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Take Five With Amy Barlow Liberatore
by AAJ Staff
Meet Amy Barlow Liberatore: Born in Binghamton, raised among jazz musicians who mentored her from her first club appearance at 17, Amy Barlow Liberatore began her vocal/piano career (New York, Los Angeles, Bermuda, Puerto Rico) playing jazz standards. A lucky break put her on the road with Rickie Lee Jones' first national tour. She later began ...
Jim Hall: The Elegant Guitarist
by R.J. DeLuke
There's good news and better news for the many fans of guitar great Jim Hall--counted among them a number of established guitarists who are, themselves, eminent. It would be hard to find a guitarist who doesn't look up to Hall and whose playing has not been influenced by him in some way. Players relish Hall's rich ...
The Story of Jazz Guitar
by AAJ Staff
While in its early days, jazz guitar was considered a rhythm instrument alongside the banjo of Dixieland. In 1940, Charlie Christian and his Gibson ES-150 changed that and elevated guitar to lead instrument status alongside the saxophone and trumpet--instruments that could acoustically cut through the sound of a piano-bass-drums rhythm section. Here, we encapsulate some of ...
Oscar Peterson: Oscar Peterson: The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings of The Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953)
by Samuel Chell
How do you criticize pianist Oscar Peterson? The two primary meanings of such a question expose the divide among those who must confront his talent--and, like it or not, no musician or supporter of the music can duck the issues raised by the most prolifically recorded pianist in jazz history. To the one camp, Peterson's playing ...
I Love You
Featuring the music of Herb Ellis
Duration: 6:07
Arrival
By Herb Ellis
Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: Look for the Silver Lining; Shadow of Your Smile; Good News Blues;
Honeysuckle Rose; Happiness Is a Concord Jazz Festival; Stuffy; Georgia;
Love for Sale; Bad News Blues; In a Mellow Tone; Seven Come Eleven;
Prelude to a Kiss; Perdido; I'm Confessin' (That I Love You); Easy Living;
Concord Blues.
Soulville
By Ben Webster
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: Soulville; Late Date; Time on My Hands; Lover, Come Back to Me; Where Are You?;
Makin' Whoopee; Ill Wind;
Who?; Boogie Woogie; Roses
of Picardy.
Ellis/Pass/Brown/Hanna: Arrival
by AAJ Staff
Concord Records is celebrating its 30th Anniversary, and what better way than to reissue the first two records which helped put it on the map as one of the most consistent mainstream jazz recording labels.The recent double-disc set, Arrival, is in actuality Jazz/Concord, the label’s official debut release of ’73 done in the studio, and its ...
Ray Brown: A Jazz Odyssey
by C. Andrew Hovan
While it seems that things have come to a point in the history of jazz when many of the music's elder statesmen are leaving us and there are fewer and fewer masters left to pass on the proverbial flame, 75-year-old bassist Ray Brown continues to champion the mainstream cause while inflecting his own music with the ...
