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Article: Live Review

Gent Jazz 2021

by Martin Longley
August 9, 2021

Gent Jazz Bijloke, Gent Belgium July 12-18 2021 Last year, the Gent Jazz festival operated with a 400-person audience capacity, and presented a very successful 10-day season, albeit highlighting Belgian acts, and with no lumbering large-fee, big-ticket-sales American bands allowed. The 2021 edition still wasn't able ...

News: Music Industry

The MPS Records legacy resumes with vinyl releases of Ella Fitzgerald’s 'Sunshine Of Your Love' and Freddie Hubbard’s'The Hub of Hubbard'

June 16, 2021

Jazz history was forged in the rustic Black Forest of Germany in 1968 when Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer launched MPS Records and recorded some of the genre’s seminal artists. Legends like Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, The Count Basie Orchestra and George Duke released albums on the prestigious label known for its ...

Article: Album Review

Monty Alexander: Love You Madly: Live at Bubba's

Read "Love You Madly: Live at Bubba's" reviewed by Jim Worsley

by Jim Worsley
February 3, 2021

Risk and reward is honored in the selection of this premium sound night club gig from nearly forty years ago. Just how such a recording is going to play in a current climate is tricky business. Is it vintage or is it outdated? Is it a fond remembrance or better left forgotten? The answers are of ...

Song of the Day

Been Down This Road Before

January 22, 2021

Album: Been Down This Road Before
By Clifton Anderson
Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2020
Duration: 5:24

Article: Interview

Clifton Anderson: Knowing the Road

by Barbara Ina Frenz
January 5, 2021

New York trombonist Clifton Anderson has mastered his instrument from the 1970s on in jazz programs of his home town outside the conservatory (which he also attended), that were initiated by leading spirits of the music such as Barry Harris, Sam Rivers, and Reggie Workman; these informal, professional jazz circles gave him information, insights and inspiration ...

Album

Been Down This Road Before

By Clifton Anderson

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2020
Track listing: Mission Statement; Nana - D; A House Is Not A Home; Mysticancients; In It But Not Of It; Sonny Says; Sista Gemini; T.U.B.C.; Been Down This Road Before; Until We Meet Again.

Album

Love You Madly: Live at Bubba's

By Monty Alexander

Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: CD1: Arthur’s Theme; Love You Madly; Samba De Orfeu; Sweet Lady; Eleuthra; Reggae Later. CD2: Blues For Edith; Fungii Mama; Consider; Montevideo; Body And Soul; Swamp Fire; SKJ.

Article: Chats with Cats

The Archival Producer: Zev Feldman

by B.D. Lenz
October 30, 2020

I have to be honest. When I approached Zev Feldman about doing this interview I really had no idea what an “archival producer" was. I had the impression that it was a very solitary task that involved working in some, half-lit, library basement searching through dusty stacks. I came to understand that it's really more about ...

Article: History of Jazz

Richie Beirach: Exploring Who Matters Most Among the Jazz Pianists

by Victor L. Schermer
September 23, 2020

[The following is a commentary on pianist Richie Beirach's 2020 e-book The Historical Lineage of Modern Jazz Piano: The 10 Essential Players (Conversations between Richie Beirach and Michael Lake), downloadable for free here.] Jazz piano has always garnered (no intended reference to Erroll Garner) special interest among the instruments because it is truly an ...

Article: Profile

20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: Chuck Deardorf

by Paul Rauch
June 8, 2020

The city of Seattle has a jazz history that dates back to the very beginnings of the form. It was home to the first integrated club scene in America on Jackson St in the 1920's and '30s. It saw a young Ray Charles arrive as a teenager to escape the nightmare of Jim Crow in the ...