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Article: Album Review

Mads Tolling: The Playmaker

Read "The Playmaker" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
October 24, 2009

He's been around for a few years as a member of the Turtle Island Quartet, but for some he's best known for his work on Stanley Clarke's welcome return to fusion, The Toys of Men (Heads Up, 2007). Either way, The Playmaker isn't the violinist's first release as a leader--that would be Speed of Light (Self ...

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Take Five With Willerm Delisfort

by AAJ Staff
October 24, 2009

Meet Willerm Delisfort:Pianist and composer Willerm Delisfort is a messenger of life using music as his tool. His career extends the continuum of musical styles that ranges from jazz, gospel, R&B and many more. Because of this, Willerm's versatility has created a high demand for him with prominent jazz, rap, soul, and fusion artists ...

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Jazz Violinist Mads Tolling Releases the Playmaker, a Salute to Sports and Music Greats

October 18, 2009

Mads Tolling, internationally renowned violinist, violist, and composer, is a two-time Grammy Award winner. He is currently a member of the Turtle Island Quartet and soloist with bassist Stanley Clarke’s band. Born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark, Mads moved to Boston to study at Berkeley College of Music. Mads was immediately recognized as a fresh voice ...

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Article: Live Review

2009 Detroit Jazz Festival

by Wilbur MacKenzie
October 3, 2009

Detroit Jazz FestivalDetroit, MISeptember 4-7, 2009A short distance from Hitsville USA, where Berry Gordy created the Motown sound, shaping the history of American music and culture, and the Diego Rivera Court, where the artist's murals pay tribute to the workers whose hands made the auto industry a reality, sits Hart Plaza, Detroit's waterfront ...

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Vibraphonist Stefon Harris Interviewed at AAJ

September 22, 2009

Authenticity is a special word for vibraphone wizard Stefon Harris when it comes to his art, which springs from the tradition of jazz music, but is approached through a modern lens that takes into account the sounds and perspective of 2009. He has enough audacity--also a special word for Harris--to say it clearly, to elucidate what ...

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Article: Live Review

30th Annual Detroit International Jazz Festival

by Matt Marshall
September 22, 2009

Hank Jones / Corea, Clarke & White Sean Jones / Dave Brubeck Quartet / Brian Auger's Oblivion Express Alfredo Rodriguez / Dennis Coffey / Wayne Shorter Quartet Chuchito Valdes / Stefon Harris & Blackout 30th Annual Detroit International Jazz Festival Detroit, Michigan ...

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Stefon Harris: Authenticity and Audacity

by R.J. DeLuke
September 22, 2009

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Recent Listening: Stefon Harris

September 10, 2009

Stefon Harris And Blackout, Urbanus (Concord). Harris is one of the brightest legatees of the vibraphone tradition glorified by Milt Jackson and such of his successors as Walt Dickerson, Cal Tjader and Bobby Hutcherson. The Jackson school played an important part in Harris's development as a soloist. But, born in 1973, he came to maturity in ...

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Stefon Harris & Blackout: Urbanus

by John Kelman
August 26, 2009

Since emerging in the late 1990s as the vibraphonist of his generation, Stefon Harris has been unfairly tagged as an overly cerebral player for Blue Note projects like the elaborate Grand Unification Theory (2003) and African Tarantella: Dances for Duke (2006). Evolution (Blue Note, 2004), Harris' first with his groove-happy Blackout band, went a long way ...

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Stefon Harris and Blackout Return with "Urbanus" on Concord Jazz, August 25

August 6, 2009

Concord Jazz today announced the release of vibraphonist-composer Stefon Harris’s 7th album as a bandleader and Concord debut, Urbanus. The new release picks up where 2004’s Evolution left off in that it features Blackout, his scintillating ensemble that’s as versed in modern jazz as it is with rhythms, melodies and soundscapes associated with R&B, pop, hip-hop ...