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Article: Live Review

Live!Singapore: June 8-11, 2010

by Ian Patterson
July 1, 2010

Rarely do the worlds of jazz, classical music, world music and musical theatre come together in one place to hobnob and strut their stuff, but that was exactly what happened at Live!Singapore, an ambitious event organized by Koelnmesse and IMG Artists. Festival directors, producers, agents, managers, executives and artists of these four disciplines came from more ...

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Article: Live Review

Ottawa Jazz Festival 2010: Days 4-6, June 27-29, 2010

by John Kelman
July 1, 2010

Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 | Days 10-11Kenny Garrett Presents / John Scofield and the Piety Street Band Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu / Medeski, Martin and Wood John Geggie and Friends / Youn Sun Nah / Manu Katché TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 27-29, 2010 ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

David Berger Jazz Orchestra / Sheryl Bailey / UNC–Greensboro

by Jack Bowers
May 7, 2010

David Berger Jazz Orchestra Sing Me a Love Song: Harry Warren's Undiscovered Standards Such Sweet Thunder 2010 If composer Harry Warren is remembered at all, it is for such blockbuster hits from the 1940s as “Chattanooga Choo-Choo" (the country's first million-selling record), “I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Nguyen Le: Signature Edition 1

by Chris May
April 15, 2010

Nguyên Lê Signature Edition 1 ACT Music 2010 It might seem perverse to begin a review of a Nguyên Lê release with the observation that there is “too much fusion" on it, as, increasingly since the late 1990s, it is to the fusion mast that the ...

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Article: Album Review

Lars Danielsson: Signature Edition 3

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by John Kelman
April 7, 2010

That Swedish bassist Lars Danielsson is a pliant, flexible player who's worked with American artists including John Abercrombie, Pat Metheny, and David Liebman, and notable European names such as Eivind Aarset, Ulf Wakenius, and Nils Petter Molvær isn't much of a secret--at least, not to audiences on the east side of the Atlantic. In North America ...

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Article: Album Review

Ulf Wakenius: Signature Edition 2

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by John Kelman
April 6, 2010

For the second in its Signature Edition compilations, dedicated to--and selected by--its vanguard artists, ACT profiles a guitarist who only became an exclusive artist in 2005, with the release of his homage to pianist Keith Jarrett--Notes From the Heart--but whose career truly demands retrospection and reevaluation. Unlike Signature Edition 1's fusion guitarist Nguyên Lê, who has ...

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Article: Album Review

Nguyen Le: Signature Edition 1

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by John Kelman
April 5, 2010

Few musicians embody the word “fusion" more than Parisian-born guitarist Nguyên Lê. The son of Vietnamese immigrants, for the past 25 years he's been mining a combination of fusion by the more conventional definition--the infusion of rock energy into the jazz sphere--with fusion in a broader sense, the seamless integration of music from cultures around the ...

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Article: Interview

Siegfried Loch: 50 Years on the Music-Making Scene

by R.J. DeLuke
March 31, 2010

With a half-century in the music recording business, Siegfried Loch, known to friends and associates as Siggi, has had a huge impact on the jazz music scene in Europe. Jazz isn't the only thing he's been involved in as a producer over all those years, but having his own jazz label--ACT Music, based in Munich, Germany--was ...

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News: Interview

Korean Jazz Singer Youn Sun Nah Interviewed at AAJ

March 2, 2010

Since she moved to Paris in 1995, Korean jazz singer Youn Sun Nah has won over French and Korean audiences alike with her rather special voice; dramatic, sensuous and bluesy, it is a tantalizing cross between Bjork and Melody Gardot. Hers is a jazz soul. For years, she led the Youn Sun Nah 5Tet and has ...