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Article: Interview

Steve Colson: Doing Jazz Justice

by Gordon Marshall
April 14, 2010

As well as being a great music educator, Steve Colson is one of the most versatile jazz pianists of the last forty years, with a grasp of idioms ranging from swing to free, and from European romanticism to new music. What's more, he is a master of compression, incorporating these sources into solos and compositions with ...

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Article: Album Review

Steve Colson: The Untarnished Dream

Read "The Untarnished Dream" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
February 5, 2010

The embracing of jazz tradition while simultaneously reinterpreting is pianist Adegoke Steve Colson's pedigree and he continues to enrich us with every challenging note. The Untarnished Dream is more than a standard jazz trio session. With bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Andrew Cyrille as fellow standard bearers, Colson vividly interprets several original tunes he has composed ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Steve Colson Trio - "The Untarnished Dream" - CD Release Concert This Saturday Feb. 6 at Symphony Space

February 3, 2010

This Saturday night, Feb. 6, the Steve Colson Trio featuring Andrew Cyrille on drums and Reggie Workman on bass + Iqua Colson on vocals will perform at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia theatre at Symphony Space in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. This is the Colsons first release since 2004 and Steves 5th album as a ...

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Article: Opinion

The Power in Music

by Steve Colson
February 3, 2010

Toward the end of last year, the National Endowment for the Arts published results of its study on Public Participation in the Arts. One finding is that over a six-year period, less than 8% of Americans attended jazz events. So annually, out of some 300 million Americans, less than 2,500,000 attend jazz clubs, concerts and festivals ...