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Article: Album Review

The Omar Hakim Experience: We Are One

Read "We Are One" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush
August 20, 2014

To properly appreciate The Omar Hakim Experience one must look back to move forward. By the time Hakim slipped behind the drum kit of Weather Report in 1983, the band was staggering under the weight of personnel departures, management problems and family issues. Founding member Joe Zawinul went in search of new recruits and in walked ...

Article: Album Review

Bill Warfield Big Band: Trumpet Story

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by Jack Bowers
August 20, 2014

Trumpeters Bill Warfield and Randy Brecker have been friends for twenty years; it's high time they joined forces in a recording studio and began making beautiful music together. On Trumpet Story, Warfield's big-band homage to trumpeters and other musicians who have influenced him through the years, six-time Grammy Award winner Brecker solos on eight of ten ...

Article: On and Off the Grid

Practice, Do You? Part 3-3

by Dom Minasi
July 15, 2014

Continued from Part 2 I began studying the guitar when I was seven years old. I hated my teacher and I didn't practice much, but when I changed teachers' and I went to Joe Geneli, I regained a love for the guitar that I first had when I was four years old when I ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Joe Zawinul

July 7, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Joe Zawinul's birthday today! It may be a word overused but there isn\'t truly a more appropriate way to describe keyboardist/composer Joe Zawinul. Austrian born, Joe Zawinul emigrated to the US in 1959 where he played with Maynard Ferguson and the great Dinah Washington before joining alto saxophonist great Cannonball Adderley ...

Article: Live Review

Wayne Shorter Quartet at National Concert Hall, Dublin

by Ian Patterson
June 20, 2014

Wayne Shorter Quartet National Concert Hall Dublin, Ireland June 14, 2014 The rapturous applause that greeted the Wayne Shorter Quartet as it took to the stage of Dublin's National Concert Hall was a heart-felt show of appreciation for Shorter's immense contribution to jazz over the past six decades. From his role ...

Article: Big Band Report

Buddy Rich: The Beat Goes On

by Jack Bowers
June 11, 2014

Was Buddy Rich really “the world's greatest drummer"? The answer to that speculative question is debatable, of course, and opinions may vary, as they no doubt do on what kind of a person (or persons) he was when not weaving his particular brand of magic behind a drum kit. Buddy's remarkable talents as a drummer and ...

News: Recording

Distributor/Music Store Squidco.com Adds Allen Weber "Hot Shock" Album To Library

June 7, 2014

From the desk and studio of Allen Weber Jacksonville, FL: The momentum is building around Jacksonville musician Allen Weber and his release of the Allen Weber Hot Shock album (CD and digital album) with it now in rotation on several UK radio stations, radio stations in the USA picking it up, and Allen Weber having just ...

Article: Album Review

OKO: I Love You Computer Mountain

Read "I Love You Computer Mountain" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
May 27, 2014

While pretty much all music is derivative, and to a greater or lesser degree inspired by what has gone before, every so often a band appears that shakes up the status quo. OKO--formed in 2010 out of the Dublin collective Bottleneck--certainly doesn't hide its influences on its debut recording, but its musical paint box of electronica, ...

News: Recording

Critically-Acclaimed Jazz Vocalist Jackie Allen Releases "My Favorite Color"

May 13, 2014

Tenth Overall Recording and First Studio Album in 8 Years Set For Release May 13, 2014 “Her gift is utterly distinctive and even innovative... a masterpiece. It's revelatory and sounds effortless." —Billboard Long known for the enticing smoky quality of her voice and the natural sincerity of her interpretations, My Favorite Color is Jackie's long anticipated ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3

by Maurizio Comandini
April 22, 2014

Finalmente la Sony Legacy pubblica ufficialmente e integralmente i quattro concerti del gruppo di Miles Davis al Fillmore East, mitico teatro posto più o meno all'incrocio fra la Sesta Strada Est e la Seconda Avenue a New York, nell'East Village. Era la metà del mese di giugno del 1970, il capolavoro Bitches Brew era stato pubblicato ...