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Interview: Nancy Wilson (Part 3)

April 15, 2010

No other jazz-pop singer is as fluent in post-War American music as Nancy Wilson. She has always understood that a Tin Pan Alley standard requires a different approach and attitude than a jazz standard and that Broadway showstoppers have a different sound than a pop, rock or soul hit. Remarkably, Nancy approaches each genre with a ...

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Mulatu Astatke: The Man and His Influence

April 15, 2010

Mulatu Astatke is a musical titan, in the same league as the likes of Fela Kuti and King Sunny Ade, yet he was first recognized to most people when The Paris-based world music record label, Buda Musique devoted the entire 4th installment of their respected series, Ethiopiques, to his compositions in 1998. Astatke was born in ...

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Jazz Vocalist Jose James Talks Inspiration, Flying Lotus, and Tonight's Zanzibar Gig

April 15, 2010

With the genre perennially accused of atrophy, it's little surprise that precocious vocalist and “Jazz Times" darling Jose James has been hailed as a so-called “savior of jazz." But the hype surrounding the Minneapolis-bred and Brooklyn-based crooner is well deserved, with his smoky, golden-throated grooves among the most dynamic to emerge from the tradition in recent ...

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Debora Petrina

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 15, 2010

Debora Petrina è un fiume in piena. Bastano una frase, un accenno, una piccola sollecitazione a scatenare tempeste di parole e di pensieri. Ma non poteva essere diversamente visto che con le parole e i pensieri Petrina ci gioca continuamente, ed ogni sua esibizione trasuda di inesauribile vitalità. E allora tra ricordi affettuosi, viaggi oltreoceano resi ...

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AACM Pianist Steve Colson Interviewed at All About Jazz

April 14, 2010

As well as being a great music educator, Steve Colson is one of the most versatile jazz pianists of the last forty years, with a grasp of idioms ranging from swing to free, and from European romanticism to new music. What's more, he is a master of compression, incorporating these sources into solos and compositions with ...

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The Mysteries of Jack Teagarden

April 14, 2010

Although he would have been astonished if you had told him he was in any way mysterious, Jack Teagarden is difficult to unravel. For one thing, Jack (or Big Tea or Mr. T.) was regarded as perhaps the finest trombonist of his time by musicians in and out of jazz: how about counting as your fans ...

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Steve Colson: Doing Jazz Justice

by Gordon Marshall
April 14, 2010

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Interview: Nancy Wilson (Part 2)

April 13, 2010

Nancy Wilson's eyes and eyebrows are a big part of her act. From a young age, Nancy intuitively knew how to use them to dramatic effect, allowing her to put more meaning behind a song's lyrics than the original lyricist probably intended. In a single song, Nancy's eyes convey confidence, innocence, vulnerability and passion. But just ...

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Craig Brenner & the Crawdads "Live to Love" Reviewed by George Fish

April 13, 2010

Bloomington, Indiana's Craig Brenner & the Crawdads have a new CD, “Live to Love," that not only romps with boogie and blues, but also with jazz, R&B and even country in a delightful potpourri of ten original songs. Craig Brenner, leader of the group and composer, lyricist and arranger of all ten original numbers on the ...

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Jamie Cullum and All That Jazz

April 13, 2010

SINGAPORE: UK singer Jamie Cullum has released five critically acclaimed albums so far and was even nominated for Best Original Song for his work on Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood's 2009 film “Grand Torino". That would be the boring way to describe Cullum (though it is all true). But who is the man behind the music? Cullum ...