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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Joey DeFrancesco

April 10, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Joey DeFrancesco's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Joey DeFrancescoJoey DeFrancesco has come a long way from All of Me, his recording debut as a leader made in 1989 as a fresh-faced 17-year-old. From the get-go... more Website | Photos | ...

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News: Recording

Mick Goodrick/Wolfgang Muthspiel Duo Release "Live at the Jazz Standard"

April 9, 2010

"Mick Goodrick and Wolfgang Muthspiel have given us a map of the world on the guitar. The guitar fretboard is vexing terrain. Unlike the piano fingerboard, which proceeds with relentless logic from the lowest note on the left to the highest on the right, the fretboard has a geometry all its own. Exploring the possibilities of ...

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News: Interview

Q&A with Cuong Vu of Speak

April 9, 2010

Forward-thinking trumpeter Cuong Vu has performed with the likes of Pat Metheny, Laurie Anderson and David Bowie. He's toured the world and released four albums under his own name. After a stint in New York, Vu moved back to the Northwest, where he is now assistant professor of jazz studies at the University of Washington.

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News: Interview

Pat Metheny Talks "Orchestrion": Extended Q&A

April 9, 2010

I recently connected with guitarist Pat Metheny about his new Orchestrion album and tour. My story, as published in the St. Petersburg Times, is available here. The lengthy extended version is below: Pat Metheny is nothing if not an inveterate musical explorer. The accomplished guitarist and composer, ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Dave Allen

April 9, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Dave Allen's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Dave AllenThe Dave Allen Quartet brings together some of the best young talent that New York City has to offer. Their debut recording, Untold Stories, documents a well-crafted group sound rarely found in music today... ...

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News: Technology

iPad Etiquette: The 'Official' FAQ

April 9, 2010

Etiquette on the iPad is white space on the map. It's not a smartphone. It's not a laptop. It's something new. As early adopters, the opportunity to define proper etiquette is ours. If we let them, the old guard will try to take the reins on when and how we should use this goddamned thing. Yet ...

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News: For Sale

HDtracks is Proud to Present the Concord Music Group

April 8, 2010

For the first time ever the Stax, Prestige, Fantasy, Heads Up, & Hear Music catalogs in HDtracks' amazing 96/24 sound. Here at HDtracks, it just keeps getting better and better. Now we have some of the greatest classic jazz, soul, blues, rock, and world music recordings ever done, sounding better than you could have ever imagined ...

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News: Obituary

Graciela, the First Lady of Afro-Cuban Jazz, Passes at 94

April 8, 2010

Graciela, the legendary First Lady of Afro-Cuban Jazz, has passed at the age of 94 at New York Cornell-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City at 7:58 am, Wednesday, April 07, 2010. A pioneer in music, as a black Cuban woman, in a so-called mans world she opened doors for all those who followed her. She performed ...

News: Radio

The Jazz Session #158: Erik Telford

April 8, 2010

Trumpeter Erik Telford finds a balance between the electric and the acoustic on his new CD, Kinetic (EJT Music, 2009) and on his 2-CD/DVD set Live At The Hideout Theatre. In this interview, Telford talks about making music in Austin, TX; the evolution of his musical concept over time; and his bands success in appealing to ...

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News: Recording

Gerry Gibbs and the Electric Thrasher Orchestra - Play the Music of Miles Davis 1967-1975 (2010)

April 8, 2010

By PicoI freakin' love the music of Miles Davis. I once named a dog “Miles Davis." I've written tons about Miles Davis. Even compare most every artist who's doing something cool and expansive to Miles Davis. And when a musician takes on a project projecting the music of Miles Davis, I'm gonna listen to ...