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Article: Live Review

The Cookers At Miner Auditorium

Read "The Cookers At Miner Auditorium" reviewed by Steven Roby


The Cookers Miner Auditorium San Francisco, California October 16, 2025 Some bands chase heat; The Cookers shape it--transforming velocity into design and treating their repertoire as a living lab for risk. On this night at Miner Auditorium, the seven-piece did not rely on memory. They played in the present tense, with ...

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Monktober Continues, New Music from Charles Lloyd and More, Birthday Music from Roy Hargrove and More

Read "Monktober Continues, New Music from Charles Lloyd and More, Birthday Music from Roy Hargrove and More" reviewed by David W. Daniels


Monktober continues with very early recordings by Coleman Hawkins and Milt Jackson featuring Thelonious Monk on piano. Also, some of Monk's own compositions by himself and others. Classics by other artists including Charles Mingus, Dave Brubeck, and more. New music from Lori Williams, Ruby Rushton, and more. Recognizing this week's jazz musician birthdays with music from ...

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Denver Jazz Fest 2025

Read "Denver Jazz Fest 2025" reviewed by Geoff Anderson


Denver Jazz Fest Denver and Boulder, CO April 3-6, 2025 The inaugural Denver Jazz Fest unfurled over four days from April 3 to 6, 2025. The sprawling festival presented 32 concerts at 12 different venues throughout the Denver and Boulder area. The timing was meant to coincide with Jazz Appreciation Month as ...

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7X7BY7

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: In the Riv (7x3); High Point of the Hang (7x5); Sympathetic Vibrations (7x7); On the Silver Road (7x4); Academy Blues (7x8); Greeting on 87th St. (7x6); Finnegan’s Garden (7x9).

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The Stunt Man

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2024
Track listing: Tracks: The Stunt Man: Attitude of Gratitude; Embraceable You; ESP; Avant Clark; The Sandcastle Headhunter ;New Levels - New Devils.

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Article: Album Review

Brian Lynch: 7X7BY7

Read "7X7BY7" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The number seven, which for reasons shrouded in mystery, has long been considered a symbol of good luck, lies at the core of trumpeter Brian Lynch's latest album, 7X7BY7, which consists of seven themes performed by seven musicians with each number clocking in at precisely six seconds past seven minutes. Furthermore, it is said, “the...process [of ...

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Article: Live Review

The Cookers at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley

Read "The Cookers at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley" reviewed by Jack Gold-Molina


The Cookers Dimitriou's Jazz Alley Seattle, Washington February 21, 2024 Veteran players The Cookers brought their long-established brand of avant-bop jazz to Dimitriou's Jazz Alley in Seattle. The personnel included David Weiss and Eddie Henderson playing trumpet, alto saxophonist Donald Harrison, tenor saxophonist Craig Handy, pianist George Cables, Cecil McBee playing ...

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Live In Montauk

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Do Nothing till You Hear from Me; Sparks; Moanin'; No Rhyme or Reason; One Finger Snap; Ripty Boom; Tip Toes.

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Article: Profile

Autumn Jazz Weathers Well in San Francisco

Read "Autumn Jazz Weathers Well in San Francisco" reviewed by Arthur R George


Autumn is a special season for jazz in San Francisco. The weather at other times of the year variously drives one indoors for warmth, a good enough reason to seek shelter in jazz. But in the autumn, mostly gone is the bone-chilling summer fog that pours into the city from the cold Pacific Ocean. Not yet ...

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Article: Album Review

Bill O'Connell: Live In Montauk

Read "Live In Montauk" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci


A rhythm section which includes Santi Debriano and Billy Hart is nothing if not part of a potential dream band. In Craig Handy, one finds a post-bop saxophonist who played with virtually everyone worth hearing over the last third of the twentieth century. For a variety of reasons pianist Bill O'Connell may be a little less ...


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