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Shirazette Tinnin: Humility: Purity of My Soul

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by C. Michael Bailey
February 4, 2014

Drummer/percussionist Shirazette Tinnin releases her Hot Tone recording Humility: Purity of My Soul as part of a sonic shock-and-awe campaign initiated by bassist Mimi Jones with her recording Balance and joined by saxophonist ((Camille Thurman}} and her Origins. Both Jones and Thurman contribute to Tinnin's Humility, making things very much an integrated, house-band affair.

Article: Album Review

Yasam Hancilar Band: Here's To Life

Read "Here's To Life" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
February 4, 2014

A singer from Istanbul, Turkey and student in the Jazz Vocal Department of the Amsterdam Conservatory, Yasam Hancilar realizes a dream with Here's To Life, his self-produced debut album as leader fronting an acoustic quartet of young, up and coming players. A passionate jazz enthusiast who favors the mainstream, straight ahead sound, Hancilar reprises the music ...

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James Brandon Lewis: Divine Travels

Read "Divine Travels" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 4, 2014

An auspicious major label debut for a young saxophonist, Divine Travels eschews flamboyance for a deferential, mostly unpretentious bluesy free jazz recording. Lewis, a thirty-something tenor saxophone phenom chose to record here in trio without the safety net of a pianist or accompanying horn. He chose wisely though, enlisting two superstars musicians, bassist William ...

Article: Album Review

Scott Sawyer: Dreamers

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by Jeffrey Uhrich
February 4, 2014

With a warm and inviting sound, guitarist Scott Sawyer offers an intriguing and engaging collection of songs in Dreamers, his latest release on Doll Records. Sawyer's style of playing is complex yet tastefully restrained and nuanced, reminiscent of guitar legends Jim Hall and Wes Montgomery. By doing so, he allows the song itself to ...

Article: Album Review

Frank Lacy: That Which Is Planted

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by Mark Corroto
February 3, 2014

The real reason the revolution will not be televised (with apologies to Gil Scott Heron) is that the sound of the revolution is free jazz. While those street fighting men are satisfied to throw rock music up against the wall, the real uprising is music of bands like 1032K. With roots in the streets and lofts ...

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Eyal Lovett: Eyal Lovett: Let Go

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by DanMichael Reyes
February 3, 2014

Israeli-born, Berlin-based pianist and composer Eyal Lovett has played the part of the consummate student up to this point. Lovett has studied with some of jazz's greatest luminaries like Hal Galper, Sam Yahel, George Cables, Ari Hoenig, and Jane Ira Bloom to name a few. As a performer he has shared the stage with the likes ...

Article: Mr. P.C.'s Guide to Jazz Etiquette and Bandstand Decorum

February 2014

by Mr. P.C.
February 3, 2014

Dear Mr. P.C.: What's up with singers who count off tunes so quietly that not all the guys in the band can even hear it? Then half the band starts up and the other guys kind of flail their way in. It amazes me because it would be so easy to fix, but they ...

Article: Book Review

Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker

by David A. Orthmann
February 3, 2014

Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker Stanley Crouch 365 ISBN:978-0-06-200559-5 Harper Collins 2013 Stanley Crouch's account of Charlie Parker's first twenty-one years isn't a litany of facts and antidotes rendered in an easily digestible form. Not unlike Parker, Crouch is brilliant, bold, ambitious, and mercurial. ...

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Bob Dorough: Eulalia

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by C. Michael Bailey
February 3, 2014

Cherry Hill Township is located in Perry County about 50 miles west of Little Rock. Cherry Hill is also the birthplace of singer Bob Dorough, born December 12, 1923. Dorough left Arkansas soon after, his family moving to Texas, where he would begin his musical education that, 70 years later would bring him to Eulalia, his ...

Article: Live Review

Jeff "Tain" Watts Family Reunion Band at the Jazz Standard

by Tomas Pena
February 3, 2014

Jeff “Tain" Watts Family Reunion Band Jazz Standard New York, NY January 23, 2014 Sigmund Freud would have had a field day with Jeff “Tain" Watts' compositions. Case in point: “The Devil's Ringtone," where Watts conjures up an imaginary conversation between Satan and a corrupt politician. The tune features ...