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News: Interview

Jazz Bassist Dave Holland Continues to Find New "Pathways"

March 12, 2010

By Tad Hendrickson If you look around the scene, you'll find that Dave Holland has few peers. He came into the jazz public's consciousness as a bassist for Miles Davis from the late '60s to the early '70s, making his debut as a leader in 1972. He's currently at the very top of the game, leading ...

News: Performance / Tour

March: In Like a Jazz Lion

March 12, 2010

Thursday, March 11Join the fun at the Hopewell Inn with the jazz jam lead by Jim Popik, of Black Diamond Jazz. Bring your horn, ax or sticks anytime after 8 p.m. Friday, March 12The John Bianculli Trio, with vocalist Jackie Jones will be at Christopher's at the Heldrich Hotel, 10 Livingston ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Toots Thielmans Playing at Sculler's Jazz Club in Boston, March 12-13, 2010

March 12, 2010

Toots Thielmans - regarded as the world's greatest jazz harmonica player - plays at Sculler's Jazz Club in Boston on Friday and Saturday, March 12-13, 2010. He is performing with Kenny Werner and Oscar Castro-Neves. In 2009, Mr. Thielmans was named an American Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts. For more details, visit ...

News: Obituary

Johnny Alf, a 'Father of Bossa Nova,' Dies at 80

March 12, 2010

Johnny Alf, an influential Brazilian songwriter, pianist and singer whose delicately swinging music was a precursor to the bossa nova, died on March 4 in Santo Andre, Brazil, just outside Sao Paulo. He was 80 and lived in Sao Paulo. The cause was prostate cancer, said his manager, Nelson Valencia. Though he was not widely known ...

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News: Music Industry

Club Blujazz-a New Jazz Club for Chicago Opens Friday March 12, 2010

March 12, 2010

In the following article from Metromix music & movies producer/writer Matt Pais of Tribune.com comes the review/overview of Chicago's newest jazz club, entitled, “What is Club Blujazz? 10 things to know about Bucktown's new music spot" (as published by Matt Pais Metromix March 5, 2010) This club hopes to turn a younger crowd on to jazz ...

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News: Recording

Marcus Printup - Ballads All Night (Steeplechase)

March 12, 2010

What's a Young Lion to do when he starts to grow long in the tooth? Only a few years past forty, Marcus Printup still has quite a ways to go until he reaches retirement age though he's been in the game for several decades and paid a number of dues. One in particular ended up a ...

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News: Recording

Grover Washington: Inner City Blues

March 12, 2010

I consider Marvin Gaye's What's Going On to be one of the last great jazz albums. Though technically a soul recording, much of its heart remains deeply rooted in jazz's orchestral tradition and progressive consciousness. The party chatter that opens Gaye's album is akin to the banter near the start of James Moody's Disappointed. Flyin' High ...

News: Music Industry

Correspondence: Broadbent and Monk

March 12, 2010

Following the Ornette Coleman birthday posting three items down, Alan Broadbent sent the following: Now, this one's absolutely true, I was there and it's never made the books. Monk's quartet came to NZ on his “64 world tour and I and my friend Frank Gibson had good seats at Auckland's beloved Town Hall to see him. ...

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News: Radio

James Zollar Debuts at #17 on the CMJ National Jazz Radio Chart

March 12, 2010

After a twelve year recording hiatus as a leader, Zollar re-emerges with Zollar Systems, a refreshingly sharp hard bop recital, bristling with energy and sonic acuteness. Tired of that old Blue Note '50s-'60s blowing session model? Think again. Zollar breathes new life into the old form, tightening it up and repackaging it for the 21st Century. ...

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News: Radio

Christopher Lehman Maintains His Hold On CMJ Jazz Chart

March 12, 2010

With so much experience on the bandstand and commitment to musical education timelines, it was easy to get lost in the sideman role. Playing the part in someone else's ensemble or putting together ensembles for the gig of the moment made him hungry to breakout on his own. At a private function in 2006, Lehman (who ...