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Article: Album Review

The Bob Lark / Phil Woods Quintet: Live at the Jazz Showcase

Read "Live at the Jazz Showcase" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The order of names on this superb in-concert CD could have gone either way. On the one hand, four-fifths of the quintet is actually the Phil Woods Quartet; on the other, trumpeter Bob Lark, who shares the front line for a second time with alto saxophonist Woods (their 2006 collaboration for Jazzed Media was In Her ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Phil Woods: Ballads & Blues, Live at the Jazz Showcase, The Children's Suite

Read "Phil Woods: Ballads & Blues, Live at the Jazz Showcase, The Children's Suite" reviewed by Greg Thomas


Phil Woods Quintet Ballads & Blues Venus Records 2009 The Bob Lark/Phil Woods Quintet Live at the Jazz Showcase Jazzed Media 2009 Phil Woods The Children's Suite Jazzed ...

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News: Event

Got Big Ears? John Hollenbeck's Large Ensemble at Painted Bride on February 28 and March 6

Got Big Ears? John Hollenbeck's Large Ensemble at Painted Bride on February 28 and March 6

With a huge sound and mesmerizing subtlety, John Hollenbeck's Large Ensemble combines the sonic range of a big band and the intimacy of a small group of closely-knit musicians. Hollenbeck is striking for his compositional process, one that is deeply immersed in personal experience and that uses the accumulation of simple elements to create a complex, ...

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News: Event

Vanguard Jazz Orchestra / Bob Brookmeyer

Vanguard Jazz Orchestra / Bob Brookmeyer

THE VANGUARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA In collaboration with PLANET ARTS, SIXTEEN AS ONE MUSIC INC., and THE VILLAGE VANGUARD, PRESENT The Monday Night Legacy: Past Present Future Monday, February 2 through Monday February 9 2009 From February 2 though 9, 2009, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (VJO) will present a special week-long retrospective at the Village Vanguard in ...

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Boneyard

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Speak Low; Con Alma; In Your Own Sweet Way; For Manny; Fe Fi Fo Fum; A Sense of Fairness; Naomi; Ernie Banks; In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning.

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Article: Album Review

Todd Coolman: Perfect Strangers

Read "Perfect Strangers" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


A little bit of imagination is a good thing. Bassist Todd Coolman thought “outside the box" and came up with the idea of soliciting compositions from the public. He chose seven tunes which make up the program for the aptly titled Perfect Strangers. Hopefully, the voices that are heard here through Coolman, Eric Alexander (tenor saxophone), ...

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News: Interview

Pianist/Composer/Arranger Jim McNeely Interviewed at AAJ

Pianist/Composer/Arranger Jim McNeely Interviewed at AAJ

If you own some of the best records of the Stan Getz quartet or you dig the great jazz orchestras, then there is a good chance that you have heard--or better still--felt Jim McNeely's touch before. Either way, if you want to learn more about some of the jazz giants that McNeely has backed on piano, ...

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Article: Interview

Jim McNeely: On the Up and Up

Read "Jim McNeely: On the Up and Up" reviewed by Joao Moreira dos Santos


If you own some of the best records of the Stan Getz quartet or you dig the great jazz orchestras, then there is a good chance that you have heard--or better still--felt Jim McNeely's touch before. Either way, if you want to learn more about some of the jazz giants that McNeely has backed on piano, ...

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Article: Album Review

Jim McNeely / Kelly Sill / Joel Spencer: Boneyard

Read "Boneyard" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Jim McNeely, Kelly Sill and Joel Spencer have been performing together, whenever time and opportunity allowed, since they first met at the University of Illinois more than thirty years ago but had never recorded as a unit until now. After hearing Boneyard many listeners may be wondering why, as it's about as tasteful and charming as ...

Album

Boneyard

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Speak Low; Con Alma; In Your Own Sweet Way; For Manny; Fe Fi Fo Fum; A Sense of Fairness; Naomi; Ernie Banks; In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning.


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