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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Legends Return to Historic Bohemian Caverns in Washington, DC

Jazz Legends Return to Historic Bohemian Caverns in Washington, DC

Washingtonians and visitors to the nation's capital can feel the past and glimpse the future of jazz music by visiting historic Bohemian Caverns, where a rich jazz experience awaits. A jazz spot whose roots date back to 1926, Bohemian Caverns is the city's oldest jazz club and a must-hear see jazz destination. It's located on Washington's ...

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Article: Album Review

Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition: Apti

Read "Apti" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

Jazz has been a well-established genre in India since the 1940s. American talent played top venues in large cities like Bombay in the '50s, and the cultures interrelated within India's natural jazz evolution from its early stages. Traditional Indian music uses single notes rather than the intricate chords typical in western jazz, so when saxophonist Rudresh ...

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Article: Book Review

The Jazz Book

Read "The Jazz Book" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert

The Jazz Book Joachim-Ernst Berendt and Gunther Huesmann Softcover; 816 pages ISBN: 155652823X Lawrence Hill Books 2009 The first edition of The Jazz Book came out in 1952, the earnest work of European jazz scholar Joachim-Ernst Berendt. At the time, of course, saxophonist Charlie Parker and ...

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Article: Interview

Andre Matos: Fantasies Realized

Read "Andre Matos: Fantasies Realized" reviewed by William Carey

by William Carey

There is no doubt that André Matos has chops to burn. Placed firmly in the tradition of John Abercrombie and Pat Martino, with a bit of Sonny Sharrock at moments, a lot of Berklee (College of Music) influence is readily apparent, but with a bit of headiness that also reflects the guitarist's time at the New ...

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Article: Album Review

Michael Janisch: Purpose Built

Read "Purpose Built" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

A relative newcomer on the international jazz scene, Michael Janisch is an American bassist currently living in London and making his debut recording with the very impressive Purpose Built, a potent selection of eight original composition and four familiar jazz standards. Janisch offers a diverse repertoire of melody-rich, sophisticated charts in a musical palette of essentially ...

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Article: Interview

Paul F. Murphy: Playing Universally

Read "Paul F. Murphy: Playing Universally" reviewed by Dominic Fragman

by Dominic Fragman

Legendary drummer Paul F. Murphy has been involved with the high end of improvised music since the mid-1970s in San Francisco. He is most closely associated with the avant-garde of the '70s, '80s and '90s as a 12-year member of alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons' band and a leader of several of his own groups, including Trio ...

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Article: Old, New, Borrowed and Blue

Keeping Up With The Joneses: The Jones Name In Jazz

Read "Keeping Up With The Joneses: The Jones Name In Jazz" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

"What's in a name?"This question, written by Shakespeare and spoken from the mouth of his Juliet, really touches on an important line of thought. Juliet continued and said, “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." While she was dealing with the Montague/Capulet issue, she sought to downplay ...

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Article: Album Review

Adam Niewood: Epic Journey, Volumes I & II

Read "Epic Journey, Volumes I & II" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

Post modern jazz musicians like New York-based multi-reed instrumentalist Adam Niewood are sometimes more adroit at pushing boundaries in terms of incorporating non-traditional instruments and equally non-traditional compositions. Niewood wrote most of the tracks on Epic Journey, Volumes I & II, composing with a mind toward letting the instruments speak in their own voices while overlapping ...

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Article: Album Review

Brandon Wright: Boiling Point

Read "Boiling Point" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

The first thing conspicuous about Brandon Wright's recording Boiling Point is his rhythm section, composed of pianist David Kikoski, bassist Hans Glawischnig and drummer Matt Wilson. A second curiosity is exactly who this precocious young saxophonist is to have such a rhythm section. Wright, the 2009 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer award recipient originally from Woodcliff ...

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Article: Album Review

Emma Larsson: Let It Go

Read "Let It Go" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Among the many sub-genres of jazz, none is more congested than that of female vocalists. So clotted is this particular marketplace that it is almost impossible to separate the signal (exceptional releases) from the noise (everything else). There are precious few ways for an artist to set herself apart from the merely good vocalists as a ...


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