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Salute!
By Stan Kenton
Label: Sounds of Yesteryear
Released: 2023
Track listing: My Funny Valentine; The Opener; Sam Meets the Mambo; Take the “A” Train; When Your
Lover Has Gone; Nightingale; The Wind; Jersey Bounce; Captain Obu; Prelude to a Kiss;
Tico Tico; A Lot of Livin’ to Do; Tuxedo Junction; Beeline East; The Shadow of Your Smile;
Just Bones; Street of Dreams.
Joe Block Christmas Extravaganza at Chris’ Jazz Café
by Victor L. Schermer
Joe Block Christmas Extravaganza Chris' Jazz Café Philadelphia, PA December 17, 2023 Pianist Joe Block is a remarkable pianist and band leader born and bred in Philadelphia and its suburbs. He is a graduate of both Juilliard and Columbia, was mentored by legendary pianists like Tom Lawton ...
Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2023
by Jack Bowers
2023 was another banner year for jazz of all shapes and sizes. It has been a pleasure to review so many splendid big-band albums along with wonderful enterprises by smaller groups, some of which were recording for the first time (hopefully, not the last). If this was a preview of things to come, we look forward ...
Curtis Counce: You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce!
by Richard J Salvucci
When bassist Curtis Counce died of a heart attack at the age of 37 in 1963, the jazz world was deprived of a major talent. Not that one would have known much, for his death, while noted, was not extensively covered. Counce, a Midwesterner, had come to California and to Los Angeles to learn his craft, ...
A Tale of Two Jazz Humbugs
by Con Chapman
"Humbug" is a little word of great utility that has unfortunately passed out of general usage. It means, according to Webster's Dictionary, “a person who does not live up to his claims; impostor." While it carries the connotation of deception or trickery, it was more generally applied to what we would today call--with less compactness--a pious ...
Celebrating Koko Taylor Plus New Releases By Count Basie Orchestra, Darcy James Argue, Lenora Zenzali Helm, Kavita Shah, Lezlie Harrison & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from The Count Basie Orchestra, Sharon Minemoto, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Lenora Zenzalai Helm, Kavita Shah, Lezlie Harrison and Eunmi Lee, with birthday shoutouts to Koko Taylor, Ann Richards, George Garzone, Melissa Stylianou, Basia, Nadia Washington and Carolina Calvache, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you ...
Large Jazz Ensembles: Gerald Wilson, Sun Ra and Others
by Jerome Wilson
From June of this year, this is a show that features a varied selection of large jazz ensembles that delve into traditional and contemporary styles and sometimes even travel to the outer reaches of this music. Bandleaders and arrangers heard on the program include Gerald Wilson, Christine Jensen, Sun Ra, Bob Crosby, and Maria Schneider. There ...
A Conversation with Tim Hagans
by AAJ Staff
This interview was first published at All About Jazz on December 1998. We spoke with Tim Hagans at Los Angeles's Jazz Bakery in January of this year for his last Blue Note release, a tribute to Freddie Hubbard entitled Hubsongs with fellow trumpeter Marcus Printup. He informed me that he was planning on releasing ...
Dewa Budjana: Joged Kahyangan
by John Kelman
Dewa Budjana may not be a household name outside of his native country, Indonesia, but with MoonJune Records picking up this exciting guitarist and composer, all that could be about to change. He's already garnered some serious attention with his first recording for the label, Dawai in Paradise, released earlier this year (2013), but at home, ...
Record Store Day 2023 Jazz Releases
by Kyle Simpler
Record Store Day, which started in 2007, is a biannual event designed to promote independent record stores. Every Record Store Day drop features limited-edition vinyl releases in practically every genre of music. The releases, however, are offered on a limited basis, and they are available for one time only. As a result, collectors often wait in ...
