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Take Five With Scott Forrey of Vector Trio

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by AAJ Staff

Meet Scott Forrey: Scott Forrey has played trumpet with jazz, funk, Latin, and avant-garde bands for more that 30 years. He was both a student and faculty member at Berklee College of Music in the 1980s, where he studied improvisation with saxophonist George Garzone and bassist Miroslav Vitous. Among his interests are composition, arranging ...

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Vision Festival 2009: Day 2

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by John Sharpe

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 All-Star Collective / Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble / Sun Ra Arkestra14th Annual Vision Festival Abrons Arts Center New York, New York June 10, 2009 Chapter Index All-Star Collective Bill ...

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Ottawa Jazz Festival 2009: Days 4-6, June 28-30, 2009

Read "Ottawa Jazz Festival 2009: Days 4-6, June 28-30, 2009" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 Amina Claudine Myers / Gary Burton Quartet Revisited John Roney Silverbirch Project / Julian Lage / Enrico Rava-Stefano Bollani DuoAndy Milne/Benoît Delbecq Crystal Magnets / Sylvain Kassap QuartetTD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 25-27, 2009 ...

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Samo Salamon & Aljosa Jeric Quartet: Mamasaal feat. Mark Turner

Read "Mamasaal feat. Mark Turner" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

That bandleaders Samo Salamon and Aljosa Jeric are Slovenian doesn't appear to be of much musical relevance; jazz settings of East European folk songs are not the order of the day here. But it might have some metaphorical relevance; just as their tiny homeland has shot to the top of all social, economic and political rankings ...

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Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions

By James Blood Ulmer

Label: Hyena Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Survivors of the Hurricane; Sad Days, Lonely Nights; Katrina; Let's Talk About Jesus; Dead Presidents; Commit a Crime; Grinnin' in Your Face; There Is Power in the Blues; Backwater Blues; Old Slave Master.

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James Blood Ulmer: Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions

Read "Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki

"Blood wrote these songs that are the essence of the blues," suggests producer and guitarist Vernon Reid. “They're politically incorrect, they're sad and haunting, they're pissed off and on an existential level, they address the complicated concept that is America, which is something Blood's been dealing with since the beginning of his career." You ...

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Bad Blood In The City: The Piety Street Sessions

By James Blood Ulmer

Label: Hyena Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Survivors of the Hurricane; Sad Days, Lonely Nights; Katrina; Let's Talk about Jesus; This Land is No One's Land; Dead Presidents; Commit a Crime; Grinnin' in your Face; There is power in the Blues; Backwater Blues; Old Slave Master.

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James Blood Ulmer: Bad Blood in the City: the Piety Street Sessions

Read "Bad Blood in the City: the Piety Street Sessions" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Se qualcuno aveva ancora qualche dubbio sul fatto che James “Blood” Ulmer fosse innanzitutto e prima di ogni altra cosa un chitarrista blues, Bad Blood in The City dovrebbe contribuire a sgombrare definitivamente il campo da qualsiasi fraintendimento. Ulmer era già blues quando accompagnava Ornette Coleman e tutti lo definivano pomposamente “harmolodic guitarist”; era blues quando ...

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James "Blood" Ulmer: Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions

Read "Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins

Almost two years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Bad Blood In The City arrives. During its chaotic aftermath, Harmolodic guitarist and futuristic bluesman James “Blood" Ulmer penned a number of tunes inspired by the events surrounding the disaster. Bolstered by a half dozen classic blues tunes, this concept record serves as a harrowing reminder of ...

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James Blood Ulmer: Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions

Read "Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

The Piety recording studio, where James Blood Ulmer recorded Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions, stands on the corner of Piety and Dauphine Streets, the original route of the famous Desire streetcar line in New Orleans' ninth ward. In an early scene from Tennessee Williams' play, A Streetcar Named Desire, Stanley enters the ...


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