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Article: Album Review

Dexter Gordon: American Classic

Read "American Classic" reviewed by Chris May


Reissued as part of the Warner Jazz Elektra Masters series, tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon's American Classic was originally released in 1982. It was part of a late-period American renaissance enjoyed by Gordon, who, after 15 years in Europe, had made a much lauded return to the New York club scene in the mid 1970s. Gordon's renaissance ...

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Article: Live Review

33rd Cape May Jazz Festival: A Patch of Choppy Water in Otherwise Smooth Seas

Read "33rd Cape May Jazz Festival: A Patch of Choppy Water in Otherwise Smooth Seas" reviewed by Tara Nurin


33rd Cape May Jazz Festival Cape May, NJ April 16-18, 2010 At 17 years old, the Cape May Jazz Festival has reached the pinnacle of its teenage years. As it readies itself for a third decade, its mere sustainability would be noteworthy enough. Yet this festival continues to deftly ...

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Article: Live Review

Cape May Jazz Festival's 33rd Edition

Read "Cape May Jazz Festival's 33rd Edition" reviewed by Sandy Ingham


Cape May Jazz FestivalCape May, NJApril 16-18, 2010If there's a formula for putting on a successful jazz festival, both artistically and box- office-wise, Cape May's got it. Need some straight-ahead hard bop: Check: How about Tim Warfield and his quintet's tribute to organist Shirley Scott? Some fusion-ey jazz/pop for those less ...

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Article: Interview

Mickey Roker: You Never Lose the Blues

Read "Mickey Roker: You Never Lose the Blues" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


Drummer Mickey Roker is a mainstay and icon of the jazz world, having a played with Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Lee Morgan, and many of the other signature groups of modern jazz. Yet he has always maintained his Philadelphia roots, and is and has been a regular at Ortlieb's Jazzhaus in that ...

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Article: Book Review

Prestige Records: The Album Cover Collection

Read "Prestige Records: The Album Cover Collection" reviewed by Larry Taylor


Prestige Records: The Album Cover Collection Hardcover; 128 pages ASIN: B002NACXY6 Concord Editions 2009 Prestige Records: The Album Cover Collection has been published in honor of the seminal jazz label's 60th anniversary. The handsome coffee table-sized book would make the perfect gift for many jazz fans--both ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Terell Stafford Shares Brotherly Love, Organ Fever

Read "Terell Stafford Shares Brotherly Love, Organ Fever" reviewed by Laurel Gross


Clayton BrothersBrother to Brother ArtistShare 2008 Tim WarfieldOne for Shirley Criss Cross 2008 Playing favorites can be a subjective enterprise but it would take a real grouch to insist that ...

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Trio Classics, Volume 1

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: The Scott; All Of You; Goodbye; Four; Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You; Trees Cherokee; Brazil; It Could Happen To You; Summertime; There Will Never Be Another You; Bye Bye Blackbird; S'posin; Baby Won't You Please Come Home; Indiana, (Back Home Again In); I Can't See For Lookin'.

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Trio Classics, Vol. 1

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: The Scott/ All of You/ Goodbye/ Four/ Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You/ Trees/ Cherokee/ Brazil/ It Could Happen To You/ Summertime/ There Will Never Be Another You/ Bye Bye Blackbird*/ S

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Shirley Scott: Trio Classics, Vol. 1

Read "Trio Classics, Vol. 1" reviewed by Derek Taylor


Over the past several years Fantasy has made great strides in returning portions of the classic Shirley Scott catalog to print. Their assiduous attention illustrates both the quality of Scott’s reservoir of recordings and its depth. This latest two-fer package collects a pair of albums that originate from the same single-day 1958 Rudy Van Gelder session. ...

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Shirley Scott: Trio Classics, Volume 1

Read "Trio Classics, Volume 1" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Trio Classics, Volume 1 is the latest of Fantasy Records' twofer releases, and what a fine one it is. Under the auspices of an organ jazz trio (organ-bass-drums), the divine Ms. Shirley Scott is restored to digital in a sensible and intelligent manner. Trio Classics is comprised of two Scott LP recordings: Great Scott (Prestige 7143) ...


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