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Playdate: Playdate
by Dan Bilawsky
While children spend after school-hours and weekends working on homework and spending time with their families, they also have play dates. They get together with other like-minded friends to let loose and blow off some steam. Musicians often do the same thing and, appropriately enough, three of the five performers on Playdate have been friends since ...
Take Five With Vinson Valega
by AAJ Staff
Meet Vinson Valega: Vinson grew up in a musical family near Washington, D.C., studying classical piano from age seven until switching to the drums when he was 12. He played drums for three years in the All-County Jazz Ensemble during high school and subsequently held the drum chair in the University of Pennsylvania Big ...
Take Five With The New Five
by AAJ Staff
Meet The New 5: The New 5 is a cohesive group based in Austin, TX whose sound is rooted in the post-bop tradition but with a forward-leaning edge. Four of the five members of the group have or are working on their doctorates in music from the University of Texas. Thomas Heflin and Chris Budhan have ...
Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge / Swiss Jazz Orchestra / The Aggregation
by Jack Bowers
Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge The Comet's Tail MAMA Records 2009 On The Comet's Tail, Chuck Owen's superb Florida-based Jazz Surge performs the compositions--yes, compositions--of the late great tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker. As Owen writes in the liner notes, “[Michael's] blinding brilliance as a performer / improviser...may ...
The Aggregation, Under the Direction of Eddie Allen: Groove's Mood
by Edward Blanco
Trumpeter, composer, educator and band leader Eddie Allen is a very busy New York artist currently leading a quartet, quintet, a Latin/Brazilian group and the seventeen-piece big band, The Aggregation, the latter debuting with Groove's Mood. Allen which claims to have one goal: “To have the listener in a finger-snappin,' head bobbin,' toe-tappin,' feel good mood ...
Take Five With Erik Applegate
by AAJ Staff
Meet Erik Applegate: Erik Applegate has been called “a top-notch acoustic bass performer" (Jazzreview.com), and he has appeared with the Bob Mintzer Big Band, Nnenna Freelon, Milt Jackson, Jeff Coffin, Eddie Daniels, Ingrid Jensen, George Garzone, Tom Harrell, Marlena Shaw, and others. He toured with James Williams and in a trio with Harold Mabern and Ed ...
Christian McBride & Inside Straight: Kind of Brown
by Ken Dryden
Since arriving in New York City in the late 1980s, where he briefly studied at Juilliard, Christian McBride has been one of jazz's most in-demand bassists. In addition, he has become a valuable composer, arranger and jazz educator with a wide-open interest in many musical styles. The initial CD by McBride's Inside Straight quartet ...
Scott Reeves at Cecil's Jazz Club
by David A. Orthmann
Scott Reeves Cecil's Jazz Club West Orange, NJ April 24, 2009 Scott Reeves's Shape Shifter (Miles High Records) is one of the year's pleasant surprises. Recorded live at Cecil's Jazz Club in March of 2008, the disc succeeds on a number of levels. Reeves's compositions are varied and substantial, ...
Jazz Dialogues Vol. 1-4
Label: Finas Music
Released: 2004
Track listing:
Volume 1: Willpower --1. Rainy Days & Mondays with Christian McBride; 2. Skylark with Etta Jones; 3. Frank's Tune with Steve Wilson; 4. Le Wizard de Basso with Ron Carter; 5. Whisper Not withRussell Malone; 6. WillPower with Joe Lovano; 7. Be Real Special with Steve Nelson; 8. Close To You with Freddy Cole; 9. Inner Urge with Billy Pierce; 10. I Surrender All with John Patitucci.
Volume 2: Focus --1. Focus with Peter Washington; 2. Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You with Houston Person; 3. Put On A Happy Face with Russell Malone; 4. i Know It's You with Roger Holland; 5. Easy Living with Mary Stallings; 6. Fourplay with Dave Stryker; 7. For My Nephews with Ray Drummond; 8. I've Got The World On A String with Steve Heck; 9. Groovin' High with Jon Faddis; 10. These Foolish Things with Miles Griffin; 11. Daydream with John Clayton.
Volume 3: Out of Nowhere --1. I Mean You With Ron Carter; 2. That's My Desire With Freddy Cole; 3. Dolphin Dance With Steve Nelson; 4. Out of Nowhere With Etta Jones; 5. When You're Smiling With Rufus Reid; 6. A Child Is Born With Jon Faddis; 7. Teach Me Tonight With Kim Nalley; 8. Bassically Simple With John Patitucci; 9. For All We Know With Roger Holland; 10. The Old Country With Peter Washington; 11. Little B's Poem With Billy Pierce.
Volume 4: Music for a While --1. Thermo with Christian McBride; 2. Take Time For Love with Joe Lovano; 3. Undecided with Mary Stallings; 4. Walk with Me with Rufus Reid; 5. Old Times Sake with Steve Wilson; 6. If I Loved You with Thomas Trotter; 7. The More I See You with Houston Person; 8. Pieces of a Dream with Dave Stryker; 9. East of the Sun with Kim Nalley; 10. Music For a While with R. Holland & T. Trotter.
James Williams: Jazz Dialogues Vol. 1-4
by Russ Musto
The tragedy of pianist/producer James Williams' premature passing in July at the age of 53 is too great and painful too dwell upon at this early juncture, so suffice it to say that the sadness his untimely death has brought to his many, many friends and fans in the jazz community is truly immense. Williams was ...
