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Article: Album Review

Rodney Whitaker: When We Find Ourselves Alone

Read "When We Find Ourselves Alone" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
August 7, 2014

Bassist Rodney Whitaker is often cited for his affiliations rather than his own work. That's a shame, as it takes attention away from some wonderful music that he's put out under his own name, but it's easy to understand why that's the case. He anchored trumpeter Roy Hargrove's band for a while, ballasted and buoyed Wynton ...

Article: Live Review

Newport Jazz Festival 2014

by Timothy J. O'Keefe
August 7, 2014

Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State Park Newport, RI Friday, August 1, 2014 The saxophone reed squealed, as David Sanchez tastefully demonstrated mastery of jazz, but with dark clouds looming on the horizon, music wasn't the only thing on the minds of the patrons at the 60th Newport Jazz Festival presented ...

Article: Album Review

Ayal Tsubery: Decisions

Read "Decisions" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
August 7, 2014

Ayal Tsubery is a Berklee-educated bassist and composer influenced, as he puts it, by ..." jazz, Israeli folk, African and Middle Eastern grooves and old-school gritty rock 'n' roll." On his debut album, Decisions, he brings most of those influences together to create a strong set of tunes--not so much of the gritty rock 'n' roll, ...

Article: Live Review

Diane Monroe Quartet at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

by Victor L. Schermer
August 7, 2014

Diane Monroe Quartet Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts “Spiritual Strivings" Exhibition and Concert Philadelphia, PA August 2, 2014 In the tradition of the Paris salons, art and music go together, and some of the best jazz in the Philadelphia area today can be heard at art museums, taking up ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Stooges Brass Band, Free Outdoor Concerts, and More

August 7, 2014

Things are fairly quiet again this week for touring jazz acts coming through St. Louis, with tonight the notable exception as the Stooges Brass Band will be in town to perform at the Broadway Oyster Bar. They're not as well known outside New Orleans as the Dirty Dozen, Rebirth or Hot 8, in part because until ...

News: Book / Magazine

For the Artists: Critical Writing, Volume 2, a new book by Greg Masters

August 7, 2014

NEW YORK, NY – Crony Books is pleased to announce the publication of a new book, For the Artists: Critical Writing, Volume 2, by Greg Masters. While For the Artists: Critical Writing, Volume 1, issued earlier this year, focused on Masters' collected writings on the visual arts, this new volume gathers reviews of music and books, ...

News: Recording

The impulse! Renaissance Presents: Charlie Haden-Jim Hall

August 7, 2014

Stunning Previously-Unreleased 1990 Recording Captures Two Masters In Performance At Montreal Jazz Festival On September 30, the newly reactivated impulse! label will release Charlie Haden-Jim Hall, a previously-unreleased recording of a stunning duo performance by these two recently departed masters at the 1990 Montreal International Jazz Festival. impulse! is a division of Universal Music France which ...

News: Festival

City Parks Foundation Presents The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, August 23-24, 2014

August 7, 2014

New York, NY: City Parks Foundation is proud to announce the 22nd edition of the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival. Founded in memoriam of beloved jazz musician Charlie Parker, this festival annually attracts thousands of fans to two historic parks in Manhattan. The festival will kick off in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, blocks from the famous ...

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Article: Interview

Idris Muhammad: Coming to Grips with His Greatness

by R.J. DeLuke
August 6, 2014

This interview was originally published on May 2002. “Style? No, I just play, man. I don't really have a style. Just being able to play music is a style, you know?" says the veteran drummer master Idris Muhammad in his laid-back and understated style. Others know better than to take that self-effacing ...

Article: Album Review

Pat Mallinger Quartet With Bill Carrothers: Elevate

Read "Elevate" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
August 6, 2014

Chicago-based saxophonist Pat Mallinger's Home on Richmond (Self Produced, 2011), featuring pianist Bill Carrothers, introduced a superb teaming of talents. Mallinger could be tagged as a mainstreamer, but only in an elastic interpretation of the label, something like calling sax man Jackie McLean a straight ahead jazz guy. Maybe, but he, like Mallinger sure does test ...