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Article: My Blue Note Obsession

The Jazz Messengers at the Café Bohemia, Volumes 1 and 2 – Blue Note 1507 and 1508

Read "The Jazz Messengers at the Café Bohemia, Volumes 1 and 2 – Blue Note 1507 and 1508" reviewed by Marc Davis

by Marc Davis

Is it possible for a band to be both legendary and underrated? The Jazz Messengers at the Café Bohemia makes that case. Jazz fans know the Jazz Messengers is the definitive, go-to band for straight-ahead hard bop. Art Blakey was both master drummer and master talent scout--the man who co-founded and sustained the celebrated ...

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Article: Live Review

Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival 2014

Read "Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival 2014" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke

by R.J. DeLuke

Saratoga Performing Arts Center Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival Saratoga Springs, NY June 28-29, 2014 Perfect weather accented this years Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival, an event that had an eclectic mix of young musicians with interesting ideas and approaches, and veterans who deliver consistently. The weather is always a factor ...

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News: TV / Film

First Look: Don Cheadle as Miles Davis in biopic 'Miles Ahead'

First Look: Don Cheadle as Miles Davis in biopic 'Miles Ahead'

Actor Don Cheadle’s obsession with Miles Davis began as a child with the jazz trumpeter’s album Porgy and Bess, a beloved staple of his family’s music collection. Now, Cheadle will make his feature film directorial debut with a crowdfunded biopic on Davis that will focus on the musician’s transition into music after a five-year hiatus—otherwise known ...

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Article: Live Review

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2014

Read "Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2014" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Ambrose Akinmusire By Invitation Tigran By Invitation Tord Gustavsen Quartet / Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana, Mehliana June 26-July 6, 2014 There simply isn't a festival in the world like the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal. Where else in the world can you ...

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Article: Album Review

Andrew Rathbun: Numbers & Letters

Read "Numbers & Letters" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Toronto-born saxophonist/composer Andrew Rathbun is no stranger to pushing the boundaries. He has released a dozen superb modernistic CDs under his own name, perhaps most notable of these his nod to his fellow Canadian, writer Margaret Atwood, Sculptures (Blue Moon, 2002), and 2009's and Where We Are Now (Steeplechase Records). Rathbun, on all of his previous ...

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Article: Interview

Yaron Stavi: Profoundly Bassist

Read "Yaron Stavi: Profoundly Bassist" reviewed by Sammy Stein

by Sammy Stein

Yaron Stavi is a bassist who has performed all over the world with many musicians, playing double and electric bass and crossing genres into rock, classical, jazz and World Music. He studied in Berlin and played with orchestras around Europe, North America and Asia, and was principal bassist with the Mahler Youth Orchestra under, among others, ...

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Article: Live Review

TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2014, Days 7-9

Read "TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2014, Days 7-9" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Days 1-2 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 Anat Fort / Susanna Torben Waldorff Wah Wah / Norma WInstone Partisans TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 20-July 1, 2014 For the last three days in Ottawa before heading to Montréal for five days of the Festival ...

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News: Award / Grant

NEA Jazz Masters 2015 Class

Initiated in 1982, the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship is the nation’s highest honor given to those who have devoted their lives and careers to jazz, an art form uniquely rooted in American history and culture. Described by The New York Times as a “rare public accolade for jazz”, the recipients represent a wide variety of musical ...

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Article: Album Review

Anne Vanschothorst: EK IS EIK

Read "EK IS EIK" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Dutch harpist Anne Vanschothorst is pretty clear about her omnivorous attitude toward composition. Her interest is using the harp to provide texture as well and harmony and melody to her compositions. She excels as a solo performer and one in concert with other instruments, for example, her opening composition “Where's Mo?" is a tacit duet with ...

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Article: Live Review

Jazz Liège Festival 2014

Read "Jazz Liège Festival 2014" reviewed by Jean-Pierre Goffin

by Jean-Pierre Goffin

Jazz Liège Festival Brussels, Belgium May 8-10, 2014 The International Jazz Festival in Liège was created twenty-four years ago. The city was known for decades as the Belgian capital of jazz, with musicians such as Bobby Jaspar ( who played with Miles Davis,J.J. Johnson, Donald Byrd and many others), René ...


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