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Marc Edwards: Free Jazz Drummer & Percussionist

by Taran Singh
January 26, 2006

Who's Marc Edwards? Cecil Taylor fans may remember him as the drummer on the legendary 1976 album Dark to Themselves. Charles Gayle fans may know of him as the drummer on More Live at the Knitting Factory. And David S. Ware fans must remember him as the first drummer of the David S. Ware trio and ...

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Tim Berne: Superstitious Pragmatist

by Paul Olson
January 23, 2006

Alto saxophonist/composer Tim Berne's been an enormous presence in improvised music for over twenty-five years. Although he didn't pick up the alto until he was nineteen years old, he had moved to New York City and begun lessons with his great mentor Julius Hemphill by the time he was 20, in 1974. Berne's been notable for ...

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Jazz Harpist Carol Robbins WRTI Interview Saturday

January 20, 2006

January 20, 2006 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Tune in to WRTI to listen to Jazz Harpist Carol Robbins hour long interview with Jill Pasternak Saturday at 11:30 AM eastern time. It can be heard on the web at http://www.wrti.org and will be on the web in the archives. The ...

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Scott Kinsey: Sampling Keys

by Stefanee Freedman
January 19, 2006

Keyboardist Scott Kinsey is most noted for his free-fusion style playing in the first band he joined straight out of college, Tribal Tech, featuring guitarist Scott Henderson bassist Gary Willis and drummer Kirk Covington. He has performed live and on record with numerous top jazz performers including Kurt Rosenwinkel, Philip Bailey, WDR Big Band, Tim Hagans, ...

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Bobo Stenson: Faithful Yet Irreverent

by John Kelman
January 16, 2006

While the European jazz scene has been vibrant and forward-looking for decades, it's only been in recent years that some of its brightest stars have received the kind of exposure in North America that they've both deserved and enjoyed elsewhere. The German ECM label, in particular, has been responsible for generating renewed interest in aging but ...

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Scott Henderson: Welding Sounds

by Stefanee Freedman
January 12, 2006

Any jazz lover who believes the boundaries of musical genres can't melt together to influence the technical development of improve-based music needs to take a listen to guitarist, Scott Henderson. Henderson's early musical influences of rock and blues transcends through his hard-hitting jazz compositions.Henderson studied guitar in his native state at Florida Atlantic University. ...

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Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Three-Way Street

by Paul Olson
January 9, 2006

There's no better gigging band than the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey. The trio of pianist Brian Haas, bassist Reed Mathis and drummer Jason Smart ought to be a great live band--Haas and Mathis have been playing together for well over a decade (Smart joined the band more recently) and have, year after year, maintained a tour ...

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Mervon Mehta: The Inside Story of Concert Hall Jazz

by Victor L. Schermer
January 5, 2006

I've been reviewing jazz concerts at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia for the last two years. Each concert is introduced by a distinguished looking gentleman named Mervon Mehta, the VP of Programming and Education for the Center. It dawned on me that he is the one who arranges all these outstanding jazz ...

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Cedar Walton

by Russ Musto
January 5, 2006

Cedar Walton cut his chops with several great groups, including J.J. Johnson's Quintet and the Jazztet, before making a name for himself with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Since graduating from that venerable institution he's become one of the most in demand pianists in jazz. These days he spends most of his time traveling the ...

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Christine Tobin: Romancing the Radical

by Chris May
January 2, 2006

Brought up in Ireland, singer/songwriter Christine Tobin moved to London in '87. She gigged prolifically before forming her own band and starting to record in the mid '90s. She is today one of the most highly regarded musicians on the British cutting edge, rooted in jazz but roaming far beyond it. One prominent commentator has described ...