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Article: Book Review

Wail: The Life of Bud Powell by Peter Pullman

Read "Wail: The Life of Bud Powell by Peter Pullman" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Wail: The Life of Bud Powell Peter Pullman 483 Pages ISBN-13: # 978-0985141813 (print) ASIN: B0079NR9IC (ebook) Peter Pullman, LLC 2012 The best biographies are well researched and annotated without being pedantic, informative without browbeating the reader and objective without indifference, or worse, malice. There exists excellent ...

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Article: Genius Guide to Jazz

All About All About Jazz

Read "All About All About Jazz" reviewed by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius

by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius

The history of jazz on the Internet goes back almost to the beginnings of jazz itself, one crisp autumn day in 1924 when Louis Armstrong first conceived of breaking the music down into tiny packets that could then be distributed across a network where they could be reassembled at some other distant point back into their ...

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Article: Live Review

Visual & Visionary Jazz a Vicenza

Read "Visual & Visionary Jazz a Vicenza" reviewed by Libero Farnè

by Libero Farnè

Vicenza Jazz 2014 Vari luoghi 14-16.05.2014 La recensione di tre serate di Vicenza Jazz 2014, durato dal 9 al 17 maggio, può essere sufficiente per individuarne la filosofia. Sotto il titolo “Visual & Visionary Jazz--Sull'Arka di Sun Ra, tra vecchie e nuove avanguardie," che ha funzionato come pretesto, come indirizzo indicativo, la ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Brian Charette: The Question That Drives Us and Square One

Read "Brian Charette: The Question That Drives Us and Square One" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

Classically trained pianist turned organist Brian Charette is an accomplished master of the Hammond B3 with an elegant yet passionate touch. His signature style imbues the many recordings of his various ensembles with a light, crisp sound and an effervescent melodicism that is, unapologetically, mainstream without being pedestrian. In 2014 Charette cut two charmingly seductive albums ...

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Article: Album Review

Paul Bley: Play Blue

Read "Play Blue" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Pianist Paul Bley, born in 1932, began his jazz career in the 1950's, working with every one from saxophonists Charlie Parker, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins, and Ornette Coleman, as well as clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre and trumpeter Chet Baker, and more legends of the time than can be listed here. He has, under his own ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Glenn Zottola: Reflections of Charlie Parker

Read "Glenn Zottola: Reflections of Charlie Parker" reviewed by Geannine Reid

by Geannine Reid

After nearly four decades Glenn Zottola has become one of the most respected, versatile and in-demand trumpet players--and saxophonists--in the world. Born and raised in Port Chester, New York, Zottola started playing trumpet at age three. By virtue of his musical household, this seemed almost as natural as learning to speak. His big brother, Bob, was ...

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Article: Album Review

Marcos Pin and Yago Vazquez: Marcos Pin: Duology

Read "Marcos Pin: Duology" reviewed by Mike Oppenheim

by Mike Oppenheim

Duology: Session 1 features the duet playing of guitarist Marcos Pin and pianist Yago Vazquez. The album is a tour through some of the most popular jazz standards. The duo format and individual talents of Pin and Vazquez bring a life and energy to the tunes, revealing the depth and potential in even the most frequently ...

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Article: Live Review

Jazzkaar 2014

Read "Jazzkaar 2014" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Jazzkaar 2014 Tallinn, Estonia April 16-28, 2014 Any opportunity to return to Tallinn, the capital of Estonia in Eastern Europe, is one worth grabbing. Beyond the somewhat surreal feeling of being in a country that, just 23 years ago, was a completely different place, Tallinn is, quite simply, one of the most ...

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Article: Album Review

Jeff Hackworth: Soul To Go!

Read "Soul To Go!" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

His fifth album as leader and follow up to the critically acclaimed Night Owl (Big Bridge Music, 2011), Jeff Hackworth's Soul To Go! offers a brash new statement packed with bop, blues and soulful renditions of jazz classics. A New York-based saxophonist of note, and like many a great sax men--Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley ...

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Article: Album Review

Mats Gustafsson/dieb13/Martin Siewert: Fake The Facts: Soundtrack

Read "Soundtrack" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Stripped to its core, music is communication. It is the accompaniment to life's movie. The first fabulists, our cavemen ancestors probably invented music by imitating the sounds of nature, such as bird calls, wolf howls, and the patter of rain on the cave's entrance. The pleasure delivered by that experience caused several members of the cavemen's ...


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