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Chicago Blues Festival 2002

by Sandy Ingham
March 8, 2004

The future of the blues is in good hands, aficionados say, pointing to some of the young performers who won featured spots at the world's biggest free blues festival in Chicago May 30-June 2.Granted, Shemekia Copeland, the Saturday night headliner, is an enormous talent, with a booming yet sweet-toned voice, a winning onstage manner, and ...

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Going the Distance: March-April 2004

by Gregory J. Robb
March 8, 2004

We have instruments and we have the imaginations to use them. Miles Davis was a boxing fan because he could relate to it in two ways: boxing (like jazz) is a remarkably honest sport, and boxing (like jazz) is a remarkably rough business. The work of great boxers, like the work of great jazz musicians, ...

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Jazz Fest 2004: Insider Information

by Tod Smith
March 7, 2004

While many people look to a small rodent with a phobia about his shadow to determine the start of spring, the music world looks to the annual unveiling of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival line-up as a sure sign that spring is indeed just around the corner. A look at this year’s line-up shows ...

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Mo'Fone Delivers

by Jim Nelson
March 2, 2004

The first Friday night of every month, The San Jose Museum of Modern Art hosts live music. The audience is a strange brew: young hipsters, brie-and-Chard museumgoers, dating retirees, and everyone in between. Even a few jazz fans show up. If they came at the beginning of May for Mo'Fone, they left more than impressed. Mo'Fone ...

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Living Colour Rips Up Toad's

by AAJ Staff
March 2, 2004

Living Colour Toad's Place New Haven, CT February 26, 2004Oh sh-t! Forgot all about it! Rockers Living Colour are at Toad's Place in New Haven tonight. Can't find anyone home for a last minute late night. Oh well, their loss. A quick zip up the road and I'm there.

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The Vorcza Trio In Burlington Vermont

by Doug Collette
March 1, 2004

The Vorcza Trio’s appearance at City Hall Park during the 2003 Discover Jazz Festival found them extremely promising as they searched for a singular, collective voice. In contrast, this mid-winter show at the FlynnSpace displayed a young group evolving at very high speed. The second set actually had much in common with their summer presentation. With ...

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Bill Cunliffe Latin Jazz Nonet

by Craig Jolley
February 29, 2004

Bill Cunliffe Latin Jazz Nonet Spazio Sherman Oaks, CA February 16, 2004 As with his other projects Bill Cunliffe's new band runs in an intelligent, fresh direction. An outgrowth of his straight-ahead sextet, the key to this band (besides the extra percussion) is the double trombones with the ...

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Tim Armacost: Rhythm and Transformation

by Matt Merewitz
February 26, 2004

Tim Armacost talks about 'choices [he] made' that determined the path he has taken as a musician. His direction was not always self-evident and its constant evolution has taken him from the US to Japan, to the Netherlands, to India, and back to the US, where has been for the past decade. In his ...

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Newport Jazz Festival All Stars in Michigan

by AAJ Staff
February 19, 2004

History Lesson at the Frauenthal: Newport Jazz Festival All Stars salute first 50 years of America’s first jazz festival. Monday night at Muskegon’s historic Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts, the Newport Jazz Festival All Stars completed a swing through Michigan with a two and half hour concert that brought to life the repertoire of jazz ...

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February-March 2004

by Miriam Zolin
February 19, 2004

In this edition: Lloyd Swanton , bass Nina Ferro , singer CD Review by Mick Paddon CD Reviews by Adrian Jackson Australian Jazz Korner Check out this fantastic AAJ discussion thread, started by Kenny Weir and constantly being updated with information about what's happening with Australian jazz. And I agree totally with Kenny's enthusiasm ...