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Article: Album Review

Donald Byrd: Cookin' With Blue Note At Montreux

Read "Cookin' With Blue Note At Montreux" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Almost fifty years after the event, Donald Byrd's 1973 performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival finally sees the light of day. Several other artists on Blue Note's roster had performances released--in more timely manner--from the same edition of Claude Nobs festival, including Ronnie Foster, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobby Hutcherson and Marlena Shaw. In no small part, thanks ...

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Article: Interview

A Fireside Chat With Wayne Shorter

Read "A Fireside Chat With Wayne Shorter" reviewed by AAJ Staff


This article was first published at All About Jazz in October 2002. I have done my fair share of Firesides (500 or so last census). I have favorites. Certainly, the first Sonny Rollins was memorable. Cecil Taylor, Charles Lloyd, Joe Chambers, and Lester Bowie were provocative. Willie Nelson was high (allegedly) and Tony Bennett ...

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Article: Album Review

John Bailey: Time Bandits

Read "Time Bandits" reviewed by Jack Bowers


After working and recording for decades with some of the jazz world's best and brightest talents, trumpeter John Bailey released his first album as leader of his own group in 2018, the second in 2020 and, in 2023, his third, Time Bandits, which shares a name but nothing more with Terry Gilliam's 1981 film fantasy.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

The Blue Note Label

Read "The Blue Note Label" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


This show, from July 2021, covers two hours worth of the extensive legacy of the Blue Note record label, examining some of the label's rich past as well as its present. The program goes all the way from Lee Morgan and Bud Powell to Joel Ross and Ambrose Akinmusire. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I ...

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Michel Legrand: Hollywood Hitmaker And Jazz Genius

Read "Michel Legrand: Hollywood Hitmaker And Jazz Genius" reviewed by Chris May


For many jazz fans, Michel Legrand is celebrated, if he is celebrated at all, for one album only: the masterpiece Legrand Jazz (Columbia, 1958). But Legrand's jazz legacy is more extensive than that, including other historic recordings, with large and small ensembles, under his own name and by Stan Getz and Phil Woods, whose Images (RCA, ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Duo Hofmaninger / Schwarz, Charles Stepney, Jeff Parker, Donald Byrd & More New Releases

Read "Duo Hofmaninger / Schwarz, Charles Stepney, Jeff Parker, Donald Byrd & More New Releases" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


Precious archival recordings featuring unheard music by Charles Stepney, Donald Byrd and Miles Davis open this edition of Mondo Jazz featuring new and upcoming albums. The playlist is completed by the epic live album by Jeff Parker Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy, and the intriguing work of young European players. Happy listening!

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

A Few More of My Favorite 2022 Jazz Things, Part 2

Read "A Few More of My Favorite 2022 Jazz Things, Part 2" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


As this is our last show in 2022, our playlist focus on the songs we've loved the most in the last six months of what was an incredibly prolific year for jazz. Here's to a new year that hopefully will bring us much great music as 2022 did!Happy listening... and a happy new year!

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John Sinclair Presents Detroit Artists Workshop

Label: Strut / Art Yard
Released: 2022
Track listing: John Sinclair: Introduction; Donald Byrd: Cristo Redentor; Donald Byrd: Blackjack; Detroit Contemporary 4: EFFI; Detroit Contemporary 4: The Promise: Detroit Contemporary 4: Three Flowers; Bennie Maupin Quartet: Water Torture; Ron English: Bees; Teddy Harris: Passion Dance; Lyman Woodard: Déjà Vu; Lyman Woodard Organization: Help Me Get Away.

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Cannes ‘58

Label: Sam Records (8)
Released: 2022
Track listing: I Get A Kick Out Of You; It Could Happen To You; Long To You; When Your Love Has Gone Away; Flute Bop; Boogie Woogie;

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Cookin' With Blue Note At Montreux

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Black Byrd; You’ve Got It Bad Girl; The East; Introductions; Kwame; Poco-Mania.


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