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Article: Film Review

It Might Get Loud

by Nenad Georgievski
November 21, 2010

The Edge, Jimmy Page, Jack White It Might Get Loud Sony Pictures Classics 2009 In the hands of the right people, musical instruments become more than just objects for producing sounds. They become cultural icons symbolizing eras and styles in music. There is no other instrument in this ...

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Article: Interview

Christian Howes: Blues for the Blues Violin

by Ian Patterson
September 27, 2010

It's not difficult to think of great blues artists--there's a roll call of honor as long as that of great jazz artists--and every sizeable town in the world has a blues band or two. So where is the violin? Great blues guitarists and vocalists have never been in short supply, but the great blues violinist, once ...

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Article: Interview

Eric Zinman: The Piano as Endangered Species

by Brian Wrentham
August 31, 2010

For over twenty years, pianist/composer Eric Zinman has been crafting his own approach to his instrument, since meeting trumpeter Bill Dixon in the '80s. He views himself as an ensemble player, who plays to include; in addition to his own writing, his trio disc, Eric Zinman Ensemble (Cadence, 2006), features short pieces by John Voigt, Laurence ...

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Article: Album Review

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Mojo

by Doug Collette
August 9, 2010

Given the earthy currents of electric blues coursing through this Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers album, right from the start of the wailing harp on “Jefferson Jericho Blues," Mojo is an appropriate title indeed. It should be no surprise the group hearkens to the late, great Muddy Waters, because anyone who's heard them live understands that ...

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Article: Live Review

Doug Wamble / Charlie Hunter / Bernard Purdie at The Iridium, July 2010

by AAJ Staff
August 7, 2010

Doug Wamble / Charlie Hunter / Bernard PurdieThe IridiumNew York City, USAJuly, 2010 Iridium in summer. It's 10:00PM and simmering outside. A Broadway building announced the temperature as being 82 degrees. But inside the club it was about to get bluesy... and funky. The featured performer was guitarist and singer Doug ...

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Article: Album Review

Daniel Smith: Blue Bassoon

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by Dan Bilawsky
June 20, 2010

When many people hear discussions about the bassoon, they are far more likely to think of “Peter And The Wolf" than Charlie Parker and Wayne Shorter tunes. While jazz is open to any-and-all-comers in every instrument family, the technical demands of the bassoon--an unwieldy double reed instrument that rarely leaves the confines of classical music--and its ...

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News: Music Industry

Phonograph Blues: Robert Johnson Mastered at Wrong Speed?

May 29, 2010

Robert Johnson's “The Complete Recordings," issued in 1990 by Columbia/Legacy, is one of the most popular blues collections ever released, and is undoubtedly the biggest- selling album ever by a pre-World War II bluesman. The compilation of works by the late, legendary singer-guitarist -- originally released in two LP volumes, in 1961 and 1970 -- has ...

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Article: Live Review

Beale Street Music Festival 2010

by C. Michael Bailey
May 22, 2010

Beale Street Music Festival, Memphis in May 2010 Tom Lee Park, FedEx Blues Tent, Memphis, Tennessee May 2, 2010 April, indeed, may be the cruelest of months, but I doubt that a blue-blood like Thomas Sterns Eliot ever spent the sweaty seasons in Hell that are Spring and Summer in the cultural ...

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Article: Profile

Wadada Leo Smith: A Vital Life Force

by Lyn Horton
May 12, 2010

“To teach and create and not expect or demand anything in return."--Wadada Leo Smith, quoted in an article printed in The Houston Chronicle, November 4, 2006 On the nine-by-eleven inch cover of the February, 2010, issue of Wire magazine is a full-page photo of trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Only the upper half of his body is ...

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Article: Live Review

B. B. King in Denver

by Geoff Anderson
May 5, 2010

B. B. King Buell Theater Denver, CO April 19, 2010 B. B. King is the last of the authentic Delta bluesmen. That group includes legends like Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. King is the real deal. He was born in the Delta ...