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Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival 2015

by R.J. DeLuke
Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival 2015 Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs, NY June 27-28, 2015 While jazz is closely associated with horns (even though there are few instruments now employed at some point across the genre) it was a couple of guitar slingers that helped light up the skies at Freihofer's ...
Dave Douglas: There's Wisdom Everywhere in the Universe

by Dave Wayne
We're republishing this June 2013 in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of Dave Douglas's Greenleaf Music record label. When All About Jazz last spoke with trumpeter, multi-bandleader, teacher, composer, marathon runner, podcaster, and record label head honcho Dave Douglas in November, 2011, he was in the Ukraine on the last leg of a ...
Vance Thompson's Five Plus Six: Such Sweet Thunder

by Edward Blanco
Knoxville-based Trumpeter, arranger and band leader Vance Thompson formed The Marble City Five quintet over a year ago and when thinking about recording their first album, decided to augment the band by adding a six-piece horn section comprised of some of the city's younger rising talent. The resulting new Knoxville, TN-based group is now known as ...
Elio Villafranca's "Cinqué - Music Of The Caribbean" at Jazz At Lincoln Center, Feb. 20-21

With Special Guest Jon Faddis Elio Villafranca brings an all-star band with special guest Jon Faddis into The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center on February 20-21 for the world premiere of Cinqué - Music of the Caribbean." The Appel Room Jazz at Lincoln Center Broadway at 60th St., 5th floor ...
Hope

By Greg Tardy
Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Jinrikisha; A Tree and Its Fruit; Every Life Is Precious; O Come, O Come Emmanuel; That's All; The Cost of Discipleship Be Thou My Vision; Astral; Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing Media; Indoctrination; My Jesus I Love Thee.
The Caribbean Tinge: Live from Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2014
Track listing: Introduction; Sunday Stomp at Congo Square; Last Train To Paris;
Caribbean Tinge; Flower By the Dry River; Cofradias; Mambo Vivo; Two To
Tango; The Source In Between.
Vance Thompson's Five Plus Six: Such Sweet Thunder

by Jack Bowers
For the mathematically challenged, Vance Thompson's Five Plus Six equals eleven. In other words, it's Thompson's working quintet, the Marble City Five, amplified by half a dozen horns. On its debut recording, the Knoxville, TN-based ensemble performs music by Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Thelonious Monk and--brace yourself--country singer Dolly Parton. In fact, Parton's Little Sparrow," the ...
Greg Tardy: Hope

by Angelo Leonardi
Mantenere viva una tradizione artistica, esaltandola e rinnovandone i valori, non è così secondario rispetto a innovare. Nato a New Orleans cinquant'anni fa, cresciuto artisticamente sotto la tutela di Ellis Marsalis, Greg Tardy è uno dei migliori sassofonisti della sua generazione e da alcuni anni s'è legato alla SteepleChase (questo è il settimo disco ...
Jaimeo Brown: Transcendence

by Angelo Leonardi
Al suo debutto discografico come leader Jaimeo Brown ha relizzato una delle opere più intense, originali e appassionanti del 2013. Un concept album che abbraccia il passato e il presente della cultura afro-americana, inglobando suggestioni geograficamente distanti (come quella indiana) in un percorso capace di coniugare feeling e controllo della forma. Il trentaquattrenne batterista non ...
David Weiss: In Celebration of Endangered Species

by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton
David Weiss and his mini big band of jazz chameleons are a ready example of how to concentrate at OCD levels to perfect musical things of beauty that stand the test of time, repeatedly. Many have focused a hell of a lot more than 10,000 hours to cultivate this sound, and some have overcome myriad adversities ...