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Article: Album Review

Cynthia Felton: Afro Blue: The Music of Oscar Brown, Jr.

Read "Afro Blue: The Music of Oscar Brown, Jr." reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
January 19, 2009

Oscar Brown, Jr. (1926-2005) was a man of many talents and interests. Brown could count himself as a singer, songwriter, arranger, playwright, poet, and civil right activist with political proclivities. In jazz, Brown is best remembered for providing lyrics to many instrumental jazz standards, including Miles Davis' “All Blues" and Bobby Timmons' “Dat Dere." Dr. Cynthia ...

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Article: Music and the Creative Spirit

Bob Weir: The Music Never Stopped

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
January 17, 2009

It has been said before but there really has never been a group of musicians quite like the Grateful Dead. And as the years have passed on, I can no longer, as I did then, take their ability to turn sound into magic for granted. It didn't happen at every performance, but when the heavens opened, ...

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Article: Year in Review

Jeff Dayton-Johnson's Best of 2008

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 11, 2009

When the world economy entered into a tailspin this year, Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner dubbed the event the “Jazz Effect“ given that it emanated from the United States (she was drawing a parallel, for example, to the 1994 “Tequila Effect" that followed a botched currency devaluation in Mexico). I was so happy that a ...

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News: Recording

Miles Davis Live

January 4, 2009

The Miles Davis groups in 1958 and 1959, with John Coltrane on tenor saxophone and Paul Chambers on bass (and varied others, depending on time and occasion) were really, really good, and for bands that became so well known by studio records, they were fabulous live. You can find a fair number of stage bootlegs if ...

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Article: Album Review

Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet: Infinity

Read "Infinity" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 2, 2009

With The Nature of the Beat (Patois, 2008), trombone virtuoso Wayne Wallace established himself as the musician you'd most like to have living in the downstairs apartment. If you had to have musicians downstairs, that is. The reasons Wallace and his extraordinary band mates would be welcome are essentially twofold. First, their repertoire is ...

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