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Tinner Hill Blues Festival Presents Shemekia Copeland With Sol Roots Opening

June 9, 2014

The Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation presents Shemekia Copeland and Sol Roots at The State Theatre on Friday June 13, 2014! The Tinner Hill Blues Festival is a three-day annual event in Falls Church VA. The kickoff event this year will be Alligator Records artist Shemekia Copeland and Sol Roots performing at The State Theatre. The whole ...

News: TV / Film

Actress, Singer Cynthia Basinet Comes Out To Support The Biff Presentation Of Blue Gold

June 9, 2014

New York, NY: Cynthia Basinet comes out to support The Ninth Annual BIFF presentation of Blue Gold, a feature documentary the actress, singer appears in celebrates the cultural impact of American Blue jeans. Behind the designers and brands that cultivated an iconic Americana grit culture and the rugged work ethic of American miners. Through the artists ...

News: Contest

Enter the "Abdullah Ibrahim - Mukashi (Once Upon a Time)" Giveaway!

June 8, 2014

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Sunnyside Records “Abdullah Ibrahim - Mukashi (Once Upon a Time)“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on July 7th. Click here to enter the contest (Tracking Abdullah Ibrahim at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck!

Article: Album Review

Walt Weiskopf: Overdrive

Read "Overdrive" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
June 8, 2014

After a string of well-received dates on the Criss Cross imprint, and a one-off for the Capri label, tenor saxophonist Walt Weiskopf arrives at Posi-Tone with this pleasing sextet date. The music on Overdrive is all original, save for the penultimately-placed cover of Michel Legrand's “What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?," and it ...

Article: Album Review

Nick Grinder: Ten Minutes

Read "Ten Minutes" reviewed by Daniel Lehner

by Daniel Lehner
June 8, 2014

It's a shame that more trombonists don't make records like the one 25-year-old Nick Grinder has. The instrument has long since proven its worth in bebop, post-bop and neo- bop, but few bone players have elected to exploit the instrument's unique timbre and music- making structure, not to mention writing music most conducive for it, in ...

Article: Live Review

The Art of Blues at Herberger Theatre

by Patricia Myers
June 8, 2014

The Art of Blues Herberger Theater Phoenix, AZ May 4, 2014 “The Art of Blues," an original scripted tribute to blues legends Billie Holiday, Etta James, B. B. King and Buddy Guy, featured speed-artist Randall Hedden creating five-minute portraits to the accompaniment of a Phoenix-based sextet and four vocalists. The performance ...

Article: Album Review

Thom Douvan: Brother Brother

Read "Brother Brother" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush
June 8, 2014

If it was going on sincerity alone it would be hard to knock Brother, Brother. Taken as a labor of love from guitarist Thom Douvan to the classic soul musicians collectively known as The Funk Brothers it sincerely tries hard, but unfortunately comes up short. The immediate problem with any an album of cover ...

Article: Album Review

Jeff Cosgrove: Alternating Current

Read "Alternating Current" reviewed by Harry S. Pariser

by Harry S. Pariser
June 8, 2014

Drummer Jeff Cosgrove's new CD “Alternating Current" is an endeavor built around the composition “Victoria," by the late drummer Paul Motian. Motian first came to prominence in the mid-1950s in the piano trio of Bill Evans, and later led several groups. Motian played an important role in freeing jazz drummers from strict time-keeping duties. For this ...

News: Event

The Fifth Annual Ocean City Beach (NC) Jazz Festival

June 8, 2014

By Larry Reni Thomas The Fifth Annual Ocean City Beach (NC) Jazz Festival will be held on Friday, July 4, 2014, and Saturday, July 5. 2014. from 5 pm until 8 pm, both days. Scheduled performers on Friday, are Lin Rountree with special guest Nicholas Cole, The Ira Wiggins Quartet, and vocalist Yolanda Rubin. Saturday's scheduled ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Chicago Transit Authority / Chicago II / Chicago III

by Marc Davis
June 7, 2014

Chicago, the rock band, is not what you remember. Well, it is, but it's also more than that. The Chicago you remember is the hit machine of the '70s: “25 or 6 to 4," “Beginnings," “Make Me Smile," “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" and many others. Of course, Chicago is also ...