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Various Artists: CTI Records - The Cool Revolution

by John Kelman
Various ArtistsCTI Records--The Cool RevolutionCTI Masterworks2010 The late 1960s was, in many ways, a time of reckoning for jazz. While the music had continued to evolve over the previous half century, it was coincident with the emergence of rock music as a serious force that jazz began to ...
Jerome Sabbagh / Ben Monder / Daniel Humair: I Will Follow You

by Mark Corroto
How do you cook up innovative and inspiring jazz these days? Take a standard quintet and peel away the bassist (time keeper), then eliminate the pianist or chordal steward, and you are left with maybe the purest form of improvisation and interaction: the jazz trio. Saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh's trinity, heard on I Will Follow You, includes ...
Take Five With Scott Lee

by AAJ Staff
Meet Scott Lee:Scott Lee switched from a career in tennis at UNC-CH to jazz, after hearing the Bill Evans Trio. Arriving in NY in the '70s, he worked with Chet Baker, Lee Konitz, Al Cohn, Red Rodney, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Lovano, Kenny Werner, Andy Statman, Chris Conner, Morgana King, Helen Merrill, Betty Buckley, and ...
Take Five With Jason Parker

by AAJ Staff
Meet Jason Parker:Seattle trumpeter Jason Parker leads the Jason Parker Quartet, who will release their second CD on October 24, 2009 on Broken Time Records. No More, No Less features some of Seattle's finest young jazz musicians. Stream and download now at Jason Parker's website.Instrument(s):Trumpet.Teachers and/or influences?
Ray Brown’s Great Big Band: Kayak

by Robert J. Robbins
Not to be confused with the late, legendary bassist of the same name, San Francisco-based bandleader/arranger Ray Brown, an ex-trumpeter with the Stan Kenton and Full Faith and Credit big bands, drives his own nineteen-piece ensemble populated by the Bay Area's A-list musicians. Brown, whose percussionist father pioneered jazz education in the public schools of Long ...
Jazz Legend Chet Baker's Last Studio Sessions With Norwegian Poet Jan Erik Vold Sees CD Release

NorwayConsidered the holy grail of Chet Baker recordings by many collectors around the world, the new CD released by Norway's Hot Club Records titled TELEMARK BLUE features Chet Baker's last studio sessions, in Paris February 1988, just three months before his untimely death. It was his first jazz & poetry album, and a remarkable meeting between ...
Chet Baker: Sesjun Radio Shows

Chet Baker's recording career divides neatly into two broad categories: the helpless romantic of the '50s and life's punching bag of the mid-'70s and '80s. By now you're certainly familiar with the charmer of the '50sa West Coast natural trumpeter and singer whose look of youthful vulnerability and confusion was adapted by James Dean, Montgomery Clift ...
Take Five With Beat Kaestli

by AAJ Staff
Meet Beat Kaestli: Beat Kaestli is a Swiss vocalist, songwriter, arranger and producer. When faced with the choice of a promising singing career in his homeland or broadening his musical horizon in the US, he decided to make New York City his new home. While honing his craft alongside noteworthy jazz performers, such as Jane Monheit, ...
CD: Chet Baker

Chet Baker, The Sesjun Radio Shows (T2). The trumpeter and singer soars in two CDs compiled from 1970s and '80s concerts on the Dutch radio program Tros Sesjun. Baker's fleetness, lyricism, hard swing and vocal improvisations put this among the best work of his later years. Of the sidemen, pianists Harold Danko and Phil Markowitz, bassist ...