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Article: Album Review

Tubby Hayes: Intensity: The 1965 Tapes

Read "Intensity: The 1965 Tapes" reviewed by George Kanzler

by George Kanzler

The late '50s and early '60s were a great time for jazz at clubs in downtown Manhattan. It was a heyday for tenor saxophonists; such giants as Sonny Rollins, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Sonny Stitt, John Coltrane, Johnny Griffin, Gene Ammons, Wayne Shorter, Booker Ervin and Tubby Hayes could be heard at cozy spots like New ...

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Article: Interview

Alex Sipiagin: Burning For Jazz

Read "Alex Sipiagin: Burning For Jazz" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke

by R.J. DeLuke

The 1980s in the Soviet Union was a time when the role and rule of the Communist Party were being questioned and unmasked by the policy of “glasnost"--less censorship and greater freedom of information--that was emerging. Before glasnost fully took hold, and before U.S. President Ronald Reagan famously told Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down ...

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Article: Album Review

Tom Harrell: Prana Dance

Read "Prana Dance" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Despite fighting health issues that would keep most people down and out, Tom Harrell has managed to create a remarkably consistent discography as a leader, in addition to a sizable collection of sessions since first emerging in the early '70s. Still, the trumpeter seems especially invigorated since signing with HighNote for Light On (2007). A true ...

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News: Recording

Enthralled by Jazz, Joni Mitchell Set New Moods

Enthralled by Jazz, Joni Mitchell Set New Moods

Joni Mitchell deserves more credit for her early-'80s output. Mitchell's work took an unexpected turn with Mingus, her streaky and often brilliant 1979 collaboration with jazz bassist Charles Mingus. Before it, she was the sharp-eyed songwriter stringing songs about troubled relationships across vast open prairie. After it, she sounded wiser and hipper, a jazz sophisticate whose ...

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News: Festival

Jeff Beck to Headline Montreal Jazz Fest

Jeff Beck to Headline Montreal Jazz Fest

Soon-to-be Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Jeff Beck will make his first ever festival appearance at the Festival International de Jazz de Montral. As part of the massive lineup for the 30th anniversary of the summer concert event, Jazz legends Ornette Coleman and Wayne Shorter, Jackson Browne, a blues pairing of Buddy Guy & ...

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Article: Interview

Clifton Anderson: Legacy

Read "Clifton Anderson: Legacy" reviewed by Maxwell Chandler

by Maxwell Chandler

Clifton Anderson has been on a lifelong journey of artistic evolution. From his start as a child surrounded by a musical family, to formal education mixed with the practical experience of live gigs, Clifton's odyssey is ever-unfolding. Whether playing as a long-standing member of his uncle Sonny Rollins' band, helping to run the Doxy label or ...

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Article: Album Review

Fly: Sky & Country

Read "Sky & Country" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Despite a debut that failed to generate much noise, Fly's sophomore effort--its first for ECM- -ought to. Dispelling the ECM myth of neglecting American music, this trio--featuring perennially undervalued saxophonist Mark Turner alongside Brad Mehldau Trio mates, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard-- finds its own nexus of head and heart. Dave Holland's Triplicate (ECM, ...

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Article: Interview

Julian Lage: Stepping Into the Limelight

Read "Julian Lage: Stepping Into the Limelight" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke

by R.J. DeLuke

A documentary film made in 1996 centers on an eight year-old guitarist who is already a professional and how he mixes that life with everything else, like family and being a kid. At one point, he's shown playing the guitar behind his neck, a la Jimi Hendrix, adroitly picking a melodic line. At another, he lays ...

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Article: Album Review

Bruno Hubert: Live @ The Cellar

Read "Live @ The Cellar" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

It seems that Bruno Hubert's hands can work independently of each other, creating a unique kind of excitement on Live @ The Cellar, sounding, at times, like two pianos. He can also, it appears, keep two ideas going at one time and that is one hell of a wonderful trick to play on the unsuspecting. Because ...

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News: Festival

Playboy Jazz Festival Announces Lineup

Playboy Jazz Festival Announces Lineup

The Neville Brothers, Sharon Jones and the Dap- Kings, the Wayne Shorter Quartet and Kenny G are among the performers slated to appear at the 31st Annual Playboy Jazz Festival, June 13-14 at the Hollywood Bowl. In addition to the Neville Brothers and Sharon Jones, Saturday's lineup will feature a 50th anniversary salute to Miles Davis' ...


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