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Dexter Blows

Label: Blue Note
Released: 2011

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Article: Book Review

The Parisian Jazz Chronicles: An Improvisational MemoirBy Mike Zwerin Yale University PressISBN: 0300108060240 pages2005 The Parisian Jazz Chronicles is an irreverent and highly revealing tour through the Parisian and European jazz scenes of the '80-90s in the company of musician/writer/hipster expatriate Mike Zwerin, ...

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Dexter Gordon: Complete Columbia

December 15, 2011

When tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon left the U.S. in August 1962 for an extended stay in Europe, he wasn't fed up with the New York scene or the shift in popular music tastes. “Dexter left for Europe because Ronnie Scott had invited him to perform at his club in London," Maxine Gordon said yesterday. “When he got ...

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Take Five With Sunna Gunnlaugs

by AAJ Staff
November 29, 2011

Meet Sunna Gunnlaugs: Ex-Brooklyn patriot, born in Iceland, jazz pianist and composer Sunna Gunnlaugs has released five CDs and performed in Europe, Japan, Canada and the US, combining the elegance of the European approach with a New York attitude.Instrument(s): PianoTeachers and/or influences? When I lived in ...

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The Complete Albums Collection Available Exclusively at Popmarket.com

November 27, 2011

Popmarket.com offers an exclusive reissue box set series called COMPLETE ALBUMS COLLECTION, deluxe box sets housing the complete album discographies on Columbia and RCA (spanning the 1950's-00's) by the greatest names in modern jazz—Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, Woody Shaw, Dexter Gordon, Nina Simone, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, Wynton Marsalis, Grover Washington Jr., ...

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Sony Music Presents The Complete Albums Collections By the Greatest Names In Jazz

November 18, 2011

Miles Davis, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Paul Desmond, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, The Original Mahavishnu Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis, Return To Forever, Woody Shaw, Wayne Shorter, Nina Simone, Grover Washington Jr., and Weather Report Call it the Ultimate Jazz Festival, as Sony Music's PopMarket.com website presents Complete Album Collections on Columbia Records and RCA Records ...

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Article: Book Excerpts

Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club

by Sascha Feinstein
October 26, 2011

This article appears in the preface of Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club by Kathy Sloane (Indiana Univ. Press, 2011). The Keystone Legacy I enjoy imagining jazz clubs as I listen to live recordings, and if those sessions took place at venues I've known, I find it downright difficult not to ...

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Take Five With Lenny Marcus

by AAJ Staff
October 26, 2011

Meet Lenny Marcus: Lenny Marcus hails from Washington, DC, but studied, performed and recorded for many years in New Orleans, LA, before relocating to Roanoke, VA. He is leader on 18 albums, and has studied and recorded with many jazz legends, including David Fathead" Newman, Brian Lynch, Sonny Fortune, Frank Foster, Charlie Byrd, Herb ...

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Music Matters: The Blue Note Reissue Series

by Greg Simmons
October 12, 2011

Music Matters has been reissuing classic Blue Note jazz records since 2007. It has dug deep into the catalog, remastering lesser known, infrequently heard titles, and done so with passionate attention to presenting the highest possible sound quality. Offering an analog solution in a digital age, this exceptional series is available on 45rpm vinyl records only. ...

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Eric Alexander: Don't Follow the Crowd

Read "Don't Follow the Crowd" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 24, 2011

Tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander, now well into his forties and no longer the precocious young lion who burst on the New York scene some two decades ago, nevertheless remains the relentless hunter, avidly pursuing--and easily wrestling to the ground--obscure melodies that are beyond the pale of his contemporaries. Such diligence pays dividends again on Don't Follow ...