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Jim Hall: New Toronto Find

January 7, 2013

In 1975, Jim Hall was in Toronto, Canada, appearing at Bourbon Street—a club opened by Doug Cole in the mid-'50s at 180 Queen St. West. The downtown nightspot routinely showcased American jazz artists—usually backed by local rhythm sections. Jim appeared there in June with bassist Don Thompson and drummer Terry Clarke, and the result was Live! ...

Article: Interview

Davey Payne: Ready To Play

by Sammy Stein
December 31, 2012

Davey Payne is known best for the time when he was saxophonist with British group, The Blockheads. His solo on the 1978 number 1 hit, “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" was the first time a double sax solo had appeared on a hit record. Before he joined forces with Dury, who fronted The ...

Album

Jim Hall: Live! Vol. 2-4

By Jim Hall

Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2012

Album

The Jim Hall Quartet: Live at Birdland

By Jim Hall

Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2012
Track listing: Furnished Flats; All The Things You Are; Friendly Recollections; Beija Flor; Big Blues; Chelsea Bridge; St. Thomas.

Article: Extended Analysis

Lee Konitz: Four Classic Albums

by David Rickert
December 29, 2012

Besides being one of the few altoists that emerged in the 1950s that doesn't sound like Charlie Parker, Lee Konitz was a true musical adventurer whose explorations in free jazz, electronic instruments, and just all around anything goes sessions resulted in some of the most exciting music that came out of the fifties and beyond. His ...

Article: Catching Up With

Greg Diamond: Conduit as the Direction

by Marta Ramon
December 18, 2012

Guitarist Greg Diamond has found his niche at the New York jazz scene. This cosmopolitan man knows how to pour both of his roots, New Yorker and Colombian, into his music. He has set his own style that lets his music be recognized. His playing has led him to perform with accomplished jazz musicians like saxophonist ...

Article: Live Review

Supersilent & John Paul Jones: London, England, November 18, 2012

by John Eyles
December 7, 2012

Supersilent & John Paul JonesVillage UndergroundLondon Jazz FestivalLondon, England November 18, 2012 By its tenth and final night, the 21st London Jazz Festival, had featured such illustrious names as saxophonists Peter Brötzmann, Jan Garbarek and Sonny Rollins, pianist Herbie Hancock, and guitarists Bill Frisell and John McLaughlin. But, as ...

News: Recording

Jim Hall: Two New Fan-funded Releases, Artistshare 10th Anniversary

December 6, 2012

Two new live albums from jazz guitar legend Jim Hall are now available ArtistShare, the pioneer of crowdfunding, celebrates the beginning of its 10th year with two historic releases ArtistShare is pleased to announce the release of two new live recordings from legendary jazz guitarist Jim Hall. Jim Hall: Live!, Vol. 2-4 features previously unreleased recordings ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jim Hall

December 4, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Jim Hall's birthday today! Jim Hall, born in Buffalo, and educated at the Cleveland Institute of Music, moved to Los Angeles where he began to attract national, and then international, attention in the late 1950s. By 1960 Jim had arrived in New York to work with Sonny Rollins and Art Farmer, ...

Article: Album Review

Dan Phillips BKK Trio: Bangkok Edge

Read "Bangkok Edge" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
November 18, 2012

It's been two years since guitarist Dan Phillips released Jazz Guitar--Basics and Beyond, (Self Produced, 2010), his impressively practical and digestible instructional DVD. Jazz guitar Professor at Bangkok's Silpakorn University, Phillips stressed the necessity of composing as the surest route to finding one's own voice, and leading by example--as any University Professor worth his salt should--Phillips ...