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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Arturo Stable

Read "Take Five With Arturo Stable" reviewed by Arturo Stable


Meet Arturo Stable:The winds of change are blowing through the Latin jazz world. Increasingly, they are as fresh as they are strong, signaling the emergence of new stylistic directions for the venerable genre and the arrival of the idiom's next generation of innovators and leaders. In the vanguard of the movement's most talented young ...

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Article: Album Review

Tommy Igoe and the Birdland Big Band: Eleven

Read "Eleven" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Led by East Coast drumming icon Tommy Igoe, the Birdland Big Band delivers powerful performances each Friday night at New York's renowned Birdland jazz club. Eleven captures Igoe and some of the city's finest jazz musicians playing in the same hard-driving fashion on eleven signature arrangements of funk, Latin and contemporary jazz. This high-octane orchestra is ...

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Second Chance

Label: Zoho Music
Released: 2010
Track listing: Bala Con Bala; Second Chance; Coqueteos; Guaji-Rita; Andrea; She Said She Was From Sarajewo; Abre Los Ojos; Hatari; A Long Farewell; Alone Together.

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News: Contest

Announcing the Winners of the "Hector Martignon - Second Chance" Giveaway

Announcing the Winners of the "Hector Martignon - Second Chance" Giveaway

Kirk Sellman, Nat Stevens, Irvin Green, Joseph Groff and Edna Willadsen, Congratulations! You're the lucky winners of the ZOHO Music “Hector Martignon - Second Chance“ giveaway. All About Jazz will contact you about claiming your prize. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the contest and please visit ZOHO Music for more releases. Enjoy the ...

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Article: Album Review

Nelson Riveros: Camino Al Barrio

Read "Camino Al Barrio" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Sometimes referred to as “the jazz capital of the world," New York has always served as the inspiration for the works of many actors, writers and musicians as it does once again for the Nelson Riveros debut Camino Al Barrio. Born in the Big Apple of Colombian parents, guitarist and composer Riveros drew inspiration for the ...

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Enter the ZOHO "Hector Martignon - Second Chance" Giveaway

Enter the ZOHO "Hector Martignon - Second Chance" Giveaway

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the ZOHO “Hector Martignon—Second Chance“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on October 17th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Hector Martignon at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at ZOHO Music ...

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Hector Martignon: Second Chance

Read "Second Chance" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


In his notes to Second Chance, pianist Hector Martignon reflects on second chances and the wide ranging impact they can have on a person. On another plane, he muses on the second chance he has given to some of the compositions he had played with other bands, or to which he had given a different interpretation. ...

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Hector Martignon: Second Chance

Read "Second Chance" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Columbian-born jazz pianist Hector Martignon firmly believes in second chances in life; whether as a form of redemption or renewal, they serve as important new opportunities. On his second ZOHO release, Second Chance presents an exciting blend of Latin-flavored music, drawing on influences ranging from Brazilian and Colombian idioms to elements of Afro-Cuban rhythms, in a ...

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Article: Bailey's Bundles

High On Classical Gas: Jacques Loussier, Tiempo Libre and James Galway, Burgstaller Martignon

Read "High On Classical Gas: Jacques Loussier, Tiempo Libre and James Galway, Burgstaller Martignon" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Jazz and classical musics should be friends. They have much in common. It is conceivable that a synthesis of the two could be achieved as successfully as that existing between jazz and rock. However, most attempts to meld jazz and classical have yielded mediocre results. Some headway has been made. The recent appearance of pianist Enrico ...

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Burgstaller Martignon 4: Mozart's Blues Dreams & Other Crossover Fantasies

Read "Mozart's Blues Dreams & Other Crossover Fantasies" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


When the name Mozart is part of the title of a jazz disc, combined with the word blues, the safe bet is that it's a crossover listening experience at hand. Crossover is a newer term for the mix of classical and jazz sounds, but it works as well--better perhaps--than the Third Stream tag that was coined ...


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