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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Herbie Hancock

Jazz Musician of the Day: Herbie Hancock

All About Jazz is celebrating Herbie Hancock's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Herbie HancockHerbie Hancock is a true icon of modern music. Throughout his explorations, he has transcended limitations and genres while still maintaining his unique, unmistakable voice... more Website | Videos | Articles Follow ...

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Article: Album Review

Freddie Hubbard: On The Real Side

Read "On The Real Side" reviewed by Graham L. Flanagan

by Graham L. Flanagan

When Freddie Hubbard passed away in December, 2008 at 70, the jazz world lost one of the last true legends of the hard-bop movement. His prolific career spanned 50 years, most of it as a leader on historic dates for Blue Note, CTI and Columbia. He also played on classic sessions by Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Auand: A Matter of Trust

Read "Auand: A Matter of Trust" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard

To collect music is a path and a passion that sometimes can lead into an unexpected profession. The founders of some of the most famous labels in jazz history; people like Bob Weinstock (Prestige), Alfred Lion (Blue Note), Norman Granz (Verve) and Orrin Keepnews (Riverside) were listeners, who felt the need to document the new sounds ...

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Article: Live Review

Five Peace Band

Read "Five Peace Band" reviewed by Geoff Anderson

by Geoff Anderson

Five Peace Band Paramount Theatre Denver, CO March 25, 2009 The reunion of Chick Corea and John McLaughlin—together for the first substantial time since their days with Miles Davis recording In a Silent Way(Columbia, 1969) and Bitches Brew—may be the most obvious feature of their new collaboration, Five Peace Band; ...

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Article: Album Review

Chick & Hiromi: Duet

Read "Duet" reviewed by Carl L. Hager

by Carl L. Hager

Combined with his abilities as a soloist, Chick Corea's uncanny accompanist's instinct for supporting and focusing the spotlight on another player's efforts has produced celebrated duets with everyone from Gary Burton and Herbie Hancock to John McLaughlin and Bela Fleck. With Hiromi Uehara he has done it again. Duet captures the two ...

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News: Contest

Enter the Anzic Records "Eli Degibri - Live at Louis 649" Giveaway Contest

Enter the Anzic Records "Eli Degibri - Live at Louis 649" Giveaway Contest

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Anzic Records “Eli Degibri - Live at Louis 649“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on May 3rd. Click here to enter the contest (Following Eli Degibri at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! ...

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Article: Interview

Clifton Anderson: Legacy

Read "Clifton Anderson: Legacy" reviewed by Maxwell Chandler

by Maxwell Chandler

Clifton Anderson has been on a lifelong journey of artistic evolution. From his start as a child surrounded by a musical family, to formal education mixed with the practical experience of live gigs, Clifton's odyssey is ever-unfolding. Whether playing as a long-standing member of his uncle Sonny Rollins' band, helping to run the Doxy label or ...

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Article: Album Review

Will Sellenraad: Balance

Read "Balance" reviewed by J Hunter

by J Hunter

Will Sellenraad grew up in a place and time many people dream of: New York City's downtown scene of the '60s and '70s, when music and art were both in a state of quicksilver flux. Given that his parents (prominent New York artists themselves) named their son after modern-art pioneers William de Kooning and Piet Mondrian, ...

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Article: Album Review

Han Bennink: Monk Volume One

Read "Monk Volume One" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Pity the straight man that has to play alongside the comedic drummer Han Bennink. In his 50+ years of music making, no gesture, tap, thump, or strike has gone unnoticed. And while he has covered the music of Thelonious Monk before, never has Monk, as interpreted by Bennink, sounded better.On paper this recording, a ...

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News: Interview

Guitar Legend-in-the-Making Julian Lage Interviewed at AAJ

Guitar Legend-in-the-Making Julian Lage Interviewed at AAJ

A documentary film made in 1996 centers on an eight year-old guitarist who is already a professional and how he mixes that life with everything else, like family and being a kid. At one point, he's shown playing the guitar behind his neck, a la Jimi Hendrix, adroitly picking a melodic line. At another, he lays ...


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