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Sonny Rollins At The Barbican
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Sonny Rollins plays at London’s Barbican Hall, as if 50 years never passed. The Colossus is still capable, at 73, to keep a full-house audience glued to their seats with his never-ending plastic improvisations. He explores the instrument from head to toe; he talks to you though the sax, his phrase iridescent and hypnotizing as a notational chameleon.
Rollins...
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Concert Review by Lara Bellini
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Jackie McLean Sextet at The Iridium
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Jazz has since endured 50 years of growing pains and hard fought success but by the end of the sixties, it seemed old hat and circumspect. Hard Bop and West Coast had all but been exhausted, funk-inflected buggaloo and Latin-tinged jazz hammered the airwaves and the new kids were hip to the Beatles and Rock and Roll. ...
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Concert Review by Phillip Wong
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Little Song, Big Song, Long Song -- here's Sheila Jordan, live in Chicago
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Another weekend night at one of America's coolest jazz clubs, the Green Mill in Chicago, this time with one of the finest, most underrated American jazz singer, Ms. Sheila Jordan. Ms. Jordan (b. 1928) was a contemporary of Charlie Parker, and was briefly married to one of Parker's pianists, Duke Jordan. Until about 20 years ago, a...
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Concert Review by Mark Keresman
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The Manhattan Transfer with Jane Monheit
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The Manhattan Transfer came to Columbus on May 22, and they went away as popular as ever with their followers in Ohio’s Capitol City. As Tim Hauser mentioned, seemingly without exaggeration, The Manhattan Transfer has played the Palace Theater more often than any other in the country…and that doesn’t include the quartet’s appearances at the Ohio Theater and the...
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Concert Review by Don Williamson
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Joe Lovano at the Kennedy Center
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Friday evening at the Kennedy Center saw another performance in their Beyond Category series. The group in question was the Joe Lovano Nonet presenting their Miles Davis "Birth of the Cool" Suite. It turned out to be a highly enjoyable evening, although it was not exactly what I was expecting from the concert's title.
The Birth of the Cool...
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Concert Review by Peter Westbrook
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Reflections of Elvin Jones from a Fan
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The passing of the great jazz drummer Elvin Jones at the age of 76 on 5/18/04 marked the end of an era for me. I had seen Elvin live at least once a year from 1990 to 2003, because I considered him the greatest living practitioner of the music. He was a man who created his own style of...
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Viewpoint by Greg Turner
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Antonio Forcione: Back At PizzaExpress
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Full house again at The PizzaExpress Jazz Club in Soho, for Italian guitarist Antonio Forcione. The Britts seem to have literally fallen for his act.
Forcione mainly relies on solid technique, charm and a pleasant melting-pot of styles: a blend of mild yet articulate folkloric playing paired with warm quotations from the Mediterranean, Africa and Brazil.
Flamenco and Arabic influences...
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Concert Review by Lara Bellini
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The Ninth Annual Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival
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During the first fifty years of its development, the vast majority of women performers who broke into jazz were either singers or pianists. It was only with the onset of World War II that women started to make major inroads into brass and reed sections. Like Rosy the Rivetter they were replacing men who had been drafted into military...
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Concert Review by Peter Westbrook
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McCoy Tyner Trio with Ravi Coltrane
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This was simply a night of beautiful music. For years I have been wanting to hear McCoy Tyner live and it was definitely worth the wait to see him with Charnette Moffett on bass, Eric Harland on drums and Ravi Coltrane on tenor and soprano saxophones. McCoy and this band are really able to take the modal jazz form...
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Concert Review by Darren Nealis
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Jim Hall Trio
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The room was packed for the second set of the Jim Hall Trio at the Village Vanguard. Upon hearing the first notes, it was no mystery why this trio filled the club each night during their 3-night stay at the Vanguard. Throughout the evening, Jim Hall, who is now 73 years old, played his hollow-bodied electric guitar with great...
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Concert Review by Darren Nealis
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Two Weeks, Two Masters--One Club
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For the last two weeks of April, and not for the first time, the Jazz Bakery in Culver City was the place to be in Los Angeles County if you wanted to hear world class jazz. From the 20th to the 25th the club hosted the great vocalist Andy Bey and his quartet in an all-too-rare California appearance,...
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Concert Review by Edward Kane
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Night of The Cookers
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The cookers, as they were known, were the irrepressible Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan on trumpet, James Spaulding on alto saxophone and flute, Harold Mabern Jr. on piano, Larry Ridley on bass and Pete La Roca on drums. The sextet took stage at, long defunct, Club La Marchal in Brooklyn over two evenings on April 1965. Collectively...
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Concert Review by Phillip Wong
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Nancy Kelly Swings In Los Angeles
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One of the most energetic explosive events known, is a supernova. While many supernovae have been seen in the past (in other galaxies) they are rare events in our own galaxy. The same can be said of jazz musicians, an explosive event is rare in this day and age where most singers sound like Minnie Mouse on helium and...
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Concert Review by John Gilbert
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Hugh Fraser Performs Mingus at Vancouver's The Cellar
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The Cellar in Vancouver is exactly that. You go down a flight of stairs to enter an intimate and tastefully appointed old school Jazz Club. The red walls are adorned with black and White photos of Jazz Artists, and behind the small stage, graced with a shining baby grand piano, hangs thick black curtains. Dinner is served at...
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Concert Review by Turiya Mareya
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Hancock DeJohnette Holland
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On a typical night, jazz masters Jack DeJohnette and Dave Holland are leading their own groups in any number of theatres and clubs around the globe. On this particular night, they were part of another jazz master’s trio, the venerable Herbie Hancock. Including the encore, an inspired version of Maiden Voyage that began with a brief bluesy...
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Concert Review by Bryan Zoran
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Moses In Chicago, Sets Rhythm Free
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There are drummers, and then there is Bob Moses. [Holy Hyperbole, Batman!] Well, it’s true: there aren’t many jazz drummers like Bob Moses. To say his resume is impressive is a gross understatement (Gary Burton, R. Roland Kirk, Pat Metheny’s 1st album, Steve Kuhn, etc.); he’s a fascinating, effective and engaging composer/arranger a la Gil Evans...
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Concert Review by Mark Keresman
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Yellowjackets buzz at ASU festival
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The crowd was small but enthusiastic during the 24th annual Alcorn State University Jazz Festival, held at the state-of-the-art Vicksburg Convention Center in Vicksburg, Miss.
The headliner was the Heads Up recording group, the Yellowjackets. Before the quartet of Russell Ferrante, Bob Mintzer, Jimmy Haslip and Marcus Baylor took the stage, however, audiences were treated to performances by several Mississippi...
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Concert Review by Woodrow Wilkins Jr.
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In the Mood for Moody
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Tonight was a special night at Clancy's Crab Shack in Glendale, one in which everyone had something to celebrate. The club was marking its first full year of presenting live jazz and reveled in presenting, in the person of legendary saxophonist James Moody, perhaps its most prestigious performer to date. For Moody & his wife Linda, it...
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Concert Review by Edward Kane
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Nothing Like the Real Thing
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The day before Easter it was, that for the first time I saw Billy Bang play live with his Trio. A friend of mine once said it is good to refrain from corrupting an experience with words. The following words are intended to elucidate on a past experience not an anticipatory one. If there is anything I did not...
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Concert Review by Lyn Horton
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From the Frenetic, etc
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As usual, I'm honored to be asked to 'sit in' & peruse the awesome combined talent of our local treasure........Sarasota's Florida West Coast Symphony. For their Casual Classics 'Great Escape' series (2/5/04), the orchestra delved into the area of 'Sophisticated Ladies.' Maestro Leif Bjaland with his bent for taking both the classics & the jazz/pop idiom to the edge,...
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Concert Review by George W. Carroll
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Ornette Coleman in Ann Arbor
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An icon of American music, Ornette Coleman’s innovations of the ‘50s and ‘60s continue to have an impact on forward-thinking jazz, both in terms of the way Coleman broke free of harmonic constraints and the way he placed a formal emphasis on melody. Although he has continued to document his latest developments via recordings, performance opportunities have been...
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Concert Review by C. Andrew Hovan
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13th East Coast Jazz Festival
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The DoubleTree Hotel, on Rockville Pike, Maryland, about 10 miles from our nation's capital, was the venue for the 13th annual East Coast Jazz Festival from February 11th through the 16th of this year. Compared with other festivals it is a small event, drawing mainly on local talent with a sprinkling of headliners, this year Frank Morgan, Rebecca Parris,...
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Concert Review by Peter Westbrook
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Groov'in For Grover
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It was a treat to attend this concert at the Historic Pabst Theater to listen to jazz super stars Gerald Albright, Richard Elliott, Jeff Lorber, and Paul Taylor. This was a perfect venue to celebrate the life of a classy jazz artist, Grover Washington Jr. A wonderfully diverse crowd gathered to experience the awesome concert ahead. As...
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Concert Review by Dennis Webb
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Quartet Rocks the Delta
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Once there lived a quartet, with a very solid background.
Last Friday, they took the stage and thrilled a packed house at the Gold Strike Casino’s Millennium Theater in the Mississippi Delta community of Robinsonville.
The Manhattan Transfer, after 30 years as one of contemporary jazz’s best vocal acts, reinforces that saying about getting better with age. Truth be told, this...
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Concert Review by Woodrow Wilkins Jr.
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Jazz Diva Captivates Pabst Theatre Audience
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Cassandra Wilson graced the Pabst Theatre stage on Sunday evening, March 21. The most inspiring vocalist over the last decade, she has a brilliance no one can deny. The latest group she has assembled is a wonderful collection of musicians who create a full, almost orchestral, sound that is the perfect complement to her voice.
Her set began...
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Concert Review by Bryan Zoran
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