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Cape May Jazz Fest: November 2004
by Sandy Ingham
Count Basie's Centennial celebration is 2004 is slipping into history, but not before the Cape May Jazz Festival got to blow out the candles. The semiannual bash November 12-14 was nominally in honor of The Kid from Red Bank, although only the opening act of the 20-event weekend gave the great bandleader and pianist his ...
ISO e.s.t
by AAJ Staff
Wanted: Jazz trio with the nuance of a dancer, the subtlety and chops of a diamond cutter and the expertise to teach it in Braille. Must be willing to consistently show both love and logic in the face of little recognition of their idiom and a smothering cacophony that believes only in bloodletting, cookie-cutter music. ...
XL's Final Performance from Helsinki
by Anthony Shaw
Tavastia Club Helsinki, Finland November 2004 The lights are cold, the gear transported, the stage swept, but still those themes swirl in and out of conscious awareness. The morning after the night before feeling, accentuated by the drabness of a November morning beyond my window, but vivid because of the quality (and ...
Mahavishnu Project: Live at The Point, Cardiff UK
by Marco Anderson
When Jimi Hendrix burst on the music scene in the late '60s, the then “gods of the guitar," idolised by thousands, knew that they had been found out; jaws dropping, they rushed to worship at the new shrine and to usurp as much as they could for their own future betterment. In 1972, the ...
An Evening with Jack Sheldon
by Jim Santella
Jack Sheldon and Friends Founders Hall Orange County Performing Arts Center Costa Mesa, California November 13, 2004 Punctual, in his usual good spirits, and sounding better than ever, Jack Sheldon gave his Southern California audience a night to remember. Based in Bebop, coated with California Cool, and ...
Ken Vandermark's FME at the BL
by Eyal Hareuveni
Oslo is a second home base for the Chicagoan relentless reed player Ken Vandermark, and the BLÅ club is where you usually can find Vandermark performs in this chilly and most beautiful city. On the end of October Vandermark chose to close a five dates Scandinavian tour at this club with his trio FME (Free Music ...
Brad Mehldau's Artful Trio, Live
by R.J. DeLuke
Brad Mehldau continues to refine the art of the jazz trio and in doing so is establishing a cohesiveness and a personal language and sound with his working group that has become as identifiable as other great trios like Keith Jarrett's, or like the late, great Bill Evans sustained during his career.Whether one believes his ...
Sonship Theus Benefit in Los Angeles
by Rex Butters
The Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra and several LA jazz luminaries channeled love through music as a healing balm for ailing legendary influential drummer Sonship Theus. Organized by friend and band mate Nate Morgan, the benefit also served as a reunion for a royal family of musicians whose intertwined histories create the fabric of Angel City jazz. ...
Grand Union Orchestra at LSO St Luke's, London
by Chris May
Billed, irresistibly, as 'World Musicians United In A Journey Through Bhangra, Babylon & The Blues,' these two performances (on 23 & 24 October) by the 19-piece world-jazz Grand Union Orchestra promised much, and delivered it all - including the London premiere of the band's most recent major work, the impassioned raga-based suite If Paradise... , inspired ...
Lalo Schifrin's "Gillespiana" Thrills Yet Again
by J. Robert Bragonier
Wednesday evening, October 27th, a moderately filled Catalina Bar and Grill in Hollywood (and about eight members of Alfredo Cruz's UCLA Extension Latin Jazz class, including yours truly) attended the opening first show of Lalo Schifrin's dramatic “Gillespiana," featuring the colorful, stratospheric Gillespie disciple John Faddis on trumpet and the impeccable Tom Scott on alto sax ...
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