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Article: Big Band Report

The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Meets Fred Sturm

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 2010

The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra was onstage January 23, 2010 at the University of New Mexico's Woodward Hall for a concert featuring the compositions and arrangements of Fred Sturm, director of Jazz Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. The concert was a part of the New Mexico All-State Band Competition, which was being held at the ...

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Astral Weeks Live At The Hollywood Bowl

By Van Morrison

Label: EMI Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Astral Weeks / I Believe I've Transcended; Beside You; Slim Slow Slider / I Start Breaking Down; Sweet Thing; The Way Young Lovers Do; Cyprus Avenue / You Came Walking Down; Ballerina; Madame George; Listen To The Lion / The Lion Speaks; Common One; Gloria (on LP only).

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News: Festival

Jazz Fest: 2010 Lineup/Dates

December 16, 2009

PEARL JAM, MMJ, CROWES, WSP, ARETHA AND MORE! Jazz Fest '09 by Adam McCullough The usual dizzying assortment of musical talent will descend on New Orleans for the 41st New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The first weekend takes place April 23-25, 2010, and the second week is April 29-May 2, 2010. The lineups thus far ...

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Article: Interview

Ian Shaw: From Free Jazz to Noel Coward

by Bruce Lindsay
December 1, 2009

Ian Shaw is a jazz singer. This simple description is accurate--it's how Shaw refers to himself--but it falls well short of doing the man justice. Ian Shaw is one of the most distinctive, original and creative jazz singers on the scene: he is a talented pianist and songwriter with a knack for working with top-quality musicians, ...

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News: TV / Film

Van Morrison Rediscovers "Astral Weeks" in "To Be Born Again" Doc

August 17, 2009

What started as a few shows to revisit Van Morrisons 1968 classic Astral Weeks an album hed never previously performed live has blossomed into a much larger celebration of the LP. First, Morrison turned a November 2008 performance in Los Angeles into the live film/album Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl. Now hes on a ...

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Article: Album Review

Greg Heath Quartet: Fact & Fiction

Read "Fact & Fiction" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
August 9, 2009

Tenor saxophonist Greg Heath originates from New Zealand, but has been based in the United Kingdom since 1989, working with a diverse array of artists including Van Morrison, Marianne Faithful and Jimmy Ruffin. Fact & Fiction finds Heath in more straight-ahead jazz territory, with strong early-'60s influences and a talented quartet of musicians. Indeed, the quartet's ...

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Article: Album Review

Sunny Voices (Various Artists): Sunnyside Cafe Series

Read "Sunnyside Cafe Series" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
August 4, 2009

The production of a music compilation or sampler may, despite its producers' best intentions, go either way. A fair representation of artists may result in excellent tracks, together with perhaps some indifferent ones, and there is simply no pleasing everybody. However, it is possible to get closer to the mark of overall excellence if the compilation ...

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Article: Album Review

Cassandra Wilson: Closer to You: The Pop Side

Read "Closer to You: The Pop Side" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
June 19, 2009

Any vocalist who can take an old chestnut like “St. James Infirmary" and make it swing and crackle like never before, as Cassandra Wilson did on the wonderful Loverly(Blue Note, 2008), is surely something a bit special. Wilson's ability to make old material sound freshly minted is nothing new however, and Closer to You: The Pop ...

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Article: Album Review

Jean-Simon Maurin Trio and Elin Wrede: Djupa Andetag

Read "Djupa Andetag" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
May 15, 2009

Djupa Andetag means “deep breaths" in Swedish. They're something that can be easily taken in the unpolluted atmosphere of Scandinavia. And at its best, Jean-Simon Maurin's music--light and lyrical, greatly influenced by pianist Bill Evans--is as fresh as a Baltic summer breeze. There's introspection but--perhaps because of his French ancestry--none of the brooding melancholy that is ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Van Morrison Will Bring 'Astral Weeks' Show Back to California

March 24, 2009

The resurrection of Van Morrisons watershed 1968 album Astral Weeks in concert continues to expand with the Irish singers announcement of plans to bring it back to California in May for several more performances. Morrison will present the work in its reconfigured entirety at Berkeleys Greek Theatre on May 2 and 3 and then will return ...