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Take Five With Trey Wright
by AAJ Staff
Meet Trey Wright: Trey Wright is a jazz guitarist, composer, and recording artist based in Roswell, Ga. While studying Sociology at the University of Georgia, Trey studied jazz improvisation with pianist and composer Steve Dancz. In 1994, he co-founded the Athens/Atlanta based jazz band Squat. The group is a six-time winner of Best Jazz Band at ...
The State of the Tenor 2009: AJ Kluth and Ricky Sweum
by C. Michael Bailey
Saxophonists AJ Kluth and Ricky Sweum look more like the backfield from Friday Night Lights than they do jazz musicians. But jazz musicians they are, playing what may be heard as the logical, evolutionary result of post-bop: a dry ice eutectoid of smooth, free, avant-garde, cool and modal jazz. Their music is characterized by open composition ...
Liner Notes
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
When renowned jazz critic Leonard Feather was asked about this record, he said something favorable. And thus has become the general consensus since its release in late 1959, early 1974, 1989, 1998, and finally in 2004. I'm certain that upon hearing it, you'll feel the same.The fates aligned when this session was recorded. Not ...
Strippers and Be-Boppers in Postwar New Orleans Jazz
by Charles Suhor
The article below was adapted by the author, a native Orleanian, from Jazz in New Orleans: the Postwar Years Through 1970 (Scarecrow Press/Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies, 2001). New Orleans was a hotbed of jazz activity in many styles during the years after World War II, but it has been largely unrecognized by critics ...
Deborah Brown: Jazz Diva Extraordinaire
by Victor L. Schermer
Deborah Brown is one of the finest jazz vocalists in the business, a “singer's singer" with a magnificent voice and mind-boggling technique. Vocalist J.D. Walter mentioned her as an inspirational teacher and mentor in a recent AAJ interview but, despite being very possibly one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, due to her own ...
Oscar Penas: From Barcelona to Brooklyn
by Tomas Pena
Oscar Peñas belongs to a generation of artists who believe there is more to being a musician than being technically proficient. Like his peers--many of whom are emerging, independent musicians--his music reflects his roots, his impressive credentials and his openness to new ideas and concepts. Oscar is part of a flourishing new music scene in Brooklyn ...
The Story of Jazz Guitar
by AAJ Staff
While in its early days, jazz guitar was considered a rhythm instrument alongside the banjo of Dixieland. In 1940, Charlie Christian and his Gibson ES-150 changed that and elevated guitar to lead instrument status alongside the saxophone and trumpet--instruments that could acoustically cut through the sound of a piano-bass-drums rhythm section. Here, we encapsulate some of ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Joe Pass
All About Jazz is celebrating Joe Pass' birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Joe PassJoe Pass almost didn\'t make it as a musician due to his early battle with drug addiction. But following a successful rehab at Synanon and a recording session with fellow recovered musicians entitled Sounds ...
Play Hank Williams
By Roy Clark
Label: St. Clair Entertainment
Released: 2007
Track listing: Hey, Good Lookin'; Your Cheatin' Heart; Blues for Hank; Cold, Cold Heart; Jumbalaya (On the
Bayou); Long Gone Lonesome Blues; Why Don't You Love Me; Honky Tonk Blues; I'll Never Get
Out of This World Alive; Kaw-Liga
At The Côte D'Azur/Duke: The Last Jam Session
Label: Eagle Vision
Released: 2007
Track listing: Duke Ellington At The Côte D'Azur With Ella Fitzgerald And Joan Miró; The Opener; Such Sweeter Thunder; Medley: Black And Tan Fantasy/Creole Love Call/The Mooche; Kinda Dukish; The Shepherd; The Old Circus Train Turn-Around Blues; La Plus Belle Africaine; Satin Doll; Something To Live For; Jazz Samba; Things Aint What They Used To Be; Duke: The Last Jam Session; Opening Of Session; The Brotherhood; Just Squeeze Me; Carnegie Blues; The Hawk Talks; Prelude To A Kiss; Cotton Tail; Everything But You; Love You Madly; Fragmented Suite For Piano And Bass;
