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Article: Album Review

North Mississippi Allstars: The North Mississippi Allstars: Keys to the Kingdom

Read "The North Mississippi Allstars: Keys to the Kingdom" reviewed by Doug Collette


Following a hiatus of sorts for The North Mississippi Allstars, during which time guitarist Luther Dickinson worked with The Black Crowes while drummer sibling Cody fronted his own band, Hill Country Revue, the group's reformation has fueled a fire within the music of Keys to the Kingdom. The music begins to flow in a ...

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Article: Interview

Barry Cleveland: Beyond Convention

Read "Barry Cleveland: Beyond Convention" reviewed by Anil Prasad


The personal is the political for guitarist and composer Barry Cleveland. That perspective is evident on Hologramatron (MoonJune, 2010), his new album featuring songs that serve as a response to the socio-political and religious narratives woven by the voices dominating today's 24-hour news cycles. Cleveland is unafraid of telling it exactly as he sees it, with ...

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Article: Interview

Kane Mathis: Kora Meets Jazz

Read "Kane Mathis: Kora Meets Jazz" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Seattle's Kane Mathis is one of the world's leading performers on the kora, the distinctive (usually) 21-stringed West African harp instrument that is the major instrument of the Mandinka people of Mali; the Malian equivalent of the Western keyboard. Mathis has studied the instrument since the age of twenty, making several trips to The Gambia to ...

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Article: Live Review

Punkt Festival 2010

Read "Punkt Festival 2010" reviewed by John Kelman


The trials and tribulations of international travel--flight delays, missing or damaged baggage, and increasing limitations on said baggage--can be enough to frustrate even the most patient and seasoned world traveler. But despite an almost incredible confluence of problems flying to Kristiansand, Norway, for Punkt 2010, once there all such problems were forgotten. Punkt is simply too ...

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News: Obituary

Richie Hayward: February 6, 1946 - August 12, 2010

Richie Hayward: February 6, 1946 - August 12, 2010

By C. Michael Bailey Drummer and Little Feat founder Richie Hayward passed away Thursday, August 12, 2010, in his current home of Victoria, British Columbia. He was 64 years old. Originally Hailing from Clear Lake, Iowa, Hayward would be instrumental in the percussion on scores of recordings by Robert Plant, Robert Palmer, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, ...

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Article: Live Review

Los Cenzontles at Americas Society, July 21 2010

Read "Los Cenzontles at Americas Society, July 21 2010" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes


Los CenzontlesAmericas SocietyNew York, NYWednesday, July 21, 2010 The California-based 8-piece ensemble came to the crowded Upper East Side room with a selection of contemporary-inflected traditional Mexican music, kicking off with “Hermosissimo Lucero," an a capella number in two voices. That was followed by an original number entitles “Soy Mexico Americano," ...

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Article: Album Review

Steve Tibbetts: Natural Causes

Read "Natural Causes" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


First things first: this is a mellow record. A very mellow record. Not Ben Webster mellow, or Antonio Carlos Jobim mellow, or Morton Feldman mellow, but rather, a record of music depicting a kind of quietism: profoundly passive contemplation. And it's not clear that quietism is a direction all jazz fans will want to go.

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Article: Album Review

Luther Dickinson and The Sons of Mudboy: Onward and Upward

Read "Onward and Upward" reviewed by Doug Collette


Luther Dickinson, a founding member of The North Mississippi Allstars and a guitarist recently recruited into The Black Crowes, is only one member of The Sons of Mudboy, an impromptu gathering of musicians offering a posthumous tribute to Dickinson's father, Jim. The group's name constitutes a further homage to the elder Dickinson, who fronted a band ...

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Article: Album Review

Joel Frahm / Bruce Katz: Project A

Read "Project A" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


Joel Frahm and Bruce Katz's Project A is not a codename for a scientific research program or some covert operation, but, instead, a finger-snapping, toe-tapping tribute to the original Queen of Soul, singer Aretha Franklin. Frahm, a superlative saxophonist who has worked with Maynard Ferguson, Brad Mehldau and Kurt Rosenwinkel, is joined by ...

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Article: Album Review

Ramblin' Jack Elliott: A Stranger Here

Read "A Stranger Here" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Few living artists can claim to have been mentor and model to Bob Dylan, but the man Dylan described as the King of folk singers-- Ramblin' Jack Elliott--has influenced a host of singers and story tellers from Johnny Cash and Ry Cooder to Tom Waits. Now in his sixth recording decade, Elliott returns in great voice ...


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