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Modern Jazz Quartet: 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival

Read "1963 Monterey Jazz Festival" reviewed by Graham L. Flanagan

by Graham L. Flanagan
March 4, 2010

For nearly half a century, the Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) endured as one of the most well-renowned ensembles in jazz. The original MJQ came together in 1946 as the rhythm section in Dizzy Gillespie's orchestra: Milt Jackson on vibes and John Lewis on piano, as well as bassist Ray Brown and drummer Kenny Clarke. Brown and ...

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Alonzo Holliday: The Archaeology of Out-Bop

by Gordon Marshall
February 17, 2010

Frank Turek's dream: he is in a smoky bar where jazz floats in the background. Coming up to sit down next to him is a hip, old cat who begins to tell him stories of playing sax in bands in the early '40s. He introduces himself as Alonzo Holliday. Back to waking life, in the '90s: ...

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Drummer Mickey Roker Interviewed at AAJ

January 18, 2010

Drummer Mickey Roker is a mainstay and icon of the jazz world, having a played with Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Lee Morgan, and many of the other signature groups of modern jazz. Yet he has always maintained his Philadelphia roots, and is and has been a regular at Ortlieb's Jazzhaus in that city for ...

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Mickey Roker: You Never Lose the Blues

by Victor L. Schermer
January 18, 2010

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Monkadelphia at Chris' Jazz Cafe

by Victor L. Schermer
January 8, 2010

MonkadelphiaChris' Jazz CaféPhiladelphiaJanuary 2, 2010 This reviewer decided to kick off the New Year jazz season by going to hear Monkadelphia at Chris' Jazz Café. Recently, he has been immersed in Robin D.G. Kelley's excellent new biography, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Free Press, 2009); he ...

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Bluesology: The Atlantic Years 1956-1988

By Modern Jazz Quartet

Label: Warner Music Group
Released: 2009
Track listing: Tracks: CD1: Bluesology; The Golden Striker; Bags' Groove; Da Capo; Vendome; Django; England's Carol; Lonely Woman; Animal Dance; The Sheriff; Bachianas Brasileiras; Walkin' Stomp; Precious Joy; For Ellington. CD2: A Fugue For Music Inn; Fun; Night In Tunisia; I Remember Clifford; Midsommer; Winter

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Flat Earth Society: Cheer Me, Perverts!

Read "Cheer Me, Perverts!" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
December 6, 2009

Fifteen-piece Belgian big band Flat Earth Society is the sonic equivalent of a freak show--weird, wonderful and like nothing you've come across before. Cheer Me, Perverts! is bursting with the energy of punk--sharing some of the anarchy, too--yet the CD exhibits intricate section harmonies and wonderful contrapuntal melodies. The soloists revel in their freedom, and the ...

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Donal Fox: The Scarlatti Jazz Suite Project

Read "The Scarlatti Jazz Suite Project" reviewed by Greg Thomas

by Greg Thomas
November 14, 2009

The Scarlatti Jazz Suite Project commences with a short aria in G minor by Domenico Scarlatti, the famed baroque composer of over 550 sonatas for harpsichord. Pianist Donal Fox evinces an elegant pianissimo touch, setting the stage for the title composition, which refracts another Scarlatti theme into a 3/4 romp, with repeating motifs that build tension. ...

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Heath Brothers: Endurance

Read "Endurance" reviewed by Larry Taylor

by Larry Taylor
October 15, 2009

The Heath family is illustrious in jazz. Percy and Jimmy got their starts in the late forties, a part of the emerging jazz scene in New York. The oldest, Percy on bass, became part of the Modern Jazz Quartet in 1952 and stayed with the legendary group for over forty years. Jimmy on reeds, meanwhile, has ...

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Jason Marsalis: Music Update

Read "Music Update" reviewed by J Hunter

by J Hunter
October 8, 2009

It's not like Jason Marsalis has been invisible since he released Music in Motion (Basin Street, 2002); his name's just been on the back of CD booklets instead of the front. With Music Update, Marsalis is back at the top of the bill, except he's brought a different set of sticks with him, or more specifically, ...