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News: Event

The Recording Academy San Francisco Chapter Hosts Grammy Nominee Celebration

The Recording Academy San Francisco Chapter Hosts Grammy Nominee Celebration

By Walter Atkins The Recording Academy San Francisco Chapter’s GRAMMY Nominee Celebration was held Tuesday, January 20,2015 at The Lodge at the Regency Center in downtown San Francisco. The exclusive reception was well organized and attended by Bay Area artists, city officials and key Academy members including Michael Romanowski, Larry Batiste, and John Poppo, Vice Chair ...

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Confetti Man

Label: Azica Records
Released: 2014

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News: Festival

50th Anniversary Of A Love Supreme - Curated By Ravi Coltrane At SFJAZZ Center

50th Anniversary Of A Love Supreme - Curated By Ravi Coltrane At SFJAZZ Center

SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco's exclusive celebration of 50th Anniversary of A Love Supreme - curated by Ravi Coltrane During the week of December 10-14, 2014, SFJAZZ in San Francisco is presenting an exclusive 50th Anniversary Celebration of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme. To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of A Love Supreme, recorded on December 9, ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Jazz & Blues Florida April 2012 Online Edition Posted

Jazz & Blues Florida April 2012 Online Edition Posted

The new edition of Jazz & Blues Florida, Florida's free online source for information on live jazz and blues in clubs, concerts and festivals, is now available. Readers throughout Florida and visitors coming from around the world consult this site for information on the vibrant scene to be found throughout the state. There is no other ...

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News: Performance / Tour

2012 Lakeshore Jazz Series at Tempe Center for the Arts

2012 Lakeshore Jazz Series at Tempe Center for the Arts

Tempe Center for the Arts 700 W. Rio Salado Parkway Tempe, AZ 85281 Box Office: 480-350-2822 2012 Concert Series Gretchen Parlato Friday, January 27, 2012 | 7:30 P.M. An alumni of the Thelonious Monk Institute, Parlato has been turning heads ever since she won the 2004 Thelonious Monk Institute International ...

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Article: Interview

Walter Kolosky: Affairs of the Heart

Read "Walter Kolosky: Affairs of the Heart" reviewed by Ian Patterson


It took journalist Walter Kolosky eight months to put together Follow Your Heart: John McLaughlin Song by Song (Abstract Logix, 2010), though, in effect, this impressive listener's guide has been the culmination of a lifetime listening to the English guitarist's music. Kolosky has written extensively on McLaughlin's music for many years, and has interviewed him many ...

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Have You Ever Been....? : The Music of Jimi Hendrix and David Balakrishnan

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Have You Ever Been...? Electric Ladyland Suite: Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland); House Burning Down;1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be); Voodoo Child (Slight Return); To Bop or Not to Be; Tree of Life Suite: Ashwattha; Lucy; Monkey Business; Coelacanth; Gypsy Eyes; Hey Joe; Little Wing; All Along the Watchtower.

Album

Istiqbal Gathering

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2010
Track listing: Roma Arise; Seaside Waltze; Tarantella And Reverie; Dieter's Lounge; Groove In The Louvre; Istiqbal Gathering.

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Article: Album Review

Turtle Island Quartet: Have You Ever Been....? : The Music of Jimi Hendrix and David Balakrishnan

Read "Have You Ever Been....? : The Music of Jimi Hendrix and David Balakrishnan" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes


While Jimi Hendrix has been an inspiration to many guitarists, regardless of their musical inclinations, few classical musicians have taken a deep look at his music. This changes on Have You Ever Been....? by Turtle Island Quartet; a group that has taken on the works of John Coltrane on A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John ...

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Article: Album Review

John Blake Jr.: Motherless Child

Read "Motherless Child" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


The precursor to the blues as a music form was first heard in the chants and songs of African American slaves. Their lyrics of hardship, perseverance, and faith were expressed through work songs, hymns, and spirituals, some of which are beautifully interpreted on John Blake Jr.'s Motherless Child. Growing up in South Philadelphia, Blake had this ...


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