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Article: Interview

Nat Birchall: Alone In The Music

by Chris May
July 13, 2010

Two of the most over-used phrases in music journalism are “overnight star" and “out of nowhere," and so apologies for starting with them here. But when it comes to describing British saxophonist Nat Birchall, they have an unusual degree of exactitude. Birchall, born in 1957 in the rural seclusion of the hill country of North-West England, ...

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Article: Album Review

Jennifer Zarine: Fresh Made Cuppa Tea

Read "Fresh Made Cuppa Tea" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
July 12, 2010

A seizure of nostalgia has gripped the jazz vocals community and shows no evidence of abating. Retta Christie continues her excellent survey of obscure cowboy movie tunes with Dave Frishberg. Lawrence Lebo strips the American musical vernacular to the quick in her three volume series, and Jennifer Zarine successfully mashes up 75 years of Americana with ...

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Article: Live Review

Norwegian Road Trip, Part 1: Kongsberg Jazz, July 7-8, 2010

by John Kelman
July 11, 2010

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Article: Live Review

Freihofer's Jazz Festival 2010: 33rd Edition is Strong

by R.J. DeLuke
July 9, 2010

2010 Freihofer's Jazz FestivalSaratoga Springs, NYJune 26-27, 2010 Watching Kendrick Scott's Oracle band in the warmth and sunshine of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center recently brought into focus everything that's good about the two-day event created by legendary impresario George Wein in 1978 and carried on more than capably by Danny Melnick's ...

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Article: Album Review

Curtis Fuller: I Will Tell Her

Read "I Will Tell Her" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
July 9, 2010

Legendary trombonist Curtis Fuller and saxophonist Keith Oxman have performed a regular gig at the Dazzle nightclub in Denver leading to this first recording for Fuller on the Capri label. I Will Tell Her is a special album in several ways, dedicated to Fuller's late wife Cathy, the album is also the 100th of the Capri ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Rekindles Cuban Fire Suite

by Jack Bowers
July 4, 2010

On June 5, 2010, with the temperature in Albuquerque hovering around 100 degrees, the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra couldn't have wished for a better time to perform Johnny Richards' incendiary Cuban Fire suite, first recorded in 1956 by the Stan Kenton Orchestra. The sold-out concert was the opening event in the city's annual Jazz and Blues Under ...

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News: Award / Grant

Sonny Rollins Receives Miles Davis Award at Montreal Jazz Festival

June 30, 2010

The Montreal Jazz Festival bestowed awards on three of the biggest names in jazz over the weekend, including Sonny Rollins, who won the Miles Davis Award. The tenor saxophonist, a legend on the jazz scene for five decades, was presented with the award Sunday ahead of his concert at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier. Nicknamed the “Saxophone Colossus," he ...

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Article: Live Review

Live!Singapore: June 8-11, 2010

by Ian Patterson
July 1, 2010

Rarely do the worlds of jazz, classical music, world music and musical theatre come together in one place to hobnob and strut their stuff, but that was exactly what happened at Live!Singapore, an ambitious event organized by Koelnmesse and IMG Artists. Festival directors, producers, agents, managers, executives and artists of these four disciplines came from more ...

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Article: Live Review

Burlington Vermont Discover Jazz Festival 2010: In Service to the Community

by Doug Collette
June 29, 2010

Discover Jazz Festival 2010 Burlington, Vermont June 4-June 13, 2010 The symmetry of the graphic design for the poster announcing the 2010 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival is emblematic of the balance attained in this year's lineup. More thoroughly traditional than in years past, the event nevertheless could not help but produce a ...

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Article: Album Review

The Mark Lomax Trio: The State Of Black America

Read "The State Of Black America" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 29, 2010

Drummer/composer/band leader Mark Lomax must not be afraid of ghosts. Because with all the spirits hovering over his recording The State Of Black America, it would be understandable that he and his band of saxophonist Edwin Bayard and bassist Dean Hulett might be a bit intimidated to bridge the firebrand music of the 1960s from today's ...