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Article: Catching Up With

Dara Tucker: Seeds of the Divine

by Suzanne Lorge
August 31, 2017

Rising jazz star Dara Tucker has added three new trophies to a rapidly growing lineup of awards. At this year's Nashville Industry Music Awards (NIMAs) she won Best Jazz Vocalist, Best Jazz Album, and Song of the Year for her April release, Oklahoma Rain (Watchman Music). These three awards follow closely on the heels of her ...

Article: Live Review

Mary Ellen Desmond at Paris Bistro and Jazz Café

by Victor L. Schermer
August 30, 2017

Mary Ellen Desmond Paris Bistro and Jazz Café Philadelphia, PA August 26, 2017 The Paris Bistro and Jazz Café is in Chestnut Hill, a neighborhood in the Northwest corner of Philadelphia that's like an upscale village all its own, with boutique stores and restaurants and the last stop on the ...

Article: Book Review

Jazzing: New York City's Unseen Scene

by David A. Orthmann
August 29, 2017

Jazzing: New York City's Unseen Scene Thomas H. Greenland 245 pages ISBN: #978025081606 University of Illinois Press 2016 This week I plan on attending three live jazz performances. I'm fortunate to reside in an area that affords the opportunity to check out a variety of jazz musicians who I ...

News: Recording

Jazz Weekly And Scott Yanow Review Tony Adamo's Rain Man "Make It Rain Love My Way"

August 29, 2017

I usually don’t review singles, but Tony Adamo is just so good to the bones that nothing he does can be ignored. Here, he teams up with Tower of Power keyboardist Roger Smith and with a team that is so loose that you have to get regular treatments from a chiropractor to dance to it. Adamo ...

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Article: Live Review

Amadou & Mariam At Stern Grove

by Walter Atkins
August 27, 2017

Amadou & Mariam With Ibibio Sound Machine At Stern Grove San Francisco, CA August 6, 2017 The Grammy nominated couple Amadou & Mariam from Mali in West Africa, turned Sunday at Stern Grove into a massive outdoor dance hall with their intoxicating international “Afro Blues" rhythms. The popular ...

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Article: Live Review

WAR with Malo At Stern Grove

by Walter Atkins
August 27, 2017

WAR with Malo Stern Grove Stern Grove Summer Festival 2017 San Francisco, CA August 13, 2017 WAR, led by Lonnie Jordan rolled into Stern Grove to an enthusiastically packed house, and fired up the faithful with all cylinders working smoothly on a relatively cool Sunday afternoon. The gold and platinum ...

Article: Interview

Carmen Rothwell: The Art of Intuition

by Paul Rauch
August 25, 2017

Seattle, a city synonymous with alternative rock, has long sustained a provincial jazz culture, without a signature sound, but with an openness to innovative, progressive invention. To outside jazz partisans, the city is known for phenomenal high school talent that usually flies the coop, heading east for conservatory training and to pursue professional ambitions.

Article: Live Review

Stick Men at Havana

by Geno Thackara
August 25, 2017

Stick Men Havana New Hope, PA August 15, 2017 Stick Men look like a secondary project or side endeavor on the surface--probably inevitable since the members are most known in the progressive music world for being part of the King Crimson family--but there's a real difference between being a side ...

Article: Live Review

Daniel Bennett Group at Tomi Jazz

by Tyran Grillo
August 24, 2017

Daniel Bennett Group Tomi Jazz New York, NY August 19, 2017 The Daniel Bennett Group is a summer camp that never sleeps. Like the best-run such operations, it's an oiled machine that runs on freedom and strict supervision in equal measure. The multi-instrumentalist and his core band of Nat ...

Article: Live Review

Rene Marie at Dazzle

by Geoff Anderson
August 24, 2017

Rene Marie Dazzle Denver, CO August 4, 2017 Rene Marie exudes joy. Over the course of an 80 minute set, she can evoke nearly every human emotion, but it's joy that comes across most often. That's how much she loves to sing. She even had to divorce her husband of 23 ...