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Article: Record Label Profile

Dreyfus Records: Crossing Continents with Music

Read "Dreyfus Records: Crossing Continents with Music" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard

Music, at its best, has the ability to reach across boundaries of nationality, gender and age. If there's a message in music, it's about communication, and about getting to the essence of everything: the beating pulse of a human heart. In an increasingly commercial market, where it has become more important to make music that opens ...

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Article: Live Review

Newport Jazz Festival As Strong As Ever

Read "Newport Jazz Festival As Strong As Ever" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke

by R.J. DeLuke

CareFusion Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State ParkNewport, RIAugust 6-8, 2010 It may seem like a small thing, but it's nice that the jazz festival in Rhode Island last weekend, August 6-8, was called the CareFusion NewportJazz Festival. No matter how you slice that, it's the Newport Jazz Festival, in the ...

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Article: Live Review

Newport Jazz Festival: Saturday, August 7, 2010

Read "Newport Jazz Festival: Saturday, August 7, 2010" reviewed by Timothy J. O'Keefe

by Timothy J. O'Keefe

Part 1 | Part 2 CareFusion Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State ParkNewport, RIAugust 7, 2010 Sun rays streamed through mostly blue skies, pelting Fort Adams State Park with heat, as the annual jazz festival returned to the Rhode Island peninsula in 2010. Few people attending probably even ...

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News: Festival

53rd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Presented By Verizon Coming in September!

500 Legendary Jazz Icons, Classic Collaborations and Multi-Cultural and International Artists on 8 Stages for 3 Days of Nonstop Entertainment, September 17㬏, 2010 Headliners on the Arena/Lyons Stage Include Dianne Reeves, Freedom Band with Chick Corea, Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride and Roy Haynes; Ahmad Jamal, Harry Connick, Jr., Angelique Kidjo, Les Nubians, Roy Hargrove Big Band, ...

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News: Obituary

Francis Dreyfus: 1940 - 2010

Francis Dreyfus: 1940 - 2010

Music publisher and record producer Francis Dreyfus died Thursday, June 24, 2010, at the age of 70. Through his labels Disques Motors and Dreyfus Records, Francis Dreyfus launched the careers of prominent artists, including Christophe and Jean Michel Jarre. His love of jazz led to the creation of the Dreyfus Jazz label which brought together such ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Daniel Ian Smith

Read "Take Five With Daniel Ian Smith" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Daniel Ian Smith: Daniel Ian Smith is a saxophonist/flutist and an Associate Professor at the esteemed Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, where he has taught for the past fifteen years. Daniel has had the privilege to perform in Japan, England, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Canada, and throughout the United States in major jazz festivals ...

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Article: Live Review

Chick Corea and the Freedom Band at Denver's Botanic Gardens

Read "Chick Corea and the Freedom Band at Denver's Botanic Gardens" reviewed by Geoff Anderson

by Geoff Anderson

Chick Corea and the Freedom BandBotanic GardensDenver, COJune 14, 2010The last couple times Chick Corea came through Denver, he was highly electrified. The summer before last, he performed with the reunion tour of Return to Forever. Last summer, he came through with The 5 Peace Band featuring John McLaughlin. Both of ...

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Article: Album Review

Daniel Smith: Blue Bassoon

Read "Blue Bassoon" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

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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Article: Live Review

2010 Playboy Jazz Festival: A Swingin' Party At The Hollywood Bowl

Read "2010 Playboy Jazz Festival: A Swingin' Party At The Hollywood Bowl" reviewed by Chuck Koton

by Chuck Koton

Hear the name Playboy and in an instant, a parade of “hot" images race involuntarily across the mind's eye. There's Dizzy, bent over and blowin' the hippest sounds through his misshapen horn; Stan Getz' tenor sax pourin' forth cool samba; Benny Goodman and Count Basie leadin' their bands through swing history; Art Blakey and his band ...

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Article: Book Review

I Walked With Giants

Read "I Walked With Giants" reviewed by Russ Musto

by Russ Musto

I Walked with GiantsJimmy Heath/Joseph McLarenSoftcover; 344 pagesISBN: 1439901988Temple University Press2010 The title alone of Jimmy Heath's marvelous memoir speaks volumes about the man. The NEA Jazz Master is himself an acknowledged giant among his peers and his choice to name the book ...


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