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Article: Interview

John Surman: From Boy Choirs to Big Horns

by John Kelman
August 31, 2009

It's increasingly risky to be a musician on the road. When British saxophonist John Surman was traveling from his home in Oslo, Norway, to New York City in September, 2007 for a recording session, he almost lost his baritone saxophone to the airlines. “It is a nightmare traveling now," says Surman, “and hardly a tour goes ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Bill Hart

by AAJ Staff
August 29, 2009

Meet Bill Hart:Born and raised in Canada, Hart started playing guitar at nine years old. He moved to the United States at the age of thirteen and was playing professionally by sixteen years old. His first professional experience was playing with his rock band in a pit for theater shows, featuring shows like Rocky ...

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Article: Album Review

Tafillalt: Tafillalt

Read "Tafillalt" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
August 14, 2009

This innovative alt-klezmer/alt-Jewish music ensemble represents the growing interest of John Zorn's Tzadik label in the Israeli Jewish music scene. Tafillalt fits into the Radical Jewish Culture series of the label, not only by exploring and interpreting ancient and modern Hebrew prayers--songs in adventurous and compelling new soundscapes--but also because of the group's multicultural improvisational attitude ...

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News: Video / DVD

Wolfgang's Vault Releases New Mahavishnu Orchestra Shows

August 5, 2009

WolfgangsVault.com, home of one of the largest collection of Mahavishnu Orchestra concert recordings, has released new shows today. The 1973 shows feature the band at a high point, opening for Frank Zappa on tour. All 2,500 rare, exclusive and classic vintage concerts in Wolfgang's Vault's famed Concert Vault can be streamed free with unlimited free registration. ...

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Take Five With Sinan Bakir

by AAJ Staff
July 22, 2009

Meet Sinan Bakir:Sinan Bakir is one of the most unique and exciting young jazz guitarists on the scene today. The sound that Sinan is striving for described often as fresh, clean and lively yet intense and full with emotion. Sinan Bakir is hailed not only as a virtuoso player, but also a masterful composer. ...

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Article: Interview

Badal Roy: Keeping the Groove

by Chris Kompanek
July 17, 2009

India-born tabla player Badal Roy has spent the past four decades playing with some of jazz's greatest giants, including John McLaughlin, Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman. He has been playing with fellow On the Corner alum Michael Henderson, as part of the Miles from India tour. Backstage before a recent concert at the Iridium in New ...

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Article: Profile

Gregg Bendian

by Bill Milkowski
July 13, 2009

Since the early '90s, drummer Gregg Bendian has distinguished himself as an adventurous and accomplished player-composer through his sideman work with the likes of Derek Bailey, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, John Zorn, Peter Brotzmann and Pat Metheny while also leading his own Interzone Quartet and Trio Pianissimo. His most recent recording is the startlingly virtuosic solo ...

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Article: Live Review

Montreal Jazz Festival: Days 4-6, July 4-6, 2009

by John Kelman
July 8, 2009

Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 Joshua Redman By Invitation Day 1 / Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band Joshua Redman By Invitation Day 2 / Kenny Werner QuintetJeff Beck / Anat CohenFestival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 4-6 2009

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Article: Album Review

Sebastiaan Cornelissen: U-Turn

by Ian Patterson
July 7, 2009

It's a minute and forty seconds before Sebastiaan Cornelissen's drums ease into the frame on U-Turn. Although he has a lot to say he's clearly not in a rush; this second solo effort has been seven years coming and has taken four years to put together. The fourteen pieces, which could almost be seen as a ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Bill Connors to Join Corea, Clarke & White for September 2nd Hollywood Bowl Concert

June 26, 2009

It's official: pianist Chick Corea, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White will be joined September 2nd by guest guitarist Bill Connors at the Hollywood Bowl kick-off gig of their fall tour. The band, now billed as Corea, Clarke & White, will also be joined by legendary violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and song stylist Chaka Khan. Inspired ...