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News: Performance / Tour

Bill Cunliffe: The Blues and the Abstract Truth at Jazz Standard (NYC) Tonight

Bill Cunliffe: The Blues and the Abstract Truth at Jazz Standard (NYC) Tonight

Bill Cunliffe: The Blues and the Abstract Truth Jazz Standard 116 East 27th Street (Between Park / Lexington) New York, NY 10016 212-576-2232 7:30 PM EDT | 6:45 PM DOORS Dick Oatts – saxophone Bob Sheppard – saxophone Claudio Roditi – trumpet Luis Bonilla – trombone Christian Howes – violin ...

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Article: Album Review

Sarah DeLeo: I'm In Heaven Tonight

Read "I'm In Heaven Tonight" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


On The Nearness of You (Self Produced, 2006), vocalist Sarah DeLeo exhibited her diaphanous, spherical voice on a collection of off-the-beaten path standards, all well suited to her most welcome, conservative vocal style. She does not veer far from this approach on I'm In Heaven Tonight, again choosing songs that have not been thoroughly ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Bill Cunliffe's "The Blues & the Abstract Truth, Take 2" CD Release Party - March 5

Bill Cunliffe's "The Blues & the Abstract Truth, Take 2" CD Release Party - March 5

Bill Cunliffe “The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2" CD Release Party at April Williams' Upstairs at Vitellos Oliver Nelson (1932-1975) was a saxophonist, arranger, and composer who seemed everywhere in the 1960s. In popular culture, Nelson is best remembered for his television scoring for shows including Ironside, Night Gallery, Columbo, The Six Million Dollar ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Vaughn Wiester / Doncaster Jazz Orchestra / Kluvers Big Band / Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra

Read "Vaughn Wiester / Doncaster Jazz Orchestra / Kluvers Big Band / Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Vaughn Wiester's Famous Jazz Orchestra Dreams Come True COJazz 2009 If you're going to dream, you may as well dream big, in glorious Technicolor with stereophonic sound. As Vaughn Wiester knows, there are times when Dreams Come True. Wiester's vision of leading his own big band is a ...

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News: Recording

Pianist/Arranger Bill Cunliffe Revisits a Jazz Classic with "The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2"

Pianist/Arranger Bill Cunliffe Revisits a Jazz Classic with "The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2"

With his new album, The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2, pianist Bill Cunliffe doesn’t so much reinvent a modern jazz classic as open it for incisive interpretation. Working with clean, uncluttered arrangements and a stellar cast of improvisers, Cunliffe explores Oliver Nelson's beloved 1961 album for Impulse! And the results are consistently riveting. Putting ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Bill Cunliffe: The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2

Read "Bill Cunliffe: The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Bill Cunliffe The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2 Resonance Records 2008Oliver Nelson (1932-1975) was a saxophonist, arranger, and composer who seemed everywhere in the 1960s. In popular culture, Nelson is best remembered for his television scoring for shows including Ironside, Night Gallery, Columbo, The Six Million ...

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Article: Profile

Kenny Burrell: Mr. Good Notes

Read "Kenny Burrell: Mr. Good Notes" reviewed by Russ Musto


“I'm just trying to play the good notes," says Kenny Burrell, lighthearted laughter accompanying his response to the question of how he would characterize his style of guitar playing. The reply betrayed the genial humility that has long distinguished him as one of the music's truly gracious gentlemen. Burrell has been playing the “good notes" for ...

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Oliver Nelson: The Argo, Verve and Impulse Big Band Studio Sessions

Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: CD1: Full Nelson; Skookian; Miss Fine; Majorca; Cool; Back Woods; Lila's Theme; Ballad for Benny; Hoe Down; Paris Blues; What Kind of Fool Am I?; You Love But Once; Hobo Flats; Post No Bills; A Bientot; Three Plus One; Take Me With You; Daylie's Double; Teenie's Blues; Laz-ie Katie. CD2: St. Louis Blues; I Remember Bird; Ricardo's Dilemma; Patterns for Orchestra; East Side; West Side; Greensleeves; John Brown's Blues; Twelve Tone Blues; A Typical Day In New York; The East Side/West Side; 125th and Seventh Avenue; A Penthouse Dawn; One For Duke; Complex City. CD3: Roll 'em; For Dancers Only; Sophisticated Swing; Sometimes I'm Happy; Lined With A Groove; Lazy Theme; Now Hear My Meaning; In A Crowd; Sound Piece for Jazz Orchestra; Flute Salad; The Lady From Girl Talk. CD4: Let The Word Go Forth; A Genuine Peace; The Rights of All; Tolerance; The Artists' Rightful Place; Jacqueline; Day in Dallas; John Kennedy Memory Waltz; Love Is Just Around The Corner; This Is It; Memories of You; Pee Wee's Blues; The Shadow of Your Smile; Ja-Da; A Good Man Is Hard To Find; Bopol; I'm Comin' Virginia; Six and Four. CD5: Walk On The Wild Side; Ol' Man River; In A Mellow Tone; Step Right Up; Hobo Flats; Blueberry Hill; Walk Right In; Trouble In Mind; The Preacher; Meditation; I Can't Stop Loving You; Slaughter on Tenth Avenue; Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff; Part One; Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff; Part Two. CD6: The Bird/The Duck/The Cat/The Grandfather/The Wolf/The Hunter/Peter; Duck Theme/Jimmy and the Duck/Peter's Theme/Meal Time; Elegy For A Duck; Cat In A Tree; Capture Of the Wolf; Finale: Parade/Peter Plays Some Blues; One Mint Julip; Blues And The Abstract Truth; Down By The Riverside; Night Train; (Death March); Milestones; 'Round Midnight.

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Screamin' the Blues

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Screamin' the Blues; March On, March On; The Drive; The Meetin'; Three Seconds; Alto-itis.

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Article: Album Review

Oliver Nelson: Oliver Nelson: The Argo, Verve and Impulse Big Band Studio Sessions

Read "Oliver Nelson: The Argo, Verve and Impulse Big Band Studio Sessions" reviewed by Andrew Velez


The work of Oliver Nelson (1932-1975), saxophonist, composer and arranger (including composing orchestral and chamber music in non-jazz idioms), is remembered in this typically classy Mosaic six-CD set of 1962-1967 sessions. In his liner notes Nelson scholar and saxophonist and composer/arranger Kenny Berger observes, “The recordings in this set were made from the mid to late ...


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