

by Dan McClenaghan
July 19, 2010

San Francisco-based jazz pianist Denny Zeitlin--aka Dr. Dennis Zeitlin, Psychiatrist--boasts a music career that spans more than fifty years. He began, at a tender young age, playing professionally in the early fifties in his home town of Chicago. He was, very early in his life, interested in the fields of medicine and music, and he has ...

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News: Interview

Guitarist Steve Cardenas Interviewed at AAJ

July 27, 2010

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Article: Interview

Muhammad Ali: From a Family of Percussionists

by Clifford Allen
July 7, 2010

Though not as well known as his brother, drummer Rashied Ali (1935-2009), Muhammad Ali spent the 1970s as one of the busiest drummers in free jazz, primarily working in a cooperative Paris-based quartet with saxophonist Frank Wright, pianist Bobby Few and bassist Alan Silva, and known as the Center of the World Quartet. Born in Philadelphia ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

The Peter Sprague String Consort: The Wild Blue

by Robert Bush
July 2, 2010

The Peter Sprague String Consort The Wild Blue SBE Records 2009 Guitarist/composer Peter Sprague isn't nearly as well known outside serious musician circles as he should be. Maybe his international profile will be raised since he's been touring with vocalist Dianne Reeves. Twenty-three years ago, in 1987, bassist ...