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News: Recording

Ari Roland - New Music (Smalls)

March 2, 2010

Bassist Ari Roland doesn't mince words with the title of his latest disc. The summarizing phrase is succinct just like his preferred style of soloing on his instrument. While the seven compositions are indeed fresh creations, they still align quite closely with the extant occupants in his songbook. That familiarity extends to his sidemen as well, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Vic Juris @ Trumpets Jazz Club

March 2, 2010

I finally had the opportunity to get out and hear some live music this weekend, last night at Trumpets Jazz Club. Even though the club is only a few blocks from my apartment, it took the encouragement of my friend Sean to finally make it out there to see a show. It was also the first ...

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News: Festival

The Portland Jazz Festival

March 2, 2010

I was unable to cover the Portland Jazz Festival this year, to my regret. For reasons of economy, the festival came in compact form; one week instead of two. Jack Berry of Oregon Music News tells me he thinks that smaller was better. Berry wrote about two of the festival artists. This is some of what ...

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News: Festival

Hot Club of Detroit Presents Seventh Annual Detroit Django Reinhardt Festival

March 2, 2010

Hot Club Of Detroit Presents Seventh Annual Detroit Django Reinhardt Festival Features Special Guests Howard Alden and Anat Cohen Mack Avenue recording artist Hot Club of Detroit presents their seventh annual Detroit Django Reinhardt Festival, Friday, March 19th through Sunday March 21st. Featuring special guests, guitarist Howard Alden and clarinetist/saxophonist Anat Cohen, Hot Club of ...

News: Festival

Jazz 88 Ocean Beach Jazz Festival Set for September 11, 2010

March 2, 2010

The Jazz 88 Ocean Beach Jazz Festival Saturday, September 11, 2010. Gates open 11am, Music from Noon - 7pm Location: Ocean Beach, California; on Newport Avenue by the Ocean Beach Pier Featured Artists TBA This popular annual outdoor jazz festival in San Diego's beach community of Ocean Beach features traditional and straight ...

News: Education

Music is Good for You at Any Age

March 2, 2010

It may be easier to learn young, but it may be more fun to learn later. “Music is sort of the perfect activity that people can engage in from young to older years," neurologist Gottfried Schlaug says. Let's face it: Many of us looking to sharpen our intellectual edges have already passed the age when becoming ...

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News: Obituary

Hall & Oates Bassist Tom Wolk Dies

March 2, 2010

Tom “T-Bone" Wolk, who performed with scores of musicians but was best known as the longtime bass player for the band led by pop-rock stars Daryl Hall and John Oates, has died. He was 58. Wolk died Sunday in New York, hours after completing a recording session with Hall, who was working on a solo ...

News: Technology

Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet

March 2, 2010

The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it's Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence. McConnell's not dangerous because he knows anything about SQL injection hacks, but because he knows about social engineering. He's the nice-seeming guy who's willing and able to use fear-mongering to manipulate ...

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News: Recording

Lee Konitz and Martial Solal - Star Eyes 1983 (Hatology)

March 2, 2010

Outside of a solo performance context, memorable jazz improvisation hinges heavily on interpersonal chemistry. Lee Konitz knows this recipe better than most. He's been a professional improviser for 60+ years and participated in recording sessions numbering well into the triple digits. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you don't. Who have with you plays a large part in ...

News: Recording

Ernie Krivda - November Man (Cimp)

March 2, 2010

Saxophonist Ernie Krivda remains something of a lonely outlier in the CIMP catalog. Where the majority of the label's nearly three hundred releases to date favor freer leanings, Krivda hews closer to older conventions in his improvisational style. Postbop-derived melody and rhythm are regular components of his extemporaneous language and his working quintet wouldn't be out ...