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Reverence

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2009
Track listing: Ana Maria; Gingerbread Boy; You Know I Care; Metamorphosis; No You, No Me; Speak Like A Child; Short Story: Lonely Woman.

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Article: Album Review

Trumpeter/band leader/ film scorer Terence Blanchard is the epitome of an artist who's made good choices. One of the distinct voices in the post-Miles Davis and Wynton Marsalis era, he has moved from being a young-lion with seminal players such as Donald Harrison in Black Pearl (Columbia, 1988), to delivering progressive projects such as Flow (Blue ...

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News: Recording

Terence Blanchard's New CD "Choices"

July 14, 2009

Terence Blanchard's New CD Choices Set For Release August 18th on Concord Jazz Follow-up To Grammy Winning A Tale Of God's Will (A Requiem For Katrina) Is First Complete CD The World-Renowned Trumpet Player and Film Composer Has Recorded In New Orleans and Features Guests Dr. Cornel West and Bilal. Life is all about expansion and ...

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Paco Charlin: Jazz Frequency Group Vol. IV

Read "Jazz Frequency Group Vol. IV" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
March 27, 2009

Like two sides of a coin, Paco Charlin's recordings have alternated between modern and mainstream jazz, each imprint distinctly different. An exceptional bassist with the acumen and youthful presence of a Ron Carter or Dave Holland, Charlin has a deep reverence for the art-form--its past and its present--that is undeniable. Dipping back into ...

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Casually Introducing Walter Smith III

By Walter Smith III

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Cyclic Episode; Kate Song; Tail Of Benin; Benny

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Walter Smith III: Casually Introducing Walter Smith III

Read "Casually Introducing Walter Smith III" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
July 1, 2006

Walter Smith has a whole lot going on here. On this programme of originals and standards, the saxophonist's work is often so far advanced from a harmonic standpoint (in particular) that he manages to carve out his own space in the modern mainstream idiom, and that's no mean feat in itself. He also likes to take ...

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Walter Smith III: Casually Introducing Walter Smith III

Read "Casually Introducing Walter Smith III" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
March 12, 2006

Walter Smith III, a striking saxophonist, has entered the arena with this promising debut. A rising horn player, he has performed and shared the stage with a variety of musicians, including jazz veterans (Roy Haynes, Ralph Peterson), pop stars (Destiny's Child, Lauren Hill), and contemporary jazz luminaries (Terence Blanchard, Jason Moran). Like recordings ...