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News: Festival

Legendary Downbeat Magazine Devotes a 16-Page Insert to the "Best of the Fests"

Montreal - In its October 2009 edition, bearing the signatures of influential jazz journalists and critics Ed Enright, Michael Bourne, Joshua Jackson and Michael Jackson, highly respected DownBeat magazine paid the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal a very special tribute, describing it as the jazz festival par excellence: “Bigger! Better! Best, actually..." A 16-page insert ...

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Article: Album Review

Chris Potter Underground: Ultrahang

Read "Ultrahang" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


After simultaneous releases in 2007--The Red Line: Live at the Village Vanguard and Song For Anyone (both on Sunnyside Records)--saxophonist Chris Potter's alter-ego band, Underground, delivers Ultrahang, some of the funkiest, rawest and in- your-face jazz released in 2009. An in-demand session player with artists including Patricia Barber, Dave Douglas, Paul Motian, Potter ...

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Article: Live Review

Ottawa Jazz Festival 2009: Days 4-6, June 28-30, 2009

Read "Ottawa Jazz Festival 2009: Days 4-6, June 28-30, 2009" reviewed by John Kelman


Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 Amina Claudine Myers / Gary Burton Quartet Revisited John Roney Silverbirch Project / Julian Lage / Enrico Rava-Stefano Bollani DuoAndy Milne/Benoît Delbecq Crystal Magnets / Sylvain Kassap QuartetTD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 25-27, 2009 ...

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Article: Live Review

Ottawa Jazz Festival 2009: Days 1-3, June 25-27, 2009

Read "Ottawa Jazz Festival 2009: Days 1-3, June 25-27, 2009" reviewed by John Kelman


Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 John Stetch TV Trio / Dave Douglas Brass Ecstasy / Roberta Gambarini Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio / Jimmy Cobb's So What Band; S.M.V. The Botos Brother / Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue / Al GreenTD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ...

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Article: Interview

Faith Gibson: Shooting for the Big Moon

Read "Faith Gibson: Shooting for the Big Moon" reviewed by Esther Berlanga-Ryan


Jazz vocalists have struggled through the years to make room for their contributions to the art of improvisation that appear effortless. Their voices are their instrument, an instrument that has to compete with tenor saxophones, drum kits or trumpets; an instrument whose strength rests in the necessity humanity has to communicate with others. To ...

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The Cole Porter Mix

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Easy To Love; I Wait for Late Afternoon and You; I Get a Kick Out of You; You're the Top; Just One of Those Things; Snow; C'est Magnifique; Get Out of Town; I Concentrate on You; In the Still of The Night; What Is This Thing Called Love?; Miss Otis Regrets; The New Year's Eve Song.

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Article: Album Review

Patricia Barber: The Cole Porter Mix

Read "The Cole Porter Mix" reviewed by George Kanzler


The mix here is a Cole Porter cocktail, a dry martini but with a touch of jalapeno instead of olive. And while there are strains of melancholy, as Barber says in the notes: “Cole Porter never wrote a song that said 'I'm miserable.'" That jalapeno heat comes from the evocative jazz arrangements and solos, especially those ...

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News: Recording

Barber Meets Cole Porter on His Own Terms

Barber Meets Cole Porter on His Own Terms

At this late date, as the 20th Century recedes ever more quickly into the past, can anyone have anything significant to add to the work of America's most suavely literate songwriter, Cole Porter? Can anyone hope to find subtext in Porter's lyrics that Frank Sinatra didn't unearth decades ago? Can anyone dare to bring half as ...

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Article: Album Review

Patricia Barber: The Cole Porter Mix

Read "The Cole Porter Mix" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger


Patricia Barber is absolutely one of a kind. There are any number of jazz vocalists who have good voices, pitch, time, and piano chops; there are others who also sing as if they were looking straight into your eyes. But there is no one who is so consistently iconoclastic, and so deliberately intellectual. Ever since her ...

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Mythologies

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Moon; Morpheus; Pygmalion; Hunger; Icarus; Orpheus/Sonnet; Persephone; Narcissus; Whiteworld/Oedipus; Phaethon; The Hours.


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