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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Oscar Peterson

August 15, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Oscar Peterson's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Oscar PetersonOne of the most admired pianists in jazz, Oscar Peterson has rightfully claimed the same sort of status as earlier greats such as James P. Johnson, Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Fats Waller, Thelonious Monk, ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Bob Albanese

by AAJ Staff
August 12, 2009

Meet Bob Albanese: Bob Albanese was born in Newark, N.J. in 1957. Growing up and the Jersey shore, he began practicing the piano at age 8. At age 15, he won top honors in the Garden State Talent Expo which culminated in a solo performance at the Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J. This was ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Jake Hanlon

by AAJ Staff
August 8, 2009

Meet Jake Hanlon: Performer, composer and educator, Jake Hanlon currently resides in Antigonish Nova Scotia, a Professor of Music at Saint Francis Xavier University. A native of Nova Scotia Canada, Hanlon has had the opportunity to work some of the brightest and talented students and teachers in the world. In 2003 he graduated with Honors from ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Sylvain Provost: Desirs Demodes

by Robert J. Lewis
July 29, 2009

Sylvain Provost Désirs Démodés Effendi Records 2009 If you've been among the very best in your chosen field (of jazz piano) over a long career, there will inevitably come a time when what you say carries as much weight as what you play. So when pianist Oliver Jones, ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Oscar Peterson: The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Sessions of the Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953)

by Michael Steinman
July 25, 2009

Oscar Peterson The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings of The Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953) Mosaic Records 2008 The late Oscar Peterson was technically dazzling, harmonically sophisticated and indefatigably rhythmic. His virtuosic command of the piano has never been questioned. Because of Norman Granz' enthusiasm for his work, Peterson recorded ...

News: Radio

12 Oclock Jump Public Radio's New Jazz, Blues and Comedy Variety Hour, Live! From the Building Where Dizzy Met the Bird

July 20, 2009

Public radio has a new jazz, blues and comedy hour. 12 OCLOCK JUMP broadcasts live from the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City's 18th and Vine Historic Jazz District-- where Basie tickled the ivories and Dizzy Gillespie was introduced to Charlie Parker. Produced by Theater League, the show is broadcast live on KCUR-FM 89.3 in Kansas ...

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Article: Live Review

Umbria Jazz: Days 1-3, July 10-12, 2009

by Michael J. West
July 15, 2009

Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-10 “You know," said one American tourist to his friend as he walked past the tents on the first day of Umbria Jazz, “Ever since we got here last week this is all we've heard anyone talk about." Small wonder. The 10-day, citywide festival is more than ...

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Article: Live Review

Alvin Queen at The Turning Point Cafe

by David A. Orthmann
July 14, 2009

Alvin Queen The Turning Point Cafe Piermont, NY June 22, 2009 A couple of minutes into Shirley Scott's “There's Blues Everywhere," Alvin Queen's medium tempo shuffle beat had a galvanizing effect on his band as well as the normally decorous audience at The Turning Point Cafe. Throughout the fifty minute ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Resonance Big Band / Sammy Nestico-SWR Big Band / Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra / Alf Clausen Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
July 10, 2009

Resonance Big Band Plays Tribute to Oscar Peterson Resonance Records 2009 First things first: there will never be another Oscar Peterson. Period. Even so, there are others who come remarkably close to retracing his legendary footsteps. Fellow Canadian Oliver Jones is one, Romanian-born Marian Petrescu another. It is ...

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Article: Live Review

2009 Ottawa Jazz Festival: Al Di Meola World Sinfonia '09 and Lenore Raphael Trio

by Marcia Hillman
July 9, 2009

Al Di Meola World Sinfonia 2009 Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada July 4, 2009 A large crowd turned out at Confederation Park on Saturday night to hear The Al Di Meola World Sinfonia '09 play a concert of original compositions that displayed Di Meola's virtuoso guitar technique encased ...