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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Majid Khaliq

by AAJ Staff
February 18, 2011

Meet Majid Khaliq:Majid Khaliq is a violinist and composer cut from a different cloth. He has been described by legendary musician Wynton Marsalis as having “a unique blend of improvisation, groove and technical sophistication." Although classically trained, Khaliq's passion and musical palette ranges from the roots of American jazz music to the greats of ...

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Kenny Dorham - The Flamboyan, Queens, NY, 1963 - featuring Joe Henderson

By Kenny Dorham

Label: Uptown Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Dorian; Alan Grant Speaks with the band; I Can't Get Started; Summertime; Alan Grant Speaks; My Injun From Brazil (Una Mas); Autumn Leaves; Alan Grant Speaks; Dynamo (Straight Ahead).

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Article: Album Review

Carol Morgan Trio: Opening

Read "Opening" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
September 19, 2010

Trumpeter Carol Morgan has a smile as big as her Texas home, and chops expertly informed by Ingrid Jensen, among others, at Juilliard. She has been a fixture in the DIVA Jazz Orchestra (with Sharel Cassity). Additionally, Morgan heads the quintet, Carol Morgan's Case Study, featuring pianist Helen Sung and Guitarist Mike Moreno, and Morgana' Organic ...

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Article: Opinion

Miles: The Autobiography... Two Decades Later

by Victor L. Schermer
September 19, 2010

Miles: The AutobiographyBy Miles Davis with Quincy TroupeNew York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2005(Originally published in 1989)Miles Davis knew how to keep himself on the radar screen. He did it musically throughout his life, except for a five year period of “silence" when he isolated himself in his ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Kenny Dorham

August 30, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Kenny Dorham's birthday today! Kenny DorhamOvershadowed for most of his career by the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, and Lee Morgan... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow Kenny Dorham Put AAJ's Musician of the Day box ...

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Article: Interview

Abbey Lincoln: African Queen in a Top Hat

by Joan Gannij
August 29, 2010

(This interview was conducted in 2002) Abbey Lincoln made a stop in Amsterdam in 1998 for a rare appearance at the 110-year old Concertgebouw, where Sonny Rollins likes to play when he comes to town. The sellout crowd was composed mainly of seemingly staid yet perennially hip “pensionados" (as the Dutch like to ...

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Article: Album Review

Joe Chambers: Horace to Max

Read "Horace to Max" reviewed by Larry Reni Thomas

by Larry Reni Thomas
August 16, 2010

Drummer/vibraphonist/composer/educator Joe Chambers' Horace to Max is an awesome display of versatility and master musicianship; that's impossible to put away, it gets better with each listen. The distinctive blue-and-black colored cover design is similar to those fine Blue Note records of the 1960s and 1970s. The disc possesses a subtle suggestive theme that can only be ...

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Article: Book Excerpts

Cecil Taylor at the Take 3, 1962-'63

by Robert Levin
July 24, 2010

The following is a chapter from “Going Outside: Fiction * Commentary * Jazz." robert-levin.com. In the summer of 1962, Cecil lands a three-month, four-night-a-week gig at The Take 3, a coffee house on Bleecker Street. It's right next door to The Bitter End where Woody Allen had performed just weeks ...

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Article: Live Review

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal: July 2-5, 2010

by Peter Walton
July 15, 2010

Festival International de Jazz de MontréalMontréal, Quebec, CanadaJuly 2-5, 2010I arrived in Montréal mid-week, the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal already in high gear. Closing off six square blocks of downtown Montréal, an area commanding six major outdoor stages and several indoor theaters and concert halls, the Festival International de ...

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Article: Album Review

Curtis Fuller: I Will Tell Her

Read "I Will Tell Her" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
July 9, 2010

Legendary trombonist Curtis Fuller and saxophonist Keith Oxman have performed a regular gig at the Dazzle nightclub in Denver leading to this first recording for Fuller on the Capri label. I Will Tell Her is a special album in several ways, dedicated to Fuller's late wife Cathy, the album is also the 100th of the Capri ...