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Prime Time

Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: CD: Blues Like; One for Steve; Little Lucas; Pearls; Some Other Time; We All Love Eddie Harris; Nemesis. DVD: Pearls; One for Steve; Nemesis; Little Lucas; Blues Like; We All Love Eddie Harris; Yasashiku (Gently); First Impression; Prime Time.

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News: Radio

The Jazz Session #129: Eric Alexander

December 30, 2009

Saxophonist Eric Alexander has forged a multi-decade career out of one simple concept: To thine own self be true. In this interview, recorded before his September 2009 performance in Schenectady, NY, Alexander talks about his musical vision; his experience as a teacher at SUNY Purchase; and why he thinks its possible to point to one particular ...

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Article: Profile

Peter Bernstein

by A. Henkin
December 26, 2009

Last month, Peter Bernstein arrived at Smalls, armed with his guitar and a small amp, to play an intimate solo gig. The crowd was a good one for an early evening set on a Wednesday and was bolstered by the presence of legendary trombonist Roswell Rudd. As the Yankees were winning the World Series a borough ...

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Article: Live Review

Todd Barkan: Continuation and Augmentation

by Wayne Zade
December 23, 2009

Todd Barkan has been one of the most important and versatile producers of jazz concerts and records around the globe for almost 30 years. The list of artists whose projects he has produced reads like a veritable Who's Who of jazz. Barkan has managed many artists, including the Boys Choir of Harlem, Chico O'Farrill and Freddy ...

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News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: December 14, 2009

December 22, 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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Article: Live Review

Seleno Clarke: Bringing The Music Back To Harlem

by AAJ Staff
December 22, 2009

Seleno ClarkeAmerican Legion248 W. 132nd St., New York City Jazz went east in the 1920s and '30s, moving from New Orleans and Chicago to Harlem. But jazz left Harlem in the 1960s, when it moved to clubs downtown and R&B and rock began to take over. Music in general began to leave; for ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: December 7, 2009

December 15, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 Jeff Hamilton Trio Symbiosis (Capri) 212 166 +46 2 52 1 10 2 3 3 Poncho Sanchez Psychedelic Blues (Concord) 186 163 +23 2 47 2 11 3 5 2 Joey DeFrancesco Snapshot (HighNote) 183 147 +36 1 52 1 7 4 ...

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Article: Album Review

Stewy von Wattenwyl Generations Band: Live at Marians

Read "Live at Marians" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
December 10, 2009

Swiss pianist Stewy von Wattenwyl blasts into this high energy set, Live at Marians, with a blistering one-two punch of Wes Montgomery's “Fried Pies" and John Coltrane's “Moments Notice." The leader pounds the keys in a McCoy Tyner mode, and saxophonist Eric Alexander sounds raw and just barely tamed. This is not a sound that can ...

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News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: November 30, 2009

December 8, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 4 1 Eric Alexander Revival Of The Fittest (HighNote) 167 190 -23 1 46 1 9 2 1 3 Jeff Hamilton Trio Symbiosis (Capri) 166 236 -70 0 40 1 9 3 3 4 Poncho Sanchez Psychedelic Blues (Concord) 163 195 -32 0 40 2 10 ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Strike Up the (Unsung) Bands

by Jack Bowers
December 5, 2009

The big band era is known for producing a number of enormously successful ensembles whose leaders were household names: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, then on through Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the brothers Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie and, ...