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Article: From Far and Wide

A Merger In Jazz Education

Read "A Merger In Jazz Education" reviewed by Ed Hamilton


A musical merger of higher education has been established at the last university to include jazz into their curriculum--UCLA. Jazz Studies, under Director/guitarist Dr. Kenny Burrell, The Herb Alpert School of Music , and the Thelonious Monk Institute, guided by Herbie Hancock, have all joined jazztistical bonds in providing not only jazz but all-around musical learning ...

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Article: Album Review

J. Leandre / N. Mitchell / D. Van Der Schyff: Before After

Read "Before After" reviewed by John Sharpe


Flutist Nicole Mitchell's strong attachment to the Vancouver creative scene has borne unpredictable fruit. She has been an artist in residence at the city's International Jazz Festival from 2006-2010, but it was only when bassist Joëlle Léandre was likewise featured, in 2009, that the two combined, along with Vancouver native Dylan van der Schyff behind the ...

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Article: Live Review

Mark Dresser Quintet Live at Dizzy's, San Diego

Read "Mark Dresser Quintet Live at Dizzy's, San Diego" reviewed by Robert Bush


Mark Dresser QuintetDizzy'sSan Diego, CAOctober 10, 2010 Double bass virtuoso Mark Dresser is a player whose expertise in multiple genres defies categorization. His is the story of the student becoming the maestro. Growing up, he was inspired by rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix, and bassist/composer Charles Mingus, and he began his ...

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News: Obituary

Remembering William Marcel "Buddy" Collette

Remembering William Marcel "Buddy" Collette

By Ed Hamilton Saxophonist and flautist Buddy Collette brought color to white TV game show orchestras, before Martin Luther King fought for civil rights in the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. He paved the way for the hiring of musicians of color into all-white TV and film orchestras: Clark Terry, J.J. Johnson, Count Basie, Quincy Jones, Benny ...

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Article: Interview

Craig Handy: The Busiest Man In Jazz

Read "Craig Handy: The Busiest Man In Jazz" reviewed by Robert Dugan


Saxophonist Craig Handy is a musician's musician. Those “in the know" know about him, which is why he's been a first call player in New York for over two decades. He is a careful, thoughtful improviser—expansive and precise. His solos build on a rich knowledge of the tradition at the same time as they often set ...

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Article: Interview

Bobby Bradford: Self-Determination in the Great Basin

Read "Bobby Bradford: Self-Determination in the Great Basin" reviewed by Clifford Allen


Born in Cleveland, Mississippi in 1934 and raised between Dallas and Los Angeles, trumpeter Bobby Bradford began playing with Ornette Coleman in Los Angeles in the 1950s, and replaced Don Cherry in an unrecorded Coleman quartet during the early 1960s. However, the most significant partnership in Bradford's musical life was with the clarinetist and composer John ...

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Article: Live Review

Summertime Jazz: Still Alive and Swingin' in Los Angeles

Read "Summertime Jazz: Still Alive and Swingin' in Los Angeles" reviewed by Chuck Koton


When the news hit that the Jazz Bakery's last shows (at least at its Culver City location) would take place at the end of May, I feared that a bleak summer lay ahead for Angeleno jazz lovers. Even the reassurances and optimism of the Bakery's long-time director, Ruth Price, about reopening at a new site, did ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Jack Nimitz: Baritone-in-Chief

Read "Jack Nimitz: Baritone-in-Chief" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Baritone saxophonist Jack Nimitz died June 10, 2009 at his home in Studio City, California. He was 79 years old. That's hardly headline news except to a relative handful of jazz enthusiasts who were privileged to hear and appreciate his consummate artistry over the span of more than half a century when Nimitz was at the ...

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Article: Album Review

Nicole Mitchell/ Indigo Trio: Anaya

Read "Anaya" reviewed by John Sharpe


The Indigo Trio's sophomore outing on the classy French Rogue Art imprint delivers the record fans of Nicole Mitchell the flutist have been waiting for. Mitchell the composer and arranger has been to the fore of late on Black Unstoppable (Delmark, 2007) and most notably Xenogenesis Suite (Firehouse 12, 2008), but with instrumentation stripped to the ...


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