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Article: Big Band Report

Strike Up the (Unsung) Bands

by Jack Bowers
December 5, 2009

The big band era is known for producing a number of enormously successful ensembles whose leaders were household names: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, then on through Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the brothers Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie and, ...

Article: Album Review

Clayton Brothers: Brother to Brother

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 12, 2009

Innamorati dell'eredità sonora lasciataci dai fratelli Adderley, i Clayton (due fratelli ed il più giovane figlio dei due) ne ripropongono con grinta i tratti essenziali. Li contraddistingue un maturo, gioioso sound di gruppo, che arricchisce l'hardbop di base con il groove contemporaneo. Piacciono l'abilità ed il piglio con cui il quintetto rivisita i propri modelli, dimostrando ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Jack Nimitz: Baritone-in-Chief

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 2009

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: Multiple Reviews

Terell Stafford Shares Brotherly Love, Organ Fever

by Laurel Gross
May 9, 2009

Clayton BrothersBrother to Brother ArtistShare 2008 Tim WarfieldOne for Shirley Criss Cross 2008 Playing favorites can be a subjective enterprise but it would take a real grouch to insist that ...