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Article: Interview

Michael Bisio: Stepping Into the Limelight

by Gregory Applegate Edwards
April 19, 2011

Bassist Michael Bisio has become an increasingly visual and aural presence on the jazz/improvisation scene in the time since he moved from the west coast to New York. Yet he has been a significant contributor in jazz circles for years, and success was no overnight thing. Among other ongoing associations, Bisio is currently the bassist in ...

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Article: Album Review

Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra: Hothouse Stomp

Read "Hothouse Stomp" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
April 6, 2011

One of the beauties of long-lived music genres is if a current one becomes boring and the future looks, well, too futuristic, we can always go backwards, investigating earlier forms we may have not paid attention to earlier. And herein lies the value of Brian Carpenter's Hothouse Stomp: The Music of 1920 Chicago and Harlem. The ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Ed Puddick Big Band / Frank Macchia / Rick Wald NY 16

by Jack Bowers
April 6, 2011

Ed Puddick Big Band Guys & Dolls Diving Duck Records 2010 The late Frank Loesser wrote at least 700 songs, more than a dozen of which are included in the score for the smash musical Guys and Dolls, which, believe it or not, opened on Broadway more than sixty years ...

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Article: Album Review

Captain Black Big Band: Captain Black Big Band

Read "Captain Black Big Band" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
March 31, 2011

The man behind the Captain Black Big Band is pianist Orrin Evans. The ensemble's eponymous debut recording is a CD of such style, musicality and instrumental power that it seems only right to ensure that Evans gets the credit upfront. This is straight-ahead, swinging, big band music, recorded at three live performances in New York and ...

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Article: Interview

Lauren Sevian: Big Voice on the Big Horn

by R.J. DeLuke
March 30, 2011

Swaying slightly, with eyes closed, Lauren Sevian pours a lot of heart and grit into the big, baritone saxophone--the largest of the most commonly played saxophones and an axe that looks even more considerable when seen against her small frame. She comes out with an imposing sound and welcoming style, put forth through a striking conception.

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Article: Forgotten Finds

Lions in Winter

by Greg Simmons
March 25, 2011

Recently passed jazz greats, saxophonist James Moody and pianist Hank Jones, were both fortunate enough to be making solid, vital recordings right up to the ends of their lives. Moody's 4A (IPO, 2009) and 4B (IPO, 2010) were as well-played as any he ever recorded, and Jones, who was still active in his last year at ...

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News: Education

Extended Interviews with Jazz Greats Available on Hamilton College Jazz Archive Website

March 23, 2011

A collection of 300 audio interviews with jazz musicians, arrangers, writers and critics, the jazz greats and the supporting cast from the 1930s to the present, is now available online and free to the public courtesy of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive at www.hamilton.edu/jazzarchive. Listeners can click on a link and read the transcripts or listen ...

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Article: Interview

Abdullah Ibrahim: Perpetual Change

by Ian Patterson
March 21, 2011

For legendary pianist/composer Abdullah Ibrahim, music is always in a state of evolution. This philosophy is common to nearly all great composers, from [pianist] Duke Ellington to [trumpeter] Miles Davis and from [saxophonist] John Coltrane and [pianist] Ahmad Jamal to [guitarist] Bill Frisell. A piece of music is born, it grows and gradually matures but it ...

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Article: Album Review

John Burnett Orchestra: Down For Double

Read "Down For Double" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
March 20, 2011

The John Burnett Orchestra is a formidable swing band because, while there's undoubted reverence in their evocations of the era, that reverence is tempered by sparks of originality. Indeed, the tight-but-loose thing which summarizes its collective sound is now pretty hard to come by, which makes this release a cause for celebration. When ...

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Article: Album Review

Sammy Nestico and the SWR Big Band: Fun Time and More Live

Read "Fun Time and More Live" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
March 18, 2011

Big band jazz has evolved into its own avant-garde art form, where the arrangements have become progressively more complex and cerebral. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but it does make for a different type of big band listening experience. Modern big band jazz, in some quarters, has veered off into a non-swinging, Stan ...