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Steve Hass: A World of Rhythms

by R.J. DeLuke
October 28, 2003

Thirty-two-year-old Steve Hass has been a professional drummer for about a dozen years, adding touches of style and class to music by the likes of The Manhattan Transfer, Art Garfunkel, Billy Joel, Christian McBride, John Benitez, Ravi Coltrane and many others, from pop to hard core jazz and from hip-hop to Latin beats. He’s a percussionist ...

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Boz Scaggs: Maybe Not Jazz, But Beautiful

by R.J. DeLuke
October 28, 2003

Boz Scaggs is crooning Duke's “Sophisticated Lady"? Thee Boz Scaggs? The “Lowdown" guy? The creator of the “Lido Shuffle"? Yep. There's only one Boz Scaggs. Having done blues, R&B, slick pop music and combinations of the three, maybe it was just time, but the latest singer to tackle the repertoire of the American Popular ...

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Either/Orchestra Handles All Tough Turns of Jazz Road

by R.J. DeLuke
October 27, 2003

Saxophonist Russ Gershon is on the horns of a dilemma with his sparkling band, the Either/Orchestra, the rock-solid 10-piece organization that churns out all kinds of music. The surprising sounds are steeped in jazz, but like a Luis Tiant pitch, the thunder the band emits can come from just about any angle. Critics have loved them. ...

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David Bromberg Live: No Matter What It Is, It's Good

by R.J. DeLuke
October 26, 2003

The three horns in the David Bromberg Band made “Make Me A Pallet on the Floor" seem like a New Orleans jazz street parade, wailing and swinging with the support of Bromberg's guitar, his rhythm section, and mandolin and fiddle. The section -- John Firmin on sax, Curtis Linberg on trombone and Peter Ecklund on trumpet ...

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Berkshire Jazz Fest: Sweet Sounds in the Mountains

by R.J. DeLuke
October 22, 2003

Some things might be too good to be true. Imagine a jazz festival where musicians are amicable and accessible and where the fans can get as close to the performers and performances as possible, without a hint of displeasure or a sign of (unneeded) security hassles. Fans are treated with civility and it’s given back in ...

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Dave Ellis: Talented Tenor on the March

by R.J. DeLuke
October 16, 2003

Why Not? So many jazz musicians have been heralded as the next “big thing” since the 80s it’s hard to keep track. It can cause one, after a while, to cast a sideways glance at the next pronouncement. But when a saxophonist creeps up on you with a lively, burnished tone and a swagger ...

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Eddie Henderson: Healing with Music

by R.J. DeLuke
October 16, 2003

Jazz trumpeter extraordinaire Eddie Henderson always had talent. After all, his first informal lesson on the instrument at the age of 9 was from Louis Armstrong. But his studies went well beyond that. As a teenager he was learning legitimate trumpet at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and performing with the San Francisco Conservatory Symphony ...

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Michel Camilo: Live From New York

by R.J. DeLuke
October 16, 2003

Pianist Michel Camilo is excited. Those who know this virtuoso pianist might think: what else is new? Camilo is not a brooding artist. He's vivacious and upbeat. He's talkative and joyous as a rule. And well he should be, with a dynamite trio and recordings that are garnering both sales and critical praise. He's ...

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Charles Davis: Sweet Storyteller

by R.J. DeLuke
October 16, 2003

There’s a difference between the elder statesmen in jazz and the newer firebrands, no matter how talented. One is the former’s ability to take their time to tell a story. They’ve been around life and they’re not in a rush. Like Dexter was. And Prez. Out of that mold is 70-year-old Charles Davis, displaying ...

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Kurt Elling: Don't Measure the Limbs

by R.J. DeLuke
October 8, 2003

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. --Pablo Picasso At a time when the music scene in the United States is in a funk, and the recording industry, ...