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Angela Davis: The Art of The Melody

Read "The Art of The Melody" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 20, 2013

Saxophonist and All About Jazz contributor Angela Davis has made it official, releasing her debut recording, The Art of The Melody. Davis joins a growing legion of female reeds players that includes Sharel Cassity, Alisha Pattillo, Virginia Mayhew, Claire Daly, and Mercedes Figueras, who are flexing their respective chops in the ravenous particles of digital music.

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Mary Lou Williams - The Next 100 Years

By Virginia Mayhew

Label: Renma Recordings
Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. J.B.'s Waltz - 5:28; 02. Medi II - 5:27; 03. Medi I -7:57; 04. O.W. - 6:42; 05. Cancer - 11:30; 06. What's Your Story Morning Glory - 7:46; 07. N.M.E - 3:08; 08. Waltz Boogie - 4:39; 09. One For Mary Lou - 5:35; 10. 5 For Mary Lou - 5:45. Composizioni di Mary Lou Williams eccetto i brani 9 e 10, scritti da Virginia Mayhew.

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Mary Lou Williams: The Next 100 Years

By Virginia Mayhew

Label: Renma Recordings
Released: 2012
Track listing: J.B.'s Waltz; Medi II; Medi I; O.W.; Cancer; What's You Story Morning Glory; N.M.E.; Waltz Boogie; One for Mary Lou; 5 for Mary Lou.

Article: Big Band Caravan

R3: Special Big Band / Gull Lake Jazz Orchestra / Empire Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
November 17, 2012

R3: Special Big BandR3Summit Records2012 The “R3" in this Brazilian-based band's name refers to brothers Rafael, Renato and Roger Rocha who together comprise its heart and soul. The “Special" pertains to just about everything else on this impressive debut album. Indeed, there could be even more “R's" in ...

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Virginia Mayhew: Mary Lou Williams - The Next 100 Years

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 23, 2012

Registrato nel dicembre 2010, a cent'anni dalla nascita di Mary Lou Williams, questo concept album di Virginia Mayhew celebra la grande pianista, compositrice e arrangiatrice, forse la più grande del jazz assieme a Carla Bley, Lil Hardin e pochissime altre. La versatile sassofonista (poco nota in Italia ma attiva professionalmente a New York dalla fine degli ...

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Virginia Mayhew Quartet: Mary Lou Williams: The Next 100 Years

Read "Mary Lou Williams: The Next 100 Years" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
July 17, 2012

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth date of pianist, composer and arranger Mary Lou Williams, the Virginia Mayhew Quartet pays homage to one of the most unheralded, yet most important jazz figures of all time on Mary Lou Williams--The Next 100 Years. Presenting new arrangements of eight Williams compositions and two original blues charts, Mayhew ...

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Duke Ellington Legacy: Single Petal of a Rose

Read "Single Petal of a Rose" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
July 15, 2012

The great Duke Ellington would be proud of the way his family has decided to keep his memory and music alive and kicking for newer generations to enjoy. In 2003, his grandchildren, guitarist Edward Kennedy Ellington II and sister Gaye Ellington, formed The Duke Ellington Legacy, a nine-piece jazz ensemble dedicated to performing the music of ...

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Virginia Mayhew Quartet: Mary Lou Williams: The Next 100 Years

Read "Mary Lou Williams: The Next 100 Years" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
July 10, 2012

Saxophonist Virginia Mayhew is a rare forward-looking jazz artist who doesn't mind looking back. She leads the Duke Ellington Legacy, responsible for the superb Thank You Uncle Edward (Renma Recordings, 2007) and Single Pedal of a Rose (Renma Recordings, 2012). Now she honors Mary Lou Williams (1910-1983) in this tribute to the groundbreaking pianist/composer/arranger's one hundredth ...

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Oscar Perez / Nuevo Comienzo: Afropean Affair

Read "Afropean Affair" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
December 20, 2011

On Afropean Affair , pianist/composer Óscar Pérez treads an appealing line between Afro-Latin jazz and modern jazz reminiscent of the Cuban band Irakere--or, perhaps, the first couple of Chick Corea Return to Forever discs, with saxophonist/flautist Joe Farrell and drummer Airto). A native of New York City, Pérez's early immersion in both Afro-Cuban ...

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Big Band Jazz: It's Not Just for Guys Anymore

by Jack Bowers
August 4, 2011

Back in the early '90s, Stanley Kay, one-time back-up drummer for the incomparable Buddy Rich, later a manager of such artists as Maurice Hines, Michelle Lee and Paul Burke and the entertainment director for the New York Yankees, had a good idea: the time had come, he reasoned, to assemble an all-woman big band that would ...