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Article: Album Review

Steve Heckman: Legacy: A Coltrane Tribute

Read "Legacy: A Coltrane Tribute" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Saxophonist Steve Heckman has spent a good deal of his career walking in the footsteps of saxophone giant John Coltrane, on CD offerings such as Search For Peace (Jazzed Media, 2014) and With John In Mind (World City Music, 2003). With that in mind, nobody has ever--and almost certainly never will--match 'Trane in his ability to ...

Article: Live Review

Il SF Jazz Collective al Teatro Manzoni di Milano

Read "Il SF Jazz Collective al Teatro Manzoni di Milano" reviewed by Rosarita Crisafi

by Rosarita Crisafi

SF Jazz Collective Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni Milano 30.10.2016 Una strepitosa apertura di stagione per Aperitivo In Converto, la rassegna milanese che propone dei matinée domenicali con i maggiori protagonisti della scena jazz contemporanea internazionale. La 32^ edizione è partita il 30 ottobre con l'ennesimo tutto esaurito. Sul ...

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News: Advocacy

Alphonse Mouzon Needs Your Help

Alphonse Mouzon Needs Your Help

By Chuck Koton These are not words I ever thought I would have to write. Legendary drummer Alphonse Mouzon was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in September. He had to immediately undergo surgery which has bought him some time. But his kidneys are too weak for radiation therapy and he is planning to go ...

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News: Recording

For Your Grammy Consideration - Dean Brown's "ROLAJAFUFU"

For Your Grammy Consideration - Dean Brown's "ROLAJAFUFU"

Contemporary Instrumental Album: ROLAJAFUFU Best Improvised Jazz Solo: “PHILLY MAN" Best Instrumental Arrangement: “AND SO IT GOES" Best Instrumental Composition: “OLD SOLDIERS" Guitarist and composer Dean Brown has always done things his way. Nowhere is that in greater evidence than on ROLAJAFUFU, his fifth album as a leader. The title ...

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News: Website

Jazz Near You Collaborates with Blue Note Jazz Club (NYC)

Jazz Near You Collaborates with Blue Note Jazz Club (NYC)

Jazz Near You, the world's leading jazz event aggregator, has collaborated with Blue Note New York to collect and distribute all jazz events presented at New York's premier jazz club and one of the most recognized jazz venues in the world. Jazz Near You continues to build on what is already the most comprehensive New York ...

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Article: Album Review

Clay Giberson: Pastures

Read "Pastures" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Pianist Clay Giberson has a fifteen year resume of fine recordings on Seattle's Origin Records label. The discs are, for the most part, solo and trio outings, with the trio sets appearing under his own name or that of his long-standing Upper Left Trio. Some examples: Spaceton's Approach, (2008), and Minga Minga (2015) as Clay Giberson; ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Dean Brown Band To Tour Europe Fall 2016

Dean Brown Band To Tour Europe Fall 2016

Guitarist and composer Dean Brown has always done things his way. Nowhere is that in greater evidence than on ROLAJAFUFU, his fifth album as a leader. The title is a playful acronym that encompasses rock-Latin-jazz-funk- fusion, the universes Brown explores on this diverse, kinetic recording. Brown’s fiercely independent streak is also exemplified by the fact that ...

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Article: Hi-Res Jazz

John Coltrane: Coltrane And Crescent—Shadows And Light

Read "John Coltrane: Coltrane And Crescent—Shadows And Light" reviewed by Mark Werlin

by Mark Werlin

Visual art is a play of shadow and light, and contrast makes the forms visible. In the best jazz music, there is a kind of inner light that emanates from the musicians, the light of creative impulse, the light of spontaneous artistic expression. Some jazz musicians--too many--cast their own shadows of addiction and self-destructiveness. But often--too ...

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Article: Interview

Meet Kenny Garrett

Read "Meet Kenny Garrett" reviewed by Craig Jolley

by Craig Jolley

This interview was first published at All About Jazz in April 2002 and is part of our ongoing effort to archive pre-database material. First tier alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett is notorious for his energy and for his ability to spontaneously compose (improvise). He announced himself twenty years ago in the bands of Freddie Hubbard ...

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Article: Live Review

John Coltrane Birthday Celebration: Harnessing The Coltrane Effect

Read "John Coltrane Birthday Celebration: Harnessing The Coltrane Effect" reviewed by Paul Rauch

by Paul Rauch

Richard Cole Group Tula's Jazz Club Seattle WA September 23, 2016 The calendar read September 23, 2016, the 90th anniversary of the birth of John Coltrane, and as in many cities in America, and around the world, the music of this master innovator is being celebrated in performance, ...


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