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Article: Interview

Large Ensembles: Is There a Place in This Large Music World?

by R.J. DeLuke
August 17, 2009

The big band in jazz has a long and glorious history. It was a prevalent form in jazz music in the '20s and '30s, comprising a substantial part of America's popular music heard on radio, spun on gramophones and record players, and enjoyed in dance halls. It gave rise to iconic band leaders like Fletcher Henderson, ...

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Article: Live Review

Newport Jazz Festival 55: A Weekend to Savor

by Ken Franckling
August 17, 2009

George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55Newport, Rhode IslandAugust 7-9, 2009In this 40th anniversary summer of Woodstock, the musical love-in took place in Newport, not upstate New York. And it wasn't a matter of nostalgia. It was all about the Phoenix-like return of the jazz festival after a winter of uncertainty. Once ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Stanley Clarke Trio: Jazz in the Garden

by Carl L. Hager
August 13, 2009

Stanley Clarke Trio Jazz In The Garden Heads Up International 2009 In the mid-1970s when Stanley Clarke rose to prominence playing electric bass in the powerhouse band Return To Forever, it had been his beautiful touch on acoustic bass that originally attracted the notice of the band's founder, ...

News: Music Industry

The Jazz Audience

August 11, 2009

When The National Endowment for the Arts study on Public Participation in the Arts came out a few weeks ago, the survey's bad news about the size of the jazz audience caused ripples of concern. It showed that over a six-year period, the number of Americans attending jazz events dropped to a low of 7.8%. In ...

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Article: Album Review

Miami Saxophone Quartet: Fourtified

Read "Fourtified" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 11, 2009

Before even blowing a note, the Miami Saxophone Quartet has earned bonus points by doing something other such groups would be wise to emulate: it has added a rhythm section (at least on three of Fourtified's nine tracks). There's even a second quartet--viola, cello, two violins--on the aptly named three-movement “Jazz Suite for Double Quartet," Latin ...

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News: Social Gathering

Fight Cancer, Win Jazz Prizes! Goal Reached!

August 9, 2009

Jason Crane, All About Jazz contributor and host of The Jazz Session podcast, is riding his bicycle in the Lance Armstrong Foundation's LIVESTRONG Challenge Ride in Philadelphia on August 23. You can win jazz prizes and help him raise money to fight cancer at the same time. “I'm riding because cancer has had a huge impact ...

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News: Recording

N.P.R. Music Offers Free Newport Jazz Sampler

August 9, 2009

We know that AllAboutJazz.com readers never stop looking for new music--specially free new music. So please check out NPR Music's Newport Jazz Festival Sampler. In the interest of feeding these insatiable beasts, NPR Music is currently offering two free 12-song music samplers for download, featuring artists performing at this year's Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals in ...

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Article: Album Review

Eric Mintel: Ground Breaker

Read "Ground Breaker" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
August 8, 2009

The title of a record may be misleading, and even when it promises more than it delivers, it doesn't necessarily mean that the music is of poor quality. Eric Mintel's Ground Breaker does no such thing but it is a solid, well above average effort in the post bop tradition. The original tunes are all complex, ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Jacksonville: Big City, Big Band, Big Plans

by Jack Bowers
August 5, 2009

Almost everyone who's even mildly interested knows that the big band scene in the US isn't what it used to be. On the other hand, the big bands aren't yet dead, as some alarmists have claimed, or even on life support. Thanks in part to college and armed services programs, there are perhaps as many or ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Posi-Tone Records: More Home Runs with Mike DiRubbo, Ralph Bowen, Sean Nowell

by J Hunter
August 4, 2009

If Posi-Tone Records was a major league baseball team, it would be at the top of its division. So far in 2009, the label has had big wins with Sam Yahel's piano trio debut Hometown and guitarist Yotam Silberstein's overall debut Next Page, not to mention former Ray Charles sideman, trumpeter Jim Rotondi's heartfelt tribute to ...