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Article: Big Band Report

Back in the Saddle Again...Sort Of

by Jack Bowers
January 4, 2010

After an absence of more than 45 years, your correspondent returned to the airwaves on December 15, 2009 co-hosting a three-hour program of big-band holiday music on KSFR-FM in Santa Fe, NM. I was invited to share a part of my CD library by Arlen Asher, one of New Mexico's finest jazz musicians, who has been ...

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The Complete 1972 Berlin Concert

By Gerry Mulligan

Label: Domino Records (7)
Released: 2009
Track listing: Blues For Newport; All The Things You Are; For All We Know; Line For Lyons; Blessed Are The Poor (The Sermon On The Mount); Mexican Jumping Bean; Sign Off; Sometime My Prince Will Come; These Foolish Things; Take Five; Take The "A" Train;

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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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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, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Verve Originals: Gato Barbieri / Paul Desmond / Gerry Mulligan / Wes Montgomery

by Chris May
December 3, 2009

Verve's admirable, no frills, reissue series, “Originals," includes a mixture of masterpieces and also-rans from its own and its associated labels' archives. This trio of albums from the September 2009 batch includes one near masterpiece, saxophonist Gato Barbieri's Chapter Three: Viva Emiliano Zapata; an outstanding blowing session, saxophonists Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond's Blues In Time; ...

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Article: Live Review

"Birth of the Cool:" Bob Perkins Lectures and the Don Wilson Trio Performs

by Victor L. Schermer
November 19, 2009

Birth of the CoolPerformed by The Don Wilson TrioLecture by Bob PerkinsOctober 25, 2009The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine ArtsPhiladelphia, PA This writer could think of no better way to spend an autumn Sunday afternoon than to stroll over to the fabled Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Salute to Stan Kenton: Artistry in Contrast

by Jack Bowers
November 9, 2009

Artistry in Rhythm, the Ken Poston / Los Angeles Jazz Institute's 2009 homage to the renowned bandleader Stan Kenton, was held October 8-11 at the Sheraton LAX Four Points Hotel. As always, there was much to see, hear and admire: films, panel discussions, special presentations and, last but not least, no fewer than nineteen concerts by ...

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Article: Interview

Bobby Bradford: Self-Determination in the Great Basin

by Clifford Allen
October 28, 2009

Born in Cleveland, Mississippi in 1934 and raised between Dallas and Los Angeles, trumpeter Bobby Bradford began playing with Ornette Coleman in Los Angeles in the 1950s, and replaced Don Cherry in an unrecorded Coleman quartet during the early 1960s. However, the most significant partnership in Bradford's musical life was with the clarinetist and composer John ...

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Article: Profile

Claudio Roditi: A Brazilian in Iowa

by Victor Verney
October 26, 2009

Watching trumpeter Claudio Roditi lead some unfamiliar sidemen through an afternoon rehearsal prior to an evening performance provided a good look at something not readily apparent at concerts. While the audience at that night's show in Ottumwa, Iowa saw Roditi's talents as a player and improviser (and even singer) displayed, most concertgoers could only have a ...

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Article: What is Jazz?

The Story Of Jazz Saxophone

by AAJ Staff
October 9, 2009

For some, the saxophone is the sound of jazz. The unique fusion of brass and woodwind that is the sax found an electrifying vibrato in the hands of jazzmen that truly changed the world. The pale “pure" tone of the instrument, as first used in classical compositions, vanished in a musical blast of slurs ( Coleman ...