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Buddy Flett: Buddy Flett - Rough Edges
by C. Michael Bailey
It's all in a name. Some names and occupations just go together, especially in sports. Harmon Killebrew, Orlando Cepeda, and Catfish Hunter are all baseball names. Blues musicians have similar iconic names. The Ur-Blues has Eddie Son" House, Nehemiah Skip" James, Tommy Johnson, and Charlie Patton. The generation after has Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield), Howlin' Wolf ...
Kidd Jordan & Hamid Drake: A Night In November - Live in New Orleans
by Glenn Astarita
New Orleans is valued for its storied traditional jazz legacy, and not so much for avant-garde persuasions. But when it comes to off-center or free-jazz music, saxophonist Kidd Jordan's artistic persona frequently becomes a topic of conversation. He's performed and recorded with iconoclastic musicians and is perhaps the Crescent City's most prolific improviser. This excursion features ...
Tom Guarna: Mad Scientist
by George Colligan
[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth] I've known Brooklyn-born guitarist Tom Guarna for maybe twelve years, give or take. He used to literally live around the corner from my apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn. We worked together in a band that drumming phenomenon Rodney Holmes had put ...
Jan Sturiale: Do not disturb The Peace
by Marta Ramon
Do not disturb The Peace sets out the formation in which Jan Sturiale envisages his music. This guitarist makes a step forward and changes the trio format from his previous CD, Strange Meetings (Drawtheline Records, 2009), to a quintet, which gives a complete body, harmoniously and melodically, to his compositions. The ten tunes on ...
Jazz Icon Herb Alpert is "Steppin' Out" with New Album November 19
Grammy®-winning jazz great Herb Alpert is Steppin’ Out on November 19 with a new album on Shout! Factory. Combining pop instrumentals and timeless jazz along with Latin-influenced rhythms reminiscent of the Tijuana Brass, Steppin’ Out explores standards from the American Songbook as well as Alpert’s own catalog, and features his wife, the Grammy®-winning vocalist Lani Hall, ...
"The Spiritual Side Of Wynton Marsalis" to be Released October 22
Pulitzer Prize and nine-time Grammy Award®-winning musician, and Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis digs into his rich collection of spiritually inspired recordings at the Columbia and Sony Classical labels for The Spiritual Side Of Wynton Marsalis. This special collection of 15 divine tracks will be available everywhere October 22 through ...
Eric Clapton's "Give Me Strength: The 1974/75 Recordings" 6-Disc Box Due November 26
In early 1974, after a three-year absence that followed Eric Clapton’s major success with Derek and the Dominos’ seminal album Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs, which sealed his stature as one of rock's most revered guitarists, a rejuvenated and musically refreshed Clapton stepped into the recording studio and staged a massive resurgence with his 1974/1975 ...
Enter the "Samo Salamon Quartets - Stretching Out" Giveaway at All About Jazz!
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Samo Salamon Quartets - Stretching Out giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on November 18th. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of Samo Salamon at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! About Stretching ...
Gretchen Parlato: Live in NYC
by C. Michael Bailey
Live in NYC is vocalist Gretchen Parlato's eagerly awaited live recording and follow-up to 2011's excellent The Lost And Found (Obliqsound). Gretchen Parlato (Obliqsound, 2006) and 2011's In A Dream (Obliqsound) round out her catalog as a leader. That said, Parlato has been much more busy than would be indicated by her four recordings in eight ...
Josh Ginsburg: Intent
by George Colligan
[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth] I've been playing with bassist Josh Ginsburg off and on for about a decade. I always liked his healthy, muscular sound on the upright double bass, and his approach to soloing stuck me as virtuosic without sacrificing the bottom of the ...

