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News: Event

Ron Carter Live Interview with Dave Schroeder at Barnes & Noble (NYC) on Friday September 25th

Ron Carter Live Interview with Dave Schroeder at Barnes & Noble (NYC) on Friday September 25th

Join us this Friday, September 25th for an in-store Barnes & Noble interview and performance session with legendary bassist Ron Carter with special guest Russell Malone. Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm Barnes and Noble 150 East 86th Street New York, NY 10028 About Dave Schroeder As a performer, Dave Schroeder’s main musical focus ...

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News: Recording

Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection Super-Deluxe Box Set

THE COMPLETE MILES DAVIS COLUMBIA ALBUM COLLECTION is an historic release event. The super-deluxe box set contains 52 CD and double-CD albums--which includes the previously unreleased full-length audio version of Isle Of Wight performance from 1970--70 CDs in all. (Rarities and other previously unreleased material still exist in the vast Miles Davis archive, and they are ...

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Article: Profile

John Hebert

Read "John Hebert" reviewed by A. Henkin

by A. Henkin

John Hebert is the answer to the sad trivia question, Who is the last bassist to play with pianist Andrew Hill? That final performance came on Mar. 29th, 2007 at Trinity Church in downtown Manhattan in a trio with drummer Eric McPherson; Hill would die just over three weeks later. For the New Orleans-born Hebert, being ...

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Article: Film Review

Bill Frisell: Solos and Films of Buster Keaton

Read "Bill Frisell: Solos and Films of Buster Keaton" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

In a career which is in 2009 entering its fourth decade in the public eye, guitarist Bill Frisell has fashioned a trajectory like no other. As comfortable playing Hank Williams country tunes as he is a Ron Carter blues, the guitarist has created such a distinctive sound that, even when he's playing a plain old G ...

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Article: Profile

Geri Allen: Journey to the Light

Read "Geri Allen: Journey to the Light" reviewed by Greg Thomas

by Greg Thomas

Geri Allen's playing and compositional efforts manifest a stylistic flexibility grounded in her absorption of the lessons of the masters of the jazz idiom, and her desire to innovate upon that legacy. As an apprentice during high school and college, and then as a journeywoman, Allen has kept company with musical legends.

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Article: Album Review

Michael Olatuja: Speak

Read "Speak" reviewed by Eugene Holley, Jr.

by Eugene Holley, Jr.

At its very best, pop music is supposed to be inclusive, and open to a wide variety of styles and genres; that's what makes it pop right? But what is heard on the Internet and the airwaves is at best formulaic, at worst uninspired and superficial. Along with that diagnosis there's the almost Apartheid-like exclusion of ...

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Article: Book Review

Ron Carter: Finding The Right Notes

Read "Ron Carter: Finding The Right Notes" reviewed by Eugene Holley, Jr.

by Eugene Holley, Jr.

Ron Carter: Finding The Right Notes Dan Ouellette 435 pagesISBN: 978-0-615-26526-1 ArtistShare 2008 Songwriter and vocalist Gil Scott-Heron said that his basslines “glowed in the dark." Trumpeter Miles Davis proclaimed him the “anchor" of his groundbreaking quintet of the 1960s. And he literally laid down the groove for ...

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Article: Interview

Bern Nix: A History In Harmolodics

Read "Bern Nix: A History In Harmolodics" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

New York-based free jazz guitarist Bern Nix is one of the few people who are well-versed in Ornette Coleman's “harmolodics" style. He played with Coleman from 1975-1987, and now leads the Bern Nix Trio in New York City. In his compositions and his intriguing covers of standards, he is always looking in the corners of the ...

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Article: Live Review

George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55 a Triumph

Read "George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55 a Triumph" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke

by R.J. DeLuke

There seemed to be a distinct feeling in the air at this year's jazz festival in Newport, R.I. It would be easy to imagine that there was something in the air, because the festival that was started by impresario George Wein way back in 1954 and became the model for all to follow had suffered an ...

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Article: Live Review

Steve Kuhn: On Japan

Read "Steve Kuhn: On Japan" reviewed by Wayne Zade

by Wayne Zade

Steve Kuhn's most recent CD, Mostly Coltrane (ECM, 2009), pays tribute to John Coltrane, having been the first pianist in the legendary saxophonist's quartet. He also has played as a sideman with Kenny Dorham, Art Farmer, Stan Getz and many others. Mostly Kuhn has led his own groups, largely trios with bassists including Buster Williams, Eddie ...


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