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Article: Album Review

Ralph Bowen: Power Play

Read "Power Play" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 16, 2011

The inscription on saxophonist Ralph Bowen's business card probably should read “solid citizen," because his post-bop jazz conception has always been steadfast and dependable. With Power Play, he only adds to his stalwart reputation. Together with bassist Kenny Davis, Bowen was picked, in the mid-1980s, to spearhead the return of Blue Note Records in ...

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Article: Album Review

Charlier / Sourisse: Imaginarium

Read "Imaginarium" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
January 19, 2011

To affirm that jazz is, indeed, a global concern one only need look at transatlantic collaborations taking placed on a regular basis. One look at the list of albums reviewed at All About Jazz and it's patently clear that, while cultural cross-pollination has been going on for decades, it's now a norm rather than a phenomenon. ...

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Article: Live Review

Winter Jazzfest, New York City, Day 2: January 8, 2011

by Daniel Lehner
January 11, 2011

Day 1 | Day 2 Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 7-8, 2011 Kirk Knuffke Quartet Trumpeter Kirk Knuffke certainly has an enthusiasm for the “hot" jazz of the 1920's, even if it isn't straight from the source. Knuffke's quartet--co-fronted by trombonist Brian Drye, and backed by ...

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Article: Album Review

Muirhead Quartet: All or Nothing

Read "All or Nothing" reviewed by Seton Hawkins

by Seton Hawkins
January 6, 2011

The sprawling double-CD release, All or Nothing, by the Cape Town-based Muirhead Quartet proves to be one of 2010's most forcefully unique, probing, and genre-defying albums. Featuring four stellar artists, the album packs a tremendous aural wallop by offering a veritable master class on just about every major style of jazz that has emerged in the ...

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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 ...