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Article: Album Review

Bootsie Barnes: Bootsie Barnes: Boppin' Round the Center

Read "Bootsie Barnes: Boppin' Round the Center" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer

by Victor L. Schermer
June 6, 2004

This CD featuring Bootsie Barnes and a group assembled for the occasion has one characteristic uncommon in an era of so-called 'smooth jazz,' rap singing, and canned music for every occasion from cinematically simulated inner city rumbles to drugs for erectile dysfunction. It really swings! It also 'bops around the center!' (I truly don't know what ...

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Article: Book Review

The Musical World Of J.J. Johnson

by Victor L. Schermer
March 4, 2004

The Musical World Of J.J. Johnson Joshua Berrett and Louis G. Bourgois III Scarecrow Press, Inc. ISBN 0810836483 1999 J.J. Johnson is known to the listening public as a jazz trombonist who has repeatedly won the Downbeat and many other polls, who has played the instrument ...

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The J.J. Johnson Memorial Album

By J.J. Johnson

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. I Mean You, 2. Elysee, 3.Blue Mode (take 1), 4.Chazzanova, 5. Blue 'N'Boogie, 6. Bag's Groove, 7. Laura, 8. Hymn to the Orient, 9. Horace, 10. Pinnacles, 11. Jaylock, 12. Concepts in Blue, 13. Misty, 14.What's New, 15. Nature Boy, 16. Soft Wings.

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J.J. Johnson: The J.J. Johnson Memorial Album

Read "The J.J. Johnson Memorial Album" reviewed by Norman Weinstein

by Norman Weinstein
July 25, 2003

Is it possible to think of jazz trombone without the artistry of J.J. Johnson coming to mind? His death in 2001 brought closure to a career covering a half-century, and there are few major figures in bop/ mainstream jazz that didn't share concert billing with him. His recorded output graced a number of labels: Blue Note, ...

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Chain Reaction

By J.J. Johnson

Label: RCA Records
Released: 2002

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Origins - The Savoy Sessions

By J.J. Johnson

Label: RCA Records
Released: 2002

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The Eminent J.J. Johnson Vol. 1

By J.J. Johnson

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Capri; Lover Man; Turnpike; Sketch 1; It Could Happen to You; Get Happy; Capri (alt. take); Turnpike (alt. take); Get Happy (alt. take)

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The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Volume Two

By J.J. Johnson

Label: RCA Records
Released: 2001

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J.J. Johnson: The Eminent J.J. Johnson Vol. 1

Read "The Eminent J.J. Johnson Vol. 1" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
August 1, 2001

Compared with the first appearance of previously released jazz albums in CD format, the second generation of jazz CD reissues represents sophisticated product: 24 bit remastering, updated liner notes, and glossy packaging--candy for jazz lovers. One in the most recent block of titles from Blue Note’s Rudy Van Gelder (RVG) edition reissue series, The Eminent J.J. ...

Article: Interview

Gunther Schuller Turns 75!

by Scott Menhinick
November 1, 2000

All About Jazz: I was curious about what kind of influence your father being a professional musician had on your choice to follow a musical path.Gunther Schuller: Enormous, except not formal. I heard great music in my mother's womb and my father was in the New York Philharmonic so I was taken to concerts ...