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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Jerry Tilitz

by AAJ Staff
January 29, 2010

Meet Jerry Tilitz: Jerry Tilitz is an American trombonist, composer and vocalist from New York City presently ensconced in Hamburg, Germany. In the course of his career Mr. Tilitz has performed and recorded with many exceptional artists including Gerry Mulligan, Horace Parlan, Hank Jones, Roy Eldridge, Herb Geller, Tommy Flanagan, Warren Vache, Adam Nussbaum, Benny Bailey, ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: J.J. Johnson

January 22, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating J.J. Johnson's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY J.J. JohnsonConsidered by many to be the finest jazz trombonist of all time, J.J. Johnson somehow transferred the innovations of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie to his more awkward instrument... more Website | ...

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Article: Interview

Mickey Roker: You Never Lose the Blues

by Victor L. Schermer
January 18, 2010

Drummer Mickey Roker is a mainstay and icon of the jazz world, having a played with Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Lee Morgan, and many of the other signature groups of modern jazz. Yet he has always maintained his Philadelphia roots, and is and has been a regular at Ortlieb's Jazzhaus in that ...

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Article: Live Review

"Birth of the Cool:" Bob Perkins Lectures and the Don Wilson Trio Performs

by Victor L. Schermer
November 19, 2009

Birth of the CoolPerformed by The Don Wilson TrioLecture by Bob PerkinsOctober 25, 2009The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine ArtsPhiladelphia, PA This writer could think of no better way to spend an autumn Sunday afternoon than to stroll over to the fabled Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts ...

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Take Five With Dan Barnett

by AAJ Staff
October 31, 2009

Meet Dan Barnett:Dan has worked and recorded with some of the greats in Australian and world music such as James Morrison, Will Calhoun, Tom Burlinson, Barbara Morrison, Mark Murphy, Bob Barnard, Dan Barrett, Tom Baker, Bob Montgomery, George Washingmachine, Emma Pask, Judy Carmichael, Janet Seidel, Don Burrows, George Golla, Evan Christopher, David Paquette, Judy ...

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Take Five With Mike Wolk

by AAJ Staff
October 27, 2009

Meet Mike Wolk:Performing music that swings, sounds cool, with great harmony and melody is my life's work. I prefer the structure of straight-ahead jazz as it gives me a chance to play the lines, phrases and licks that create an emotional response from my bandmembers and the audience.I live in Charleston, South ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

No "Vanity" Here: Jackie Ryan, Denise Donatelli, Lisa Sokolov, Kat Edmonson

by J Hunter
October 15, 2009

One of the whinier columns ever to appear in a major jazz publication concerned “Vanity Projects"--that is, sessions bankrolled by rich men for their marginally talented spouses/girlfriends/siblings/whatever. Unfortunately, those kind of recordings do exist, and in far greater numbers than desirable. However, the author's implication was that most female vocal projects could be categorized in this ...

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Article: Bailey's Bundles

The State of the Trombone 2009: Steve Davis and Luis Bonilla

by C. Michael Bailey
October 13, 2009

Jazz offers ample opportunity to hear diametrically opposed ideas and approaches coming from similar ensembles (and sometimes the same ensemble, as with saxophonist John Coltrane). Consider, on one side, the middle-of-the-road, mainstream, standards jazz made early on by trumpeter Miles Davis and the free jazz of saxophonist Ornette Coleman. The trombone has had players in both ...

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News: Recording

Clarinetist/Composer Frank Glover Releases "Politico" on Owl Studios; Street Date July 21

July 21, 2009

"If the sum of a jazz artist is his musical innovation and integrity, then Glover has reached his pinnacle in this astounding CD" – Chuck Workman, NUVO Newsweekly, from his review of Politico Frank Glover’s new Owl Studios CD, Politico (July 21 national release date) features the award-winning jazz clarinetist/composer in quartet, orchestra and string ensemble ...

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Article: Interview

Jymie Merritt: Dedication Personified

by Victor L. Schermer
July 21, 2009

Jymie Merritt came up in Philadelphia during the evolution of bebop and hard bop, when the town was a hotbed of musical activity. Players like John Coltrane, Benny Golson, and Philly Joe Jones were getting started there, and musicians like Charlie Parker, J.J. Johnson, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis would come to the city to perform ...