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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, November 9-15

November 10, 2012

Edvard Munch's “The Scream" comes to mind when I look at this weekend's options for live jazz. Help!!! Too much, too many choices. Ah, well, maybe there can never be too much of a good thing. And there is no end to the good things for all tastes this weekend, and more going into the week. ...

News: Education

Piano Teacher Gives Away Amazon Bestseller "Free To Be Creative At The Piano"

November 10, 2012

The piano. Everyone at one time or another has wanted to play it. But for many, it’s just too hard. Which is why pianist and online piano teacher Edward Weiss decided to give his 342 page Amazon.com bestseller ‘Free to be Creative at the Piano' away at his website. The book was an impressive #1 for ...

Article: Album Review

Jimmy Herring: Subject to Change without Notice

Read "Subject to Change without Notice" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
November 9, 2012

It's been four years since Lifeboat (Abstract Logix, 2008), guitarist Jimmy Herring's outstanding debut as leader. Herring hasn't been idle though, recording and touring with Widespread Panic. And given that it took several decades to make the first CD, four years isn't so long to wait for another-especially one this good. The emphasis is emphatically on ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Buddy Rich & His Buddies: Playtime

by Joel Klauber
November 9, 2012

Buddy Rich & His BuddiesPlaytimeFresh Sound2012 More than 25 years after his death, the controversy about master drummer Buddy Rich rages on. Was he nothing more than an incredible drum technician of little sensitivity or flexibility? Or was he, as many history books contend, truly “the world's greatest ...

Article: Album Review

Matteo Sabattini: Metamorpho

Read "Metamorpho" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
November 9, 2012

Saxophonist Matteo Sabattini's Dawning (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2011) delivered a potent shot of modernism in direct fashion, and though this followup occasionally finds him treading on similar ground, he does so in more expansive, low key and exploratory fashion. Sabattini has a tendency and willingness to look toward the horizon, work in the shadows and ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Louis Armstrong & The All Stars: Satchmo At Symphony Hall - The Complete Performances

by Skip Heller
November 9, 2012

Louis Armstrong & The All StarsSatchmo At Symphony Hall: 65th Anniversary The Complete PerformancesVerve 2012 Writing about trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong is difficult. In the most literal sense, he is the watershed of jazz. He was neither the first acknowledged genius of the music (soprano saxophonist Sidney ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Jaiman Crunk

by AAJ Staff
November 9, 2012

Meet Jaiman Crunk: Jaiman was born into a musical family in the San Francisco Bay Area. His great grandparents were vaudeville performers-one grandfather was a singer and the other one was a guitarist. He was given his first guitar at the age of five. He remembers his grandfather playing and teaching him many other ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jerry And Marlene Tachoir Duo at Slippery Rock State College on November 13

November 9, 2012

Jazz vibraphonist, Jerry Tachoir and pianist Marlene Tachoir will be performing this Tuesday, Nov 13 at Slippery Rock State College in PA. This event is sponsored by the College, Ludwig/Musser Innovative Percussion and Avita Jazz Records The performance is scheduled from 2 - 4 PM. Contact Slippery Rock Music Department for location and more information. Jerry ...

News: Event

Casa Karen Hosts Gato 6 on Nov. 17th!

November 8, 2012

Jazz Vocalist Suzi Stern and her partner pianist George Oldziey have been producing amazing jazz concerts for the past two years in central Austin at Casa Karen. Eddie Gomez, Ed Soph, Stefan Karlsson, Alex Sipiagin, Donald Edwards, Rich Harney, Elias Hasslanger, Peter Stoltzman, David Amram, Peggy Stern the list goes on and on. This month Oldziey ...

News: Performance / Tour

New Herbie Nichols Works To Be Premiered At Jazz Composers Collective Festival At Jazz Standard This Weekend

November 8, 2012

The Herbie Nichols Project scheduled for this FRI 11/9 11:30PM + SUN 11/11 9:30PM will premiere five never before recorded or published works by Herbie Nichols (1919-1963). For years, a trunk of Nichols’s manuscripts has been passed down through generations and assumed destroyed and/or lost. However, it was rediscovered about two weeks ago!!! It includes 40 ...