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Article: Album Review

Dennis Coffey: Hot Coffey in the D – Burnin' at Morey Baker’s Showplace Lounge

Read "Hot Coffey in the D – Burnin' at Morey Baker’s Showplace Lounge" reviewed by Doug Collette


If the name Dennis Coffey only faintly rings a bell, it's because the guitarist was a member of the ensemble know as The Funk Brothers, the studio session crew who supplied the musicianship at the heart of Motown classics. Like many of his brethren, Coffey often availed himself of the opportunity to venture outside the confines ...

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The Brian Dickinson Quintet: The Rhythm Method

Read "The Rhythm Method" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Toronto-based pianist Brian Dickinson explores the “quintet with a two sax front line" on The Rhythm Method. He takes his lead from the somewhat overlooked pianist/conceptualist Lennie Tristano, who broke the ground with his historic 1949 Capitol Sessions featuring Lee Konitz on alto sax and Warne Marsh on tenor sax; and with his 1956 recordings with ...

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Article: Lyrics

Mick Rossi

Read "Mick Rossi" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


01. Lhasa de Sela -La Llorona (Audiogram / Atlantic -1997). Un canto espressivo ed elegante. Orchestrazioni eccentriche e bellissime. Triste averla persa così presto. 02. Jimmy Giuffre -Thesis (Verve -1962). Ispirato e trascendente. Paul Bley e Steve Swallow complici profondi. 03. Philip Glass -Music in Twelve Parts (Orange ...

Article: Year in Review

Il meglio del 2016 secondo Maurizio Zerbo

Read "Il meglio del 2016 secondo Maurizio Zerbo" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo


il 2016 non è stato particolarmente felice per chi ama il jazz, non mi è stato facile stilare questa lista di 12 CD da consigliare. Particolarmente degni di nota il nuovo album di Dino e Franco Piana e soprattutto l'omaggio di Brian Lynch allo sfortunato trombettista Woody Shaw. Da amare e consigliare anche le ristampe Blue ...

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Article: Album Review

Dennis Coffey: Hot Coffey in the D – Burnin at Morey Baker’s Showplace Lounge

Read "Hot Coffey in the D – Burnin at Morey Baker’s Showplace Lounge" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Who is Dennis Coffey? In this period of Adderall attention spans, Dennis Coffey is this: The Temptations' “Ball of Confusion" (Gordy, 1970); Edwin Starr's “War" (Gordy, 1970); Diana Ross and the Supremes' “Someday We'll be Together" (Motown, 1969). Does that ring a bell? I know everyone talks about the West Coast's “Wrecking Crew," but, Detroit had ...

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Article: Year in Review

2016: The Year in Jazz

Read "2016: The Year in Jazz" reviewed by Ken Franckling


The year 2016 bubbled with events and initiatives to strengthen jazz's place in American and world culture, as well as a variety of venue openings, closings and cancellations. Jazz hit the silver screen in many ways throughout the year, and International Jazz Day continued to thrive--complete with a major all-star concert at the White House. Pop ...

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The Blue Note Albums

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2016
Track listing:
CD 1: 1. Watermelon Man; 2. Three Bags Full; 3. Empty Pockets; 4. The Maze; 5. Driftin; 6. Alone And I; 7. Watermelon Man; 8.Three Bags Full; 9. Empty Pockets.

CD 2: 1. Blind Man, Blind Man; 2. A Tribute to Someone; 3. King Cobra; 4. The Pleasure Is Mine; 5. And What If I Don't Know; 6. Blind Man, Blind Man.

CD 3: 1. Succotash ; 2. Triangle; 3: Jack Rabbit; 4: Mimosa; 5. A Jump Ahead.

CD 4: 1. One Finger Snap; 2. Oliloqui Valle; 3. Cantaloupe Island; 4. The Egg; 5. One Finger Snap; 6. 2 Oliloqui Valle.

CD 5: 1. Maiden Voyage; 2. The Eye of the Hurricane; 3. Little One; 4. Survival of the Fittest; 5. Dolphin Dance .

CD 6. 1. Riot; 2. Speak Like a Child; 3. First Trip ; 4. Toys; 5. Goodbye to Childhood; 6. The Sorcerer; 7. Riot; 8. Riot; 9. Goodbye to Childhood.

CD 7: 1. I Have a Dream; 2. I Have a Dream; 3. Firewater; 4. He Who Lives in Fear; 5. Promise of the Sun ; 6. The Prisoner; 7. Firewater.

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Article: Under the Radar

Jazz Education: The Next Generation, Part 1

Read "Jazz Education: The Next Generation, Part 1" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


A Protracted Beginning Ken Prouty, an assistant professor of Musicology and Jazz Studies at Michigan State University and author of Knowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age (University Press of Mississippi, 2013) has written at length about the early history of jazz education in the US. In his writings, he ...

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Article: Album Review

Laura Dubin: Live at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival / Matt Savage: Piano Voyages

Read "Live at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival / Matt Savage: Piano Voyages" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Here are three new CDs by two exemplary young pianists, Laura Dubin and Matt Savage, the first two of which reprise a concert by Dubin's splendid trio at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival in July 2016. The third, Piano Voyages, is Savage's twelfth recording, the first in which his eloquent piano is the lone instrument. ...

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Article: Book Review

Charles Lloyd: A Wild, Blatant Truth

Read "Charles Lloyd: A Wild, Blatant Truth" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Charles Lloyd: A Wild, Blatant Truth Josef Woodard 229 Pages ISBN: 978-1-935247-13-5 Silman-James Press 2016 A book on Charles Lloyd--one of the most celebrated and enigmatic jazz musicians of the past fifty years--has been a long time coming. It's been a while in the making too, for author ...


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