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Guitar Forms 2024

by Jerome Wilson
May 23, 2024

These are a few recent releases where guitars have a featured role. Jeanfrancois Prins Blue Note Mode GAM Records 2024 Guitarist Jeanfrancois Prins is from Belgium but his music comes straight out of the American jazz tradition. He recorded this album at the legendary Rudy Van Gelder studio ...

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Geoffrey Dean Quartet: Foundations

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by Jack Bowers
March 21, 2024

Foundations is a generally swinging debut recording by Washington, DC-based pianist and educator Geoffrey Dean's quartet. The studio date pays tribute to the groundwork laid by its storied predecessors, especially those steeped in the hard bop movement that helped change the course of jazz, well before Dean or his sidemen were born. The ...

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Blue Minor

March 21, 2024

Album: Foundations
By Geoffrey Dean
Label: AMP Music and Recordings
Released: 2024
Duration: 4:30

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Washington D.c. Based Jazz Pianist Geoffrey Dean Releases His New Quartet Album 'Foundations' Featuring Harish Raghavan, Justin Copeland, Eric Binder

March 8, 2024

Dr. Geoffrey Dean is a jazz pianist, composer, author and educator currently performing in the Washington D.C. area. Dean has recorded and performed with notable jazz musicians across the globe including Terell Stafford, Steve Turre, Greg Tardy, and many others. Dr. Dean recently published an educational book on jazz harmony titled Kenny Kirkland's Harmonic and Rhythmic ...

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Geoffrey Dean Quartet Debut 'Foundations' Drops February 2, 2024

January 27, 2024

Washington D.C.-based jazz pianist Geoffrey Dean releases his new quartet album Foundations featuring the great Harish Raghavan on bass as well as Justin Copeland on trumpet, and Eric Binder on drums. Dr. Geoffrey Dean is a jazz pianist, composer, author and educator currently performing in the Washington DC area. Dean has recorded and performed with notable ...

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2024 Winter JazzFest Marathons: A Survival Guide

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 6, 2024

Twenty years is a remarkable milestone for any activity, let alone one that comes with the wear and tear of a high-profile jazz festival that every year strives to up its own ante, like the Winter JazzFest. From January 11 to 18, 2024, fans, musicians, promoters and other industry people from around the world ...

Album

Return To Casual

By Walter Smith III

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Contra; River Styx; Pup-Pow; Shine; Mother Stands For Comfort; Quiet Song; Lamplight; Amelia Earhart Ghosted Me; Revive.

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Ben Wendel On 'The Unspeakable Truths' That Are Passed Between Musicians

by Leo Sidran
May 18, 2023

For saxophonist Ben Wendel, the pandemic provided the space for him to develop his latest solo record, All One (Edition Records), a project that is both very solitary and very collaborative. It features a woodwind choir of saxophones and bassoons performed entirely by Ben, and then joined by special guests like singers Cecile McLorin Salvant and ...

Article: Live Review

Ben Wendel Group At Bop Stop

by John Chacona
March 28, 2023

Ben Wendel Group Bop Stop Cleveland, OH March 22, 2023 For a long time, California has held a mythic place in the U.S. popular imagination as a fountainhead of new ideas in culture, technology, or in the case of the smartphone ("Designed by Apple in California") of both. So it makes ...

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Spinifex, Greene / Smith / Moses & Devin Brahja Waldman Ra Kalam Bob Moses

by Maurice Hogue
January 27, 2023

This edition of One Man's Jazz tends to a lot of music out on the edge, starting with a tune from a 2019 release called Life's Intense Mystery by Burton Greene, Damon Smith & Bob Moses, before heading to the powerful and unpredictable band from Amsterdam, Spinifex; they've added singers to the mix on their latest. ...