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News: Education

JazzHeaven.com Launches with Jazz Instructional Videos and Interviews with the Greats

JazzHeaven.com Launches with Jazz Instructional Videos and Interviews with the Greats

JazzHeaven.com is proud to announce the launch of its website which features jazz instructional videos and interviews with many of the greatest jazz musicians ranging from saxophone icon Lee Konitz to new jazz drumming star Eric Harland. JazzHeaven.com Founder and CEO Falk Willis had been a professional jazz drummer himself for 14 years, playing with the ...

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Article: Interview

Lenny White: Jazz/Rock Collides Again

Read "Lenny White: Jazz/Rock Collides Again" reviewed by Carl L. Hager


When that cool, overcast dawn arrived in Bethel, New York, neither the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair's expired permit, nor the rain, mud, and technical problems could have kept Jimi Hendrix and his Band of Gypsys from playing. It was destiny. Believe it. A hundred miles south on that same morning of August ...

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News: Award / Grant

Paul Jackson's Song "Funky Fingers" Makes the Top 10 of "New Jazz Funk Songs of the Last Decade"

Paul Jackson's Song "Funky Fingers" Makes the Top 10 of "New Jazz Funk Songs of the Last Decade"

Herbie Hancock and the Headhunter's virtuoso bass player Paul Jackson's song “Funky Fingers" makes the top 10 of “New Jazz Funk Songs of the Last Decade." Tokyo, Japan - “Funky Fingers" featuring Jackson on bass/vocals, Mike Clark on drums, Bill Summers on percussion Herbie Hancock on keyboards and Jerry Stucker on guitar, is #7 on “New ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Mike Mainieri

Read "Take Five With Mike Mainieri" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Mike Mainieri: Primarily recognized as an award-winning jazz vibraphonist, Mike Mainieri's equally remarkable talents as producer, performer, arranger, and composer have contributed to shaping the cutting edge in music. During '50s and early '60s, he performed with such legendary artists as Buddy Rich, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and Wes Montgomery. ...

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Black Octopus

Label: Platform Recordings
Released: 2000
Track listing: Many Directions; Eight Ways of Love; Funk Times Three; Burning in the Heat (of Your Love); Tiptoe Through the Ghetto; T-Bolt; A Little Love

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Article: Album Review

Paul Jackson: Black Octopus

Read "Black Octopus" reviewed by Jim Santella


Singer/bassist Paul Jackson likes variety in what he does. Like the inference in his opening track’s title, “Many Directions,” this project moves in many directions all at once. It’s fusion. A strong bassist and enjoyable singer, Jackson employs a fusion of R&B, funk, disco, electronic “outer space” music and a little avant-garde jazz. Originally issued in ...


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