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Bill Carrothers: Content in his Corner of the Jazz World

by R.J. DeLuke
March 1, 2004

Pianist Bill Carrothers is a realist.Don't look for him to pine away for the “good old days" in jazz. Those are days he never saw anyway. Only 34, he grew up outside Minneapolis, Minn., with rock music and the period that punished us with Disco. Don't expect him to foretell the next great wave ...

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David Sanchez and His Universe

by R.J. DeLuke
March 1, 2004

David Sanchez, the percussive saxophonist, hails from Puerto Rico, and brings with him the Latin rhythms one might associate with that background. But he steams ahead in the mainstream as well, having had his life altered when his sister came home with a Miles Davis album featuring John Coltrane. He's also studied with the likes of ...

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Charlie Haden: An Analog Guy in a Digital World

by Clifford Allen
March 1, 2004

Born August 6, 1937 in Shenandoah, Iowa, Charlie Haden came up in a musical family. After moving around the Midwest, he eventually settled in Los Angeles playing bass with Hampton Hawes, Elmo Hope, and Paul Bley. A fateful meeting in 1958 with Ornette Coleman netted Haden one of his most infamous gigs, which continued with brief ...

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A Fireside Chat With Bill Cunliffe

by AAJ Staff
February 29, 2004

There is a tendency to be indifferent to the familiar -an absence of appreciation with an assumption of the routine. But there is a wisdom in nothing lasts forever. So perhaps, it would behoove us to be grateful that we have musicians locally like Bill Cunliffe (unedited and in his own words), who too yearns for ...

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Wynton Marsalis Speaks Out

by Franz A. Matzner
February 27, 2004

Trumpeter, composer, educator--Wynton Marsalis requires no introduction. Since beginning his career, he has received an almost endless stream of accolades, his share of criticisms, and an ever-growing level of recognition from within and without the jazz community. The first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for music, Mr. Marsalis has also garnered ...

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A Fireside Chat With Dave Douglas (2004)

by AAJ Staff
February 25, 2004

With age, I have adopted the position of respecting two levels of music--good and bad. Miles Davis updated his music with the times (explaining, “I have to change. It's a curse."). Similarly, Dave Douglas has done the same. And although hasty comparisons depreciate both, their legacies can be summarized as good and bad. While Douglas (unedited ...

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Jim Ridl: Door Openings

by Victor L. Schermer
February 24, 2004

Pianist Jim Ridl is emerging as an innovative force in jazz, a pianist of the highest caliber, a creative composer and improviser, and one of those rare musicians who stretches the art form even as he honors the established traditions. Technically and improvisationally formidable in performance and recordings, he is equally comfortable with his own groups ...

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Savoy Jazz Reaches 60, But Looks Beyond

by R.J. DeLuke
February 23, 2004

Every so often someone in jazz has their career resurrected. Different elements feed into that. Good luck; a sudden public “discovery;" Perseverance. Going on in jazz right now, however, is the resurrection of an old tried and true recording label, Savoy Jazz. It's the result of hard work and a desire to maintain classic ...

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Horacio 'El Negro' Hernandez : One Size Fits All

by R.J. DeLuke
February 23, 2004

Horacio “El Negro" Hernandez is a drummer for all seasons. One size fits all. A consummate pro with broad musical tastes, he graces the bands and recordings of a wide variety of performers, not just those in the jazz realm. He's a drummer. Period. Don't mistake that for “any ol' drummer," because he is far from ...

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Ed Bradley: Journalist and Jazzman

by R.J. DeLuke
February 23, 2004

This aricle first appeared on All About Jazz on November 2002. People know Ed Bradley as a journalist in his 22nd season with the award-winning CBS television news magazine “60 Minutes," and now “60 Minutes II." You've watched him report on diverse subjects, his stories taking him around the country and around the globe. ...