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News: Radio

Very Early: Bill Evans 1956-58

Very Early:  Bill Evans 1956-58

In the mid-1950s pianist Bill Evans was still a relative unknown, not yet the jazz-piano giant he’d become on the strength of recordings like Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Conversations With Myself. Evans had a strong influence on post-1960s jazz pianists—an influence some have found fault with, for certainly Evans had what’s been called a ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Tony Scott

Jazz Musician of the Day: Tony Scott

All About Jazz is celebrating Tony Scott's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Tony ScottTony Scott, a distinguished jazz clarinetist who in the 1950s helped steer his instrument out of the swing era and into the sax-infested waters of bebop. With Buddy DeFranco, Mr. Scott was considered one ...

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Article: Interview

Jim Hall: The Elegant Guitarist

Read "Jim Hall: The Elegant Guitarist" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke

by R.J. DeLuke

There's good news and better news for the many fans of guitar great Jim Hall--counted among them a number of established guitarists who are, themselves, eminent. It would be hard to find a guitarist who doesn't look up to Hall and whose playing has not been influenced by him in some way. Players relish Hall's rich ...

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A Jazz Life

By Tony Scott

Label:
Released: 2008
Track listing: 1. Low, Down, Dirty, Good for Nothing Blues (Scott) - 3:15; 2. Caravan (Ellington-Tiziol) - 5:48; 3. Come Sunday (Ellington) - 6:36; 4. Summertime (Gershwin-Heyward-Gershwin) - 4:14; 5. Satin Doll (Ellington) - 1:34; 6. Nina’s Dance (Scott) - 4:30; 7. 'Round Midnight (Monk) - 7:09; 8. You Don’t Know What Love Is (raye-De Paul) - 7:05; 9. Body and Soul (Green-Heyman Sour-Eyton) - 2:27; 10. Night in Tunisia (Gillespie) - 3:51; Lush Life (Strayhorn) - 4:15

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Article: Album Review

Eugene Lee: Meditations

Read "Meditations" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

Jazz musicians have showed a sporadic enthusiasm for meditation: experiments by John Coltrane (and Alice Coltrane), Pharoah Sanders and Keith Jarrett spring to mind, as does the clarinetist Tony Scott's quixotic Music for Zen Meditation (Verve, 1964) The music on these records focuses either on the nirvana-like state to which meditation practitioners could aspire ...

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Article: Album Review

Tony Scott: A Jazz Life

Read "A Jazz Life" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

L’etichetta Kind of Blue pubblica quello che probabilmente è l’ultimo documento discografico di un personaggio straordinario come Tony Scott, clarinettista classe 1921 che ha attraversato tutta la storia del jazz, lavorando con profitto accanto ai più grandi protagonisti di questa musica, a partire da Billie Holiday (sua grande amica) per arrivare a Jarrett, passando per Ellington ...

Album

A Jazz Life

By Tony Scott

Label: TES
Released: 2007

Album

The Clarentet Album

By Tony Scott

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2004

Album

Tony Scott

By Tony Scott

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Ode To An Oud 2. My Funny Valentine 3. Satin Doll 4. Homage to Lord Krishna 5. Blues For Charlie Parker 6. Sophisticated Lady 7. Swara Sulina 8. Nina

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Article: Album Review

Tony Scott: Tony Scott

Read "Tony Scott" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert

Up until now the only Tony Scott currently available was two albums intended as background music for meditation, neither pointing to the jazz leanings of a artist who cut his teeth with Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Carter, to name just two. This reissue of a 1967 Verve album amply documents Scott’s interest in Middle Eastern music, ...


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