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Article: Album Review

EJ Strickland: The Undying Spirit

Read "The Undying Spirit" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Drummer Enoch Jamal Strickland belongs to a technically brilliant and forward-thinking group of young musicians that include multi-reedist Sharel Cassity, vocalist/trombonist Natalie Cressman, and violinist/vocalist Nora Germaine. These musicians prove that youth is not wasted on the young. Strickland, New School-educated, is a veteran of The Ravi Coltrane Quartet, The Marcus Strickland Quartet and Trio, and ...

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Jazz With Strings

Read "Jazz With Strings" reviewed by Roger Crane

by Roger Crane

Please note the title of this collection. It does not include symphony orchestras playing jazz compositions. Nor does it feature what is known as “third stream" music, which is the combination of jazz and classical elements for what is hoped to be a unified whole. No, just like the title says, this collection includes jazz musicians ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Russell Malone

Jazz Musician of the Day: Russell Malone

All About Jazz is celebrating Russell Malone's birthday today! Russell Malone\'s first guitar was a plastic green toy his mother bought him. Only four years old, Malone strummed the little guitar all day long for days on end trying to emulate the sounds he had heard from guitarists at church in Albany, Georgia. As a child, ...

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Article: Live Review

Newport Jazz Festival 2014, Day 3

Read "Newport Jazz Festival 2014, Day 3" reviewed by Timothy J. O'Keefe

by Timothy J. O'Keefe

Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State Park Newport, RI Sunday, August 3, 2014 Smack--loud and robust, the horns blasted at the audience with a sound so voluminous it seemed impossible only four horns could have created it. And yet, four horns had. “Were you here ...

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Article: On and Off the Grid

Practice, Do You? Part 3-3

Read "Practice, Do You? Part 3-3" reviewed by Dom Minasi

by Dom Minasi

Continued from Part 2 I began studying the guitar when I was seven years old. I hated my teacher and I didn't practice much, but when I changed teachers' and I went to Joe Geneli, I regained a love for the guitar that I first had when I was four years old when I ...

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Article: Album Review

T.K. Blue: A Warm Embrace

Read "A Warm Embrace" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

Saxophonist and flutist T.K Blue's tenth album A Warm Embrace is an enchanting and elegant work with richly textured harmonies and captivating melodies. Even though not all of the tracks are strictly speaking ballads there is a sublime sense of poetry that runs throughout the record and is its prevailing and cohesive motif.The solemn ...

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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: 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: Album Review

Frank Wess: Magic 201

Read "Magic 201" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

The cover of the late Frank Wess' final album, Magic 201, closely resembles that of its predecessor, Magic 101--so much so that a reviewer who didn't look closely enough might assume he'd been sent a second copy of the earlier album by mistake. (Oops!) Wess recorded Magic 201 in September 2011, two months after Magic 101 ...

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Article: Album Review

Frank Wess: Magic 201

Read "Magic 201" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

IPO Records has become the jazz destination for seasoned jazz veterans. Saxophonist James Moody (1925--2010) recorded his last two releases for the label: Moody 4A (2009) and Moody 4B (2010). Hard on Moody's heels is saxophonist Frank Wess (1922- -2013) who followed his Magic 101 (2013) with the predictable titled Magic 201. Pianist Kenny Barron and ...


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