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Art Farmer is one of the true living legends of jazz that provides jazz fans with a taste of where jazz came from while yet providing a look into where it is going. Art hav…
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A new release by Fourplay is a no-brainer. It's going to be good, no doubt in my mind. However, Fourplay now has a new twist. That new twist is the well-known jazz guitaris…
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Ron Gill is a young vocalist out of the Boston area. For the past twenty years, it has been a dream of Ron's to record the music of one of the most important songwriters of…
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What we have here is an old-fashioned, good-natured Tenor Sax Duel, like Dexter & Wardell and Lockjaw & Griffin used to have. The late, often under-rated Harris (for younge…
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Active. Actually, the title is "Sophistry", but that's what you hear as this starts spinning - activity. Warm vibes rumble on the bottom as flute and Greg Osby's alto dance…
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She was asked if she had made a CD, and the answer was direct: "Well yes, I am making plans for that, as a matter of fact." Simple but confident, like the cover picture: a …
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When the word "Groovy" was developed as a word in the English language it was specifically meant to describe the vibes given off by the sensational new fusion group Jazz is…
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This month Satellites Records has releases to red hot live jazz recordings. First is our favorite female jazz vocalist, Kimiko Itoh live at the Montreaux Jazz Festival. Sec…
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From Germany comes a wonderful quartet led by clarinetist Theo Jörgensmann. The clarinet, although a featured instrument in early jazz, has fallen from favor among jazz mus…
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Tom Knific is an invisible jazzman, one of those people who live playing music, while known to few but the musicians. Work on soundtracks, theater pit bands, and studio pop…
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Doug has been playing around the New York City area for many years now, and according to historian Dan Morgenstern, "A CD of his own seems long overdue...". This is certain…
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There's art and there's commerce. The musician needs gigs, to hone her craft, and reputation, to get more gigs. And the fastest way to build a reputation is through a recor…
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A modern jazz trio performing contemporary jazz the "French" way. These three french musicians intermix to design a collection of tunes that are uptempo and thoroughly crea…
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The Lounge Lizards is certainly a musicians' band, one in which leader/composer/alto and soprano saxophonist John Lurie allows the players ample solo room to stretch in and…
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Joe McPhee's, AS SERIOUS AS YOUR LIFE, whose title is taken from Valerie Wilmer's book of the same name, is a solo recording, over twenty years after his first solo LP. Thi…
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Smooth Jazz at its Smoothest! Being a long time fan of soprano saxman Marion Meadows, I was pretty anxious when I heard he had a new release coming out. Marion having atten…
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Brad Mehldau first gained national attention when he performed as the piano sideman for Joshua Redman. And now this prodigal emotional son of Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans i…
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Due to be released to the public on August 4th are this astonishing new live CD, Ablaze in Orlando and a most exciting 90 minute video featuring guitar virtuoso Ken Navarro…
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This project which was produced by Nicholas Payton contains nine original tunes and three remakes marks the renaissance in Payton's career as he steps away from traditional…
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Vibraphone lovers rejoice! When you listen to Milt Jackson or Lionel Hampton for example, it is usually in a group setting. John Mark has decided to go at it in a beautiful…
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