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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Sonny Clark

July 21, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Sonny Clark's birthday today! Conrad Yeatis “Sonny" Clark was an American jazz pianist who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom. Contents Clark was born and raised in Herminie, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town southeast of Pittsburgh. At age 12, he moved to Pittsburgh. When visiting an aunt in California at ...

News: Recording

Cool Music for Hot Weather: Sonny Clark

July 3, 2014

Now that wilting temperatures are here—at least in much of the northern hemisphere—Rifftides reader Larry Peterson suggests that Sonny Clark's Cool Struttin’ can bring welcome relief. Clark was a pianist who in a tragically short career attracted a substantial audience. His command of the keyboard and personalization of the style that he developed with Bud Powell ...

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Article: Interview

Horace Silver: Blue Note Records and His Lady Music

by Ed Hamilton
June 19, 2014

The Q&A portion of this article first appeared on KPFK 90.7 FM (Los Angeles) in 1974. 75 years ago Blue Note Records was started by two German immigrants who loved jazz and believed that the music should be heard and preserved. Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff collaborated and built the Blue Note vault ...

Article: Album Review

Alan Broadbent And NDR Bigband: America The Beautiful

Read "America The Beautiful" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
June 4, 2014

Being a part of the big band sound was an experience pianist Alan Broadbent embraced, endured and eventually, wanted to step away from. Orchestra music--comprised of boisterous reeds and brass sections--were far too loud and too big drowning out the finesse sounds of the acoustic piano. When Broadbent left the Woody Herman Big Band in 1972, ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Celebrating Blue Note Records 75th With Delicious Vinyl

by Mark Corroto
April 16, 2014

Everything old is new again. Except of course for the timeless music of Blue Note Records which celebrated its 75th anniversary this year. The recordings Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff produced starting in 1939 have been collector's items since day one. While much of the label's music has been re-released in digital format, CDs and in ...

Article: Album Review

Alan Broadbent And NDR Bigband: America The Beautiful

Read "America The Beautiful" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 5, 2014

In the brief liner essay that accompanies America The Beautiful, pianist Alan Broadbent notes that he has “an aversion to being clever," but the rest of the music world never received that memo. Everybody from Irene Kral to Diana Krall and Charlie Haden to Charlie Rich has benefited from his brilliance with a pen and/or a ...

Article: The Mort Report

WOW! Bird and Bach: Them two cats really could play!

by Mort Weiss
January 26, 2014

O.K. Now that I've got your attention, what should I write about? The many articles here at AAJ have damn near covered each and every aspect on the topic of jazz and its place (albeit) always in flux and change with each and every up and coming generation of players. Where is jazz in the scheme ...

Album

Holiday Flight - Live At The Lighthouse 1953

By Art Pepper

Label: SSJ
Released: 2013
Track listing: Brown Gold; These Foolish Things; Tickle Toe; Tenderly; Strike Up The Band; Night And Day; Deep Purple; Blue Bird; S’Wonderful; Pennys From Heaven; Holiday Flight;

Album

Blue Minor

By The Great Jazz Trio

Label: Eighty Eights
Released: 2013
Track listing: Nica's Dream; Dear Old Stockholm; Lonely Moments; I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart; Comin' Home Baby; Wave ; Blue Minor; My Ideal; I Got Rhythm; The Breeze And I; Budo; Misty;

Album

Remembering

By Grant Green

Label: Essential Jazz Classics
Released: 2013
Track listing: All The Things You Are; If I Had You; Love Walked In; I'll Remember April; You And The Night And The Music; I Remember You;