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To My Surprise

By Mike Longo

Label: Consolidated Artists Productions
Released: 2011
Track listing: A Picture of Dorian Mode; Still Water; New Muse Blues; Limbo; Alone Again; I Hadn't Anyone Til' You; Old Devil Moon; Magic Bluze; To My Surprise; You've Changed; Eye of the Hurricane; In The Wee Small Hours.

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Article: Big Band Report

BuJazzO: That's German for Swinging Big Band Jazz

Read "BuJazzO: That's German for Swinging Big Band Jazz" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

On August 8, my friend Wes Pfarner and I drove to Santa Fe for a once-in-a lifetime event: a performance by the German Federal Youth Jazz Orchestra, better known to big band enthusiasts by its more condensed and colorful name, BuJazzO. The twenty-piece ensemble, directed by Jiggs Whigham, an American trombonist and educator from Cleveland, Ohio, ...

Album

Sting Like a Bee

By Mike Longo

Label: Consolidated Artists Productions
Released: 2010
Track listing: Speak No Evil; Love for Sale; Daahoud; Tell Me a Bedtime Story; Someone to Love; West Side Story medley; Dance Cadaverous; Morning; Speak Low; Bird Seed; Checked Bags; Kush.

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News: Recording

Rare Dizzy Gillespie Live Recording Discovered

Rare Dizzy Gillespie Live Recording Discovered

You Won't Believe It! A Fantastic Never Before Released Dizzy Gillespie Recording Has Been Discovered That Will Leave You Breathless As It Captures Dizzy At His Best In Front Of A Live Audience! New York, NY—Jazz fans will be delighted when they hear these fabulous recordings of the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet, recorded live at Ronnie Scott's ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Musical Talent Is (Now and Then) All in the Family

Read "Musical Talent Is (Now and Then) All in the Family" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

The induction of almost the entire Marsalis family (father Ellis, piano, and sons Wynton, trumpet; Branford, saxophones; Delfeayo, trombone; and Jason, drums) set me to thinking about how musical talent sometimes runs in families. In the pop world, almost everyone knows about the Jacksons, the Kings, the Osmonds and others. The same is true in jazz, ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Antoinette Montague

Read "Take Five With Antoinette Montague" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Antoinette Montague:Antoinette Montague likes to say she simply sings “people music." Make no mistake about it, she is a jazz singer through and through, but one who pushes the genre's boundaries. On her new recording, Behind the Smile, Montague sings classic jazz standards (new and old), resurrects lovely-but-obscure melodies, blends in blues and ...

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Article: Album Review

Mike Longo Trio: Sting Like A Bee

Read "Sting Like A Bee" reviewed by Marcia Hillman

by Marcia Hillman

Sting Like A Bee is pianist Mike Longo's follow-up to his well-received Float Like A Butterfly (Consolidated Artists Productions, 2008). Bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Lewis Nash join him, and this CD is so laidback and relaxed that it comes as no surprise to read in the liner notes that there was no need to listen ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Sopla, Andrea Brachfeld! Blow!

Read "Sopla, Andrea Brachfeld! Blow!" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz

by Javier AQ Ortiz

A visit to a New York afterhours dive during the heyday of salsa in the mid 1970s would most likely afford the chance to see charanga groups such as Típica Novel, Orquesta Broadway or Charanga 76, furiously competing against each other-- with flutist Andrea Brachfeld holding her own among a bunch of hardcore characters, musical and ...

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Article: Album Review

Mike Longo Trio: Sting Like a Bee

Read "Sting Like a Bee" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Mike Longo, who studied piano with Oscar Peterson and served for a number of years as Dizzy Gillespie's pianist and music director, brings that experience and more to Sting Like a Bee, the follow-up to his well-received trio session from 2007, Float Like a Butterfly (Consolidated Artists Productions). While there's a different backup crew this time, ...

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Article: Interview

Mickey Roker: You Never Lose the Blues

Read "Mickey Roker: You Never Lose the Blues" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer

by Victor L. Schermer

Drummer Mickey Roker is a mainstay and icon of the jazz world, having a played with Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Lee Morgan, and many of the other signature groups of modern jazz. Yet he has always maintained his Philadelphia roots, and is and has been a regular at Ortlieb's Jazzhaus in that ...


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