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Article: Album Review

Tyler Mire Big Band: Enter the Atmosph-Mire

Read "Enter the Atmosph-Mire" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello

Originally televised back in the black-and-white 1960s, Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone broadcast an episode--now classic--in which miniature alien spacemen land and terrorize a woman who is frightfully alone in her farmhouse. The cover art depicting happy little “musician-nauts" walking in space notwithstanding, Enter the Atmosph-Mire does no terrorizing. It does, however, shoot for, hit, and ...

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Article: Album Review

Frank Wess: Magic 101

Read "Magic 101" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

In 2007, saxophonist and flutist Frank Wess was named NEA Jazz Master, and Magic 101 amply demonstrates why. This mellow session covers six standards and a Wess original, with a candid and unadorned style that is nevertheless powerful in its apparent simplicity.Like a wise raconteur, the 89 year-old (at the time of the recording) ...

News: Award / Grant

Natixis/Newport Jazz Festival Scholarship Winners: Chase Ceglie & Ray Fuller

Natixis/Newport Jazz Festival Scholarship Winners: Chase Ceglie & Ray Fuller

Natixis Global Asset Management and Newport Jazz Festival Announce 2013 Scholarship Recipients and Performance Lineup Newport Music Scholarships will go to Chase Ceglie from Rhode Island Music Educators Association Senior All-State Jazz Band and Ray Fuller from Massachusetts Music Educators Association All-State Jazz Band Boston, MA: Natixis Global Asset Management (NGAM) and Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc., ...

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News: Recording

Legacy Announces Herbie Hancock: The Complete Columbia Album Collection 1972-1988

Deluxe box set features all 31 albums (across 34 CDs) released by Columbia Records; Includes first U.S. release of 8 albums which originally appeared on CBS/Sony (Japan) Box set arrives in stores November 12, 2013 Herbie Hancock: The Complete Columbia Album Collection 1972-1988 brings together, for the first time, the master musician's complete Columbia Records and ...

News: Performance / Tour

Wallace Roney Captures A New Following With Two Explosive Nights At The Side Door Jazz Club

Wallace Roney Captures A New Following With Two Explosive Nights At The Side Door Jazz Club

By Reed I. Hadley Miles Davis hand-picked Wallace Roney to perform by his side at the Montreux Jazz Festival and on May 16, 2013, Wallace, along with Gary Bartz, Monty Alexander and others, performed the Miles Davis classic “If I Were a Bell." The occasion was a dedication of Miles’ former brownstone into the NY Historical ...

News: Recording

Unreleased Rare Recordings Of Guitar Legend Tommy Bolin To Be Released On New Compilation - Whirlwind

Unreleased Rare Recordings Of Guitar Legend Tommy Bolin To Be Released On New Compilation - Whirlwind

Los Angeles, CA: A spectacular collection of rare and unreleased recordings from famed guitarist of Deep Purple, James Gang and the Billy Cobham band, Tommy Bolin will be released on August 13th by Purple Pyramid Records. Whirlwind, produced by Greg Hampton and Johnnie Bolin, features rare material from Bolin's jazz-rock band Energy, an epic 26-minute version ...

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Article: Album Review

Ben Monder: Hydra

Read "Hydra" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins

New York-based guitarist Ben Monder has been an active member of the contemporary jazz scene for more than two decades, appearing on over 100 sessions as a sideman for such luminaries as Paul Motian, Maria Schneider and Kenny Wheeler. Despite such prestigious collaborations, Monder has maintained a relatively low profile as a solo artist, with less ...

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Article: Album Review

Candi Staton: Evidence - The Complete Fame Records Masters

Read "Evidence - The Complete Fame Records Masters" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

American roots musician Jason Isbell, on his live recording Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Live in Alabama (Lightning Rod Records), performed a potent cover of Candi Staton's “Heart on a String," recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals in 1970. In that performance rests an entire history of American music of the period. Muscle Shoals ...

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Article: Live Review

North Sea Jazz Festival 2013

Read "North Sea Jazz Festival 2013" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke

by R.J. DeLuke

North Sea Jazz FestivalAhoyRotterdam, the NetherlandsJuly 12-14, 2013The North Sea Jazz Festival is firmly entrenched as one of the best events anywhere for jazz lovers, and also for the music-makers themselves, who relish the atmosphere and the appreciative audiences that typically jam the thirteen venues running simultaneously in the mammoth Ahoy ...

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Article: Album Review

Deborah Shulman: Get Your Kicks

Read "Get Your Kicks" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Vocalist Deborah Shulman wanted Get Your Kicks to be “a jazz album with a party vibe," which is something far different from her previous record--the wonderful (and weightier) Lost In The Stars: The Music Of Bernstein, Weill & Sondheim (Summit Records, 2012). The differing moods of each album, ultimately, reflect the musical nature of the composer(s) ...


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