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Article: Album Review

Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collectors' Edition

Read "Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collectors' Edition" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki

Historic debate over the relevance and merits of trumpeter Miles Davis' seminal jazz-rock fusion masterwork Bitches Brew (Columbia), especially upon this year's 40th anniversary of its original 1970 release, could fill every page of even a paperless internet jazz e-zine (a body of work to which Greg Tate's companion essay adds: “Bitches is a multi-clawed, multi-tentacled, ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Chris Bell

Read "Take Five With Chris Bell" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Chris Bell:Guitarist, performer, educator, based in Austin, Texas.Instrument(s):Guitar.Teachers and/or influences? Richie Hart, Grant Green, Wes Montgomery, B.B. King.Your sound and approach to music: I'm far more interested in playing jazz on the guitar than I am in playing jazz guitar.Your teaching approach: I'm ...

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Article: Album Review

Mark Weinstein: Timbasa

Read "Timbasa" reviewed by Paul J. Youngman

by Paul J. Youngman

What do you want from your Latin jazz album? Great musicianship? Authentic music? Danceable? Must it have great rhythm, catchy tunes and present the best in Latin percussion? Mark Weinstein is a name not immediately associated with the best of Latin jazz, but he has done it again with Timbasa, a fantastic recording and his fifth ...

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Article: Album Review

John McNeil and Bill McHenry: Chill Morn He Climb Jenny

Read "Chill Morn He Climb Jenny" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

Navigating the wide avenue of American Song can be boring, because the same charts appear on album after album; but when musicians either pick little-known charts of the celebrated composers of the American Songbook, or add little-known composers to that musical tome, things get quirky, but utterly refreshing. This is exactly the case in point regarding ...

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Article: Album Review

Gary Husband: Dirty & Beautiful Volume One

Read "Dirty & Beautiful Volume One" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

It's almost a shame that Gary Husband's follow-up to the excellent Hotwired (Abstract Logix, 2009) did not take that exciting young ensemble to the next stage, were it not for the fact that Dirty & Beautiful brings together an exceptional line-up of some of the most innovative and influential musicians of the last forty years. Although ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

John Burnett Swing Orchestra / University of Missouri Concert Big Band / Either-Orchestra

Read "John Burnett Swing Orchestra / University of Missouri Concert Big Band / Either-Orchestra" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

John Burnett Swing OrchestraDown for DoubleDelmark2010 John Burnett, an Englishman who now lives and works (as a morning host at WDCB Radio) in suburban Chicago, is a great admirer of the golden age of big bands in the U.S., which spanned roughly three decades, from the 1930s through ...

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Article: Album Review

The Dave Liebman Group: Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman

Read "Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

2010 has been a busy year for Dave Liebman, though not always one in which the saxophonist sits in the featured chair: he is the horn man on Contact's highly collaborative Five in One (Pirouet Records, 2010), a superb all-star outing; sits in on half of rising star Bobby Avey's A New Face (Jay Dell Records, ...

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News: TV / Film

The Miles Davis Documentary Will Be Here - Soon

The Miles Davis Documentary Will Be Here - Soon

For a time Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen J. Rivele were the screenwriters on the Untitled Miles Davis Biopic. Now it's Steve Baigelman given the tall order of writing the script about the jazz legend. I know nothing, but obviously the project has a new writer because the previous writing duo ("Ali," “Nixon") weren't on the same ...

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Article: Album Review

Mac Gollehon: Mac Straight Ahead

Read "Mac Straight Ahead" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Brass man Mac Gollehon means business on Mac Straight Ahead. The ten tracks on this album present Gollehon in a variety of settings and on a variety of instruments...at the same time. While the idea of overdubbing oneself on record is fraught with peril, Gollehon beats the odds. Sometimes he conjures sounds of a full, brassy ...

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Article: Old, New, Borrowed and Blue

Soul And The Abstract Proof: Searching For Soul And Its Meaning In Jazz

Read "Soul And The Abstract Proof: Searching For Soul And Its Meaning In Jazz" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

What, exactly, is “soul?" This word is used so often in discussions and writings about music, but I wonder if anybody can actually define its very essence and place in the musical universe? The Merriam-Webster Dictionary lists no less than eight different definitions for soul and, while some of them have a decent grasp on what ...


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