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Article: Old, New, Borrowed and Blue

John Williams' Jazz

by Dan Bilawsky
January 3, 2011

The idea for this edition of Old, New, Borrowed and Blue isn't new. The seeds were actually sown with an experience I had a few years back. About four years ago, I was writing for a different jazz publication and I received a package of recordings in the mail. This parcel contained the usual mixture of ...

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News: Recording

Nu Jazz Entertainment Releases The First Jazz "LP" On iTunes--Ellis Marsalis: An Open Letter To Thelonious

October 7, 2010

(New York, NY)—Nu Jazz Entertainment—a long time producer of high quality audio and video content in the genre of jazz—announced the January 4, 2011 release of the critically acclaimed album, Ellis Marsalis: An Open Letter To Thelonious, from the NEA 2011 Jazz Master inductee, as the first traditional Jazz release in the new iTunes “LP" format ...

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Article: Interview

Chucho Valdes: The Music Never Ends

by Joan A. Cararach
September 20, 2010

Chucho Valdés arrived at his All About Jazz interview confident: of his music and of Spain's victory in the South African FIFA World Cup. It was July 11th 2010, and for the first time in its history, Spain's national team had reached a World Cup final, in South Africa. A Cuban interested in football? “A lot ...

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Article: Interview

Chucho Valdés, música sin fin

by Joan A. Cararach
September 20, 2010

Chucho Valdés acude al encuentro con AllAboutJazz confiado. En su música y en la victoria de España en el Mundial de fútbol de Sudáfrica. Es el 11 de julio del 2010, y por primera vez en su historia la selección española ha llegado a una final del Mundial, en Sudáfrica. ¿Un cubano interesado en el fútbol? ...

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News: Radio

Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz: "Satchmo Summerfest"

July 27, 2010

Soulandjazz.com Presents: Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz Episode 16--"Satchmo Summerfest," Part 1 Hosted and Produced by J. Scott Fugate, “The Jazz Evangelist" As always, the show is free, absolutely legal, fun for the whole family, and available for listening right now, right here. It's almost time for my annual trip to New Orleans to ...

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Article: Book Review

Moving To Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life

by Florence Wetzel
June 11, 2010

Moving To Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life Wynton Marsalis with Geoffrey C. Ward 208 pages ISBN: 978-1-40006078-8 Random House 2008 Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis' passionate and inspirational Moving To Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life is not only an ode ...

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News: Festival

Legends Festival in South Carolina to Honor Natives and Other Jazz Greats

May 17, 2010

By Larry Reni Thomas South Carolina is the native state and former home of several distinguished jazz musicians, including the most well-known, John Birks “Dizzy" Gillespie, the trumpeter, composer, bandleader and co-creator of bebop, who was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. There are several others, like the high note trumpet master, Cat Anderson, a former member ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Glenn Cashman / UAB SuperJazz / Elliot Deutsch Big Band / Russ Spiegel Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
January 6, 2010

Glenn Cashman And the Southland Big Band! Primrose Lane Music 2009 Even though Glenn Cashman's superlative Southland Big Band makes its home (technically) south of the Mason-Dixon Line, it is more than a few miles removed from cotton fields, mint juleps and the Mississippi River--to be more precise, in the ...

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News: Festival

Jazz Fest: 2010 Lineup/Dates

December 16, 2009

PEARL JAM, MMJ, CROWES, WSP, ARETHA AND MORE! Jazz Fest '09 by Adam McCullough The usual dizzying assortment of musical talent will descend on New Orleans for the 41st New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The first weekend takes place April 23-25, 2010, and the second week is April 29-May 2, 2010. The lineups thus far ...

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Article: Live Review

The "Hang" That George Built: The Pioneer of New Orleans' Frenchman Street Music Scene

by Craig M. Cortello
October 26, 2009

Jazz guitarist and New Orleans native Davy Mooney relocated to New York in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. After one of his periodic return visits over a year later, I asked him to assess the state of the recovery of the music community. “When I go down to Frenchman Street, it's still a great 'hang.' I ...