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News: Recording

Sony Music's Popmarket.com Releases Complete Albums Collections By Jazz Masters Stanley Clarke & George Duke

January 22, 2012

Stanley Clarke—The Complete 1970s Epic Albums Collection and The George Duke Band—The Complete 1970s Epic Albums Collection Both titles available for pre-order at Popmarket.com in advance of January 24, 2012, release date The Ultimate Jazz Festival continues as Sony Music's PopMarket.com presents Complete Albums Collections from the Epic Records archives by two of the greatest names ...

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Article: Album Review

Elly Hoyt: Elly Hoyt

Read "Elly Hoyt" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
January 19, 2012

Tasmanian-born Elly Hoyt's self-titled debut catapulted her into the forefront of the jazz scene Down Under, winning the coveted Bell Award for Best Australian Jazz Vocal Album in 2011. Australian jazz is perhaps stronger than ever, with a veritable wealth of young musicians emerging and festivals popping up like 'roos, and this award serves meaningful notice ...

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Article: Interview

Jack DeJohnette: Time and Space

by John Kelman
January 9, 2012

It begins with the sound of a resonating bell, followed by a gently cascading piano solo that gradually assumes shape and form, hovering around two chords and creating an inviting ambiance that resolves with another ringing of the bell, segueing gently into the groove-heavy “Salsa for Luisito." The track is “Enter Here," and the album is ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: John McLaughlin

January 4, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating John McLaughlin's birthday today! John McLaughlin, also Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is a jazz fusion guitar player from Doncaster, Yorkshire in England. He came to prominence with the electric group of Miles Davis in the late 1960s, and with other well- known players such as Chick Corea and Tony Williams. Before moving ...

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Article: Interview

Rez Abbasi: Thoroughly Modern Marvel

by Lawrence Peryer
January 2, 2012

Guitarist Rez Abbasi is part of a generation of jazz musicians who came of age after the conservative backlash of the 1980s. He and his peers are making their mark on America's art form by contributing their rich and varied cultural backgrounds and with an embrace of popular culture that was heresy in some quarters for ...

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Article: Talkin' Blues

Talkin' Blues with Jimmy Herring

by Alan Bryson
December 27, 2011

Jimmy Herring is a musician who blurs lines, both in terms of genres and roles. Over the past two decades his work with the Aquarium Rescue Unit, Gov't Mule, The Allman Brothers Band, Frogwings, Phil Lesh & Friends, Project Z, Jazz is Dead, and Widespread Panic has cemented his position as one of the world's premier ...

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Article: Album Review

radio.string.quartet.vienna: radiodream

Read "radiodream" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
December 26, 2011

Ah, a string quartet. Calm, gentle--if rather derivative--music may well await. But there's a short verse on the inside cover of radiodream, the closing line of which serves as a fair warning about much of the music that actually awaits: “you can only escape while you are awake." radio.string.quartet.vienna is a band that not only wishes ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Roine Stolt and Neal Morse: Degrees of Separation

by John Kelman
November 20, 2011

2011 has been a banner year for progressive rock, the genre that emerged in the late 1960s, peaked in the mid 1970s, and was threatened with extinction (certainly from a commercial perspective) with the advent of punk and new wave. Of course, prog never went away, and the music of seminal bands such as King Crimson, ...

News: Recording

Free Label Sampler MP3 Album from Net Dot Music, Inc.

November 17, 2011

Net Dot Music, an indie record label specializing in instrumental fusion—all-instrumental music that blends several styles and genres—has released a free mp3 album, with over eighty minutes of music, encompassing fourteen different releases from their artist roster, which includes: Massimo—Percussionist and keyboardist who composes and plays in various styles and genres, favoring high-energy improvisational jazz fusion. ...

News: Music Industry

Chick Corea and ACME at the Blue Note

November 16, 2011

ACME Studio, the renowned manufacturer of superior design objects and accessories, is proud to announce a special sneak preview of four new jazz-themed designs from jazz legends Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White and John McLaughlin, taking place throughout the month of November at New York's Blue Note jazz club. The preview of the four new ...