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Take Five With Charlie Peacock

by AAJ Staff
January 11, 2014

Meet Charlie Peacock: Charlie Peacock is an American multi-genre Grammy Award-winning record producer, composer, and recording artist. He has award-winning and chart-topping credits in jazz, gospel, country, folk, Americana, rock, and pop. Lemonade (Twenty Ten Music, 2014) is Peacock's third recording in the jazz genre. His first release, Love Press Ex-Curio (Thirty Tigers, ...

News: Education

Herbie Hancock Appointed 2014 Norton Professor Of Poetry At Harvard

January 9, 2014

“I’ve uncovered practical lessons and learned that the essential values in jazz and the values of Buddhism are harmonious and apply to my life on every level. Throughout my lectures, I will be interweaving and connecting these ideas.” — Herbie Hancock Los Angeles, California and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Always at the forefront of world culture, technology, business ...

Article: Interview

David Weiss: In Celebration of Endangered Species

by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton
January 8, 2014

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 ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Doug Robinson

by AAJ Staff
January 5, 2014

Meet Doug Robinson: Born in San Diego, multi-instrumentalist and composer Doug Robinson started playing drums in the Crawford High jazz ensemble in the '70s. Robinson studied with Frank Rehak and has recorded with notable artists like Mike Stern, Peter Erskine, John Patitucci, and many more. Instrument(s): Piano, organ, bass, drums, guitar, and ...

Article: Year in Review

2013: The Year In Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 3, 2014

The West Coast now has a jazz edifice of its own with strong roots, International Jazz Day grew in scope during year two, jazz made its mark on (and off) Broadway, and the number of musicians lost during the year was large and painful. Here's a look at significant happenings across the jazz world over the ...

Article: Album Review

Rob Derke & the NYJAZZ Quartet: Blue Divide

by J Hunter
January 2, 2014

The name “NYJAZZ Quartet" does beg the question, “What is New York Jazz?" Even narrowing the definition to “home grown" music doesn't help, since that range runs from the mainstream sounds of Birdland and the Blue Note to the next-level avant-garde associated with Smalls and the late lamented Knitting Factory. With Blue Divide, saxman Rob Derke ...

Article: Extended Analysis

SFJAZZ Collective: Live SFJAZZ Center 2013 - The Music of Chick Corea & New Compositions

by John Kelman
January 1, 2014

Some things change, some things stay the same. After two successive recordings and tours with an identical lineup--a first in its now 10-year history--the SFJAZZ Collective once again undergoes some minor personnel shifts. More important, however, is that Live SFJAZZ Center 2013: The Music of Chick Corea & New Compositions comes a full two years after ...

Album

Herbie Hancock: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection 1972-1988

By Herbie Hancock

Label: Legacy Recordings
Released: 2013

Album

The Feelin's Good

By Hank Mobley

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: The Feelin's Good; Up A Step; The Good Life; East Of The Village; Yes Indeed; Old World, New Imports.

Album

Goin´ West + Feelin' The Spirit

By Grant Green

Label: Master Jazz Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Goin´ West; On Top Of Old Smokey; I Can´t Stop Loving You; Wagon Wheels; Red River Valley; Tumbliing Tumbleweeds; Feelin´ The Spirit; Just A Closer Walk With Thee; Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho; Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen; Go Down Moses; Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child; Bonus Track; Shadrack;