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Article: Book Review

The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets

Read "The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets Alyn Shipton240 Pages ISBN: 978-0197579763 Oxford University Press 2023 Several are the biographies of Gerry Mulligan, arguably jazz's most celebrated baritone saxophonist. None, however, have focused as specifically and as closely as this tome does on the quartets with which Mulligan made his name ...

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Article: Liner Notes

Jonathan Kreisberg: Night Songs

Read "Jonathan Kreisberg: Night Songs" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan

Although technical proficiency and filigreed improvisations often catch the attention of the average jazz fan, those in the know will insist that you can't really evaluate the mettle of a jazz musician until you hear how he interprets a ballad. Memorable efforts from the jazz cannon that fruitfully establish a reflective mood over the length of ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

An American in France: A Travelogue, Part II

Read "An American in France: A Travelogue, Part II" reviewed by David Brown

by David Brown

For this week's show, we again visit Europe with a variety of American artists performing and recording in France, living in France and collaborating with French artists. We'll also check out a few recent French Jazz releases all along the way. Etes-vous prêt?PlaylistThelonious Monk “Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 01:50 ...

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Article: Album Review

Tim Ray Trio: Fire & Rain

Read "Fire & Rain" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Boston-based pianist Tim Ray and his rhythm mates, bassist John Lockwood and drummer Mark Walker, have been performing together since 2013, and Fire & Rain is their second recording as a trio. Their years working arm-in-arm and side-by-side have spawned a symbiotic relationship, and it shows. Even when the trio tests the free-jazz ...

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Article: Album Review

Jack DeJohnette: Sorcery

Read "Sorcery" reviewed by Scott Gudell

by Scott Gudell

Jack DeJohnette gets around. The Chicago born drummer was drawn to R&B and bebop in the late 1950s and eventually toyed with a more avant-garde jazz sound when he spent some time with the esoteric Sun Ra. It seems like DeJohnette played in the big leagues almost from the beginning since, by the time he moved ...

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Article: Book Review

Desperado: An Autobiography

Read "Desperado: An Autobiography" reviewed by Andrew Hunter

by Andrew Hunter

Desperado: an Autobiography Tomasz Stanko 345 Pages ISBN: # 978 1 80050 222 2 Equinox Publishing Ltd2010 Tomasz Stanko; let us begin at the end. When Stanko died of lung cancer in 2018 aged 76, he left behind him a discography of forty records as a leader as well ...

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Article: Album Review

Noah Haidu: Standards

Read "Standards" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Forty years after the renowned Standards Trio comprised of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette released its debut album, Standards, Vol. 1, New York-based pianist Noah Haidu pays his respects with a similarly named enterprise (sans volume number) featuring bassists Buster Williams or Peter Washington and drummer Lewis Nash, with saxophonist Steve Wilson making it ...

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Article: Album Review

Greg Satterthwaite: Savannah Blue

Read "Savannah Blue" reviewed by Dave Linn

by Dave Linn

Greg Satterthwaite was born in Jamaica and moved with his family to the US when he was five. After earning a Bachelor of Music from the University of Miami, followed by a Master of Arts in Commercial Music from Florida Atlantic University and finally his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of North Texas ...

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Article: Album Review

Dahveed Behroozi: Standard Fare

Read "Standard Fare" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

What would be a recipe for presenting a standards project? Pianist Keith Jarrett could surely tell us. He breathed new life into the form that seemed to be fading out of fashion with his Standards, Vol. 1 (ECM Records, 1983). Then he went on to make a good chunk of his career with those familiar tunes, ...

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Article: Album Review

Yosi Levy: Acoustic Project II: The Duo

Read "Acoustic Project II: The Duo" reviewed by Dave Linn

by Dave Linn

Yosi Levy was born in Israel and began playing guitar at the age of 12. After a mandatory stint in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), he began working professionally in clubs around Israel. In the early 1980s, he decided to move to New York City and study classical guitar at the prestigious Mannes College of Music ...


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