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Jose James at Dazzle
by Geoff Anderson
Jose James Dazzle Denver, CO April 23, 2014 Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Bill Withers, Gil Scott-Heron. Mix them together, bring them into the 21st Century and you end up with something that sounds a lot like Jose James. Wednesday night at Dazzle, 36-year-old James brought his band and updated soul ...
The Dude Abides
by Mark Corroto
To paraphrase Jeffrey Lebowski, aka The Dude (or El Dudarino, if you are not into the brevity thing), “I've had a rough night, and I hate the fucking Grateful Dead, man." Actually, The Dude said the “Eagles" (and I guess I'm obliged to agree with him), but for me the Dead seem to always get under ...
Kanye West: Yeezus
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Ben Jonson said of his dead child, my sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy. We too easily take what the poets write as figures of speech, as pretty images, as strings of bons mots. Sometimes perhaps they speak the truth. --Margaret Drabble, The Millstone (1965).Every time I write these ...
Motema Takes Flight With Steady Stream of Breakthrough Albums
Motéma Music's tenth anniversary year is in full swing, and as the summer heats up, the Harlem-based label has much cause for celebration. The month of July kicked off with vibraphonist Joe Locke's May release Lay Down My Heart, spending two weeks in the #1 slot on the Jazz Week chart. For the week of July ...
Take Five With Ralph J DeLorso Jr.
by AAJ Staff
Meet Ralph J DeLorso Jr:I am a 59 year-old seasoned professional drummer. For 43 years I worked for WM Morris and Willard Alexander. For many years I have performed and recorded with many artists. I have performed with the late Jackie McLean two years before his passing at the Artist Collective in Hartford. I ...
Jose James: No Beginning No End
by Enrique Turpin
Tal vez no sea intención de José James (Mineápolis, 1978) reemplazar a D'Angelo en el reinado del neo-soul que se empezó a fraguar a mediados de los años 90, pero puede que lo logre sin proponérselo. En su cuarto trabajo --y primero para Blue Note-- ha recuperado el testigo que seguía en el suelo a la ...
The Revolution Begins (The Flying Dutchman Masters)
Label: Flying Dutchman
Released: 2012
Track listing: Songs; Lady Day And John Coltrane; Home Is Were The Hatred Is; Save The Children; The Revolution Will Not Be Televised; Did You Hear What They Said?; Pieces Of A Man; Speed Kills; Everyday; I Think I'll Call It Morning; When You Are Who You Are; Free Will; Or Down You Fall; The Needle's Eye; The Middle Of Your Day; A Sign Of The Ages; Who'll Pay Reparations On My Soul?; Poetry, Jazz & The Blues; Introduction/The Revolution Will Not Be Televised; Whitey On The Moon; No Knock; Small Talk At 125th And Lenox; Billy Green Is Dead; Sex Education: Ghetto Style; The Vulture; The Prisoner; ...And Then He Wrote Meditations; Plastic Pattern People; The Get Out Of The Ghetto Blues; Artificialness; Ain't No New Thing; Brother; Evolution (And Flashback); The King Alfred Plan; Enough; Paint It Black; Omen; Wiggy; Comment #1; The Subject Was Faggots; The Alternate Free Will; Did You Hear What They Said? (Alt Take 1); The Middle Of Your Day (Alt Take 1); Free Will (Alt Take 1); The Get Out Of The Ghetto Blues (Alt Ending); Speed Kills (Alt Take 3); The King Alfred Plan (Alt Take); No Knock (Alt Take); Wiggy (Alt Take); Ain't No New Thing (Breakdown Take); Billy Green Is Dead (Alt Take); ...And Then He Wrote Meditations (Alt Take); No Knock (Breakdown Alt Take); Free Will (Alt Take 2);
Guelph Jazz Festival: Guelph, Canada, September 5-9, 2012
by Ted Harms
Guelph Jazz FestivalGuelph, OntarioSeptember 5-9, 2012The Guelph Jazz Festival is in its 19th year. Under the direction of Ajay Heble, the festival has few equals in Canada, attracting the upper echelon of improvising musicians.It is a rare festival that can resist the allure of “tent-pole" shows--the mass-appeal artists that have vague, ...
Gil Scott-Heron Tribute, "Roots of American Music" Performances by Aloe Blacc, Otis Clay, Lenny Williams, Swamp Dogg
It may be the final week of Lincoln Center Out of Doors, but the festival isn’t winding down when it comes to exciting performances. This week, Lincoln Center celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the landmark Soul at the Center, highlighted by Valerie Simpson’s first tribute to her late partner, Nick Ashford, since his passing. The pair ...
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