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Festival International de Jazz de Port-au-Prince 2014

By Shannon J. Effinger Experiencing the rhythms of Haitian music for the first time in college was overwhelming to the senses. It was perhaps my first visceral connection to both jazz and my own Trinidadian heritage. My upbringing deprived me of the latter being culturally assimilated into the American culture. Visiting Haiti for the first time ...

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Live In Istanbul

Label: Konstrukt Music
Released: 2013
Track listing: Part I; Part II.

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Strings

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Slipping Away; River Suite: Dawn; River Suite: On The Bank; River Suite: Torrent; Theme For Ernie; Forever Gone; Ventura; It's The Talk Of The Town.

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Jim Snidero: Strings

Read "Strings" reviewed by David A. Orthmann


By staying in touch with his roots as a hard blowing alto saxophonist and leader of razor-sharp small bands, Jim Snidero has successfully married a ten-piece string section and a conventional jazz quartet. His arrangements of six original compositions (including the three-part “River Suite”) and two standards entail a constant shifting between the relative freedom of ...

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Jim Snidero: Strings

Read "Strings" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Jazz soloists especially like to make two types of recordings--those in duo with piano and those with strings . Art Pepper, Frank Morgan, Dizzy Gillespie and Jon Faddis made very fine piano duet recordings (Pepper and Morgan with the same pianist, George Cables, Gillespie and Faddis with Oscar Peterson). But seemingly, the Holy Grail of jazz ...

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Strings

Label: Leo Records
Released: 1993

Album

Strings

Label: TUM Records
Released: 1990


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