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Article: Live Review

Mai Jazz 2014

Read "Mai Jazz 2014" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Mai Jazz 2014 Stavanger, Norway May 6-11, 2014 After visiting Norway as often as four or five times annually, a first trip to the country in early May is surprisingly late for a first visit of the year. The last time visiting the west coast city of Stavanger was in 2008, part ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Miles Davis: Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3

Read "Miles Davis: Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

Intensely intoxicating as much as it is wholly hypnotic, Miles Davis Live at the Fillmore becomes increasingly so through the course of its four compact discs. More than doubling the playing time of the original four-sided vinyl release, The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 posits an argument the band(s) of this era were among the finest ever ...

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Article: Live Review

Ron Carter Golden Striker Trio at Jazzfest Gronau 2014

Read "Ron Carter Golden Striker Trio at Jazzfest Gronau 2014" reviewed by Phillip Woolever

by Phillip Woolever

Ron Carter Golden Striker Trio Evangelist Stadtkirche Jazzfest Gronau Gronau, Germany April 27, 2014 Ron Carter resumed his casual, “guy with the microphone" demeanor as bandleader for this afternoon's “church meeting," but brought a confident intensity to this conspicuously jazz conscious German community on the Netherlands border. A ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Celebrating Blue Note Records 75th With Delicious Vinyl

Read "Celebrating Blue Note Records 75th With Delicious Vinyl" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Everything old is new again. Except of course for the timeless music of Blue Note Records which celebrated its 75th anniversary this year. The recordings Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff produced starting in 1939 have been collector's items since day one. While much of the label's music has been re-released in digital format, CDs and in ...

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Article: Live Review

Roberto Gatto Perfect Trio

Read "Roberto Gatto Perfect Trio" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 22.02.2014 Poteva non essere scontato che l'incontro tra un batterista come Roberto Gatto--veterano del jazz nostrano, ben piantato nella tradizione ancorché aperto a molteplici esperienze--e un musicista inquieto e sperimentatore come Alfonso Santimone potesse avere esiti indiscutibilmente positivi, essendo la diversità tra i due ...

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Article: Album Review

Steven Kroon: On The #1

Read "On The #1" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Steven Kroon has long been a first-call percussionist for the musical elite, adding seasonings and spices to the variety of R&B, jazz, and soul dishes that these bigwigs make. He's worked behind Luther Vandross, Aretha Franklin, Ron Carter, Jimmy Heath, Diana Krall, Stanley Turrentine, and numerous others over the past three-plus decades. Many ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Hot Tone Music: Creating Great Music of Today

Read "Hot Tone Music: Creating Great Music of Today" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard

There was a time when the only possibility for an artist was to record for a major label, but nowadays things have changed. While major labels are struggling to make the money they used to do, many of them have also stopped being innovators. Instead, they churn out repackaged product and focus on new music that ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Tim Wolfe, Jr.

Read "Take Five With Tim Wolfe, Jr." reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Tim Wolfe: Bassist Tim Wolfe, Jr. keeps a busy schedule as a performer, recording artist, and educator. Wolfe has performed across the eastern seaboard, internationally, the greater Philadelphia area and central Pennsylvania. Tim earned his master's degree in jazz studies from The University of the Arts. He is an adjunct professor of music at ...

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Article: Album Review

Clovis Nicolas: Nine Stories

Read "Nine Stories" reviewed by Gabriel Medina Arenas

by Gabriel Medina Arenas

Ron Carter's judgment regarding the talent of a fellow double bassist can't be wrong. The acclaimed musician, who has recorded more than 2,500 albums and was a fundamental member of the Miles Davis Quintet, highly praises the sound and compositions of Clovis Nicolas. Carter wrote the liner notes to Nicolas' Nine Stories, the first ...

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Article: What is Jazz?

The Power of Jazz

Read "The Power of Jazz" reviewed by John Wesley Reed Jr.

by John Wesley Reed Jr.

"Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together...Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity." Spoken by Quincy Jones at the First International Jazz Day in 2012 at the United Nations. The soul of Jazz is expressed in the life of its ...


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