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Article: Live Review

TD Toronto Jazz Festival, Days 4-10: June 27-July 3, 2011

Read "TD Toronto Jazz Festival, Days 4-10: June 27-July 3, 2011" reviewed by Alain Londes


TD Toronto Jazz Festival 2011Toronto, CanadaJune 24-July 3, 2011 Monday, June 27, 2011On Monday evening, fans had a few hard choices to make among the headliners. At Koerner Hall, award-winning Dee Dee Bridgewater paid tribute to Lady Day, Billie Holiday. Meanwhile at the Enwave Theatre, Kurt Elling ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With David White

Read "Take Five With David White" reviewed 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 ...

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Sound Check - Jack Cortner & His NY Big Band

Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2009
Track listing: 1. Strike Up The Band - George Gershwin 04:44 2. Speak Low - Kurt Weill 05:24 3. Sometime Ago - Sergio Mihanovich 05:18 4. Cantaloupe Island - Herbie Hancock 05:43 5. Sound Check - Jack Cortner 04:55 6. Yesterdays - Jerome Kern 06:34 7. Caravan - Juan Tizol 05:17 8. Cinema Paradiso Love Theme - Andrea Morricone 05:11 9. A La Mode - Jack Cortner 04:35 10. You and the Night and the Music - Dietz/Scwartz 05:22 11. It's All Right With Me - Cole Porter 06:09

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Jack Cortner: Sound Check

Read "Sound Check" reviewed by Robert J. Robbins


Back in 2007, veteran composer/arranger Jack Cortner (a longtime ghost for the late arranger and orchestrator Billy Byers) released Fast Track, his illustrious debut as a bandleader for the Jazzed Media label, with ex-Kenton and Herman trumpeter Marvin Stamm and his erstwhile sidekick, pianist Bill Mays, as the principal soloists. With Sound Check, Cortner, Stamm, and ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Jack Cortner Big Band / Peter Hand Big Band / Chicago Jazz Philharmonic

Read "Jack Cortner Big Band / Peter Hand Big Band / Chicago Jazz Philharmonic" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Jack Cortner Big Band Sound Check Jazzed Media 2009 For someone who waited so long before taking his first swings as leader of his own big band, Jack Cortner shows again on Sound Check, the band's second impressive recording in as many years, that he's got game. He's ...

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Article: Live Review

Umbria Jazz: Days 1-3, July 10-12, 2009

Read "Umbria Jazz: Days 1-3, July 10-12, 2009" reviewed by Michael J. West


Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-10 “You know," said one American tourist to his friend as he walked past the tents on the first day of Umbria Jazz, “Ever since we got here last week this is all we've heard anyone talk about." Small wonder. The 10-day, citywide festival is more than ...

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Just Us

Label: Telarc
Released: 2006

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Fast Track - Jack Cortner & His NY Big Band

Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2006
Track listing: 1. Who's 'at Talkin"? - Marvin Stamm 05:02 2. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise - Sigmund Romberg 05:39 3. Ballad For Betsy - Jack Cortner 05:07 4. Etude - Jack Cortner 05:00 5. Secret Love - Webster/Fain 04:09 6. On The Trail - Ferde Grofe 06:35 7. Limehouse Blues - Furber/Braham 05:45 8. Slowdown - Jack Cortner 04:25 9. Flimflam, Ma'am - Jack Cortner 05:38 10. Fast Track - Jack Cortner 04:51 11. Lover Man - Davis/Ramirez/Sherman

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E 'n J -- Legend and Lion

Label: Superkids
Released: 2006
Track listing: Blue Rondo A La Turk; Leave it to Beaver; Scramble; Slidework in A Flat; Chelsea Bridge; Amblin'; Jimmy Jam; Jank; Someday My Prince Will Come; There is no Greater Love; Snuffle; Bolivia.

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Eijiro Nakagawa & Jim Pugh: E 'n J -- Legend and Lion

Read "E 'n J -- Legend and Lion" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Is New York the Mecca of jazz? Well, some would believe so. It was the meeting place for two trombonists, Jim Pugh and Eijiro Nakagawa, the latter a young player from Japan, the former a well-known American veteran. The two trombonists found common ground and recorded this album with a band that fits them like a ...


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