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News: Interview

Interview: Davide Recchia

June 19, 2013

Q: Where did the interest in music originate from? A: I started becoming interested in music when I listened to some blues artist like Son House, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, and many others of that kind of blues. So I start to play my guitar to became a bluesman like that. Q: Were your parents supportive ...

Article: Album Review

Bobby McFerrin: spirityouall

Read "spirityouall" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
May 8, 2013

Bobby McFerrin, Al Jarreau and Jon Hendricks are the most innovative jazz voices of the past 50 years. Our current subject, McFerrin, took the technical capabilities of the human voice, remolding them into the fantastic and delightful forms we recognise as his genius today. spirityouall is McFerrin's celebration of both his father, Robert McFerrin, Sr., the ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective

by C. Michael Bailey
April 6, 2013

If a musical note has a soul, Duane Allman could slide up to it and hold it beneath a Coricidin bottle in a tremolo seizure of sonic perfection until it screamed. Whether it is the whiplash introduction to “Don't Keep Me Wonderin'" or the most perfect electric blues performance recorded on “One Way Out," Allman had ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Son House

March 21, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Son House's birthday today! Son House, the legendary Delta blues singer and guitarist, was an original voice coming out of Depression era Mississippi. He embodied the isolation, poverty and alienation of the Delta, which translated into his visceral and gripping expressions, forming the bedrock of the blues idiom. His influence looms ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Sonny Landreth: Elemental Journey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 23, 2012

Sonny Landreth Elemental Journey Landfall Records 2012 How did we arrive at the phenomenon that is guitarist Sonny Landreth? In his autobiography, Father of the Blues: An Autobiography (Da Capo Press, 1969), African American composer W. C. Handy detailed his experience of sleeping on the train platform in ...

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Article: Album Review

Heritage Blues Orchestra: And Still I Rise

Read "And Still I Rise" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal
March 26, 2012

If ever there was a perfect title for a blues record, it has to be And Still I Rise , serving notice that the Heritage Blues Orchestra is a revival force with which to be reckoned. The group dishes out pure blues, blending greasy gut-bucket, hallelujah gospel, down home country, Chicago's South Side and everything in ...

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Article: Bailey's Bundles

Robert Johnson’s Persistent Ghost

by C. Michael Bailey
November 6, 2011

The centenary of blues musician Robert Johnson's birth passed quietly May 8, 2011. Anticipating it was the release of The Complete Recordings: The Centennial Collection (Legacy Recordings, 2011). The liner notes for this release, penned by Ted Gioia and Steve LaVere, continue the best biographical line of the allusive singer begun in the liner notes of ...

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Article: Book Review

Daniel Beaumont: Preachin’ the Blues - The Life and Times of Son House

by C. Michael Bailey
August 27, 2011

Preachin' the Blues: The Life and Times of Son House Daniel Beaumont Hardback; 224 pages ISBN: 0195395573 Oxford University Press 2011 Some of the new millennial writing about blues music, such as Elijah Wald's Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues (Amistad, 2004) ...

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Article: Live Review

Borneo Jazz 2011

by Ian Patterson
May 25, 2011

Borneo JazzMiri, Sarawak, BorneoMay 12-15, 2011 Borneo Jazz--known as the Miri International Jazz Festival for the previous five editions--has undergone a certain amount of rebranding in an effort to promote its growing stature as one of the leading jazz festivals in the region. This year the festival has increased from two to ...

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Article: Interview

Doug Wamble: A New Direction

by Matthew Warnock
December 21, 2010

It's never easy for an established artist to make a change in their musical output mid-career, especially if up until that point they have made a name for themselves in the realm of traditional jazz. While some of these artists make a switch because for monetary reasons or to reach a wider audience, others are drawn ...