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Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band Featuring Pat Metheny at the Blue Note

by Koby Hayon
March 28, 2016

Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band Featuring Pat Metheny Blue Note New York, NY March 13, 2016 Jazz luminary Roy Haynes has forever captivated audiences with his innovative playing and his concert (and 91st birthday celebration) on March 13th, at New York City's Blue Note was no different. The ...

News: Performance / Tour

Pianist James Collins With Steve Wilson, Victor Lewis & More - April 10 In Philadelphia - One Night Only - Free!

March 22, 2016

Rising Star Pianist James Collins April 10, 3pm. FREE! Featuring: Steve Wilson Victor Lewis David Wong Noah Hocker First Presbyterian Church 35 West Chelten Ave. Philadelphia, PA 1914 (215) 843-8811 About James Collins James Collins is a young up-and-coming jazz ...

Article: Album Review

Jim Rotondi: Dark Blue

Read "Dark Blue" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan
March 8, 2016

Back in 1997 when Introducing Jim Rotondi announced that a major new trumpeter star was on the ascent, few could have predicted how important and prolific Rotondi would become to the mainstream landscape. A foremost stylist in the lineage of Freddie Hubbard and Wood Shaw, Rotondi quickly proved he had absorbed the legacy, only to jettison ...

Article: Album Review

Dmitry Baevsky: Over and Out

Read "Over and Out" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
June 29, 2015

New York based saxophonist Dmitry Baevsky's fourth release as a leaderOver and Out finds the St Petersburg native in a spare setting backed only by bass and drums. With his alto's warm, organic tone in the spotlight, Baevsky interprets a mixture of his originals and standards with intense lyricism and confident and mature bravado.

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OverTime: Music of Bob Brookmeyer

By Vanguard Jazz Orchestra

Label: Planet Arts Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: The Big Time; Suite for Three: Oatts / Scott / Rich; XYZ; Skylark; At the Corner of Ralph and Gary; Sad Song.

Article: Album Review

Various Artists: It's Christmas On Mack Avenue

Read "It's Christmas On Mack Avenue" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
November 29, 2014

The Detroit-based Mack Avenue imprint has built quite an artist roster over the past fifteen years, so why not boast about it and toast the holidays in the process? It's Christmas On Mack Avenue does just that, turning a spotlight on label mainstays, fairly new signings, heavy hitters, and rapidly ascending stars. It also makes it ...

Article: Album Review

Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: OverTime: Music of Bob Brookmeyer

Read "OverTime: Music of Bob Brookmeyer" reviewed by John Ephland

by John Ephland
October 23, 2014

There's a richness, a depth, a density to his varied charts. And the soloists and ensemble passages inside those charts! Such has always been the case with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, then, and now. For real, gliding from the spirit of Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, this edition of the VJO now embraces another one of ...

Article: Album Review

Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: OverTime: Music of Bob Brookmeyer

Read "OverTime: Music of Bob Brookmeyer" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 13, 2014

While it may be hard to believe, the reality is that the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra is nearing the end of its first half-century together. Formed in 1966 as the Thad Jones -Mel Lewis Orchestra, it continued on after Jones' departure as the Mel Lewis Orchestra, then as the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra after Lewis' death in February ...

Article: Live Review

Umbria Jazz Winter 2014

by Libero Farnè
February 19, 2014

Umbria Jazz Winter Orvieto 28.12.2013-1.1.2014 Come sempre il cartellone di Umbria Jazz Winter, nel clima festoso a cavallo di Capodanno in vari prestigiosi spazi di Orvieto, si è presentato articolato, giostrando fra nomi più o meno noti, fra protagonisti italiani e americani. I nomi emergenti da non lasciarsi sfuggire ...

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The Bespoke Man's Narrative

By David Wong

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: 01. Prologue (Aaron Diel) - 1:59; 02. Generation Y (Aaron Diel) - 6:55; 03. Blue Nude (Aaron Diel) - 7:44; 04. Moonlight In Vermont (Blackburn/Suessdorf); 05. Single Petal of a Rose (Duke Ellington) - 6:39; 06. The Cylinder (Milt Jackson) - 5:35; 07. Stop and Go (Aaron Diel) - 5:41; 08. Le Tombeau de Couperin III. Forlane (Maurice Ravel) - 10:55; 09. Bess, You Is Woman Now (Gershwin/Gershwin) - 8:20: 10. Epilogue (Aaron Diel) - 3:04.