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Elisabeth Sheperd: The Signal

Read "The Signal" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Vi ricordate i Matt Bianco? Erano un gruppo britannico degli anni ottanta, esponenti di punta del cosiddetto “New Cool" assieme a Style Council e Working Week. Per il loro piacevole pop-jazz e le affinità con la cantante Basia Trzetrzelewska, mi sono tornati in mente ascoltando questo disco di Elisabeth Shepherd. Il confronto può ...

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Article: Live Review

Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters at the Fillmore Auditorium, Denver

Read "Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters at the Fillmore Auditorium, Denver" reviewed by Geoff Anderson


Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters Fillmore Auditorium Denver October 4, 2014 Robert Plant's new album, Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar (Nonesuch, 2014), is an atmospheric affair; music suitable for horseback riding at twilight in misty woods while on the lookout for the Headless Horseman. Perhaps the Led Zeppelin tune ...

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Article: Album Review

Back Door: BBC In Concert

Read "BBC In Concert" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


The Back Door story belongs to a brief but rather glorious time in British popular music. A time when a free-blowing jazz trio could emerge from the resident band of a northern cabaret club, a summer season in seaside variety theatre, afternoon jam sessions and the band of an iconic figure from the British blues boom. ...

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Article: Hardly Strictly Jazz

Beyond The Blues

Read "Beyond The Blues" reviewed by Skip Heller


Back when I was a kid—I was born in 1965—the first comprehensive push for children's education about American Black History was on. Elementary school libraries suddenly included books about Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and George Washington Carver, and there were even a few books about jazz and blues for young readers.I wish I could ...

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Article: Album Review

Heritage Blues Orchestra: And Still I Rise

Read "And Still I Rise" reviewed by James Nadal


If ever there was a perfect title for a blues record, it has to be And Still I Rise , serving notice that the Heritage Blues Orchestra is a revival force with which to be reckoned. The group dishes out pure blues, blending greasy gut-bucket, hallelujah gospel, down home country, Chicago's South Side and everything in ...

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Article: Book Review

Bob Riesman: I Feel So Good - The Life And Times Of Big Bill Broonzy

Read "Bob Riesman: I Feel So Good - The Life And Times Of Big Bill Broonzy" reviewed by Jack Huntley


I Feel So Good: The Life And Times Of Big Bill BroonzyBob RiesmanCloth; 336 pagesISBN 97800226717456University of Chicago Press2011 Guitarist and singer Big Bill Broonzy is one of those musicians whose reach cannot be limited to his immediate musical era or genre. Like his ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Stve Slagle "Scenes, Songs & Solos"

Scenes, Songs & Solos: A Composition and Improvisation Workbook for the Creative Musician by Steve Slagle “Steve Slagle speaks of things that need to be heard."—Joe Lovano “Full of fresh, original, and inspirational ideas about music and life."— Randy Brecker “I loved this book! And I'm not even a professional musician."—Sue Mingus Master jazz saxophonist, educator ...

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Article: New York Beat

Art Tatum Goes To College

Read "Art Tatum Goes To College" reviewed by Nick Catalano


After teaching jazz studies at my university for over 30 years, I have amended many original pedagogical goals and done a great deal of revisionist thinking. Although some of my students are part-time musicians, mostly with perfunctory training, most of them like the pop music of the day and take my course because they have heard ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Trinelise Vaering and Fredrik Lundin aka Offpiste Gurus

Read "Take Five with Trinelise Vaering and Fredrik Lundin aka Offpiste Gurus" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Trinelise Vaering and Fredrik Lundin aka Offpiste Gurus:Offpiste Gurus was formed as collaboration between Trinelise and Fredrik in 2008. The band's first album will be released on Stunt Records in 2010. Instrument(s):Vocal, saxophones, guitar, bass and drums.Teachers and/or influences?Our music sounds somehow like ...

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Article: Book Review

In Search of the Blues

Read "In Search of the Blues" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


In Search of the Blues Marybeth Hamilton Hardcover; 320 pages ISBN: 0465028586 Basic Books 2010 Blues scholarship and archive documentation has undergone an important and much needed evolution since the 1990s. Hints of this renewed but different emphasis appeared in Stephen Calt's I'd ...


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