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Article: Live Review

Todd Barkan: Continuation and Augmentation

Read "Todd Barkan: Continuation and Augmentation" reviewed by Wayne Zade

by Wayne Zade

Todd Barkan has been one of the most important and versatile producers of jazz concerts and records around the globe for almost 30 years. The list of artists whose projects he has produced reads like a veritable Who's Who of jazz. Barkan has managed many artists, including the Boys Choir of Harlem, Chico O'Farrill and Freddy ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Stunt Records: Re/Defining Mainstream

Read "Stunt Records: Re/Defining Mainstream" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard

In Denmark, Stunt Records is the jazz label which appeals to the widest audience. The music it releases could be characterised as mainstream jazz, but it doesn't have the negative connotations that sometimes go with the term. It simply means that the label knows how to combine adventurousness and accessibility. When it comes to genre, the ...

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Article: Book Review

Jazz

Read "Jazz" reviewed by Eugene Holley, Jr.

by Eugene Holley, Jr.

Jazz Gary Giddins, Scott DeVeaux Hardcover; 704 pages ISBN: 978-0-393-06861-0 W.W.Norton 2009 The only thing harder than playing jazz is writing about it. It is a music that is specific, yet hard to define. It is easy to understand, yet at times hard to comprehend, sometimes ...

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Article: Album Review

(Another) Nuttree Quartet (Abercrombie / Anderson / Liebman / Nussbaum): Something Sentimental

Read "Something Sentimental" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

It's always a pleasure to hear a group of musicians who, over the years, have developed not just a strong musical bond, but a personal one as well. If it's a truth that most musicians' style is a direct extension of their personality--of who they are--then it's equally logical to extrapolate that the musical interaction between ...

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Article: Album Review

Marc Copland: Alone

Read "Alone" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

With solo piano, the pure essence of the musician's artistry is revealed. In the case of Marc Copland's Alone, that revelation is enthralling.Copland has risen to the lightly populated top tier of jazz pianists on the strength of his three profile-boosting New York Trio albums, with shifting line-ups including bassists Gary Peacock and Drew ...

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Article: Bailey's Bundles

A Cool World Christmas: Carla Bley, Trio West and Wynton Marsalis

Read "A Cool World Christmas: Carla Bley, Trio West and Wynton Marsalis" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

It is easy to be cynical about holiday music. On the mainstream popular music front, these releases are often nakedly commercial, marketed with a fixed (and very large) target population in mind. And a good many of such recordings are truly bad. In the run up to Christmas 2009, the marketplace is clotted with a legion ...

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News: Education

First Miles Davis Multimedia Museum Exhibition in Canada

First Miles Davis Multimedia Museum Exhibition in Canada

From April 30 to August 29, 2010, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will pay tribute to Miles Davis (1926-1991) in We Want Miles: Miles Davis, Jazz Legend, the first multimedia retrospective museum exhibition in Canada of one of the twentieth centurys greatest musicians. Featuring recordings of the jazz artist's most iconic pieces; film and documentary ...

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News: Technology

Monster's Miles Davis Tribute Headphones Honor the Definition of Cool

Monster's Miles Davis Tribute Headphones Honor the Definition of Cool

Monster, renowned for its many advanced consumer electronics accessories and fast becoming one of the world's leading manufacturers of high-performance headphones, is proud to announce the upcoming introduction of the world's first audio hardware product to bear the official name and signature of legendary trumpeter Miles Davis - the new “Miles Davis Tribute" high-performance in-ear headphones. ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Jaco Pastorius: Portrait of Jaco - The Early Years 1968-1978

Read "Jaco Pastorius: Portrait of Jaco - The Early Years 1968-1978" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Jaco Pastorius Portrait of Jaco: The Early Years 1968-1978 Holiday Park Records 2009 If only every jazz artist had an advocate like label owner/project producer Bob Bobbing. Bass wunderkind Jaco Pastorius seemingly leapt into the jazz scene in 1976 with the quadruple punch of his remarkably mature debut, ...

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News: Award / Grant

House Honors Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue"

House Honors Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue"

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fifty years after jazz legend Miles Davis recorded Kind of Blue, the House voted Tuesday to honor the landmark album's contribution to the genre. Davis collaborated on the record with saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian “Cannonball" Adderley, pianists Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Jimmy Cobb. Rep. John Conyers, ...


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