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Court Mast: Sausalito Summer

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by Jakob Baekgaard

There comes a time in life when experience makes it possible for a musician to make a special kind of album, an album that sums up a career while still adding new colors to the musical palette. This is the kind of album that cornet player Court Mast has made with Sausalito Summer, which takes in ...

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Dan Cray Trio: Over Here Over Heard

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by Jakob Baekgaard

For some time, pianist Dan Cray and his cohorts--bassist Clark Sommers and drummer Greg Wyser-Pratte--have been perfecting the language of the trio on a number of fine releases. Over Here Over Heard is the fourth album from this audacious working unit, which continues to find new magic in old tunes while throwing in some fresh sounds ...

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Florin Niculescu: Florin Niculescu Plays Stephane Grappelli

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by Jakob Baekgaard

Sometimes, as far as music goes, one record can lead to another. One hearing of Florin Niculescu's homage to Stephane Grappelli sends the listener back to the old recordings of the Quintette du Hot Club de France, where Grappelli worked his magic with his most famous musical partner, guitar wizard Django Reinhardt. What a ...

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Richard Galliano: Love Day: Los Angeles Sessions

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by Jakob Baekgaard

The beauty of music is in its ability to compress. A whole lifetime of emotions can be contained in a song. Music, in a way, is the most abstract way of speaking and yet it is also the most direct utterance one can think of. The same can be said of love. Love and music transcend ...

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Alon Yavnai: Travel Notes

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by Jakob Baekgaard

Travelling. Travel across space. Finding the notes, finding the place. Where the music speaks, where the music sings. The endless map where time begins. Three people are making a musical journey. This is Travel Notes by the Israeli pianist Alon Yavnai and his trio consisting of Omer Avital on bass and oud and percussionist ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

Contemporary Jazz in Denmark: Different Sounds, Different Scenes

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by Jakob Baekgaard

There's an often-quoted phrase by Shakespeare saying that “something is rotten in the state of Denmark" but when it comes to jazz, the environment of the country is indeed very fertile, and at this point, the many sounds of Danish jazz are reaching across the borders and finding new listeners everywhere in the world. The homogeneity ...

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Jerry Bergonzi: Tenor Talk

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by Jakob Baekgaard

Talking about the tenor. Talking about the giants. Talking about Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, John Coltrane, Joe Henderson, Hank Mobley, Sonny Rollins and Pharoah Sanders. Talking about the people who blew the night into day and the day into night. They were swinging, singing, shouting--always searching deeper into the music. To play the tenor is to ...

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Jakob Bro: The Stars Are All New Songs Vol. 1

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by Jakob Baekgaard

The transition from promising talent to well-established artist isn't always easy and some musicians seem doomed to be placed in the eternal category of “interesting new voice." Clearly that is not the case with young Danish guitarist Jakob Bro, who has become one of the leading stylists in a new generation of jazz guitarists that include ...

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Oren Neiman: First Of All...

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by Jakob Baekgaard

Discussions of who deserves the recognition of being a “guitarist's guitarist" often bring up such names as Tal Farlow and Johnny Smith. They are guitar players who step naturally into the spotlight, easily grabbing the attention of the ears, technically superb and lyrically sophisticated with a clear, recognisable tone. There's also another type of ...

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Josh Nelson: Let It Go

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by Jakob Baekgaard

A man is standing in the middle of the city while the traffic passes by. Eyes half closed. Tie blowing in the air. Later there's a change of scene. The man is now inside an apartment and he is standing in front of a window. Eyes totally closed. The man is the ...


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