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The 2005 Vancouver International Jazz Festival

by AAJ Staff
October 16, 2005

By Kevin O'Connor Vancouver, Canada has just completed the Northwest's premier jazz festival, and jazz in all its forms never sounded better. The ten-day festival celebrated its twentieth year, included over 400 shows around the city, and was once again made possible by over 1000 incredible volunteers and staff from the Coastal Jazz and Blues ...

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Suspicious Activity Indeed: The Bad Plus Live

by Doug Collette
October 15, 2005

Irreverent and eccentric, The Bad Plus are a bundle of nervous energy when they play. Yet as this ever-so-intimate venue in the Green Mountains of Vermont, the trio entranced rather than repel by dint of their humor and imagination, not to mention just enough conventionalism to make their quirks that much more effective. The early ...

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Jazz Port Townsend: Reborn

by Joseph Blake
October 15, 2005

The Port Townsend Jazz Festival had a tumultuous year in 2004 with the messy departure of longtime artistic director Bud Shank. By hiring band-leading bassist John Clayton to replace Shank, organizers selected the perfect person to lead the festival out of the doldrums. This summer's event held in late July was truly spectacular.Most of the ...

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Hardly Just Another Band: Los Lobos Live

by Doug Collette
October 15, 2005

Los Lobos are a joy to behold, especially when you see them live. There is absolutely no artifice with this great band from east LA, which is why a performance such as the acoustic set in New Hampshire, might well rank among the happiest concert experiences you are likely to have. The abbreviated first set ...

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Bill Stewart Trio Live at the Copenhagen Jazzhouse

by Annika Westman
October 14, 2005

Bill Stewart Trio Copenhagen Jazzhouse September 22, 2005 At his trio's first gig on their second European tour, Bill Stewart opened the show by telling us how happy he was to be back at the Copenhagen Jazzhouse, “one of the best jazz clubs in the world." Not a bad compliment! Organist ...

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Pat Metheny Trio+1: First Stop Seattle

by Ryan Burns
October 13, 2005

Pat Metheny Trio+1 September 7, 2005 Jazz Alley Seattle, WASeptember 7-9, Jazz Alley hosted the first stop of Pat Metheny's current Trio+1 tour. Playing for the first time at Seattle's longest running jazz club (3rd internationally), Metheny performed six sold-out shows along with band members Christian McBride, Antonio Sanchez, ...

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Dave Douglas at Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago

by Paul Olson
October 12, 2005

Dave Douglas and Keystone Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago October 8, 2005This has been a great period for trumpeter Dave Douglas. The Infinite, Freak In, Strange Liberation, Mountain Passages--no bandleader this decade has surpassed Douglas in terms of remarkable recorded output.The excellence of the above CDs makes the ...

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The Art of Miles Davis

by AAJ Staff
October 11, 2005

By Jonathan Poole Miles Davis was born in Alton, Illinios and grew up in East St. Louis. He was inspired to become a musician in the 1940's and received first hand education from Charlie “Bird" Parker. The pioneer of the cool jazz era, Miles became a world famous innovator and his work in albums such as ...

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Catherine Bernard's "Jazz And Visual Improvisations"

by AAJ Staff
October 11, 2005

By Sandy Langer “Jazz And Visual Improvisations" guest curated by Catherine Bernard and with a contributing essay by Stanley Crouch (Katonah Museum of Art January 21, 2001- April 15, 2001), reminds me of a line from one of my favorite film noirs, Clash By Night. Barbara Stanwyck says it and It goes like this “What do ...

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A Miles Davis Retrospective

by AAJ Staff
October 11, 2005

The best things in life truly are the ones you least expect. An excellent case in point: while on a recent trip out to Missouri to visit relatives, I had the most serendipitous good fortune of encountering a sophisticated, insightful, and moving museum exhibition devoted to the life and career of one famous area native--Miles ...