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Article: Interview

Stephan Crump: Giving Life to the Music

Read "Stephan Crump: Giving Life to the Music" reviewed by Tyler Henderson


Stephan Crump is a bassist with many talents, his skills ranging from funk and rock to straight ahead jazz and folk. The Grammy-nominated artist cut his teeth on the New York City jazz scene, working there since the 1990s. He's been a collaborator and a bandleader, working with the likes of Vijay Iyer, Ashford Simpson, Billy ...

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Article: Interview

Burt Eckoff: A Pianist's Close Encounters With the Greats of Jazz

Read "Burt Eckoff: A Pianist's Close Encounters With the Greats of Jazz" reviewed by Idelle Nissila-Stone


Active in the New York City jazz scene since the 1960s, pianist Burt Eckoff played with many jazz greats, among them Howard McGhee, Maynard Ferguson, Art Blakey, Sonny Stitt and Archie Shepp. He is known for exceptional artistry in his work with vocalists Dionne Warwick, The Drifters, Eddie Jefferson, and most importantly Dakota Staton, with whom ...

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Jazz With Strings

Read "Jazz With Strings" reviewed by Roger Crane


Please note the title of this collection. It does not include symphony orchestras playing jazz compositions. Nor does it feature what is known as “third stream" music, which is the combination of jazz and classical elements for what is hoped to be a unified whole. No, just like the title says, this collection includes jazz musicians ...

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Article: Catching Up With

Ben Sidran: The First Existential Jazz Rapper

Read "Ben Sidran: The First Existential Jazz Rapper" reviewed by Joan Gannij


Ben Sidran is an old school hipster in the authentic sense of the word. He's a no frills, musician's musician who's got the heart, got the chops. He's been there, done that, and ready to do more. Sidran has never been interested in following trends or squeezing into categories and is not about to start now. ...

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Article: Catching Up With

Freddie Jones: Game On!

Read "Freddie Jones: Game On!" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello


Dallas-based trumpeter, composer, producer and educator/clinician, Freddie Jones is one busy musician--especially on certain Sundays. He has the honor of performing our National Anthem before every Dallas Cowboys home game. In addition to actively freelancing and recording, he teaches and devotes countless hours with his efforts for a wonderful music education charity he founded, Trumpets4Kids.

Album

We Three

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2007

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Theme For Basie

Featuring the music of Phineas Newborn, Jr.
Duration: 4:31

Phineas Newborn, Jr. performs his own composition, "Theme For Basie". He is accompanied by Al McKibbon on bass and Kenny Dennis on drums
Album

Solo Piano

Label: 32 Records
Released: 2000
Track listing:

Together Again; Serenade In Blue/Where Is The Love; Lorraine's Walk/Willow Weep For Me; Nica's Dream; Goodbye/Flamingo; Live And Love/One For Horace; Bouncing With Bud; Memphis Blues; The Midnight Sun Will Never Set; Out Of This World; Giant Steps/Everything I Have Is Yours/Where Is The Love

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Article: Album Review

Phineas Newborn, Jr.: Solo Piano

Read "Solo Piano" reviewed by AAJ Staff


When Nesuhi Ertegun perhaps serendipitously recorded Phineas Newborn, Jr. after Newborn had retreated to his hometown of Memphis in the mid-1970's, one of the founders of Atlantic Records helped to remind the jazz world of the overlooked potential of one of his generation's most promising, although perhaps not its most influential, pianists. That's not to say ...


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