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Article: Multiple Reviews

Dizzy Gillespie: I'm Beboppin Too & The Cool World

by George Kanzler
October 4, 2009

Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big BandI'm BeBoppin' Too Half Note2009 Dizzy GillespieThe Cool WorldPhilips-Verve2009 The legacy of Dizzy Gillespie's pioneering bebop big band could not be served better than by the ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Count Basie: Swiss Radio Days, Vol. 20: Mustermesse Basel 1956, Pt. 2; On My Way & Shoutin' Again! & Swinging, Singing, Playing

by George Kanzler
October 4, 2009

Count Basie OrchestraSwiss Radio Days, Vol. 20: Mustermesse Basel 1956, Pt. 2 TCB2009 Count BasieOn My Way & Shoutin' Again!Verve2009 Count Basie OrchestraSwinging, Singing, PlayingMack Avenue2009 ...

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Article: Profile

Marty Napoleon: Covering all 88 Keys

by Elliott Simon
October 4, 2009

Post-WWII New York City was a vibrant and musically creative club environment and pianist Marty Napoleon was a significant part of that scene and continues, through what is now a 60+-year career in the music business, to add more than a dash of pizzazz to any musical endeavor with which he is associated. His impressive resume ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Josh's King Froopy Allstars AKA Extended Constellations

October 3, 2009

JOSH ROSEMAN’S EXTENDED CONSTELLATIONS AT BAMcafe Friday October 9th, 9pm. Trombonist, composer, producer and band leader Josh Roseman is presenting his most ambitious project, his 12 piece ensemble Extended Constellations at BAMcafe. The group features live electronics, a trombone choir, two drummers and an array of innovative soloists including Shane Endsley, Andrew D'Angelo, and Barney McAll. ...

News: Performance / Tour

On Ka'a Davis Plays the Stone!

October 3, 2009

On Ka'a Davis with the Famous Original Djuke Music Players will gig at NuBlu Saturday night, November 21st! during the series being billed as the 'Nublu Jazz Festival'. Davis will be bringing his sounds of pulse beat jazzes he calls djuke music to the popular night spot. The guitarist who also is working electric ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

New Artists Records

by Marc Medwin
October 3, 2009

"We prize individuality," states pianist Connie Crothers emphatically of New Artists Records. “It's an integral part of our label identity and we have always safeguarded the individuality of each musician." New Artists being a cooperative, such a statement may contain an element of contradiction, but it stands at the heart of a label that ...

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Article: Album Review

Splinters: Split the Difference

Read "Split the Difference" reviewed by A. Henkin

by A. Henkin
October 3, 2009

One imagines that there must be literally thousands of sessions like this, live gigs by groups that only a small handful of people got to enjoy. The record industry being what it is, only the smallest percentage of musical interactions are documented and released. Reel Recordings, focusing its efforts on a particularly fruitful period in British ...

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Article: Live From New York

October 2009

by AAJ Staff
October 3, 2009

Gordon GrdinaBar 4Brooklyn, NY September 7, 2009There were other things in the music Gordon Grdina played at Bar 4, bits of McLaughlin, Santana, Sharrock, but for the first few minutes of his trio's Sep. 7th set it was hard to hear anything other than how together they were. From the ...

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Article: Album Review

James Moody: 4A

Read "4A" reviewed by Graham L. Flanagan

by Graham L. Flanagan
October 3, 2009

In the late '40s, saxophonist/flutist James Moody staked his claim on the jazz landscape when he gained prominence as one of the key ingredients of Dizzy Gillespie's orchestra. Nearly six decades later, at the age of 84, Moody shows no signs of slowing down. He's in excellent form on his latest release 4A. ...

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Article: Live Review

2009 Detroit Jazz Festival

by Wilbur MacKenzie
October 3, 2009

Detroit Jazz FestivalDetroit, MISeptember 4-7, 2009A short distance from Hitsville USA, where Berry Gordy created the Motown sound, shaping the history of American music and culture, and the Diego Rivera Court, where the artist's murals pay tribute to the workers whose hands made the auto industry a reality, sits Hart Plaza, Detroit's waterfront ...