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News: Award / Grant

Litchfield Jazz Festival Announces 2012 Artist-in-residence, Baritone Saxophonist Gary Smulyan

Litchfield Jazz Festival Announces 2012 Artist-in-residence, Baritone Saxophonist Gary Smulyan

Goshen, CT — Litchfield Jazz Festival announces the 2012 Artist-in-Residence for the 17th Annual Litchfield Jazz Festival. The honor goes to baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan. Known as a master of bebop, Smulyan is one of the major voices on his instrument today. Winner of six Grammy Awards, his latest honors include winner of the 2009 and ...

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Article: Album Review

Michael Benedict & Bopitude featuring Gary Smulyan: Five and One

Read "Five and One" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Diamond hard bop is alive and well and living in Michael Benedict & Bopitude's studio. The quintet's debut, Michael Benedict & Bopitude (Planet Arts, 2011), established the group as a premiere hard bop unit employing the classic trumpet-tenor quintet format used by Miles Davis, Art Blakey and various others. For this edition of Bopitude, drummer Benedict ...

Article: Album Review

Gary Smulyan: Smul's Paradise

Read "Smul's Paradise" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


L'incontro tra un sax baritono e una ritmica costituita da un trio con organo Hammond, chitarra e batteria ha dell'insolito. Inconsueto è, di conseguenza, il risultato timbrico. Proprio il suono scuro, temperato dalle escursioni al registro acuto della chitarra, è l'elemento più sperimentale di un disco che, per il resto, è dichiaratamente e felicemente di genere. ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Patrick Specht

Read "Take Five With Patrick Specht" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Patrick Specht: Local jazz kid looking for some bigger opportunities. Baritone players are a rare breed, and I relish being one. I love playing, and every gig is a learning opportunity, and I want to get as many opportunities to improve as I can.Instrument(s): Baritone and alto saxophones.

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News: Contest

Enter the "Gary Smulyan - Smul's Paradise" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Enter the "Gary Smulyan - Smul's Paradise" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Capri Records “Gary Smulyan—Smul's Paradise“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on April 24th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Gary Smulyan at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at Capri Records Click ...

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Article: Album Review

Gary Smulyan: Smul's Paradise

Read "Smul's Paradise" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


While the tenor saxophone is no stranger to organ group gatherings, its big brother rarely comes to the party. It's hard to say whether a lack of interest amongst baritone saxophonists, insufficient opportunities for such combinations, or a paucity of players capable of pulling it off is responsible for this issue, but Gary Smulyan won't stand ...

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Article: Album Review

Gary Smulyan: Smul's Paradise

Read "Smul's Paradise" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Recognized as one of the premiere baritone saxophonist in jazz today, Gary Smulyan has long had an affinity for the classic jazz organ trios and on Smul's Paradise he finally pays tribute to the format joining forces with Mike LeDonne, a master of the Hammond B3 organ. Not since saxophonist Ronnie Cuber performed with Lonnie Smith ...

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Article: Album Review

Gary Smulyan: Smul's Paradise

Read "Smul's Paradise" reviewed by Larry Taylor


A baritone saxophonist leading an organ trio is certainly a rarity; the results of Gary Smulyan's Smul's Paradise is, in sixties hip, a “gas." This slang seems especially appropriate here because the CD pays tribute to an often-overlooked organist, Don Patterson, who came on the scene in that decade. Fronting a quartet behind his big bari, ...

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Article: Album Review

The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: Forever Lasting - Live in Tokyo

Read "Forever Lasting - Live in Tokyo" reviewed by Edward Blanco


The Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra, the New York big band founded in 1966, loved to tour Japan resulting in its popular 1974 release of Live In Tokyo (Denon). Continuing the tradition of playing Monday nights at New York's Village Vanguard, as well as performing in Japan, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra--as the Thad Jones / ...

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Article: Live Review

Detroit Jazz Festival: Detroit, MI September 2-5, 2011

Read "Detroit Jazz Festival: Detroit, MI September 2-5, 2011" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan


32nd Annual Detroit Jazz FestivalDetroit, MISeptember 2-5, 2011 As chance would have it, over the past 20 years or so attending the Labor Day festivities at the Detroit Jazz Festival, there have only been a handful of weekends marked by less than optimum weather conditions. On average, the gods have largely smiled down ...


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