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Article: Big Band Caravan

Mike Vax Big Band / Dave Siebels / Phil Woods / London Horn Sound

Read "Mike Vax Big Band / Dave Siebels / Phil Woods / London Horn Sound" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Mike Vax Big Band Sounds from the Road Summit Records 2009 As Bob Hope and Bing Crosby entertained millions with their “road" movies in the 1940s, so the Mike Vax Big Band has its own “road show," arguably as entertaining but playing to much smaller audiences than Hope ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Freddie Green

Jazz Musician of the Day: Freddie Green

All About Jazz is celebrating Freddie Green's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Freddie GreenFreddie Green - guitar (1911 - 1987) Freddie Green was the guitarist in what is generally considered to be the best rhythm section in the history of big band jazz, and dubbed the All-American ...

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Article: Album Review

Caltech Jazz Bands: The Variety Pack

Read "The Variety Pack" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

The California Institute of Technology's Caltech Jazz Bands present their third album of largely big band music, offering selected charts by musicians and composers identified with the music from one end of the jazz spectrum to the other. The Variety Pack lives up to its title, with fourteen songs touching upon a variety of jazz styles ...

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Article: Interview

Jim Hall: The Elegant Guitarist

Read "Jim Hall: The Elegant Guitarist" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke

by R.J. DeLuke

There's good news and better news for the many fans of guitar great Jim Hall--counted among them a number of established guitarists who are, themselves, eminent. It would be hard to find a guitarist who doesn't look up to Hall and whose playing has not been influenced by him in some way. Players relish Hall's rich ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Vaughn Wiester / Doncaster Jazz Orchestra / Kluvers Big Band / Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra

Read "Vaughn Wiester / Doncaster Jazz Orchestra / Kluvers Big Band / Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Vaughn Wiester's Famous Jazz Orchestra Dreams Come True COJazz 2009 If you're going to dream, you may as well dream big, in glorious Technicolor with stereophonic sound. As Vaughn Wiester knows, there are times when Dreams Come True. Wiester's vision of leading his own big band is a ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Mort Weiss: All Too Soon - A Jazz Duet For Clarinet and Seven String Guitar

Read "Mort Weiss: All Too Soon - A Jazz Duet For Clarinet and Seven String Guitar" reviewed by Samuel Chell

by Samuel Chell

Mort Weiss All Too Soon: A Jazz Duet for Clarinet and Seven String Guitar SMS Jazz 2008 Not the least of this album's attractions is the title. To those few listeners familiar with the tune, “All Too Soon" might summon up one of Duke Ellington's more obscure compositions, were it ...

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Article: Album Review

Oscar Peterson: Oscar Peterson: The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings of The Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953)

Read "Oscar Peterson: The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings of The Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953)" reviewed by Samuel Chell

by Samuel Chell

How do you criticize pianist Oscar Peterson? The two primary meanings of such a question expose the divide among those who must confront his talent--and, like it or not, no musician or supporter of the music can duck the issues raised by the most prolifically recorded pianist in jazz history. To the one camp, Peterson's playing ...

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Like Basie

By Paul Quinichette

Label: Mighty Quinn Productions
Released: 2006
Track listing: Jump The Blues Away; Jump For Me; Like Basie; The Holy Main; Big D; P.Q.

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Article: Interview

Branford & Ellis Marsalis: The Dawn of Marsalis Music

Read "Branford & Ellis Marsalis: The Dawn of Marsalis Music" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

The first family of jazz, the Marsalis of New Orleans, have seemingly been in the eye of a musical hurricane for the past twenty years. With the news that Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his father Ellis Marsalis had severed their ties with Sony music, comes the announcement that they have formed the independent label Marsalis Music. ...

Album

Sonny Stitt Plays

By Sonny Stitt

Label: Roost
Released: 1956
Track listing: There Will Never Be Another You; The Nearness of You; Biscuit Mix; Yesterdays; Afterwards; If I Should Lose You; Blues for Bobby; My Melancholy Baby; The Nearness Of You [alternate take]; If I Should Lose You [alternate take].


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