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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Chuck Fesperman

Read "Take Five With Chuck Fesperman" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Chuck Fesperman:Chuck Fesperman is a jazz trumpeter. Originally from North Carolina, Chuck studied music at Appalachian State University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He was a member of the Charlotte Jazz All-Stars. He performed with the United States Coast Guard Training Center Bands in Cape May, NJ and Petaluma, CA. ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Chuck Mangione

Jazz Musician of the Day: Chuck Mangione

All About Jazz is celebrating Chuck Mangione's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Chuck MangioneFor more than five decades, Chuck Mangione\'s love affair with music has been characterized by his boundless energy, unabashed enthusiasm, and pure joy that radiates from the stage. Mangione first attracted attention with his ...

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Video

Feels So Good

Featuring the music of Chuck Mangione
Duration: 4:50

Chuck Mangione and his band on "The Midnight Special" performing his big hit from 1978.
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News: Interview

Jazz Don't Hurt: Dr. Flugel, or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Chuck Mangione

Jazz Don't Hurt: Dr. Flugel, or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Chuck Mangione

The first album I ever bought with my own money (earned, I think, by babysitting for one of the neighborhood kids) was a two-cassette version of Chuck Mangione's 1978 concert recording An Evening Of Magic: Live At The Hollywood Bowl. This album, if you'll forgive my salty language, kicks ass. An Evening of Magic was made ...

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Article: From the Inside Out

Three Pairs of Aces - Wild!

Read "Three Pairs of Aces - Wild!" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Corina Bartra & Her Azu Project Afro Peruvian Jazz Celebration Blue Spiral Music 2009 Corina Bartra does more than compose and sing in a style that merges music from North and South America--she lives this style by splitting her days between her native Peru and adopted hometown of New York ...

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Article: Album Review

Al Hood: Just a Little Taste: Al Hood Plays the Writing of Dave Henson

Read "Just a Little Taste: Al Hood Plays the Writing of Dave Henson" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


You might not know trumpet player Al Hood, but he's the pro's pro: he's toured with the official Harry James and Glenn Miller tribute bands, recorded and performed in ensembles led by Ray Charles, Curtis Fuller, Arturo Sandoval and others, and is a longstanding member of the Denver Brass. He's also a tenured professor at the ...

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Article: Album Review

The Lanny Morgan Sextet: "6"

Read ""6"" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Years ago a jazz critic of the Hong Kong press referred to Lanny Morgan as the “old master," and the moniker has stuck ever since. Now, at the ripe young age of 75, the “old master" Morgan holds court yet again with a sextet of equal masters on a scintillating session of bebop burners, simply titled ...

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Article: Album Review

Grant Geissman: Cool Man Cool

Read "Cool Man Cool" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


There are throwbacks, and then there are throwbacks. Guitarist Grant Geissman takes us back to the era of cool--a visual image of nightclubs patronized by people wearing long shirts, dark glasses and berets. Geissman may be best known for his solo on “Feels So Good," the pioneering smooth jazz song that brought Chuck Mangione's ...

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Article: Album Review

Grant Geissman: Cool Man Cool

Read "Cool Man Cool" reviewed by John Kelman


Guitarist Grant Geissman returns after his stellar comeback disc, Say That! (Futurism, 2006), with an album that capitalizes on its predecessor's strengths while at the same time, recruiting an even larger cast of characters. Cool Man Cool is a west coast mainstream jazz affair, celebrating Cool, but with some twists and turns thrown in to make ...

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News: Contest

Enter the PM Records "Gene Perla - Bill's Waltz" Giveaway Contest

Enter the PM Records "Gene Perla  -  Bill's Waltz" Giveaway Contest

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the PM Records “Gene Perla - Bill's Waltz“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select TEN winners at the conclusion of the contest on May 17th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Gene Perla at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends ...


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