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Article: Album Review

Ray Levier: Ray's Way

Read "Ray's Way" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


New York-based drummer Ray Levier contends for debut CD of the year with Ray's Way. He's assembled an all-star cast, including two of the finest guitarists plying the six string trade: John Abercrombie and Mike Stern, on five and four cuts respectively.Levier's drumming has a “serve the music" approach that can be subtle or ...

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Who Let the Cats Out?

Label: Heads Up International
Released: 2006
Track listing: Tumble Home; KT; Good Question; Language; We

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Jean Pierre

Featuring the music of Mike Stern
Duration: 4:23

Guitarist Mike Stern's group play Jean Pierre
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Mike Stern: Who Let the Cats Out?

Read "Who Let the Cats Out?" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


Mike Stern has outdone himself with Who Let the Cats Out?, the award-winning, three-time Grammy-nominated guitarist's thirteenth release as a leader. This collection of jazz, rock, blues and funk styles is comprised of eleven original songs. The title is both a playful tribute to Stern's wife, who loves cats, and the free expression displayed in the ...

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One Liners

Featuring the music of Mike Stern
Duration: 9:19

Mike Stern performing "One liners" in Hamburg 1996.
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Article: Album Review

Mike Stern: Who Let the Cats Out?

Read "Who Let the Cats Out?" reviewed by John Kelman


Guitarist Mike Stern has to be one of the hardest working musicians in jazz. When he's not out on the road, which is often the case, he's working on new ideas at weekly gigs at the 55 Bar in New York City. And when he's doing neither of those things, the eternal student is transcribing solos ...

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Mike Stern: Who Let the Cats Out?

Read "Who Let the Cats Out?" reviewed by Jim Santella


Contemporary jazz gets hot when Mike Stern enters the room. His sessions are filled with adrenaline and made to last. This program of original compositions features an all-star crew of contemporary artists who provide the guitarist with a colorful palette. Excitement flows from every bar--and indeed every measure--of this exciting music. Tumble Home features ...

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Article: Live Review

Sometimes I Hear You: Mike Stern

Read "Sometimes I Hear You: Mike Stern" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Mike Stern The Jazz Cafe London UK April 3, 2006 Sometimes the muse comes in with the performers, sometimes she doesn't. You can hear her absence instantly in a blindfold test; she steals in like your favorite perfume when she graces you with her presence. So it was with Mike Stern at the Jazz Café in ...

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Article: Interview

Mike Stern: About The Music

Read "Mike Stern: About The Music" reviewed by Jack Gold-Molina


Mike Stern's career in music began in the 1970s with Blood, Sweat, and Tears and took off with Miles Davis in the early eighties -- presently spanning 10 releases as a headliner on Atlantic Records. His latest release, Voices (Atlantic, 2001) features Stern on guitar and wordless vocals in an all-out jazz jam session. Stern came ...

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Mike Stern: Playing by Heart

Read "Mike Stern: Playing by Heart" reviewed by Mike Brannon


A little history: Mike Stern was the controversial guitarist that accompanied Miles Davis on Saturday Night Live in 1981 as he made his historic and unexpected return to the world stage and studio after a seven year hiatus; both taking critial heat for the music's rock edge. Miles' now famous directions to his new guitarist, “Turn ...


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