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Article: Big Band Report

Deck the Halls with Big Band Carols

by Jack Bowers
October 3, 2009

With the holiday season on track and hastening toward us like a runaway locomotive, it's time once again to hunker down and prepare for the annual onslaught of “Rudolph," “Frosty the Snowman," “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," “Sleigh Ride," “Silver Bells," chestnuts roasting on an open fire and everyone's perennial favorite, “White Christmas." Not to ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge / Swiss Jazz Orchestra / The Aggregation

by Jack Bowers
October 1, 2009

Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge The Comet's Tail MAMA Records 2009 On The Comet's Tail, Chuck Owen's superb Florida-based Jazz Surge performs the compositions--yes, compositions--of the late great tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker. As Owen writes in the liner notes, “[Michael's] blinding brilliance as a performer / improviser...may ...

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Article: Album Review

The Matt Wilson Quartet: That's Gonna Leave A Mark

Read "That's Gonna Leave A Mark" reviewed by George Kanzler

by George Kanzler
September 6, 2009

A drummer whose creativity, drive, dedication and infectious joy have garnered him high honors from fellow musicians and critics alike, Matt Wilson is also a perspicacious and activist bandleader. The Matt Wilson Quartet--alto and tenor saxophones doubling clarinets, bass and drums--is raucous, rambunctious and high energy. Among piano-less quartets, it's more in the tradition of Ornette ...

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Article: Interview

Gary Smulyan: Low Man Aims High

by Edward Bride
September 1, 2009

A baritone saxophonist who plays like Bird? And harvests more than a half-dozen Grammy awards in the process? That seeming contradiction characterizes the great successes of Gary Smulyan, one of today's most in-demand jazz performers, educators, and recording artists. To be fair, Smulyan has his own voice, but he cites Charlie Parker ...

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Article: Album Review

Derek Nash: Snapshot

by Chris May
September 1, 2009

Despite releasing seven albums with his jazz/funk/fusion bands Sax Appeal and Protect The Beat, and a previous solo album, Setting New Standards (Jazzizit, 2000), British saxophonist Derek Nash remains something of an unsung hero. He has, perhaps, been engaged in such a diversity of projects--playing with pianist Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, running his Clowns ...

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Article: Interview

Charles Davis: In the Air

by Terrell Kent Holmes
August 6, 2009

Saxophonist Charles Davis has spent the past few decades making history with such luminaries as Billie Holiday, Kenny Dorham, Abdullah Ibrahim, Clifford Jordan, Dinah Washington and Freddie Hubbard. Although Davis might be best known as one of the baritone players in the Sun Ra Arkestra, his many recordings and excellent performances outside of the Arkestral context ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Marcus Goldhaber

by AAJ Staff
July 26, 2009

Meet Marcus Goldhaber: Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, Marcus developed a passion for Jazz alongside a 1928 Ivers & Pond upright piano, on which his mother casually played countless standards. Inspired by his upbringing, along with a clear inheritance of the musical gene, Marcus graduated later with a BFA in Musical Theatre from ...

News: Radio

New "Modern West Coast" Jazz Channel from AccuJazz.com

July 24, 2009

"West Coast Jazz" is a loaded phrase. It likely conjures up the mellow sounds of cool jazz luminaries Gerry Mulligan and Chico Hamilton and images of dog-eared LP covers portraying icons like Shelly Manne, Bud Shank and Art Pepper. But that's not all there is to jazz on the west coast. Today's west coast musicians are ...

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Article: Live Review

Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2009

by Jakob Baekgaard
July 21, 2009

Copenhagen Jazz Festival Various Venues Copenhagen, Denmark July 3-12, 2009 In a survey conducted recently by the renowned Monocle Magazine (volume 03, issue 25), Copenhagen was selected as the second best city in the world due to its safety, atmosphere, welfare, infrastructure and--one could be tempted to add--its ...

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News: Recording

Gerry Mulligan, Live in Paris

July 15, 2009

Inner City Records happily announces the re-release of IC 7017 - Gerry Mulligan, Live in Paris. This album, recorded at the Salle Pleyel in Paris in 1954, presents Mulligan in one of his famed pianoless quartets. He is joined by Bob Brookmeyer on trombone, Red Mitchell on bass, and Frank Isola on drums. Though French audiences ...