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Article: Interview

Stanley Clarke: Path Maker

by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
February 22, 2011

Innovation is a cherished quality in any art form and, truth be told, some follow greatness while others create the patterns that make that same greatness possible. There are teachers, and then, there are students. In jazz, musicians skilled in all sorts of instruments tend to look at their older peers in amazement, and challenges within ...

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Article: Interview

Russ Gershon: Time Traveler, Four Million Years Later

by Ian Patterson
February 21, 2011

Twenty-five years is a long time in jazz. When saxophonist/composer/bandleader Russ Gershon founded the Either/Orchestra back in 1985, trumpeter Miles Davis was on the crest of his jazz/funk comeback wave, and the so-called Young Lions movement fronted by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was coming into prominence, just as Weather Report--the last of the great '70s fusion bands--was ...

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News: Recording

Stan Getz on Clef and Norgran

February 21, 2011

On Friday, November 14, 1952, tenor saxophonist Stan Getz caught a break. The demand for tickets to a Carnegie Hall concert celebrating Duke Ellington's 25 years in the music business was so strong that a second midnight show had to be added. Fortunately for Getz, he was given a 40-minute slot on stage in each of ...

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News: Interview

Either/Orchestra's Russ Gershon Interviewed at All About Jazz...and More!

February 21, 2011

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Article: Extended Analysis

Stan Getz: Quintets - The Clef and Norgran Studio Albums

by Chris May
February 17, 2011

Stan GetzQuintets: The Clef & Norgran Studio AlbumsVerve/Hip-0 Select2011 A pleasure to handle and a thrill to play, this limited edition box set brings together all the quintet studio recordings made by tenor saxophonist Stan Getz for impresario Norman Granz's Clef and Norgran labels, soon to be ...

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Article: Live Review

Thailand International Jazz Conference, January 28-30, 2011

by Ian Patterson
February 16, 2011

Thailand International Jazz Conference Mahidol University School of Music Bangkok, Thailand January 28-30, 2011It's almost impossible to go anywhere in Thailand without hearing music at all hours: people sing for their own enjoyment as they go about their daily business, displaying a lack of inhibition generally absent in ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Stan Getz

February 2, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Stan Getz's birthday today! Stan GetzBeginnings... Stan Getz was born at St. Vincent\'s Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Feb. 2, 1927. He had one brother, Robert, who was born on October 30, 1932. His parents had come from the Kiev area in the Ukraine in 1903... ...

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Article: Interview

Paquito D'Rivera: Jazz at the Heart

by R.J. DeLuke
January 25, 2011

There is almost nothing Paquito D'Rivera hasn't accomplished since his arrival on the U.S. jazz scene in the early 1980s, when the young Cuban arrived from Spain--the first spot he hid when he defected from his home nation and its Communist rule that denied personal freedoms and forced musicians playing jazz to call it something else ...

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Article: Unsung Heroes

Laurindo Almeida, Charlie Byrd, and Ralph Towner

by Sean Dietrich
January 25, 2011

The concert guitar is hailed by many as the perfect instrument. After being perfected in the Baroque age, virtuosos believed the wooden torso to posses the variety of an orchestra. The concert guitar produces a wide range of tone, timber, color, and dynamic expression unlike any other stringed instrument, capable of projecting a delicate voice of ...

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News: Recording

John Williams or John Williams?

January 23, 2011

An old bit of confusion revived for a time this week when Mosaic Records announced a Stan Getz box set to be issued next spring. The electronic news release about the 1950s Getz quintet recordings for Norman Granz's Norgran label mentioned Getz, Bob Brookmeyer and “pianist Johnny Williams (who later became film composer John Williams)." After ...