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Article: Album Review

Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band: Walk A Mile In My Shoe

Read "Walk A Mile In My Shoe" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Il nuovo disco di Orrin Evans e della sua Captain Black Big Band ci ricorda l'importanza delle radici per la comunità musicale afroamericana: il gospel, il blues, le big band, i cantanti e strumentisti storici. Una risorsa che è anche identità collettiva e forza culturale. Come ha sempre fatto in passato, il pianista e ...

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Article: Interview

Lonnie Davis: Lighting Up Charlotte with Jazz

Read "Lonnie Davis: Lighting Up Charlotte with Jazz" reviewed by K. Shackelford


In the '90s, fierce jazz curator, flutist, and educator Lonnie Davis found herself as the only female in The University of New Orleans jazz program. Prior to that, she studied under jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis while a high school student at the highly selective and musically rigorous New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. The brilliant music ...

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Article: Live Review

The 20th Anniversary DC JazzFest

Read "The 20th Anniversary DC JazzFest" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


2024 DC JazzFest Potomac Riverfront Washington, DC August 31 to September 1, 2024 Being the birthplace of Duke Ellington among other things, Washington, DC has had a long tradition as a hotbed for jazz, and been the site of several ambitious jazz festivals over the years. The most prominent one currently ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Marianne Solivan, Mark Murphy, Lauren Henderson and More

Read "Marianne Solivan, Mark Murphy, Lauren Henderson and More" reviewed by Jua Howard


Welcome music family! This week I'm sharing more great music including new music from Marianne Solivan, Bilal, and Alyssa Allgood. You'll also hear timeless music from Mark Murphy, Lauren Henderson, Gregory Porter and Blossom Dearie. Come get lost in the music with me!Playlist Intro 00:00 Donald Byrd “Change (Makes You Want to Hustle)" from ...

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Article: Album Review

John R. Lamkin II: Movin'

Read "Movin'" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Movin' from John Lamkin II, and The Favorites Jazz Quintet, marks only the third album in a career that has spanned four decades. The trumpeter and composer is a native of Atlantic City, New Jersey, and had his first taste of jazz on Kentucky Avenue before casinos took over that space. Before joining the University of ...

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Article: Album Review

Curtis Taylor: Taylor Made

Read "Taylor Made" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello


Taylor Made, from trumpeter, Curtis Taylor, presents seven tracks of fine post hard bop jazz. The music here is intelligent, inviting, and, lathered with superb solos. Taylor composed and arranged all seven tracks. “Kham's Dilemma" opens with a lyrical, yet exotic statement with Taylor's trumpet and Marcus Elliot's sax in unison over an ...

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Article: Interview

Cyrille Aimée: Music Flows From Within

Read "Cyrille Aimée: Music Flows From Within" reviewed by Scott Lichtman


Renowned vocalist Cyrille Aimée possesses a wholly unique sound. Certainly, it is based on her voice timbre but also reflects her approach to music. She is equally adept at jazz standards and pop-jazz. She can swing and scat on cue, then shift to high tech sound loops. Songs in English, French and Spanish are delivered with ...

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Article: Album Review

Jimmy Smith: Dot Com Blues

Read "Dot Com Blues" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


He's known as one of the founding jazz fathers of Hammond B-3 organ funk, but Jimmy Smith has always played the blues. Born in December 1928 in a suburb west of Philadelphia, Smith has been performing since he was 12, at that time in a song and dance act with his father. After a stint in ...

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Article: Live Review

Al Foster Quintet at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club

Read "Al Foster Quintet at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club" reviewed by Chris DeRosa


Al Foster Quintet 81st Birthday Celebration Smoke Jazz & Supper Club January 27, 2024 Hello, my name is Chris DeRosa and this is what I heard... Smoke is a great venue to hear timeless jazz. Established in 1999 and located on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the sound ...

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Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

Read "Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...


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