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North Sea Jazz Festival, July 8-10, 2011
by R.J. DeLuke
North Sea Jazz FestivalJuly 8-10, 2011AhoyRotterdam, The Netherlands The North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands is staggering in size, touted as the world's largest indoor jazz festival and that's certainly a good bet. With 13 stages running from late afternoon until the early morning hours, it's far more than a ...
Joe Lovano: Joe Lovano - Bird Songs
by Jonathan Wertheim
Joe Lovano's Us Five debut, Folk Art (Blue Note, 2009), was a triumphantly energetic outing, filled with the sound of two drummers and running through a program of Lovano's originals. It was a highly personal and emphatic debut, and a great one too, but Bird Songs is important in completing the portrait of this ensemble.
Joe Lovano / Us Five: Bird Songs
by Troy Collins
An inquisitive musician with a reverence for tradition, Grammy-winning saxophonist Joe Lovano has recorded a number of unique tributes to artists who have inspired him, including Enrico Caruso and Frank Sinatra. But none of his previous homages, not even 52nd Street Themes (Blue Note, 2000), his love letter to the bebop era, are as relevant to ...
Joe Lovano / Us Five: Bird Songs
by Andrew J. Sammut
Sax giant Joe Lovano has blown next to a bevy of jazz greats, and been applauded as soloist and leader throughout his nearly 40-year career. While it might seem surprising that audiences had to wait until his 22nd album for a tribute to Charlie Parker, Bird Songs demonstrates, once again, that Lovano does things his own ...
Take Five With David White
by AAJ Staff
Meet David White:Trombonist/composer/arranger David White is a highly versatile musician who is building a strong reputation in the New York jazz scene. Since arriving in New York in 1999, he has performed frequently throughout the area and has shared the stage with such luminaries as Jon Faddis, Slide Hampton, James Weidman, Frank Lowe, Todd ...
Unsung but First Call: James Weidman
Pianist James Weidman is a thoughtful, exceedingly pleasant man who is an understated personality but as versatile a pianist as you will find. Weidman's discography as a leader is relatively short but potent. His current release is Three Worlds, on the Inner Circle Music label. On the heels of that release it was about time for ...
The Jazz Session #136: James Weidman
Pianist James Weidman is well known as an accompanist to some of the most heralded singers of our time, from Abbey Lincoln to Cassandra Wilson. In recent years hes travelled the world as a member of Joe Lovanos band. On his new CD, Three Worlds (Inner Circle, 2009), Weidman leads an eclectic ensemble of improvisers through ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: January 4, 2010
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 5 11 Gerald Wilson Orchestra Detroit (Mack Avenue) 182 124 +58 0 44 1 15 2 6 8 Houston Person Mellow (HighNote) 162 122 +40 0 43 2 11 3 8 5 Jeff Hamilton Trio Symbiosis (Capri) 151 112 +39 0 37 1 14 4 3 8 ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: December 21, 2009
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 14 — Nellie McKay Normal As Blueberry Pie: A Tribute To Doris Day (Verve) 194 112 +82 0 44 1 9 2 6 — Carla Bley Carla’s Christmas Carols (ECM) 192 157 +35 13 55 2 2 3 1 2 Poncho Sanchez Psychedelic Blues (Concord) ...
Three Worlds
Label: Inner Circle Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Mirrored Images; Drop Zone; The World Within; Razz 2.0; Our Journey (Intro); Our Journey; Questful: Theme For You; Backtrackn; When We Met; Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho.
