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News: Recording

Julian Priester and Aaron Alexander Put It Together on Duo Disk "Conversational Music"

September 13, 2011

First things first. If you do not know who Julian Priester is (and I of course assume that most readers are very familiar with him) you have missed a very important part of what makes the trombone a central instrument in jazz today. From Max Roach's and Sun Ra's bands in the fifties, Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Julian Priester

June 29, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Julian Priester's birthday today! Julian Priester is an American jazz trombonist and composer. He has played with many artists including Sun Ra, Max Roach, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock. Priester attended Chicago\'s DuSable High School, where he studied under Walter Dyett. In his teens he played with blues and ...

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News: Recording

Honey Ear Trio - Steampunk Serenade (2011)

June 4, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron Listening to Allison Miller's superb CD from last year Boom Tic Boom, I appreciated how it covered a lot of ground within advanced modern jazz, helped along by such sympathetic supporting players in this piano jazz trio. But that album still left me wondering where this ace drummer, composer and bandleader was ...

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News: Event

Matthew Shipp Trio Perfoming at Chapel of Our Lady in Cold Spring, NY - April 30th @ 7:30 PM

March 19, 2011

World Renowned pianist Matthew Shipp brings his trio to the Chapel of Our Lady Restoration in Cold Spring NY in support of his new double cd “The Art of the Improviser" on Thirsty Ear Records. “Watching Matthew Shipp play the piano is a bit like sitting ringside. Lefts and rights hit the keyboard's midsection in steady ...

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Article: Old, New, Borrowed and Blue

Jazz Takes To The High Seas

by Dan Bilawsky
March 7, 2011

Explorers, of the musical and non-musical variety, always seem to be fascinated by the bountiful bodies of water that cover the earth. Long before jazz ever existed, treasure hunters, adventurers, and those in search of the unknown would risk their lives and spend incredible amounts of time and energy traversing the globe, on a quest to ...

Album

Stories and Negotiations

By Julian Priester

Label: 482 Music
Released: 2010
Track listing: 01. Song of a Star (Jenkins); 02. Third Option(for Art Hoyle); 03. El Is a Sound of Joy (Sun Ra); 04. Wilbur's Tune (Campbell); 05. The And of 2 (for Ira Sullivan); 06. Door #1 (for Julian Priester); 07. Urnack (Priester); 08. Lost and Found (Jordan).

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Article: Album Review

Mike Reed's Loose Assembly Featuring Roscoe Mitchell: Empathetic Parts

Read "Empathetic Parts" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
November 30, 2010

The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) has nurtured the talents of Chicago's most inventive artists since 1965. Drummer Mike Reed, the venerable organization's recently appointed Vice Chairman, repays the favor on Empathetic Parts, with his longstanding quintet, Loose Assembly, by welcoming one of the Association's original founders, multi-instrumentalist Roscoe Mitchell, as featured guest ...

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Article: Interview

Josh Roseman: Reimagining the Constellations

by R.J. DeLuke
November 15, 2010

Josh Roseman is a busy man. Extremely busy. He's also an extremely bright one, which is good because otherwise one might pause to consider whether, with all those activities, he is wearing himself too thin. Turns out he is spreading wide, but nothing about him or his many pursuits is thin. Especially not his creativity.

News: Radio

Jazz Now! Seattle Podcast Previews Week 1 of Earshot Jazz Festival

October 18, 2010

Episode 3 of Jazz Now! Seattle is the first installment of our four-week preview of the Earshot Jazz Festival. Now in its 22nd year, the Earshot Fest is one of the most diverse and well respected jazz festivals in the nation. There are over 50 concerts and events during its three-week run that touch on just ...

News: Radio

Jazz Now! Seattle Podcast Previews 2010 Earshot Jazz Fest

October 12, 2010

Jazz Now! Seattle, a new podcast dedicated to spotlighting the amazing jazz music and musicians in Seattle, WA., will be airing special previews of the 2010 Earshot Jazz Festival. Over the next four weeks the podcast will play music from all of the Seattle artists featured in this year's festival. The preview begins this Friday, October ...