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Article: Book Review

Derrick Bang: Vince Guaraldi at the Piano

Read "Derrick Bang: Vince Guaraldi at the Piano" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Vince Guaraldi at the Piano Derrick Bang 390 pages ISBN: 978-0-7864-5902-5 McFarland Books 2012 Based on Derrick Bang's encyclopedic biography of pianist Vince Guaraldi, you can draw two perhaps surprising conclusions about the subject's contribution to jazz. First, Guaraldi arguably hipped more listeners to this musical form ...

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Article: Album Review

Bill Carrothers: Family Life

Read "Family Life" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Pianist Bill Carrothers gets personal in Family Life. Entering the stream of Americana flowing straight down the middle of jazz, Carrothers produces his Kinderszenen (1838) after German composer Robert Schumann, or, at the very least, his Woodland Sketches (1896) after American composer Edward MacDowell. Family Life is is a carefully constructed set of musical miniatures capturing ...

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News: Recording

Lynda Arnold & Daniel Berkman Debut Instrumental Piano CD “Hammer Inventions”

Lynda Arnold & Daniel Berkman Debut Instrumental Piano CD “Hammer Inventions”

Composers Lynda Arnold and Daniel Berkman have released their debut CD, Hammer Inventions. The 18 original instrumental compositions consist of acoustic piano orchestrations with electronic layered sampling, the latter of which were created entirely from sounds and noises generated from a wide variety of acoustic pianos, including several Yamaha pianos, which the duo endorses. The skilled ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Lisa Hilton: American Impressions

Read "Lisa Hilton: American Impressions" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Lisa HiltonAmerican ImpressionsSelf Produced2012 The last few years have seen the release of significant jazz recordings celebrating Americana. The majority of these have been devoted to jazz vocals and include: Jacqui Sutton's novel “Frontier Jazz" concept as manifested on her 2010 release Billie & Dolly (Toy Blue Typewriter ...

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Article: Opinion

Great Jazz Deserves To Be Heard And Seen At It's Best

Read "Great Jazz Deserves To Be Heard And Seen At It's Best" reviewed by Toby Gleason


Why I'm filing a mass take-down notice on YouTubeFor several decades, my father committed himself to championing the popular emergence of jazz, and engendering proper respect for the musicians who devoted their careers and lives to the music that had long been dismissed to the sidelines of main stream American culture. Ralph J. Gleason ...

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Article: Album Review

Bill Cunliffe: That Time of Year

Read "That Time of Year" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


West Coast pianist Bill Cunliffe has released a most welcome holiday disc in That Time of Year. With Christmas coming commercially before Halloween in bigger and more brazen waves each year, having the music of the season reduced to its sheer elements by a well-versed master is refreshing, if not spiritually reviving. Cunliffe's pianism is urbane ...

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Article: Album Review

Alan Adams: My Notes

Read "My Notes" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Solo piano recordings of all-original music often bear the burden of being dumped in the same genre bin with George Winston, Jim Brickman and David Lanz. For Portland, Oregon native Alan Adams, this would not be only unfair, it would be unfortunate. Music this finely crafted and wrought was made not only to be listened to ...

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Article: Live Review

Guelph Jazz Festival, September 8-12, 2010

Read "Guelph Jazz Festival, September 8-12, 2010" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk


Guelph Jazz FestivalGuelph, CanadaSeptember 8-12, 2010 Some music festivals are holidays and some are expeditions. The annual Guelph Jazz Festival & Colloquium in Ontario has a way of being more safari than respite. The days are long, with lectures and panel discussions on some days beginning at 9:00am and concerts on others ...

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News: Radio

Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz - "Thanksgiving Moods & Reflections"

Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz - "Thanksgiving Moods & Reflections"

Soulandjazz.com Presents: Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz Episode 32—"Thanksgiving Moods & Reflections" Hosted & Produced by J. Scott Fugate, “The Jazz Evangelist" Happy Thanksgiving! I know this is an American Holiday—but whether you celebrate it or not . . . it's a wonderful time for reflection & gratitude anywhere you happen to ...


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