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Article: Hardly Strictly Jazz

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by Skip Heller
September 11, 2013

While everyone else seems to have been attending jazz festivals, I've been flying under the radar with film and TV music jobs, so I haven't had the time to write about the summer's recorded music treasures, and it has been bountiful for record/CD fans. Not least of all because some really careful and wise music fans ...

Article: Album Review

Mary Halvorson Septet: Illusionary Sea

Read "Illusionary Sea" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
September 11, 2013

Guitarist Mary Halvorson's signature sound and methodologies have been making an impact within avant-garde and progressive-jazz circles on a global basis. Illusionary Sea marks the debut of her septet, comprised of impressionable players often residing at the forefront of the newer kindling of what may loosely be classified as jazz. Here, like minds coalesce for an ...

Article: Album Review

Lorraine Feather: Attachments

Read "Attachments" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
September 11, 2013

First, there is “who exactly is Billie Jane Lee Lorraine Feather?" Well, she is the daughter of jazz writer and impresario Leonard Feather (1914 -1994) and Jane Feather, a former big-band singer and ex-roommate of Peggy Lee (ergo “Lee"). The Billie in Feather's name is her godmother, Billie Holiday, and the Jane, well that is obvious. ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Dave Holland: Prism

by John Kelman
September 11, 2013

Two instruments that bassist Dave Holland has rarely incorporated into his projects have been piano and guitar, his only guitar-centric album coming sixteen years after his first release as a leader, Conference of the Birds (ECM, 1973), when he recruited Kevin Eubanks for a particularly powerful set on Extensions (ECM, 1989). It took Holland even longer--nearly ...

Article: Album Review

Will Bernard: Just Like Downtown

Read "Just Like Downtown" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
September 11, 2013

Guitarist Will Bernard has been connected to a number of singular groups and individuals, from the Monk-to-funk outfit known as T.J. Kirk to New Orleans drumming giant Stanton Moore to multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum's boundary-pushing Hieroglyphics Ensemble, but a common denominator exists in his strongest work with each one: Bernard's best is always rooted in the groove. ...

News: Event

Stephanie Jordan To Perform At Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Gala In D.c.

September 11, 2013

Saturday, September 21, 2013 - Washington Convention Center NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan has been selected for a return performance at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's (CBCF) 43rd Annual Legislative Conference (ALC) Phoenix Awards Dinner Gala at the Washington Convention Center in the nation’s capital on Saturday, September 21, 2013 starting at ...

News: Recording

Jessy J Inspires With Second Chances, Her Debut Album For Shanachie Entertainment, Releasing September 10, 2013

September 11, 2013

Second Chances Features Jeff Lorber, Norman Brown, Jimmy Haslip and Johnny Britt. Album Includes Renditions of Classics by Roberta Flack & Sérgio Mendes Tour Dates, September 10 - December 6, 2013, Include A Show With George Benson and A Show With Sheila E Los Angeles, CA: Jessy J burst onto the contemporary jazz scene in 2008, ...

News: Event

Jazz Crooner Ken Slavin To Make New York Debut At Metropolitan Room On October 31

September 11, 2013

SAN ANTONIO, TX - The number-one male jazz singer in the home of the Alamo has been entertaining South Texas audiences and recording critically acclaimed CDs for more than 23 years. Now Ken Slavin will bring his unique sound to the Big Apple when he makes his New York City jazz cabaret debut on Thursday, October ...

News: Event

Jazz Arts Group Presents Hot Club Of Detroit Featuring Cyrille Aimee - Sat. Oct. 12

September 11, 2013

Columbus, OH: The Jazz Arts Group's Inside Track series continues to heat up the Lincoln Theatre stage on Saturday, October 12 with the gypsy jazz of Hot Club of Detroit featuring the unique vocal stylings of French artist Cyrille Aimée. More than seven decades after the innovations of the Quintette du Hot Club de France, featuring ...

News: Recording

Oud Awakening: Nashaz Furthers the Tradition of Blending of Jazz and Arabic Music

September 11, 2013

A puzzling and intriguing challenge from an Egyptian cab driver in New Orleans inspires an impulse purchase of an alluring album in a used CD store. The album inspires a search for a difficult to find instrument, which in turn takes a jazz player to a radically different approach. This unlikely turn of events ultimately led ...