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Large Ensembles: Is There a Place in This Large Music World?
by R.J. DeLuke
The big band in jazz has a long and glorious history. It was a prevalent form in jazz music in the '20s and '30s, comprising a substantial part of America's popular music heard on radio, spun on gramophones and record players, and enjoyed in dance halls. It gave rise to iconic band leaders like Fletcher Henderson, ...
Take Five With Erik Applegate
by AAJ Staff
Meet Erik Applegate: Erik Applegate has been called “a top-notch acoustic bass performer" (Jazzreview.com), and he has appeared with the Bob Mintzer Big Band, Nnenna Freelon, Milt Jackson, Jeff Coffin, Eddie Daniels, Ingrid Jensen, George Garzone, Tom Harrell, Marlena Shaw, and others. He toured with James Williams and in a trio with Harold Mabern and Ed ...
Review: Diana Krall Fights the Chill
The cold and windy conditions at Livermore's Wente Vineyards Thursday night might have been great for growing grapes, but wasn't ideal for the sold-out crowd that turned out to see Diana Krall. And the jazz singer-pianist certainly sympathized. “I should have gotten some Diana Krall cashmere blankets made up for you," she quipped at one point. ...
Jacksonville: Big City, Big Band, Big Plans
by Jack Bowers
Almost everyone who's even mildly interested knows that the big band scene in the US isn't what it used to be. On the other hand, the big bands aren't yet dead, as some alarmists have claimed, or even on life support. Thanks in part to college and armed services programs, there are perhaps as many or ...
Bassist/Educator Jim Widner Elected to Jazz Education Network Board of Directors
Bassist and educator Jim Widner has been elected to the board of directors of the Jazz Education Network (JEN), a relatively new organization formed in 2008 not long after the collapse of the International Association of Jazz Educators. JEN's Web site says the group is “dedicated to building the jazz arts community by advancing education, promoting ...
Gerald Clayton's Two Shade Released!
After much anticipation, the new Gerald Clayton trio record, Two Shade has been released on ArtistShare. The album features Joe Sanders on bass and Justin Brown on drums. Two shade showcases Clayton's compositions, with 11 original pieces, and a great take on the Dizzy Gillespie tune, “Con Alma". At the age of 25, Clayton is already ...
Diana Krall: Live in Rio
by C. Michael Bailey
Diana Krall Live In Rio Eagle Eye Productions 2009 There are some music critics who will fault a successful artist for “selling out," for appealing to the lowest common denominator with music that is either highly processed or mediocre for the sake of not being offensive (read that, ...
Terell Stafford Shares Brotherly Love, Organ Fever
by Laurel Gross
Clayton BrothersBrother to Brother ArtistShare 2008 Tim WarfieldOne for Shirley Criss Cross 2008 Playing favorites can be a subjective enterprise but it would take a real grouch to insist that ...
Kyle Eastwood Now
Kyle Eastwood, France's #1 Jazz artist release of NOW, offers a cool twist of genre jumping selections that swirl a post-modern jazz sensibility with a hip Euro electronica lounge vibe. Eastwood's Now is an interesting hybrid of style. The title track is the most successful with its addictive chugging rhythms of Manu Katche on drums and ...
Diana Krall's "Quiet Nights" Available March 31
Some music is intended to paint a romantic scene--a candlelit dinner, a walk along a moonlit beach. Quiet Nights--Diana Krall's twelfth album--ain't about that. Using Brazil as a musical point of reference, the award-winning pianist and singer is not suggesting a night out; she means to stay in. “It's not coy. It's not 'peel me a ...
