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News: Interview

Vince Guaraldi Is More Than "A Charlie Brown Christmas"

Vince Guaraldi Is More Than "A Charlie Brown Christmas"

Every year, I bust out the soundtrack to 'A Charlie Brown Christmas,' and it gets me in the holiday spirit. I've done different stories about the anniversary of the album's release and I've even written some about others like David Benoit and George Winston tackling Vince Guaraldi's work. But instead of just celebrating this Christmas and ...

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News: Radio

Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz - "Thanksgiving Moods & Reflections"

Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz - "Thanksgiving Moods & Reflections"

Soulandjazz.com Presents: Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz Episode 32—"Thanksgiving Moods & Reflections" Hosted & Produced by J. Scott Fugate, “The Jazz Evangelist" Happy Thanksgiving! I know this is an American Holiday—but whether you celebrate it or not . . . it's a wonderful time for reflection & gratitude anywhere you happen to ...

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Article: Album Review

Lea Delaria: Be A Santa

Read "Be A Santa" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Christmas can do strange things to musicians: there are plenty of artistic car crashes littering the road to Santa's Grotto. But sometimes an artist gets it right, by luck or by design, and a Yuletide project endures for many years. Vocalist, comedian and Broadway performer Lea DeLaria is, happily, in the latter camp with Be A ...

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News: Recording

Concord Music & U.S Postal Service Holiday Album 'Let it Snow'

Concord Music & U.S Postal Service Holiday Album 'Let it Snow'

Following up on the success of Letters to Santa during the 2009 holiday season, Concord Music Group is once again partnering with the US Postal Service (USPS) and released their second holiday-themed collection, Let It Snow, on November 1. The compilation will be displayed—alongside a DVD of the perennial holiday TV classic, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer—at ...

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Article: Album Review

Alex Levin Trio: New York Portraits

Read "New York Portraits" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Artists do not evolve in a vacuum. Collectively, they assimilate all they have learned and heard into a new creative paradigm that they call their own. A durable respect for the past characterizes the trio art of pianist Alex Levin. Listening to his collection New York Portraits, the spirits of pianists long gone are present in ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Vince Guaraldi

Jazz Musician of the Day: Vince Guaraldi

All About Jazz is celebrating Vince Guaraldi's birthday today! Vince GuaraldiBy Derrick Bang Like most so-called overnight successes, Vincent Anthony Guaraldi--who forever described himself as “a reformed boogie-woogie piano player"--worked hard for his big break. The man eventually dubbed “Dr... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow Vince Guaraldi ...

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Article: Album Review

Vince Guaraldi: Peanuts Portraits

Read "Peanuts Portraits" reviewed by Larry Taylor

by Larry Taylor

Charles Schulz's Peanuts has been an enduring newspaper cartoon classic since the late 1940s. Its popularity peaked in the 1960s when the series was adapted for the first of many animated television specials, with music written by jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi. The strips continue to run today in newspapers, 10 years after Schulz's death in 2000.

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Article: Album Review

Larry Johnson: Circles

Read "Circles" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello

Circles are infinitely symbolic in their geometric design and interpretation--no beginning and no end, directionally ambiguous, enclosing an extended infinite inner dimensional space. In Circles, his first CD as a leader, tenor saxophonist Larry Johnson steps up to deliver a dozen fine selections displaying that he's definitely no musical square. He sounds as if he knows ...

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Article: Album Review

Neil Cowley Trio: Radio Silence

Read "Radio Silence" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Since it formed in 2005 the Neil Cowley Trio has developed its distinctive sound across two well-received albums. Displaced (Hide Inside Records, 2006) won the 2007 BBC Jazz Award for Best Album, while the follow-up, Loud, Louder, Stop (Cake, 2008), gained additional plaudits. Radio Silence is album number three and it finds the Trio at the ...

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Take Five With Art Hodges

Read "Take Five With Art Hodges" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Art Hodges: Art Hodges is an American guitarist, composer, arranger, and teacher currently residing near Tokyo, Japan. For over 25 years, he has studied, mastered, performed, and taught a variety of guitar styles and musical genres (including jazz, rock, blues, and classical). At Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts, he avidly ...


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