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Article: Live Review

Nicholas Payton Trio at Dazzle

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by Geoff Anderson

Nicholas Payton Trio Dazzle Denver, CO March 5, 2016 Payton or Peyton? Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. They're both from New Orleans. Both Payton and Peyton are in the entertainment business. They've both recently wrapped up brief stays in Denver. And they are (or in the case of Peyton, ...

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Article: Live Review

Pat Martino Trio at Mount Vernon Country Club

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by Douglas Groothuis

Pat Martino Trio Mount Vernon Country Club Golden, Colorado February 18, 2016 Musical greatness and human fragility mixed uneasily on February 18, 2016, when Pat Martino and his trio worked their magic at the Mount Vernon Country Club high in Golden, Colorado. The performance was grand, but the ...

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Article: What is Jazz?

Jazz and Moral Theory: Swinging the Right Way

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by Douglas Groothuis

Morality matters to all of us. We protest when we are robbed or defrauded. We praise heroes and heroines. We condemn moral monsters. We laud a Mother Teresa and condemn a Ted Bundy. We recognize good and bad habits. We rebuke those who do evil; we praise those who do good. We attempt to honor our ...

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Article: Album Review

Janet Feder: T H I S C L O S E

Read "T H I S C L O S E" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

Colorado-based guitarist Janet Feder has developed a highly personal musical language, drawing inspiration from folk, jazz, minimalism, classical, avant-garde and even pop. Since the early nineties she began experimenting with her guitar, preparing it in different tunings, attaching objects to the strings, developing a unique original sound of her own. T H I S ...

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Article: Live Review

Eliane Elias at Dazzle

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by Geoff Anderson

Eliane Elias Dazzle Denver, CO November 19, 2015 Eliane Elias' current album Made in Brazil (Concord Jazz, 2015) is a lush affair. An orchestra provides a luxurious atmosphere on over half the songs. Guest vocalists add further layers and Take 6 contributes its brand of vocal jazz. Guitarists, drummers, percussionists, bass ...

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Article: Live Review

Al Di Meola at the Soiled Dove Underground, Denver

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by Geoff Anderson

Al Di Meola Soiled Dove Underground Denver, CO October 19, 2015 Jazz and rock began their courtship in the late 1960s. For a while, it seemed like they would never get together. From the beginning of rock 'n' roll in the '50s, the two genres had kept their distance from one ...

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Article: Live Review

Joe Jackson at the Paramount Theater, Denver

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by Geoff Anderson

Joe Jackson Paramount Theater Denver October 8, 2015 Joe Jackson has led a double (or maybe triple) life for most of his lengthy career. He hit the scene in 1979 with his debut album Look Sharp! (A&M 1979) rolling into the U.S. from England as part of the “New Wave," a ...

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Article: Album Review

Scott Hamilton & Jeff Hamilton Trio: Live In Bern

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by Bruce Lindsay

Saxophone master Scott Hamilton and drum maestro Jeff Hamilton have over four decades of experience each in the world of mainstream, swinging, jazz. Despite those many years on the scene Live In Bern is their first release together. It's been a long wait, but it's been worth it. Before the important discussion--about the music--a ...

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Article: Album Review

Josh Maxey: Celebration of Soul

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by Mark Sullivan

Celebration of Soul is the tenth and final album in a series of recordings made in just three years by guitarist/composer Josh Maxey. Such a uniquely prolific output did not happen by accident. Maxey says “The key to the series has been having a goal beyond what I would have considered reasonable." The series is a ...

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Article: Album Review

Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats: Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats

Read "Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

I believe that it is a sworn obligation to introduce one another to new music. It is a sacrament in the enjoyment of the art. That said, All About Jazz's own resident Genius, Jeff Fitzgerald did his part in spades. Directing my attention to the official video of Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats' “S.O.B." Thank ...


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