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Article: Year in Review

AAJ's Top 15 Interviews of 2009

Read "AAJ's Top 15 Interviews of 2009" reviewed by AAJ Staff


With nearly 150 interviews published in 2009, AAJ continues to provide the most extensive jazz coverage on the web. We also expanded our interview coverage to include, for those surrounding new CD releases: associated Daily Download tracks; accompanying CD reviews; contest giveaways; and more. As always, AAJ provided coverage of well-known artists ...

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The Children's Suite

Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2009
Track listing: The Good Little Girl; Come Out With Me; Sneezles; Pinkie Purr; Down by the Pond; Waiting at the Window; Buttercup Days; The Friend & Us Two; Furry Bear; Knight-in-Armor; Wind on the Hill & The Engineer; Solitude; The Morning Walk; In the Dark & The End.

Album

The Children Suite

Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. The Good Little Girl - 6:02; 02. Come Out with Me - 8:55; 03. Sneezles - 1:09; 04. Pinkle Purr - 8:55; 05. Down by the Pond - 5:03; 06. Waiting at the Window - 0:58; 07. Buttercup Days - 8:05; 08. The Friend & Us Two - 10:15; 09. Furry Bear - 4:50; 10. Knight-in-Armour - 4:53; 11. Wind on the Hill & The Engineer - 6:26; 12. Solitude - 6:06; 13. The Morning Walk - 6:45; 14. In the Dark & The End - 3:08. Tutti i brani composti e arrangiati da Phil Woods).

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Article: Live Review

Todd Barkan: Continuation and Augmentation

Read "Todd Barkan: Continuation and Augmentation" reviewed by Wayne Zade


Todd Barkan has been one of the most important and versatile producers of jazz concerts and records around the globe for almost 30 years. The list of artists whose projects he has produced reads like a veritable Who's Who of jazz. Barkan has managed many artists, including the Boys Choir of Harlem, Chico O'Farrill and Freddy ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Strike Up the (Unsung) Bands

Read "Strike Up  the (Unsung) Bands" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The big band era is known for producing a number of enormously successful ensembles whose leaders were household names: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, then on through Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the brothers Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie and, ...

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Article: Interview

Gregory Thomas: Ain't But a Few of Us

Read "Gregory Thomas: Ain't But a Few of Us" reviewed by Willard Jenkins


Like most of the participants in our ongoing dialogue with African American music writers, Gregory Thomas has both feet and hands in several camps. Thomas' byline has been featured in numerous publications, including Salon.com, Guardian Observer (London), American Legacy, Africana.com, BlackAmericaWeb.com, Daily News (New York, NY), TBWT.com, Callaloo, The Village Voice, and others. He was the ...

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Article: Album Review

Ed Palermo Big Band: Eddy Loves Frank

Read "Eddy Loves Frank" reviewed by Nic Jones


With the dubious benefit of hindsight, it could be argued that Frank Zappa's music could--and on the basis of this release can still be--defined by what it's not. Zappa was both astute and knowing enough to realize that both progressive and jazz rock could easily become stylistic straitjackets. His music was reflective of this knowledge as ...

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Article: Interview

Ed Palermo: We're Only In It For The Music

Read "Ed Palermo: We're Only In It For The Music" reviewed by Ian Patterson


It's got to be love, hasn't it? Why else would someone bother to transcribe 200 of Frank Zappa's tunes? For what other reason would someone dedicate himself for over 15 years to presenting his arrangements of Zappa's music in the setting of a 17-piece jazz big band, and at a loss to boot? Yes, ...

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Video

Goodbye Mr. Evans

Featuring the music of Phil Woods
Duration: 8:14

1989 concert in Stuttgart;Composition by Phil Woods; Cedar Walton (piano), Rufus Reid (bass), Mickey Roker (drums).
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News: Event

Cota Festival Orchestra Featuring Sax Legend Phil Woods to Perform on November 12th

Cota Festival Orchestra Featuring Sax Legend Phil Woods to Perform on November 12th

East Stroudsburg, PA--Imagine a place where youngsters learn to play jazz at the feet of world-class professionals; a camp where kids have fun with other kids while developing mentoring relationships with nurturing jazz elders. Now, add a library where these budding musicians can immerse themselves in recordings, photographs, books, videos, sheet music and oral history interviews ...


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