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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Appreciation Month: From the Sublimated to the Ridiculous, All in Good Music

Jazz Appreciation Month: From the Sublimated to the Ridiculous, All in Good Music

April is Jazz Appreciation Month across the country, and special events can be found from small town theaters to major city venues. We're fortunate to live in an area that not only sports a couple of those major venues, but a wide range of jazz across predictable and unlikely settings.  And it's hard to imagine more ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Vocalist Barbara Montgomery In Collingswood NJ Thurs. May 2nd!

Vocalist Barbara Montgomery In Collingswood NJ Thurs. May 2nd!

Appearing at the Collingswood Community Center, 30 Collings Avenue in Collingswood, New Jersey on Thursday, May 2nd is singer Barbara Montgomery. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Show time is 7:30 p.m. Information: 215-517-8337. Barbara Montgomery has been in the entertainment field for over 30 years as a music ...

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News: Recording

"Piano Bar After Hours," 4th CD By Boston Vocalist Jan Shapiro, To Be Released April 9

"Piano Bar After Hours," 4th CD By Boston Vocalist Jan Shapiro, To Be Released April 9

Jazz vocalist and longtime Berklee College vocal professor Jan Shapiro chose to focus on the challenging—and revealing—duo format for Piano Bar After Hours, her fourth CD and her first since 2007’s Back to Basics. Shapiro tapped six of her favorite pianists, with whom she’d worked in various settings through the years, to accompany her on the ...

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Article: Album Review

konstruKt w/Peter Brotzmann: Eklisia Sunday

Read "Eklisia Sunday" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

The Turkish free jazz outfit KonstruKt might be considered the most evolved improvisational band working in jazz today. Founded, not in the hotbeds of jazz, London, New York, Chicago, Wuppertal, or Krakow, their isolation is the key to their success. Well, isolation and observation. Although this band was formed in 2008, their ...

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Article: Interview

Nels Cline: Finding Others

Read "Nels Cline: Finding Others" reviewed by Ted Harms

by Ted Harms

Ask 10 people when they first heard of guitarist Nels Cline and you'll get 10 different answers. Maybe it was when he joined award-winning, arena-packing, ever-touring rock band Wilco. Or maybe it was stumbling upon a guitar internet forum where nerd boys and girls go over the minutiae of his expansive and varied effect pedals, amps, ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Yoni Kretzmer

Read "Take Five  With Yoni Kretzmer" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Yoni Kretzmer:Before moving to New York City in 2010, Jerusalem born tenor saxophonist and composer Yoni Kretzmer was an active member in the growing Tel Aviv nu-music scene leading various groups such as New Dilemma (chamber/free jazz string quintet) and Far From Home (free/folk quintet with two acoustic guitars). For the premier of ...

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Article: Album Review

Digital Primitives: Lipsomuch & Soul Searchin'

Read "Lipsomuch & Soul Searchin'" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

This is only Digital Primitives' third recording, released four years after Hum Crackle & Pop (Hopscotch), but the trio sounds as if its three members have been playing together for ages. This double disc is comprised of two sets--Lipsomuch and Soul Searchin'. The trio--reed player Assif Tsahar, multi-instrumentalist Cooper-Moore and drummer Chad Taylor--have created their own ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Led Zeppelin: Sound And Fury By Neal Preston Available April 15, Exclusively On The Ibookstore

Led Zeppelin: Sound And Fury By Neal Preston Available April 15, Exclusively On The Ibookstore

Led Zeppelin: Sound And Fury By Neal Preston Now Available for Pre-Order Exclusively on the iBookstore. Digital Book Takes the Medium to New Heights, Offering Never Before Seen Photos, Memorabilia and More. Led Zeppelin: Sound And Fury, an innovative illustrated digital book by famed photographer Neal Preston, is available now for pre-order and will be released ...

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News: Recording

Bassist Jeff Berlin To Release "Low Standards" On Random Act Records - Available April 16, 2013

Bassist Jeff Berlin To Release "Low Standards" On Random Act Records - Available April 16, 2013

Tampa, FL: Jeff Berlin has been called the greatest electric bass soloist in the world. While the terms “great” and “genius” are bantered about much too frequently, the accolades for Jeff Berlin are not hyperbolical – Jeff is indisputably one of the best bass players to ever play his chosen instrument. Geddy Lee (bassist for RUSH) ...

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Article: Album Review

Lenny White: Lenny White Live

Read "Lenny White Live" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Drumming legend Lenny White made his first trip to Japan in 1971, before he became a stick wielding star with fusion pioneers Return To Forever. He's played to appreciative audiences in that country time and again over the years, in various settings and with various outfits, so it comes as a shock to hear that he ...


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