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News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: December 14, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 3 Poncho Sanchez Psychedelic Blues (Concord) 182 186 -4 0 50 1 12 2 1 2 Jeff Hamilton Trio Symbiosis (Capri) 174 212 -38 0 44 1 11 3 4 1 Eric Alexander Revival Of The Fittest (HighNote) 172 180 -8 0 45 1 11 4 ...

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News: Recording

Eddie Allen and His Jazzy Brass for the Holidays Released on DBCD Label

Eddie Allen and His Jazzy Brass for the Holidays Released on DBCD Label

New York, New York -- Eddie Allen has been busy this year and what better way to conclude it than to release some holiday jazz. Allen is leading the way once again on Jazzy Brass For The Holidays which was recently released on DBCD November 3, 2009. Joining Eddie on trumpet are ...

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Article: Live From New York

October 2009

Read "October 2009" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Gordon GrdinaBar 4Brooklyn, NY September 7, 2009There were other things in the music Gordon Grdina played at Bar 4, bits of McLaughlin, Santana, Sharrock, but for the first few minutes of his trio's Sep. 7th set it was hard to hear anything other than how together they were. From the ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge / Swiss Jazz Orchestra / The Aggregation

Read "Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge / Swiss Jazz Orchestra / The Aggregation" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge The Comet's Tail MAMA Records 2009 On The Comet's Tail, Chuck Owen's superb Florida-based Jazz Surge performs the compositions--yes, compositions--of the late great tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker. As Owen writes in the liner notes, “[Michael's] blinding brilliance as a performer / improviser...may ...

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Article: Album Review

The Aggregation, Under the Direction of Eddie Allen: Groove's Mood

Read "Groove's Mood" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

Trumpeter, composer, educator and band leader Eddie Allen is a very busy New York artist currently leading a quartet, quintet, a Latin/Brazilian group and the seventeen-piece big band, The Aggregation, the latter debuting with Groove's Mood. Allen which claims to have one goal: “To have the listener in a finger-snappin,' head bobbin,' toe-tappin,' feel good mood ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Eddie Allen and the Aggregation Release "Groove's Mood"

Eddie Allen and the Aggregation Release "Groove's Mood"

Eddie Allen is a trumpeter, composer, arranger; and author-certainly one of the more versatile musicians on the New York jazz scene. Because of his versatility contemporaries will call upon him for his talent to play everything from jazz big band, R&B/Pop, Latin, to symphonic to Broadway, and everything else that may fall somewhere into those genres. ...

Album

Salongo

By Eddie Allen

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2008
Track listing: Brasilian Sunset; Being Here with You; Search for Truth; Nymphs of the Sudan; Touch; My Little Suede Shoes; New Rules; Midnight Rain; Just So You Know.

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Article: Opinion

Music: The Universal Language

Read "Music: The Universal Language" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

By Eddie Allen One of the most common phrases concerning music used by musicians and non-musicians alike is “Music is the universal language." But what does that really mean to people? When asked, for the most part the non-musician might say, “You can listen to any kind of music and appreciate it." The musician ...

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Article: Album Review

Salongo: Salongo

Read "Salongo" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone

Sãlongo is a combo with a three horn front line that is dedicated to playing Brazilian and Afro-Cuban music and whose name translates loosely from a Zairian expression, “we come together to create something beautiful out of love." Although the front line players are not natives of either of these parts of the world, the rhythm ...


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