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Ed Cherry: It's All Good

Read "It's All Good" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 24, 2012

Guitarist Ed Cherry is best known for his lengthy, decade-plus tenure with trumpet titan Dizzy Gillespie, but his work with another heavyweight of a different ilk--organist Big John Patton--is a more obvious influence on It's All Good. Cherry played the important role of Patton's guitar-playing foil during some of the legend's '90s comeback sessions and he ...

Article: Album Review

Julian Vaughn: Breakthough

Read "Breakthough" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush
October 24, 2012

Within the first 30 seconds of the stomping “On Your Feet," the lead-off track on Breakthrough, it's hard not to think, “Darned if this guy doesn't sound just like Wayman Tisdale." Hopefully Julian Vaughn will take the comparison as a compliment because his “lead bass" playing style is eerily reminiscent of Tisdale, who passed away in ...

News: Event

Angles Of Repose, Featuring: Mat Maneri, Drew Gress, Lucian Ban, Randy Peterson

October 24, 2012

Brooklyn, NY: The palimpsestic Series, curated by Oscar Noriega, presents “Angles of Repose” featuring Mat Maneri, Viola, Drew Gress, Bass, Lucian Ban, Piano and Randy Peterson, drums, October 24, 8pm at Barbes, Park Slope Brooklyn. Angles, always presented as a quartet led by Maneri and Ban, will be presenting new music for this performance. “Angles of ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Sony Holland Quintet @ Yoshi's San Francisco on November 18th

October 24, 2012

Sony Holland Quintet Yoshi's San Francisco Sunday, November 18th 7:00 pm / One Show Only / $20 1330 Fillmore Street San Francisco, CA 94115 Reservations: 415.655.5600 This night will be a musical celebration of Sony’s successful Kickstarter project and the release of two new ...

News: Award / Grant

Jazzmeia Horn Receives The "Rising Star" Award At Inaugural Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition

October 24, 2012

On October 21, 2012 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark, NJ as part of the inaugural James Moody Democracy of Jazz Festival, NJPAC, JAZZ ROOTS and WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM held the first Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, a search for the world’s next great female jazz vocalists. Among those receiving ...

News: Performance / Tour

Brando Noir, Multi-Media Film Noir Extravaganza; Curated By Ran Blake And Aaron Hartley - Dedicated To The Work Of Actor Marlon Brando

October 24, 2012

Monday, October 29 at NEC Part of Yearlong 40th Anniversary Celebration for NEC’s Groundbreaking Contemporary Improvisation Department Blake Also To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award from NEC on Saturday Join pianist/composer/improviser Ran Blake and co-producer Aaron Hartley as they anticipate Halloween with specimens of that most haunting genre, film noir. Now an annual tradition, this year's concert ...

Article: Album Review

Randy Crawford and Joe Sample: Live

by Jeff Winbush
October 23, 2012

It's a slight exaggeration to say that keyboardist Joe Sample rescued Randy Crawford from pop music limbo, but it's not too far from the truth. Crawford is among the most distinct vocalists working, but her discography is riddled with over-arranged and over-produced disappointments. One of her finest moments remains when The Crusaders dropped all 11 minutes ...

Article: Interview

Harold McMillan: Inspirational Commitment

by Josep Pedro
October 23, 2012

Deeply involved in Austin's music and art community, Harold McMillan has been providing access and exposure primarily to traditions derived from African American culture for more than twenty years. Initially he started the Blues Family Tree Project, a documentary collective first conceived as an oral history project, which ultimately contributed to the founding of Diverse Arts ...

Article: Album Review

Wadada Leo Smith / Louis Moholo-Moholo: Ancestors

Read "Ancestors" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
October 23, 2012

There is a natural fit between drums and trumpet. It stretches back all the way into prehistory, with the shamanistic combination of animal horns and percussive devices, persisting up until the early twentieth century in military drum and bugle corps who passed signals and directed troop movement. That synergy continues to bear artistic fruit to the ...

Article: Live Review

2012 Thelonious Monk International Drums Competition

by Franz A. Matzner
October 23, 2012

It can never be said that the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz does anything halfway. Held annually at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, this year's competition and gala concert was ambitious and extravagant--equal parts a celebration of jazz drumming, a salute to women's past and present contributions to the art form, and a promotion for ...