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News: Performance / Tour

For Louis: Birdland, April 14, 2010

April 16, 2010

Its very simple. For just about ten years, David Ostwald (tubaist-raconteur) has organized regular Wednesday jazz sessions at Birdland in midtown Manhattan, getting congenial friends together to honor Louis Armstrong. Depending on the phase of the moon, the band is called either the GULLY LOW JAZZ BAND or the LOUIS ARMSTRONG CENTENNIAL BAND. Names dont matter ...

News: Interview

George Wettling's Righteous Rage

April 16, 2010

The man in the picture looks serious, intent, but hardly dangerous. He is George Wettling known for his wonderful drumming with Eddie Condon, Max Kaminsky, Jimmy McPartland, Artie Shaw, Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, Bud Freeman, Ruby Braff, Pee Wee Russell, Art Hodes, and many others. In my recent, quite amiable discussion of Moldy Figs and Mossy ...

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Article: Profile

Donny McCaslin

by Laurel Gross
April 17, 2010

If saxophonist Donny McCaslin's life were made into a movie, the following 'scene' could be a natural start: A young boy perched on a stool on the bandstand at a California mall. Too young to be let loose to wander, it's an efficient way his working father could keep an eye on the boy and still ...

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Article: Book Review

On The Flip Side of Sound

by Russ Musto
April 17, 2010

On The Flipside of Sound Valery Ponomarev Softcover; 316 pages ISBN: 1438970463 ArtistHouse 2010 Valery Ponomarev's autobiographical tome tells the fascinating tale of the life of a working jazz musician from a uniquely personal perspective. The Moscow-born trumpeter, who became the first native of his country ...

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Article: Profile

Bunky Green

by Marcia Hillman
April 17, 2010

Vernice “Bunky" Green (born Apr. 23rd, 1935) is a product of Wisconsin, where he was raised and learned to play the alto saxophone. His first big break came when Charles Mingus briefly hired him in the '60s--an association that left a lasting influence on Green's own style. Green left Mingus to relocate in ...

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Article: Live Review

Eli "Paperboy" Reed at Joe's Pub, March 31, 2010

by Ernest Barteldes
April 16, 2010

Eli “Paperboy" Reed and the True Loves Joe's Pub March 31, 2010 New York, NY Playing before a nearly sold-out crowd, the seven-piece True Loves (Freddy DeBoe: Baritone Sax; Mike Brooks: Tenor Sax; Patriq Moody: Trumpet; Jerrell Clopton: Drums; Michael Montgomery: Bass; Ryan Spraker: Guitar; J.B. ...

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News: Recording

Pete Francis New Release, "The Movie We Are In", Coming May 18th

April 15, 2010

New York City based singer-songwriter Pete Francis is set to release his new album The Movie We Are In on May 18. Pete decided that a new approach was key for his next record. Instead of his usual self-produced style of album making, he uprooted his life and assembled an entirely new crew with in Los ...

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News: Interview

Mulatu Astatke: The Man and His Influence

April 15, 2010

Mulatu Astatke is a musical titan, in the same league as the likes of Fela Kuti and King Sunny Ade, yet he was first recognized to most people when The Paris-based world music record label, Buda Musique devoted the entire 4th installment of their respected series, Ethiopiques, to his compositions in 1998. Astatke was born in ...

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News: Music Industry

Support Your Local Record Store . . . or Open One!

April 14, 2010

This Saturday, April 17, is Independent Record Store Day worldwide. Many's the happy hour I spent in Record World, Tower Records, Dayton's, Happy Tunes, and more... perusing, considering, talking, hanging out, pouncing on something Id never seen, wondering whether to spend twenty dollars (1972 dollars!) for BUCK MEETS RUBY or EASY NOW. I grew up in ...

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News: Obituary

RIP Steve Reid

April 14, 2010

“Devastated by the news that my friend drummer Steve Reid passed away last night in New York--a true inspiration who will be greatly missed." --Gilles Peterson 4/13/2010 We were lucky enough to have Steve Reid, the legendary drummer at a classic Giant Step 2005 event in NYC: Gilles Peterson Presents 'The BBC Sessions Live'. The night ...