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Article: Album Review

Kenny Burrell: Prime: Live at the Downtown Room

Read "Prime: Live at the Downtown Room" reviewed by Graham L. Flanagan

by Graham L. Flanagan

Guitarist Kenny Burrell remains one of the few living jazz giants to emerge from the hard bop movement of the mid-1950s. Set to turn 79 this summer [2010], Burrell still occasionally performs, when he isn't too busy with his position as Head of Jazz Studies at UCLA, including a week at Yoshi's that was culled into ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Jerry Tilitz

Read "Take Five With Jerry Tilitz" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Jerry Tilitz: Jerry Tilitz is an American trombonist, composer and vocalist from New York City presently ensconced in Hamburg, Germany. In the course of his career Mr. Tilitz has performed and recorded with many exceptional artists including Gerry Mulligan, Horace Parlan, Hank Jones, Roy Eldridge, Herb Geller, Tommy Flanagan, Warren Vache, Adam Nussbaum, Benny Bailey, ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Warne Marsh & Lee Konitz: Two Not One

Read "Warne Marsh & Lee Konitz: Two Not One" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones

Warne Marsh & Lee Konitz Two Not One Storyville 2009 The cumulative impression of this four-disc reissue of sets tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh and alto saxophonist Lee Konitz recorded in the 1970s is one of exceptional creativity. Both men were and are masters of the art of never ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Horace Parlan

Jazz Musician of the Day: Horace Parlan

All About Jazz is celebrating Horace Parlan's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Horace ParlanHorace Parlan has overcome physical disability and thrived as a pianist despite it. His right hand was partially crippled by polio in his childhood, but Parlan\'s made frenetic... more Website | Videos ...

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Article: Interview

1959: The Year Classic Albums Were Born

Read "1959: The Year Classic Albums Were Born" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke

by R.J. DeLuke

When the year 1959 began, there were only 48 states. Alaska and Hawaii would became part of the United States during that annum, the third year of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's second term. It was the year Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba and took a goodwill tour of the U.S., two months after an ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Dexter Gordon: Doin' Allright

Read "Dexter Gordon: Doin' Allright" reviewed by Matt Marshall

by Matt Marshall

Dexter Gordon Doin' Allright Blue Note / Music Matters 2009 (1961) From the first track of this record--in Blue Note's 45rpm double-disc reissue series--tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon certainly seems to be doing just fine. That opener, “I Was Doing All Right," lilts along with a nice 'n' easy, early 1960s ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Brubeck / Mingus / Davis: Columbia 50th Anniversary Releases

Read "Brubeck / Mingus /  Davis: Columbia 50th Anniversary Releases" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert

These three CDs are flagship releases from the Columbia catalog (remember those old blue Columbia Jazz Masterpieces editions?) and it's worth contemplating how fertile and varied a jazz scene existed in the late 1950s when you look as these albums as a trio, and perhaps throw in trumpeter Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue (Columbia, 1959) as ...

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Article: Interview

Deborah Brown: Jazz Diva Extraordinaire

Read "Deborah Brown: Jazz Diva Extraordinaire" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer

by Victor L. Schermer

Deborah Brown is one of the finest jazz vocalists in the business, a “singer's singer" with a magnificent voice and mind-boggling technique. Vocalist J.D. Walter mentioned her as an inspirational teacher and mentor in a recent AAJ interview but, despite being very possibly one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, due to her own ...

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Article: Interview

J.D. Walter: Being a Verb

Read "J.D. Walter: Being a Verb" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer

by Victor L. Schermer

J.D. Walter is a jazz singers' singer--a purist and an innovator. Although his style has been compared to many vocal titans, it is in the same breath, uniquely his own, and he has become a singular phenomenon on the music scene. Respected and lauded by the great musicians of the contemporary circuit, ...

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Article: Album Review

Stanley Turrentine: Look Out!

Read "Look Out!" reviewed by Andrew Velez

by Andrew Velez

This 1960 set is from a period which many consider to have been Stanley Turrentine's most creative. The saxophonist, who would have been 75 this month (March), was just coming out of an extended run with Max Roach's notably up-tempo orchestra. Backed here by a then-emerging powerhouse of sidemen, the set kicks off with the title ...


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