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News: Radio

Popular Song on the Picket Lines

September 7, 2009

For the Labor Day holiday, the Afterglow program “Popular Song On the Picket Lines” features “social significance” music from the 1930s and 40s that had a political message behind it in one way or another, or alluded in humorous or poignant ways to issues and problems of the times. Many artists in those years were involved ...

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Article: Album Review

Frank Wess: Once is Not Enough

Read "Once is Not Enough" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
September 3, 2009

Dominated by the sound of swinging, good-time blues, Once Is Not Enough indisputably plants NEA Jazz Master Wess in the tradition of Count Basie, in whose Count Basie Orchestra Wess played flute, alto, and tenor saxophones for more than a decade. This set jumps from the very start: Wess' tenor on his opening, title ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Jack Cortner Big Band / Peter Hand Big Band / Chicago Jazz Philharmonic

by Jack Bowers
September 2, 2009

Jack Cortner Big Band Sound Check Jazzed Media 2009 For someone who waited so long before taking his first swings as leader of his own big band, Jack Cortner shows again on Sound Check, the band's second impressive recording in as many years, that he's got game. He's ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Brett Favre Isn't The Only Comeback Kid

by Jack Bowers
August 28, 2009

The ink was barely dry on last month's report that trumpeter Rob Parton had decided to break up his superlative Chicago-based JazzTech Big Band after more than twenty years at the helm before Parton was back with a brand new ensemble, one whose purpose, he says, “is to mirror that of the European Radio Orchestras where ...

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Article: Live Review

9th Annual Satchmo Summerfest Heats Up New Orleans

by Sandy Ingham
August 26, 2009

Ninth Annual Satchmo SummerFestNew Orleans, LouisianaJuly 30-August 2, 2009 Sauntering down Frenchmen Street in New Orleans late on the night of July 31, I thought: I am indisputably in the right place, at the right time, mingling with more happy people per square foot than could be found anywhere else in the world.

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Article: Album Review

Fred Hess Big Band: Hold On

by Troy Collins
August 26, 2009

Originally from Abington, Pennsylvania, tenor saxophonist Fred Hess has resided in Denver, Colorado since 1981. Though Denver is not often considered a hotbed of progressive jazz, Hess, as founder of the Boulder Creative Music Ensemble and Denver's Creative Music Works Orchestra, has fashioned an alternative to the East Coast/West Coast paradigm. With 14 albums as a ...

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Article: Album Review

Glenn Patrik: Nuthin' But a Thang!

Read "Nuthin' But a Thang!" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
August 24, 2009

From America's heartland, Glenn Patrik sings and plays the kind of blues that made Kansas City a hub where musical pioneers met and exchanged ideas about swing, rhythm, blues, and being spontaneous. It was shortly before World War II and just about the same time that bebop was getting noticed in New York, when Kansas City ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Brazilian Buffet: Trio + 1, Patricia Talem, Paulinho Garcia, Nilson Matta, Fred Hersch

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
August 23, 2009

Here's a tasty buffet from Brasil: five newly released, or in 2009 recently revived, CDs that underscore the richness of the music. The artists range from brand new to legendary, while the menu includes two vocal CDs, one mix of vocals and instrumentals, and a pair of unusual takes on the genre: an other-worldly trio, and ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Count Basie

August 21, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Count Basie's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Count BasieBill Basie studied music with his mother as a child and played piano in early childhood. He picked up the basics of early ragtime from some of the great Harlem pianists and studied organ ...

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Article: Live Review

George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55 a Triumph

by R.J. DeLuke
August 19, 2009

There seemed to be a distinct feeling in the air at this year's jazz festival in Newport, R.I. It would be easy to imagine that there was something in the air, because the festival that was started by impresario George Wein way back in 1954 and became the model for all to follow had suffered an ...