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Allen Toussaint is All Smiles at the Montreal Jazz Festival

July 5, 2010

A standing ovation is a pretty great way to start a concert--and with more than 50 years of songwriting and recording to his credit, Allen Toussaint deserves nothing less. The warm welcome came at 6PM in a church basement just outside of the Montreal Jazz Festival grounds, and from there the evening unfolded like the best-kept ...

News: Recording

50 great moments in jazz: Miles Davis and Kind of Blue

July 5, 2010

This groundbreaking 1959 album is as close to perfection as jazz gets without sacrificing its spontaneity I had hoped that a blog on the popular and funky Hammond organist Jimmy Smith might attract more than the average number of commentators, but I wasn't prepared for the gratifying deluge ...

News: Festival

Lou Reed's Free Jazz Gets Hostile Reception in Montreal

July 5, 2010

There must have been something in the water this past weekend--first LCD Soundsytem were subjected to a spate of bottle throwing in London, and now comes a report that Lou Reed received a less than kind welcome at a show for the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Reed subjected the crowd to some of his free jazz ...

News: Festival

Crowds throng Fillmore Jazz Festival

July 4, 2010

By lunchtime, Stephanie Woodford had drawn an impressive crowd around her waist-high Casio keyboard, which she was playing with a serious, intense frown on her face, her eyes on her hands and her head bowed over the sheet music. She hit the last notes and the crowd whooped--and the frown disappeared. Stephanie grinned and bowed, and ...

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News: Music Industry

Medvedev goes for the record: Jazz and rock music, that is

July 4, 2010

While Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was in Washington with President Obama on official business, his staff went on a more personal quest: music for his vinyl collection. Two Russian women who said they worked for Medvedev walked into Som Records on 14th Street Thursday looking for Duke Ellington, B.B. King and Jimi Hendrix recordings--Medvedev, 44, is ...

News: Festival

Philly jazz festival a state-funded extravagance

July 4, 2010

In successfully seeking $1 million from Pennsylvania's taxpayers, the organizers of last month's West Oak Lane Jazz Festival said they expected a crowd that would rival Woodstock. “We anticipate in excess of 500,000 festival attendees from around the world," reads a portion of the grant application for the June 18-20 event, which was approved with the ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Mike Mainieri

July 4, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Mike Mainieri's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Mike MainieriPrimarily recognized as an award-winning, jazz vibraphonist, Mike Mainieri's equally remarkable talents as producer, arranger, and composer have contributed to shaping the cutting-edge in music... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow Mike Mainieri ...

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News: Video / DVD

Gorillaz Video: "Journey to Plastic Beach"

July 3, 2010

PLASTIC BEACH OUT NOW Fresh off their triumphant headlining slot at Glastonbury, which featured half of The Clash (Mick Jones and Paul Simonon) as part of the backing band and guest appearances by Snoop Dogg (check out the band performing “Clint Eastwood" with Snoop Dogg below), Lou Reed, Shaun Ryder, Mark E. Smith, Kano, De La ...

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News: Event

A 75th Birthday Tribute to Rahsaan Roland Kirk

July 3, 2010

A friend of mine once asked me, “What's so great about Roland Kirk?" I told him, “If a five-thousand pound man was coming to town, would you go see him?" --Joel Dorn, Rahsaan's longtime friend and producer. Rahsaan Roland Kirk (Aug. 7th, 1935-Dec. 5th, 1977) was a jazz multi-instrumentalist best known for his miraculous ability to ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz, in Clubs and Halls, Comes to Amsterdam

July 3, 2010

On a Wednesday night this spring, in a shadowy brick cellar hidden under a bridge in Amsterdam's canal belt, the city's hottest new jazz event was tuning up. The atmosphere at Brug 9 (Singel Tegenover 157 or 161; no phone; brug9.nl) that night was as hip and improvised as the music: behind a cheap table serving ...