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Article: Album Review

Scanner with the Post Modern Jazz Quartet: Blink of An Eye

Read "Blink of An Eye" reviewed by Lyn Horton

by Lyn Horton

From the very first sounds heard on Blink of An Eye's “Shadow Splice," a ground is gradually established with bass piano chords, a minor-key string bass arco line, a floating vibe resonance and steady pulse rising from the cymbals. As the Ellingtonian “Blues In C" evokes, the source of improvisational music is the ...

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Article: Live Review

Earshot Jazz Festival 2010, Part 1

Read "Earshot Jazz Festival 2010, Part 1" reviewed by Nathan Bluford

by Nathan Bluford

Earshot Jazz FestivalSeattle, WAOctober 15-November 7, 2010 Part 1 | Part 2 Now in its 22nd year, the 2010 edition of Seattle's Earshot Jazz Festival presented audiences with a healthy mix of local musicians from Seattle and the greater Pacific Northwest in addition to the performers that made the ...

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Article: Live Review

Pat Metheny: Orchestrion Tour, Binghamton University October 19, 2010

Read "Pat Metheny: Orchestrion Tour, Binghamton University October 19, 2010" reviewed by CJ Shearn

by CJ Shearn

Pat MethenyAnderson Center for the Performing Arts, Osterhout Theater, Binghamton UniversityBinghamton, New YorkOctober 19, 2010 Guitarist Pat Metheny's mastery of the intricacies of his Orchestrion was on dazzling display Tuesday evening, October 19, 2010, at the Anderson Center for the Performing Arts, Osterhout Theater, on the campus of Binghamton University ...

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Take Five With Boris Kozlov

Read "Take Five With Boris Kozlov" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Boris Kozlov: Currently serving as a bassist, arranger and Musical Director for the Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty and The Orchestra, as well as leading his own projects, he has also been a first-call bassist for such important jazz acts as Michael Brecker, John Blake, Ray Barretto's New World Spirit, Lew Tabackin, David Kikoski, Alex ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Photographer Juan-Carlos Hernandez's Book "Estelas de Jazz" Now Available in Amazon and Barnes & Noble

After seven years of visually capturing jazz musicians around the world, Juan-Carlos Hernandez has compiled his first book of photos entitled Estelas de Jazz, available worldwide through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Hernandez collaborated with Spanish writer Belen Carmona Moreno whose literary writings accompany 100+ black and white photographs. Though the photographs are in the universal ...

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Article: Album Review

Rich Halley: Live at the Penofin Jazz Festival

Read "Live at the Penofin Jazz Festival" reviewed by Gordon Marshall

by Gordon Marshall

Tenor saxophonist Rich Halley gives the great cornetist, Bobby Bradford, the first solo on Live at the Penofin Jazz Festival, as well he should. Bradford is a veteran of the melodically oriented free jazz scene, going back to his days in the late '50s with Ornette Coleman, who is Halley's starting point. When Halley himself comes ...

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Article: Live Review

Mujician/Aki Takase at the Vortex in London: Tony Levin 70th Birthday Tour

Read "Mujician/Aki Takase at the Vortex in London: Tony Levin 70th Birthday Tour" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Aki Takase, John Edwards, Tony Levin / Keith Tippett, Paul Dunmall, Paul Rogers, Tony LevinThe VortexLondonOctober 11, 2010 When pianist Keith Tippett's young daughter was asked at school what her parents did, she replied: they're mujicians! That conflation of magic and music neatly sums up Tippett's method. Initially the name was ...

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Article: Live Review

Dave Liebman Group: Half Moon Bay, California, September 26, 2010

Read "Dave Liebman Group: Half Moon Bay, California, September 26, 2010" reviewed by Bill Leikam

by Bill Leikam

Dave Liebman GroupDouglas Beach HouseHalf Moon Bay, California, USASeptember 26, 2010 On Sunday, September 26, 2010, the award-winning Dave Liebman Group--Liebman on soprano sax and a small wooden flut;, Vic Juris on acoustic and electric guitar; Tony Marino on electric bass; and Marko Marcinko on drums and percussion--strode on stage, ready ...

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Article: Live Review

Pat Metheny: Orchestrion Tour, Montreal

Read "Pat Metheny: Orchestrion Tour, Montreal" reviewed by Pascal-Denis Lussier

by Pascal-Denis Lussier

Pat MethenyOrchestrion TourPlace des ArtsMontreal, CanadaOctober 12, 2010 Curiosity. More than anything else it was this that made guitarist/composer Pat Metheny's Orchestrion Tour concert at Montreal's Place des Arts complex (another stop on his successful 120-plus major-cities world tour) something to truly anticipate. I can't claim ...

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Article: Live Review

SFJAZZ Collective at Nighttown

Read "SFJAZZ Collective at Nighttown" reviewed by Matt Marshall

by Matt Marshall

SFJAZZ CollectiveNighttownCleveland Heights, OhioOctober 16, 2010 Since 2004, the SFJAZZ Collective, an octet of world-class musicians in the prime of their careers (no “legends" meat wagon, this), has toured the world, spreading the jazz gospel. Two members remain from the initial group--vibes player Stefon Harris and alto saxophonist ...


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