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Article: Album Review

Francesco Cafiso: Moody'n

Read "Moody'n" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello

"Youth will be served." That is a saying appropriately describing the meteoric rise to success that Sicilian alto saxophonist Francesco Cafiso has achieved since he turned “professional" at nine years old. With Moody 'n, Cafiso plunges deeply into the BeBop canon performing a handful of classics and, in doing so demonstrates both the bravado of a ...

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Article: Interview

Noah Haidu: Carving Out His Place

Read "Noah Haidu: Carving Out His Place" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke

by R.J. DeLuke

New York-based pianist Noah Haidu came to jazz through the blues, listening to the searing, soulful guitar moans of Buddy Guy and Albert King. But his training, at the age of six, had its advent in classical music. He also likes to experiment with electronics.All these things go into the musical blender of one ...

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News: Interview

Saxophonist Bunky Green Interviewed at All About Jazz!

Saxophonist Bunky Green Interviewed at All About Jazz!

Saxophonist Bunky Green bristles at the idea of playing by the rules. On more than one occasion, the Milwaukee, Wisconsin native was on his way to jazz stardom, but each time his principles guided him elsewhere. This is a significant reason why the highly influential musician has mostly remained unsung and out of the spotlight for ...

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Article: Interview

Bunky Green: Urgency and Continuity

Read "Bunky Green: Urgency and Continuity" reviewed by Anil Prasad

by Anil Prasad

Saxophonist Bunky Green bristles at the idea of playing by the rules. On more than one occasion, the Milwaukee, Wisconsin native was on his way to jazz stardom, but each time his principles guided him elsewhere. This is a significant reason why the highly influential musician has mostly remained unsung and out of the spotlight for ...

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Article: Album Review

Charlie Apicella & Iron City: The Business

Read "The Business" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

Guitarist Charlie Apicella & Iron City get down to the gritty business of delivering variations of funk and soul jazz on The Business, a well-crafted, vibrant grind of guitar-organ sounds supported by percussion and saxophone voices in an exciting quintet format. Though Apicella's playing style has been compared to that of Wes Montgomery, he also has ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Bridge Presents Charlie Rice in Collingswood on October 6th

Kicking off the 8th season of the Jazz Bridge Neighborhood Concerts Series on Thursday October 6th at the Collingswood Community Center, 30 W. Collings Ave. Collingswood, NJ will be legendary (and 91 years old!) drummer Charlie Rice and his band featuring pianist Don Wilson, bassist Ed Wise, saxophonist Bob Howell and trombonist Clifford Adams. Rice has ...

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News: Recording

Sensual Sound of Sonny Stitt

Sensual Sound of Sonny Stitt

Back when I was a kid, I lived an hour north of New York City in the country. It wasn't my choice. My parents moved there from Manhattan in 1969 for the space and the public schools. As artists, they couldn't afford private-school tuitions in New York for me or my brother, and the public schools ...

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Article: Interview

Nick Hempton: The Way It Is

Read "Nick Hempton: The Way It Is" reviewed by David A. Orthmann

by David A. Orthmann

The Business (Positone, 2011) is a milestone in the career of Nick Hempton. Since arriving in the USA from his native Australia in 2004, the 35-year-old saxophonist, composer, and bandleader has slowly but surely worked his way up the ladder of the notoriously competitive New York City jazz scene. Hempton's second date as a leader is ...

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News: Recording

Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir to Release "Hear My Prayer" October 4

Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir to Release "Hear My Prayer" October 4

In the quarter-century since its founding, the 60-member Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir has become internationally renowned as one of the premier choirs in the gospel field. Its performances outside the San Francisco Bay Area are relatively rare, however, which makes the release of the OIGC's new CD, Hear My Prayer, all the more reason for celebration. ...

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Article: Album Review

Iron City: The Business

Read "The Business" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Guitarist Charlie Apicella and his band mates mix it up nicely with these originals and jazz standards, disavowing a rough-hewn presence and sporting a piquant mode of execution. The artists morph a somewhat traditional blue collar approach to the classic organ-combo into a contemporized product. The band may not 't reinvent the genre, but the diverse ...


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