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Remembering Charlie Haden

by Michael Ricci
July 12, 2014

We're celebrating the spirited life and music of bassist Charlie Haden (1937-2014) who passed away on July 11th. We've included links to four archived interviews as well as our coverage of Mr. Haden's music from years past. Charlie Haden: An Analog Guy in a Digital World (2004) Born August 6, 1937 in ...

Article: Album Review

Walt Weiskopf: Overdrive

Read "Overdrive" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan
July 12, 2014

Since making his first two records on the independent Iris label back in the early '90s, Walt Weiskopf has staked a claim as one of the most advanced and iconic tenor saxophonists in jazz. However, even as he went on to record one great record after another for Criss Cross beginning in 1993, Weiskopf remained under ...

Article: Album Review

Joe Magnarelli: Lookin' Up!

Read "Lookin' Up!" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
July 12, 2014

Trumpeter Joe Magnarelli has been a jazz scene stalwart for 30 years. Based in New York since 1986 he's worked with a broad range of musicians including Lionel Hampton, Jimmy Cobb and Michael Feinstein and has released a series of albums as leader. Lookin' Up! is his first recording for the Posi-Tone label and it proves ...

Article: Album Review

The Grahams: Riverman's Daughter (Deluxe Edition)

Read "Riverman's Daughter (Deluxe Edition)" reviewed by Mike Perciaccante

by Mike Perciaccante
July 12, 2014

Alyssa and Doug Graham are a husband and wife duo who met in gramar school. The duo's music is passionate, joyful, harmonious and captivating. It isn't exactly country, though, country music fans will love it. It isn't exactly folk, yet folk music aficionados will immediately connect with it. The music isn't exactly pop, yet it features ...

Article: Album Review

Cowboy Mouth: Go!

Read "Go!" reviewed by Mike Perciaccante

by Mike Perciaccante
July 12, 2014

Cowboy Mouth drummer/lead vocalist Fred LeBlanc has been quoted as saying, “If the Neville Brothers and the Clash had a baby, it would be Cowboy Mouth." Fans have described a Cowboy Mouth performance as a Southern gospel revival sans the religion. In many ways for many of the band's fans, Cowboy Mouth is a religion. As ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, July 11-17

July 12, 2014

Is it still summer? Some days it has been hard to tell, when it feels like April one minute and September the next and rarely July. Nevertheless, summer music is here, from big bands at park bandshells to intimate chamber ensembles in little bars. Although you would never know it by reading the Strib, there actually ...

News: Obituary

Jazz bassist Charlie Haden, part of groundbreaking Ornette Coleman Quartet, dies at 76

July 12, 2014

NEW YORK — Bassist Charlie Haden, who helped change the shape of jazz more than a half-century ago as a member of Ornette Coleman's groundbreaking quartet and liberated the bass from its traditional rhythm section role, died Friday in Los Angeles. He was 76. Haden's wife of 30 years, singer Ruth Cameron, and his four children ...

News: Obituary

Charlie Haden, Legendary Jazz Bassist, Dies at 76

July 12, 2014

Charlie Haden, the pioneering jazz bassist who played with the likes of Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett before enjoying a decades-long solo career, died Friday at age 76 of a prolonged illness, according to his label, ECM. Praised by critic Martin Williams for his “almost lyric directness,” Haden achieved fame in the late ’50s as a ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Jon Cowherd: Mercy

by John Kelman
July 11, 2014

It's always difficult for an artist who has become so intimately associated with a group--especially if he or she has been a significant compositional contributor--to build a separate identity outside of that group. It might be one of the reasons that Pat Metheny Group keyboardist Lyle Mays--who not only contributed compositions of his own, but also ...

Article: Album Review

Bob Mamet: London House Blues

Read "London House Blues" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
July 11, 2014

Chicago's now defunct London House was one of the great jazz clubs from a bygone era. Stellar talents like pianist Oscar Peterson and vocalist Sarah Vaughan recorded live albums there, and most of jazz's legendary figures, from Dave Brubeck to Bill Evans to Cannonball Adderley, passed through at one time or another. On his first release ...