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Dirty Projectors: Clear Vision

September 11, 2009

By: Andrew Bruss Dirty Projectors For a group that's been touring and recording for the better part of the past decade, Dirty Projectors didn't break into the blogosphere hype machine until the second half of 2009. The release of their latest studio album, Bitte Orca (released June 9 on Domino), has earned them billing on an ...

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Paul Motian Trio Still Leading the Jazz Vanguard

September 10, 2009

Jazz has its fair share of musical characters. It's the improvisers' stock and trade to take that personality and translate it through their chosen instrument. While, of course, there are past legends that range from sophistication of Duke Ellington to the rabid virtuosity of Art Tatum to lyrical nuance of Lester Young to the angular brilliance ...

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David Murray: A Conversation

September 9, 2009

David Murray - A conversation PT2 This interview is part of the book project under your skin which includes Interviews with: Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman, Chuck D - Public Enemy, Taj Mahal, ...

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Dave Pell on Don Fagerquist

September 9, 2009

If you're unfamiliar with trumpeter Don Fagerquist [pictured], that's about to change. The now nearly forgotten West Coast trumpeter had one of the richest tones in the business in the 1950s and 1960s, and he made everything he played sound melodic and effortless. Fagerquist's solos were like tennis balls rolling out of a can onto a ...

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Guitarist Bobby Broom Interviewed at AAJ

September 9, 2009

Bobby Broom is a veteran of the Chicago jazz scene. He's been the staple side dish of soul and jazz for over thirteen years at Pete Miller's Steakhouse in Evanston, IL. He's also busy regularly touring not only Chi-town, but throughout the world with his own group and with saxophone icon Sonny Rollins. But Plays for ...

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Bobby Broom: Swept Away by the Music

by Cicily Janus
September 9, 2009

Bobby Broom is a veteran jazz guitarist, originally from New York City and currently operating from the Chicago jazz scene. He's been the staple side dish of soul and jazz for over thirteen years at Pete Miller's Steakhouse in Evanston, IL. He's also busy performing regularly--not only Chi-town, but throughout the world with his own groups, ...

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Marilyn Crispell Interview

September 8, 2009

This interview is part of the book project under your skin which includes Interviews with: Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman, Chuck D - Public Enemy, Taj Mahal, Yusef Lateef, Melvin Gibbs, Bob James, Malika Zarra, Zap Mama, Les Nubians, Lydia Lunch, Lee “Scratch Perry", Erika Stucky, Living Colour, Rhonda Smith, ...

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Sonny Rollins is 79

September 8, 2009

Sonny Rollins just turned 79. We celebrate the occasion by bringing you Rollins playing an extended version of a tune his mother remembered from her girlhood in the Virgin Islands. “St. Thomas" has been an essential and beloved part of his repertoire for more than 50 years. The rhythm section Is Kenny Drew, piano; Niels-Henning rsted ...

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Vocalist Tierney Sutton Interviewed at AAJ

September 8, 2009

Vocalist Tierney Sutton discovered jazz while immersed in Russian language and literature studies at Wesleyan University. During her college years she also abandoned her earlier atheism and became engaged in a lifelong study of Man's spiritual nature. She has adopted no halfway measures in any of these pursuits. Though she hasn't yet written lyrics, she brings ...