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News: Festival

Montreal Jazz Festival Announces Full Indoor Lineup

Montreal Jazz Festival Announces Full Indoor Lineup

Herbie Hancock performs June 27 at Montreal's Theatre Maisonneuve of Place des Arts. Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette will perform July 3, organizers for the Montreal International Jazz Festival revealed Tuesday while announcing the festival's final group of ticketed indoor shows. The three musicians last appeared together at the festival three years ago. DeJohnette's ...

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News: Recording

One Track Mind: Herbie Hancock "Butterfly" (1974)

One Track Mind: Herbie Hancock "Butterfly" (1974)

By PicoHerbie Hancock has enjoyed a long, five-decade musical career that has been both artistically and commercially fulfilling. Not many other artists can boast that of any genre, much less a jazz musician. But 2008's winner of the Album Of The Year Grammy has given us Blue Note modern jazz classics like Maiden Voyage, ...

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News: Recording

Grover Washington Jr.'s "Grover Live" Coming On May 18, 2010

Grover Washington Jr.'s "Grover Live" Coming On May 18, 2010

Grover Live, a New CD Documenting the Late, Great Saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. in a 1997 Concert With His Touring Band To Be Released on G Man Productions in May 18, 2010 The godfather of today's urban contemporary jazz scene, Grover Washington Jr., was one of the most popular and influential saxophonists of the '70s and ...

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News: Education

Herbie Hancock and Dee Dee Bridgewater Join Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz on U.S. Department of State Cultural and Education Tour of China, May 7 - 16, 2010

Highlights include performances at the Forbidden City Concert Hall and the Entertainment Hall of the Shanghai 2010 Expo Washington, D.C.--The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz will continue its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Department of State by presenting a 10-day jazz education and performance tour of China. This tour will mark the Institute's first visit to ...

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Article: Album Review

Wallace Roney: If Only for One Night

Read "If Only for One Night" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Wallace Roney's six-year association with HighNote--beginning with Prototype (2004), followed by Mystikal (2005), and culminating with Jazz (2007)--has allowed the trumpeter to amass a body of work far more indicative of where he's always wanted to be than his largely mainstream run with Muse in the early 1990s. If Only for One Night--culled from a four-night ...

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Article: Film Review

Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense (Theatrical Version)

Read "Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense (Theatrical Version)" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense (Theatrical Version)IndiePix Films2009 Distilling a groundbreaking, four-part, four-hour television documentary--one which finally examined the evolution of jazz in a contemporary, rather than purely historical, context--into a shorter theatrical version is no mean feat. When Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense aired on ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Wednesday at the Bowl

Jazz Wednesday at the Bowl

Jazz at the Bowl In the hands of our new Creative Chair for Jazz, the great pianist Herbie Hancock, Jazz at the Bowl 2010 promises some exciting, innovative and much beloved jazz under the stars, including an evening with Herbie himself! Femi Kuti & The Positive Force Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 8:00 ...

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Article: Album Review

Geri Allen: Flying Toward The Sound

Read "Flying Toward The Sound" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner

One of modern jazz's foremost pianists, Geri Allen exhibits a musical profundity that is coupled by lyricism and soul. Whether leading a trio of esteemed peers--Charlie Haden and Paul Motian--at that landmark venue, Live at the Village Vanguard (DIW, 2000), or giving homage to the obscure jazz matriarch, pianist Mary Lou Williams, with Zodiac Suite: Revisited ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Joel Fairstein

Read "Take Five with Joel Fairstein" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Joel Fairstein: Hailing from Knoxville, Tennessee, Joel Fairstein has earned critical praise as jazz pianist, composer, producer, and studio musician. His first album, Umbra, an LP recorded at age 24 with eighteen sidemen has since become a sought-after collectors item.Joel graduated from Berklee college in 1983 and freelanced regularly in Boston ...

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News: Video / DVD

Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense DVD & VOD Release Due May 11

Pre-order it now at shop.allaboutjazz.com BUY IT AT shop.allaboutjazz.com Theatrical Length Documentary Explores Contemporary Jazz Luminaries Including Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Esperanza Spalding & Bill Frisell “[Icons] depicts jazz as a living, breathing and ever-evolving musical art form, and ...


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