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What's The Point, Part 1
by Dom Minasi
This is the first entry for my new column at All About Jazz. I actually published What's The Point? in my own blog in January 2012. All About Jazz asked if I would be interested in writing for them; I was surprised and honored. I decided to update and rewrite the original article; because of the ...
Enrico Rava: To Be Free or Not To Be Free
by Ian Patterson
Freedom, it could be argued, is most deeply understood by those who have been somehow constrained against their will, or who have been prisoners of their own skewed vision of what it means to be free. Trumpeter Enrico Rava knows the meaning of musical freedom; he was part of the free-jazz scene of the 1960s and ...
She Was Too Good To Me
By Chet Baker
Label: CTI Masterworks
Released: 2011
Track listing: Autumn Leaves; She Was Too Good To Me; Funk in Deep Freeze; Tangerine; With a Song in My Heart; What'll I Do: It's You Or No One; My Future Just Passed.
Concierto
By Jim Hall
Label: CTI Masterworks
Released: 2011
Track listing: You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To; Two's Blues; The Answer is Yes; Concierto
de Aranjuez; Rock Skippin' at The Blue Note (Bonus Track); Unfinished Business
(Bonus Track); You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (Alt. Tk.); The Answer is Yes
(Alt. Tk.); Rock Skippin; at The Blue Note (Alt. Tk.).
Mathias Eick: The Lyrical Dimension
by Adriana Carcu
Norwegian trumpeter/composer Mathias Eick comes from a musical space that, during the last 30 years, has rightfully earned itself the attributes of a genre. The singularity of his tone, marked by the lyrical quality of his phrasing and underlined by a melancholic solemnity, adds a particular note a the Nordic jazz tradition he shares with Jan ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Chet Baker
All About Jazz is celebrating Chet Baker's birthday today! Chesney Henry “Chet" Baker Jr. was raised in a musical household in Oklahoma (his father was a guitar player), and coming of age in Southern California during the bebop era of jazz, Baker found success as a trumpet player in 1951 when he was chosen by Charlie ...
The Parisian Jazz Chronicles
by Joel Roberts
The Parisian Jazz Chronicles: An Improvisational MemoirBy Mike Zwerin Yale University PressISBN: 0300108060240 pages2005 The Parisian Jazz Chronicles is an irreverent and highly revealing tour through the Parisian and European jazz scenes of the '80-90s in the company of musician/writer/hipster expatriate Mike Zwerin, ...
