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News: Obituary

Charles Fambrough - R.I.P.

January 3, 2011

After a long bout battling liver disease and many years of suffering, the great jazz bassist Charles Fambrough passed away on Saturday, January 1, 2011. Fambrough had apparently been awaiting a transplant match. Several musical tributes were held in Philadelphia over the last several years to help Fambrough and his family pay the bassist's outrageous medical ...

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Article: Live Review

Kenny Garrett, Micah P. Hinson y Gonzalo Rubalcaba en el Festival de Jazz de Barcelona

by Pep Salazar
November 16, 2010

Kenny Garrett Quartet42 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de BarcelonaAuditori11 de noviembre, 2010 Kenny Garrett aterrizó en el festival de jazz de Barcelona acompañado de un demoledor cuarteto para deleitar con su caleidoscópico groove a un público entregado desde los primeros compases. Sketches of MD," su último disco, es ...

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News: Event

A Birthday Celebration Kenny Garrett's 50th Birthday Celebration at The Iridium October 9, 2010

November 1, 2010

At fifty years old, the saxophonist Kenny Garrett has definitively come into his own. Despite forever being associated with Miles Davis, where he spent five years with the iconoclast trumpeter from 1986 through 1991, he is only credited on one Davis album “Amandla" from 1989. It is time to evaluate the fine saxophonist on his own ...

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Article: Live Review

Chick Corea / Christian McBride / Brian Blade: Ottawa, Canada, October 3, 2010

by John Kelman
October 12, 2010

Chick Corea Trio: Chick Corea / Christian McBride / Brian BladeDominion Chalmers ChurchOttawa, CanadaOctober 3, 2010 The last time Chick Corea came to Ottawa with a trio, it was for an informal and relatively unrehearsed show that, featuring old friends Eddie Gomez (bass) and Airto Moreira (drums), relied more on longstanding ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Kenny Garrett

October 9, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Kenny Garrett's birthday today! Kenny GarrettKenny Garrett is a jazz saxophonist. He was born in Detroit, MI in 1960. His father was a tenor saxophonist. Kenny\'s career took off when he joined the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1978, then led by Duke\'s son, Mercer Ellington... more ...

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Article: Interview

Christian Howes: Blues for the Blues Violin

by Ian Patterson
September 27, 2010

It's not difficult to think of great blues artists--there's a roll call of honor as long as that of great jazz artists--and every sizeable town in the world has a blues band or two. So where is the violin? Great blues guitarists and vocalists have never been in short supply, but the great blues violinist, once ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Chris Massey

by AAJ Staff
September 11, 2010

Meet Chris Massey:Chris Massey is fast becoming one of the most talked about young talented players in the world of jazz. Growing up in small town Ohio where he picked up his first pair of drumsticks a the age of nine he took his first steps into his musical career as a Jazz Performance ...

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Article: Live Review

Newport Jazz Festival As Strong As Ever

by R.J. DeLuke
August 13, 2010

CareFusion Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State ParkNewport, RIAugust 6-8, 2010 It may seem like a small thing, but it's nice that the jazz festival in Rhode Island last weekend, August 6-8, was called the CareFusion NewportJazz Festival. No matter how you slice that, it's the Newport Jazz Festival, in the ...

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Article: Live Review

Newport Jazz Festival: Saturday, August 7, 2010

by Timothy J. O'Keefe
August 11, 2010

Part 1 | Part 2 CareFusion Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State ParkNewport, RIAugust 7, 2010 Sun rays streamed through mostly blue skies, pelting Fort Adams State Park with heat, as the annual jazz festival returned to the Rhode Island peninsula in 2010. Few people attending probably even ...

News: Festival

Saxologies, from Newport to Barcelona (Impromptu Portraits)

August 9, 2010

Steve Wilson, Kenny Garrett, Donny McCaslin and JD Allen in Newport 2010.Schedule at the 42nd Barcelona Voll-DammJazz Festival:November 10th, Luz de Gas. Steve Wilson-Bruce Barth Duo (double bill with Lee Konitz-Dan Tepfer).November 11th, Auditori (Sala Oriol Martorell). Kenny Garrett Quartet.November 12th, Luz de Gas. ...