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Article: Live Review

Many Shades of Jazz Come Out at Newport 2010

by R.J. DeLuke
August 13, 2010

CareFusion Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State ParkNewport, RIAugust 6-8, 2010 The variety of music at the 2010 CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival August 6-9 was one of its notable traits. Mainstream, Latin, electric stuff, ornate orchestral offerings, swing and all kinds of things in between.The originality of the music ...

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Article: Live Review

Newport Jazz Festival As Strong As Ever

by R.J. DeLuke
August 13, 2010

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

by Timothy J. O'Keefe
August 11, 2010

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: Recording

Bruce Barth's Suite Live

November 1, 2009

Pianist Bruce Barth has long been one of my favorite musicians. He's worked with a slew of great musicians, from James Moody to Branford Marsalis, Phil Woods to Andy Statman (his work on Statman's The Hidden Light is simply gorgeous.) In the early 1990's, Barth toured and recorded with trumpeter Terence Blanchard and his time with ...

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Article: Live From New York

September 2009

by AAJ Staff
September 12, 2009

Jenny ScheinmanLe Poisson RougeNew York City August 4, 2009The chameleon-like but ever electric Nels Cline seemed at first to be an unusual partner for violinist Jenny Scheinman, but if anything the guitarist knows how to make things work and he pushed the quartet (with bassist Matt Penman and drummer Jim ...

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News: Recording

Ben Allison -- Think Free: In Stores and on-Line October 13

August 29, 2009

Bassist/composer Ben Allison's ninth album, Think Free, is part of a paradigm shift that began with his 2005 Palmetto Records release,Cowboy Justice. “I wanted a band that rocked," says Allison of his changing sound. “I was moving away from the chamber-jazz elements of Medicine Wheel and Peace Pipe and trying to incorporate other sounds into my ...

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Article: Album Review

Shan Kenner Trio: Brooklyn Sketches

Read "Brooklyn Sketches" reviewed by Matthew Warnock

by Matthew Warnock
April 19, 2009

Brooklyn Sketches is a genre-bending, highly energetic album by New York-based guitarist Shan Kenner. Kenner's modern approach to improvising and his constant need to explore new realms of dissonance and rhythmic tension provide for some very interesting moments on the record. Not to be outdone, the rhythm section of Ryan Berg on bass and Rudy Royston ...