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Article: Live Review

Limerick Jazz Festival 2013

by Ian Patterson
October 9, 2013

Limerick Jazz Festival Various Venues Limerick Ireland September 26-29, 2013 There's a lot to be said for laying strong foundations. By the time the Limerick Jazz Society got it together to put on the city's inaugural jazz festival in 2012 it already had 30 years experience of hosting local and ...

Article: Album Review

Chicago Jazz Orchestra: Burstin' Out!

Read "Burstin' Out!" reviewed by Matt Marshall

by Matt Marshall
October 2, 2013

Covering the Great American Songbook can be tricky, thankless work for a singer. The options for handling the material just aren't as numerous (i.e., nigh infinite) as they are for instrumentalists. Severely warping a melody, chopping it up or getting rid of it altogether work perfectly well if you're blowing through a horn. But such abstractions ...

News: Performance / Tour

David Lyttle Trio Embarks On 14-date Irish Tour

September 23, 2013

For the first time in two years, drummer/producer David Lyttle returns to the jazz trio format, embarking on a 14-date tour throughout Ireland, North and South. The guts of the last two years have seen Lyttle promoting his jazz/hip-hop album Interlude (Lyte Records, 2012), whose urban grooves featured guitarist Andreas Varady, trumpeter Linley Hamilton, saxophonist Michael ...

Article: Interview

Ryan Keberle: Multicolored Tapestry

by R.J. DeLuke
September 16, 2013

Ryan Keberle is a musician with open ears, who listens to all kinds of music with the attitude that in most cases something can be learned from it. He listens as a fan and as a musician. It can be just to enjoy rock, alternative, pop, R&B or blues. But there might be a kernel of ...

News: Radio

Sweets Edison On Riverwalk Jazz This Week

September 12, 2013

This week Riverwalk Jazz presents Harry “Sweets" Edison in an encore presentation captured live at The Landing in San Antonio with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band. Edison died in 1999 at the age of 83. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from ...

Article: Interview

Billy Vera: Still In The Game

by Scott Mitchell
September 10, 2013

It might be safe to say that a lot of people may know a little bit about Billy Vera but only a few people know a lot about Billy Vera. Billy is a singer, writer, producer, actor, Grammy winner, and music historian. He has performed with big bands, Billy And The Beaters, solo, and everything in ...

Article: Album Review

Rodger Fox Wellington Jazz Orchestra: The Capitol Sessions

Read "The Capitol Sessions" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
September 7, 2013

In July 2012, trombonist Rodger Fox brought his Wellington Jazz Orchestra all the way from New Zealand to Los Angeles to record at the famed Capitol Studios, thus confirming Fox's confidence in the ensemble--one doesn't undertake a trip like that accompanied by musicians whose talents are less than exemplary--while producing an album that is superlative from ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Mike Norris

by AAJ Staff
September 6, 2013

Meet Mike Norris:From Jersey City, NJ. Mike Norris has played drums all across the country for show bands, jazz bands, headliners, music directors, and conductors for many shows and venues. Norris is living now in the sunshine state and plays with some of the best jazz musicians--what could be better than that?

Article: Album Review

Buck Clayton Legacy Band: Claytonia

Read "Claytonia" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
September 4, 2013

Buck Clayton, an acclaimed trumpet soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra in the late 1930s and early '40s, had lip surgery in 1969 that all but ended his playing career. After setting the trumpet aside for good in 1979, he turned full-time to composing and arranging, and the Buck Clayton Big Band made its debut in ...

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Take Five With Pat Pratico

by AAJ Staff
August 29, 2013

Meet Pasquale J Pratico:I was born in Trenton in 1955 to an Italian-American family. My brothers and my younger sister were raised in a family restaurant business. I learned to cook and still cook most of the time with the help of my wife, Mary. My uncles Nate and Vince are professional musicians and ...