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Stanford Lively Arts Tribute to Miles Davis Culminates with “50 Years of Kind of Blue: A Live Jazz Laboratory,” April 18
To commemorate the half-century anniversary of Miles Davis’ legendary 1959 album Kind of Blue, Stanford Lively Arts—in a collaboration with Stanford Jazz Workshop and the National Jazz Museum in Harlem (NJMH)—will present “50 Years of Kind of Blue: A Live Jazz Laboratory” on Saturday, April 18 at 8:00 p.m. at Kresge Auditorium. This unique concert will ...
Rich Johnson: Up the Turret Mil
by Nic Jones
Trumpeter Rich Johnson might be said to be engaging with the present; in a way, that's true of so few of his contemporaries. He produces music that's steeped in the culture of sampling, and similar examples of magpie-like curiosity. At the same time, he fashions music that is as striking as anything out there. This is ...
Three of a Perfect Pair
by Chris M. Slawecki
For the past decade or thereabouts, I've tried to organize From the Inside Out" around one theme, to address in one column the different ways that different musicians perform on the same instrument, or in the same style or genre. But if there's one lesson that life seems intent on teaching, it's that music (like life) ...
Trumpeter Vinnie Cutro & New York City Soundscape Release "Sakura"
On Sakura, his 4th album as a leader, trumpeter Vinnie Cutro presents a set of straight ahead mainstream jazz that extends the legacy of such hard-driving bands as Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers and the 1950s quintets led by Horace Silver and Miles Davis. Cutro contributes 6 originals and a haunting arrangement of the familiar ...
50 Ways to Improve Your Life: Listen to Kind of Blue
Listen to Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Jim Hall: The Elegant Guitarist
by R.J. DeLuke
There's good news and better news for the many fans of guitar great Jim Hall--counted among them a number of established guitarists who are, themselves, eminent. It would be hard to find a guitarist who doesn't look up to Hall and whose playing has not been influenced by him in some way. Players relish Hall's rich ...
Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75
by John Kelman
Some artists play until they drop--not always a good thing--but for Weather Report co-founder/Zawinul Syndicate leader Joe Zawinul, his life was defined by a tough stoicism. Unlike drummer Elvin Jones, whose final days were tragic in the loss of his signature strength, the groundbreaking keyboardist gigged--despite the Merkel cell carcinoma that would result in his passing ...
Peter Scharli Trio featuring Ithamara Koorax: Obrigado Dom Um Romao
by Chris M. Slawecki
Peter Scharli Trio featuring Ithamara Koorax Obrigado Dom Um Romao TCB Music 2009 Obrigado Dom Um Romao is both a happy and sad accident. Percussion master Dom Um Romao was friends and played extensively with both Peter Scharli, one of Europe's most inventive composers and trumpeters, and Brazilian ...
Odean Pope: A Singular Voice in the Choir
by Elliott Simon
Grounded in the Baptist spirituals of his youth followed by a musical upbringing in Philadelphia with the likes of John Coltrane and organist Jimmy Smith as mentors, tenor saxophonist Odean Pope is the bridge between hard bop and free. His contributions to jazz are of major historical significance and through his over ...
Return to Forever: Returns
by John Kelman
Seventies fusion supergroup Return to Forever's reunion and 2008 world tour was one of the year's biggest jazz events. At performances including its Ottawa International Jazz Festival show, the group did more than give a bunch of grays and no-hairs a chance to relive their youth. With a combination of prerequisite testosterone ("This is a man's ...

