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Article: Album Review

Chick Corea / John McLaughlin: Five Peace Band Live

Read "Five Peace Band Live" reviewed by Chris Kompanek

by Chris Kompanek
January 13, 2010

From the psychedelic cover art to the expansive and innovative playing, Five Peace Band Live is a throwback to the great live albums Miles Davis made in the late-1960s-1970s, with some of the same musicians. Chick Corea and John McLaughlin actually met in 1969 during the recording sessions that would become the classic fusion albums In ...

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Article: Interview

Eric Harland: Searching the Patterns in Life

by John Patten
January 5, 2010

Drummer Eric Harland is between gigs, just back from a dates and clinics in Japan and getting ready to head to Europe. He's got new recordings out with several bands-- including the Charles Lloyd Quartet, The Monterey Quartet with Dave Holland and Jason Moran--and a handful of compositions to get recorded with his own group.

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Sketches of MD - Live at The Iridium

By Kenny Garrett

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. The Ring; 02. Intro to Africa; 03. Sketches of MD; 04. Wayne's Thang; 05. Happy People.

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Sketches of MD

By Kenny Garrett

Label: Mack Avenue
Released: 2009

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News: Interview

Guitarist Pete McCann Interviewed at AAJ

December 22, 2009

Jazz guitarist and educator Pete McCann has been a first-call sideman and bandleader on the New York scene for almost twenty years. Possessing a musical style that draws from the blues, jazz and rock genres, McCann's playing and writing styles are as diverse as his influences. Having worked with such world-class performers as Lee Konitz, Chris ...

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Article: Interview

Pete McCann: Looking Forward

by Matthew Warnock
December 22, 2009

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Article: Interview

Gregory Thomas: Ain't But a Few of Us

by Willard Jenkins
December 3, 2009

Like most of the participants in our ongoing dialogue with African American music writers, Gregory Thomas has both feet and hands in several camps. Thomas' byline has been featured in numerous publications, including Salon.com, Guardian Observer (London), American Legacy, Africana.com, BlackAmericaWeb.com, Daily News (New York, NY), TBWT.com, Callaloo, The Village Voice, and others. He was the ...

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Article: Live From New York

Ravi & Anoushka Shankar, Terry & Gyan Riley, Kenny Garrett and Larry Ochs

by Martin Longley
October 22, 2009

Ravi & Anoushka ShankarCarnegie HallOctober 10, 2009 Ravi Shankar's 90th birthday is arriving this year, and still the master plays on, even if he no longer sits cross-legged, instead perching delicately on the edge of his performing platform. As well, Shankar now hoists a lighter sitar variant, shorn of ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Kenny Garrett

October 9, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Kenny Garrett's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY 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 ...

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Article: What is Jazz?

The Story Of Jazz Saxophone

by AAJ Staff
October 9, 2009

For some, the saxophone is the sound of jazz. The unique fusion of brass and woodwind that is the sax found an electrifying vibrato in the hands of jazzmen that truly changed the world. The pale “pure" tone of the instrument, as first used in classical compositions, vanished in a musical blast of slurs ( Coleman ...