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Article: Interview

Roberta Gambarini: Making Listeners Fall 'So In Love'

Read "Roberta Gambarini: Making Listeners Fall 'So In Love'" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke

by R.J. DeLuke

It's been an out-of-the-ordinary career trip for Roberta Gambarini--a trip that's seen her go from a young girl in Italy, scatting along with records by American singers Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, to struggling to get singing gigs in her native land, to grabbing an opportunity to come to the United States, to gaining recognition by ...

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Article: Megaphone

Monk's Music and the Guitar

Read "Monk's Music and the Guitar" reviewed by Bobby Broom

by Bobby Broom

As a guitarist whose love for jazz music began in the '70s, I was understandably excited to hear a few months ago, from a most reliable source, that Thelonious Monk really dug guitarist George Benson! Benson was probably the most popular jazz guitarist of the '70s and those who know about the place of the guitar ...

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Article: Album Review

Paul Giallorenzo: Get In To Go Out

Read "Get In To Go Out" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Pianist Paul Giallorenzo locates the jazz he makes with his quintet somewhere in the early 1960s, when post-bop was getting ready to explode into free jazz and its pioneers were rooted in swing, but thinking outward thoughts. Eric Dolphy's Out To Lunch (Blue Note, 1964), Ornette Coleman's Tomorrow Is The Question (Contemporary, 1959), and Andrew Hill's ...

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Article: Profile

Thelonious Monk: Pianists Riff on Monk

Read "Thelonious Monk: Pianists Riff on Monk" reviewed by George Kanzler

by George Kanzler

This month, over a dozen pianists will participate in a free concert, Thelonious Monk at 92, at the World Financial Center in lower Manhattan. Seven of them, and two other pianists with an abiding interest in Monk, answered questions about Monk's music and more specifically, his piano playing, as influence and inspiration. Jazz ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Steve Blanco

Read "Take Five With Steve Blanco" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Steve Blanco:I play piano, compose, make films, write scripts and do odd jobs for dough ($$).Instrument(s):Piano, drums.Teachers and/or influences?There are too many to list.Two piano teachers that I feel I learned from would be George Mancini, Charles Blenzig and Jean-Michel Pilc. ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Thelonious Monk

Jazz Musician of the Day: Thelonious Monk

All About Jazz is celebrating Thelonious Monk's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Thelonious MonkWith the arrival Thelonious Sphere Monk, modern music--let alone modern culture--simply hasn’t been the same. Recognized as one of the most inventive pianists of any musical genre... more Website | Videos | ...

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Article: Highly Opinionated

Don Cherry: From Out of the Shadows

Read "Don Cherry: From Out of the Shadows" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

It was cool in Bombay that July in 1985, or was it 1986? Somehow the year does not seem to matter quite as much as it did when the phenomenon first occurred. The other details, of course, I remember clear as day. Association PC were tearing it up on stage at the fabled arena of the ...

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Article: Album Review

David Gibson: A Little Somethin'

Read "A Little Somethin'" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins

by Woodrow Wilkins

To read or listen to some of the commentary about jazz and hear that this genre of music is dying; to read with cynicism that artists are either playing music that is 50 years old or they are playing something so “catchy" and “mainstream," that it is a “stretch of the imagination" to even call it ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Eric Dolphy: Out To Lunch! - 45 rpm Reissue

Read "Eric Dolphy: Out To Lunch! - 45 rpm Reissue" reviewed by Matt Marshall

by Matt Marshall

Eric Dolphy Out To Lunch! Blue Note / Music Matters 2009 (1964) Few jazz fans still need an introduction to reed player Eric Dolphy's 1964 masterpiece, Out to Lunch!. It's an album people tend to come to fairly early on in their love affair with the music (assuming, that is, ...

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Article: Album Review

Roberto Magris Trio: Kansas City Outbound

Read "Kansas City Outbound" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Italian pianist Roberto Magris has, much in the mode of American piano icon Jessica Williams, melded multiple influences to shape his style. He channels McCoy Tyner, John Coltrane's pianist in his 1960's rise to jazz stardom, on Kansas City Outbound's opener/title tune. Dense chords and a powerful percussive attack are the well-executed game plan for the ...


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