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Sonny Fortune: In Pursuit Of Music

by Russ Musto
September 19, 2006

Sonny Fortune is one of the most exciting saxophonists in jazz today, with a searing sound that is all his own. Fortune served as a sideman with a variety of leaders, including Elvin Jones, Mongo Santamaria, Buddy Rich, McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis and Nat Adderley, but it as a leader that he has truly made his ...

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Dave Holland Interviewed at AAJ

September 18, 2006

So far this century, Dave Holland has hit his stride and is enjoying success like few others have matched during the same period of time. He's got the chance to enjoy it now. Make no mistake; it is the fruits of hard labor that he is tasting. And make no mistake that the hard work and ...

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Dave Holland: Past-Present-Future Luster

by R.J. DeLuke
September 18, 2006

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Bennie Maupin Interviewed at AAJ

September 12, 2006

Bennie Maupin may be a multi-instrumentalist, but he's best-known as the bass clarinetist on albums including Miles Davis' classic Bitches Brew and Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters. His own discography as a leader is small, but he made a welcome return this year with the Cryptogramophone release, Penumbra. A more intimate, acoustic set, it features Maupin with ...

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Bennie Maupin: Miles Beyond

by Rex Butters
September 12, 2006

For forty years, Bennie Maupin has played with the giants of jazz, starting with Roy Haynes, Horace Silver, Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, and Marion Brown. A call from Miles Davis put Maupin in the line up that recorded his most earth shaking albums including Bitches Brew (Columbia/Legacy, 1969), Big Fun (Columbia/Legacy, 1974) and On the Corner ...

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Kenny Garrett Interviewed at AAJ Today

September 11, 2006

Alto saxophonist and composer Kenny Garrett has released more than a dozen albums over a career spanning nearly three decades. His resume would make the average jazz fan weak in the knees: Freddy Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, the Duke Ellington Band, the Mel Lewis Orchestra, and many others. AAJ Contributor Jason Crane spoke ...

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Kenny Garrett: Musical Explorer

by Jason Crane
September 11, 2006

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David Binney Interviewed at AAJ

September 4, 2006

New York altoist David Binney is a tremendous improviser, a prolific composer, a tireless bandleader and a reliable sideman. He's a great, productive composer. At the same time, he can free-improvise with the best of them, and his improvisations tend to benefit from the same formalism and flow that imbues his written pieces. And, of course, ...

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David Binney: Airplanes, Cities, Moods and Vibes

by Paul Olson
September 4, 2006

New York altoist David Binney is a tremendous improviser, a prolific composer, a tireless bandleader and a reliable sideman. Although he was born in Florida and grew up in Southern California, he's been a gigging New York musician since he was 19 years old. He used the proceeds of a 1989 NEA grant to record his ...

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Trudy Pitts: Meeting the Next Keyboard Challenge

by Victor L. Schermer
August 30, 2006

On September 15, 2006, Trudy Pitts will have the distinction of being the first jazz musician to perform on the spectacular new organ in Verizon Hall, at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, in a concert opposite the great singer Nancy Wilson. The largest concert organ in the United States, officially known as ...