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Article: Interview

Warren Wolf: Beyond Perfect Pitch

by George Colligan
August 20, 2013

[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth]Warren Wolf is an amazing young multi-instrumentalist from Baltimore. He plays the drums quite well, and I've hired him and worked with Wolf the drummer in a number of settings. He is the premier young vibraphonist on the scene. He also plays ...

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News: Music Industry

Charlie Harrington Now Allegra Drums Artist

May 15, 2013

Award-Winning Acclaimed Artist, Charlie Harrington, has signed withAllegra Drums. He is an in demand session musician with a well-established reputation as a first call drummer. Charlie joins, among others, country drumming veteran Ric McClure, James Brown funk drummer Erik Hargrove, Spyro Gyra alumn Tom Walsh, as well as jazz drumming and Motown great Mel Brown, in ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Bridge Presents Lynn Riley At The Kennett Flash Wed. May 2nd!

April 11, 2012

Appearing on Wednesday, May 2nd at the Kennett Flash, 102 Sycamore Alley, Kennett Square, PA, for the last concert of this season will be saxophonist Lynn Riley and her band World Mix. Showtime: 7:30 p.m. One show. $10/$5 students. No advance sales. For info: Call 484-732-8295. This concert is produced by Jazz Bridge, a nonprofit that ...

Article: Album Review

Spyro Gyra: A Foreign Affair

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 16, 2012

Odori caraibici, jazz in senso ampio e soluzioni vagamente pop: sono questi gli elementi che caratterizzano il nuovo lavoro targato Spyro Gyra, caratteristiche che ne hanno segnato - con risultati alterni - l'intera carriera. A Foreign Affair è un contenitore dove trova posto una musica a volte trascurabile, come testimoniato dall'iniziale “Caribe," ma altre volte più ...

News: Festival

2012 Kettle Moraine Jazz Festival Entertainment Line Up

March 4, 2012

The West Bend Sunrise Rotary Foundation, Inc., producers of the annual Kettle Moraine Jazz Festival (KMJF), announced that the line up for the 2012 festival, which will take place along the banks of the upper Milwaukee River at Riverside Park in West Bend, Wis., Sept. 7—Sept. 8, is set. Tickets for the 2012 KMJF are now ...

Album

A Foreign Affair

By Spyro Gyra

Label: GRP
Released: 2011

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Joyce Spencer

by AAJ Staff
May 22, 2011

Meet Joyce Spencer:A native of South Louisiana, Joyce Spencer began playing the clarinet in 5th grade, but switched to tenor saxophone in the 12th. During this time, her musical influence included blues, jazz, zydeco, gospel, classical and R&B. She later included the alto sax and flute at McNeese State University where she received a ...

News: Recording

Saxophonist Peter MacDonough releases Latin-flavored homage to The Wizard of Oz

February 1, 2011

(Sydney, Australia)—It would seem fitting that a tribute album to The Wizard of Oz would be by a man from Oz. But don't peg The Woo: A Latin Jazz Suite for Soprano Saxophone as some novelty item. Saxophonist Peter MacDonough has reinterpreted songs from the 1939 film in an Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian context. The Wizard of ...

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Article: Interview

Darius Jones: From Johnny Hodges To Noise Jazz

by AAJ Staff
January 11, 2011

Alto saxophonist Darius Jones--who won most critics' nomination for the best jazz newcomer album of 2009 for Man'ish Boy (A Raw And Beautiful Thing) (AUM Fidelity, 2009)--is a great fan of Johnny Hodges. He says that the lyrical Duke Ellington altoist is his hero, and this is pleasantly noticeable at the beginning of Man'ish Boy. It ...

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Article: Interview

Dave Liebman: A New York Story

by John Kelman
January 10, 2011

A few months shy of 65, saxophonist Dave Liebman may be having the busiest time of his career, now in its fifth decade. In the past 12 months, nearly a dozen releases have demonstrated the tremendous stylistic breadth of a musical oeuvre that kicked into high gear early, when, in the short span of three years, ...