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Live!Singapore: June 8-11, 2010
by Ian Patterson
Rarely do the worlds of jazz, classical music, world music and musical theatre come together in one place to hobnob and strut their stuff, but that was exactly what happened at Live!Singapore, an ambitious event organized by Koelnmesse and IMG Artists. Festival directors, producers, agents, managers, executives and artists of these four disciplines came from more ...
Coleman Hawkins: The High and Mighty Hawk
by Samuel Chell
Recorded in England in 1958, this little-known session, originally released on the obscure Felsted label, is an inarguable gem. Perhaps even the word masterpiece" is not too much of a stretch. It's doubtful that the putative father of the tenor saxophone," Coleman Hawkins, made a better recording in the age of long-playing records, and it's just ...
Sirius XM Radio to Broadcast Live from the Montreal Jazz Festival
SIRIUS XM's Real Jazz channel will broadcast live from the 31st annual Montreal Jazz Festival, the world's largest jazz gathering. Listeners will hear Real Jazz host Mark Ruffin give a preview of the event's performances including music and interviews with artists including Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, Houston Person, Robert Glasper, Gretchen Parlato and others. The live ...
Fred Anderson: 1929-2010
by Kurt Gottschalk
There aren't many artists with so singular a vision as that of late Fred Anderson, who died June 24 at the age of 81. There are fewer to be certain if the list is restricted to members of that exalted and nebulous class called masters." It's a word that, in jazz, gets thrown around a little ...
Take Five With The Britton Brothers
by AAJ Staff
Meet The Britton Brothers: Ben and John Britton, said to be extremely talented" by the likes of Chris Potter, have entered the jazz scene confidently with their debut album, Uncertain Living. With a collective approach developed throughout years of playing together, they have arrived to a music that is forward thinking and invites a wide range ...
At The Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years On The Jazz Scene
by Ian Patterson
At The Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years On The Jazz Scene Nat Hentoff Hardcover; 246 pages ISBN: 978-0-520-26113-6 University California Press 2010 The photograph which adorns the jacket of Nat Hentoff's At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years On The Jazz Scene--a collection ...
John Escreet: Don't Fight The Inevitable
by Bruce Lindsay
British pianist John Escreet is a prodigiously talented young musician with a growing reputation as a player and composer. Don't Fight The Inevitable--his second solo album, following 2008's acclaimed Consequences (Posi-Tone Records)--finds Escreet in the company of top-flight New York players, creating some intense and complex music. The quintet is almost identical to ...
Daniel Smith: Blue Bassoon
by Dan Bilawsky
When many people hear discussions about the bassoon, they are far more likely to think of Peter And The Wolf" than Charlie Parker and Wayne Shorter tunes. While jazz is open to any-and-all-comers in every instrument family, the technical demands of the bassoon--an unwieldy double reed instrument that rarely leaves the confines of classical music--and its ...
James Moody: Moody 4B
by Warren Allen
Each year since 1950, James Moody has played a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York. In 2010, the annual visit will be a little sweeter as Moody celebrates his 85th birthday, with a slice of cake on Seventh Avenue and a concert of greats. No doubt, the sprightly sax (and flute) master behind such classic ...
Howard Riley: Five Decades in Music
by Maxim Micheliov
Howard Riley gave his performance in Vilnius, Lithuania in September, 2009. It was his first visit to the country in a five-decade career, and one of just a few eastern Europe destinations made at the time, by the British free jazz pianist. The concert was recorded and released in 2010 as the double-disc set, Solo in ...


