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Article: Extended Analysis

ART-i-Facts: Great Performances from 40 Years of Jazz at NEC

by Raul d'Gama Rose
April 14, 2010

Various Artists ART-i-Facts: Great Performances from 40 Years of Jazz at NEC New England Conservatory 2010 For almost 150 years the New England Conservatory has been a repository of learning for musicians from around the world. The institution has maintained a fine sense of history and 40 years ago began ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

Hot and Cool: 40 Years of Jazz at NEC

by Marcia Hillman
February 28, 2010

New England Conservatory (NEC) is celebrating the 40th anniversary of being America's first fully-accredited Jazz Studies Program at a music conservatory. The merriment kicked off in NEC's home of Boston with a week of events in October 2009, culminating in a performance by the Wayne Shorter Quartet accompanied by the school's Philharmonia, a merger between jazz ...

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Article: Profile

Charlie Banacos: Recollections of a Legend

by Mike Brannon
January 28, 2010

"You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" --Joni Mitchell “There are a dozen ways to hit a key." --Charlie Banacos How do you say goodbye to someone who truly changed you; someone who you know caused you to be a better person just for having known them? How do you say goodbye ...

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The Complete 1972 Berlin Concert

By Gerry Mulligan

Label: Domino Records (7)
Released: 2009
Track listing: Blues For Newport; All The Things You Are; For All We Know; Line For Lyons; Blessed Are The Poor (The Sermon On The Mount); Mexican Jumping Bean; Sign Off; Sometime My Prince Will Come; These Foolish Things; Take Five; Take The "A" Train;

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The Salle Wagram Concert (Complete Edition)

By Charles Mingus

Label: Domino Records (7)
Released: 2009
Track listing: Peggy's Blue Skylight; Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress Then Blue Silk; Meditations On Integration; Fables Of Faubus; So Long Eric; Parkeriana;

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Article: Live Review

40th Anniversary Celebration of Jazz at New England Conservatory in Boston

by Timothy J. O'Keefe
November 6, 2009

Jazz 40 SummitJordan Hall, New England ConservatoryBoston, MassachusettsOctober 23, 2009Perhaps it was only fitting that the opening piece for the Jazz 40 Summit, part of the 40th anniversary celebration of jazz at the New England Conservatory, was conducted by Gunther Schuller. After all, it was Schuller founded NEC's jazz studies program ...

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Article: Interview

John Law: Deeper into the Music

by Jakob Baekgaard
November 4, 2009

Classical music and jazz are often perceived as two radically different art forms that cannot be merged. Historically, the idea of a so-called “third stream" that is able to combine the language of jazz and classical music into a coherent whole has proved rather difficult to translate into praxis, and yet it is undeniable that a ...

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Article: Interview

Fred Hersch: No Limits

by Maxwell Chandler
September 28, 2009

From the start of his career as a sideman in the 1970s for such jazz luminaries as Joe Henderson, Art Farmer and Stan Getz to his own ensembles and solo projects, there has always been a great diversity and intensity to Fred Hersch's art. Having won a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for composition (2003) and having been ...

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Article: Book Excerpts

Jazz Orchestras

by Nick Catalano
August 7, 2009

This excerpt appears in New York Nights: Performing, Producing and Writing in Gotham (IUniverse, 2008). In addition to the productions of the dance band shows, being a Performing Arts producer meant that I had the opportunity to present artists from every genre imaginable. I steadfastly tried to adhere to some sense of objectivity listening ...

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Article: Album Review

Jeff Lashway: Reunion

Read "Reunion" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
August 7, 2009

Throughout the decades, the bands of trumpet legend Maynard Ferguson were, by very nature, heavily brass and ensemble section oriented. Occasionally, Ferguson's pianists were given the opportunity to shine, launching into extended solo tune introductions or brief solos. Some of those pianists were (or would become) stars or leaders in their own right. They included Mike ...