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Phish: Saratoga Springs, New York: July, 6-8 2012

by Doug Collette
July 28, 2012

PhishSaratoga Performing Arts CenterSaratoga Springs, New YorkJuly 6-8 2012Since their triumphant return to the stage in Hampton VA in March of 2009, the four members of Phish--guitarist/vocalist Trey Anastasio, bassist/vocalist Mike Gordon, keyboardist/vocalist Page McConnell and drummer/vocalist Jon Fishman--have renewed, reaffirmed and reinvented their personal and professional relationships. The climax to ...

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Tedeschi Trucks Band: Little Rock, AR, July 15, 2012

by C. Michael Bailey
July 26, 2012

Tedeschi Trucks BandRobinson AuditoriumLittle Rock, ArkansasJuly 15, 2012The post-millennial Allman Brothers Band has given rise to a number of notable side projects. Among these offshoots are guitarist Warren Haynes' projects Gov't Mule and The Warren Haynes Band, bassist Oteil Burbridge's Oteil and the Pacemakers, drummer Jai Johanny Johanson's Jaimoe's Jasssz Band, ...

Article: Album Review

Leon Foster Thomas: Brand New Mischief

by Dan Bilawsky
July 24, 2012

The sound of steel pans seems to surface at beaches and poolside bars more often than jazz clubs, but that doesn't mean that these sunny-sounding metal melody makers aren't welcome or cut out for the jazz life. Steel pan trailblazers, like Jaco Pastorius-associated Othello Molineaux and jazz-meets-world music giant Andy Narell, established a place for their ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Steve Montgomery

by AAJ Staff
July 18, 2012

Meet Steve Montgomery: In about 1980, I started to try to think about how to expand what the guitar could do harmonically and with its range (the bar has been set pretty high by all those great piano players out there). The two trend setters at the time (if you include ...

Article: Live Review

Ottawa Jazz Festival, Days 4-8: June 21-23, 2012

by John Kelman
July 1, 2012

Days 1-3 | Days 4-8 TD Ottawa International Jazz FestivalOttawa, CanadaJune 21-Jul 1, 2012With a total of five main venues--the main stage at Confederation Park, the Studio and Fourth Stage in the National Arts Centre, the OLG Stage tent across the street from Confederation Park at City ...

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Kuala Lumpur International Jazz Festival: 19-20 May, 2012

by Ian Patterson
June 8, 2012

KL International Jazz Festival Kuala Lumpur Convention CenterKuala Lumpur, MalaysiaMay 19-20, 2012The 19th and 20th of May, 2012 will long be remembered by jazz lovers in Kuala Lumpur as the day jazz came to town. The 13 acts that performed on the stage of the KL Convention Center made history by ...

Article: Album Review

Deep Blue Organ Trio: Wonderful!

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by Chris M. Slawecki
June 1, 2012

Wonderful! presents the Deep Blue Organ Trio's jazz take on nine Stevie Wonder hit songs that span Talking Book (Motown, 1972) to Songs in the Key of Life (Motown, '76), plus Wonder's 1969 hit single “My Cherie Amour" and “Tell Me Something Good," Chaka Khan's breakout from Rags to Rufus (MCA, '74) by Rufus (and which ...

Article: From the Inside Out

Missives from Distant Fronts

by Chris M. Slawecki
May 25, 2012

Bio RitmoLa Verdad Electric Cowbell Records2011 In September 2011, Bio Ritmo, the ten-piece salsa band from Richmond (Virginia), celebrated twenty years together, no small accomplishment for a band originally formed (says its official company bio) “as a percussion ensemble brought together by two misplaced Puerto Ricans who met ...

News: Recording

Tedeschi Trucks Band Celebrates 1st Anniversary With Release Of Live Double-Disc Album "Everybody's Talkin"

May 25, 2012

Everybody’s Talkin’ — released on May 22 — is the title of the uplifting, energy-packed sophomore recording by Tedeschi Trucks Band, the 11-piece ensemble led by husband-wife team Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi that recently marked their first anniversary with a Grammy win for their debut album Revelator. TTB (as their fans know them) shows off ...

Article: Jazz in the Aquarian Age

Herbie Mann: An Amalgamation of Everything

by Bob Kenselaar
May 22, 2012

[Flauist Herbie Mann was often ahead of the trend with his wide explorations into sounds from everywhere. When I asked him in this 1978 interview where music in general was heading, he talked about a broad mix--"an amalgamation of everything"--which might be a good way to describe Mann's overall career, except that it doesn't account for ...