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Bobby McFerrin
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December 2007 - Bobby McFerrin, master of all music, a man whose career embraces, jazz, pop and classical, has one busy schedule coming up in 2008. This world famous vocal innovator and improviser, who added classical to his repertoire in the nineties, begins the year in Southern California with a concert at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Jan 10-12, with the...
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Artist Interview by Larry Taylor
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Erin Bode
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September 2004 - In the world of jazz, there are often two kinds of vocalists - the ones who sing and the ones who speak to the heart. It’s the singers who irresistibly whisper to your soul that you remember. Listen to Erin Bode and you’ll soon realize she’s someone you won’t forget.
The youngest of four children, Bode grew...
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Artist Interview by Cheryl Hughey
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Suzy Bogguss
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September 2003 - Suzy Bogguss is best known for a steady string of country hits, but she’s never been limited to a single style.
On “Swing” (Compadre), the singer demonstrates her flair for classic jazz and Western swing numbers. Here, Duke Ellington meets Bob Wills. The result is a CD that radiates with charm. One reviewer recently called it the “most elegant...
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Artist Interview by Donna Kimura
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Chris Botti
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July, 2006 - Soaring on the wings of critical acclaim and success, Chris Botti has reached a pristine zenith of achievement in his career. Most importantly, he has done so without compromising his vision.
Chris Botti is intent on imparting awareness of the importance of music in the lives of children, as well as the parental involvement that is necessary in aiding...
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Artist Interview by Katrina-Kasey Wheeler
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Chris Botti
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October 2004 - When I Fall in Love is a soundtrack of romance, love and life. What you will hear is the graduation of a master musician into another realm. Botti takes listeners on a tantalizing journey of lushly interpreted standards from the past and present. Backed by the London Session Orchestra, Botti creates an aura of romance that...
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Artist Interview by Cheryl Hughey
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Chris Botti
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October 2003 - Some musicians perform to be heard, while others play because they are driven. The ones who are “driven” are rare. They seek to redefine our expectations, push the limits and offer something that goes beyond. Such talent rests in the hands of trumpeter Chris Botti.
Botti has performed in the past with rock royalty and jazz legends. Touring extensively...
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Artist Interview by Cheryl Hughey
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Chris Botti
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- Chris Botti lives the best of both worlds; he is a highly in-demand trumpet virtuoso who shares the spotlight with the likes of Sting, Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell, as well as a gifted composer and instrumentalist with the ability to combine jazz sensibility and virtuosity with sophisticated adult-oriented pop. Most of all, Botti possesses an uncanny vocal quality...
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Artist Interview by Fred 'Starr' Gerantab
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Brett Boyd
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August 2006 - He lives in New York, just finished high school, plays a sweet trumpet and can sing the pants off any of today's "singers.” His name is Brett Boyd.
Brett comes from a most musical family; one grandfather played trombone in big bands with Tommy Dorsey, Sammy Kaye and Ted Lewis. His other grandfather sang and used to open for...
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Artist Interview by Linda Marcota
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Joanne Brackeen
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- I was mortified to see an unnamed guitarist (Mark
Whitfield) on stage at an undisclosed location (The Iridium) in a major
metropolitan city (New York) play some sort of instrumental pop, smooth,
crossover, hybrid. What had led such a promising young musician to abandon his
once true calling? After all, he (Mark Whitfield) was touted by most members of
the selective media and his...
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Artist Interview by Fred Jung
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Don Braden
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July 2006 - One car ride with tenor saxophonist Don Braden is like a trip around the world. Within an hour of dropping off his instruments for repairs and locating our destination for a chat, we talked about finding spirituality in The Big Apple, the presence of God in the music industry, his four-year old Lexus, our disappointment in the present political...
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Artist Interview by Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson
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George Braith
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July 2004 - Saxophonist George Braith is an enduring product of the 1960’s Blue Note jazz team, recording three albums for the Blue Note label from 1963 to 1964 and Prestige in 1966. Currently the famous jazz label has reissued the classic George Braith double CD box set The Complete Blue Note Sessions. The inventor of the Braithophone, two different horns (straight...
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Artist Interview by Pat A. Robinson
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Adi Braun
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November 2006 - Whether she
is singing in front of an audience, on a CD or talking to you, Adi Braun has a
sensuality that drips from every note and leaves you hanging on every word. “I
think we all sing about love,” she says. However, Braun is much more than lusty
vocals, she is a very good jazz singer who is...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Rick Braun
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October 2003 - Rick Braun recently released Esperanto, an eclectic album that highlights music as the universal language. This CD is a bit different than previous Braun recordings. Braun stated that he “didn’t stick with smooth jazz formulas. [I] did what I wanted to do. I really enjoyed making it.”
A cornucopia of vibes, Esperanto moves through an...
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Artist Interview by Cheryl Hughey
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Tom Braxton
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- Imagine This, Tom Braxton’s latest solo release on Pacific Coast Jazz Records, places him not only as the dominant composer and navigator for the music, but also at the helm for the album’s musical direction. Previously, the smooth jazz saxman was well-known for his collaborations with his dear-friend and former NBA star Wayman Tisdale, who guided him along the...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Randy Brecker
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- Forty years after he began his music career, Jazz trumpeter Randy Brecker comes to life as he talks about the new directions emerging in the genre. Brecker says that the globalization of Jazz music, "just adds to the spicy mix of Jazz." He points to bassist Richard Bona from Minta Eastern Cameroon as a perfect example of someone who...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Randy Brecker
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November 2003 - “Every work of art is a child of its age” - Vassily Kandinsky
With modern legacies of the likes of Miles, Kenny Dorham, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan (the latter two also from Philly), Freddie Hubbard and Blue Mitchell to contend with, and it being a decidedly lead instrument, anyone picking up a trumpet in 60's Philly had serious baggage to...
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Artist Interview by Mike Brannon
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Michael Brecker
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- After
what seems like a long history of supporting musicianship, Michael Brecker can
do no wrong in turning out another superb CD "Nearness of You: The Ballad Book,
released June 19, 2000 on the Verve label. Accolades keep pouring in, but this
doesn't stop the talented Mr. Brecker from gearing up for a dream team national
tour beginning September...
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Artist Interview by Suzi Price
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Dee Dee Bridgewater
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October 2005 - Friday Evening October 7, 2005 at Founders Hall in the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, California, Dee Dee Bridgewater opened a two-night, four-set stand as part of the tenth season of the Jazz Club Series. Dee Dee has just released J’ai Deux Amours, a remarkable album from its retro packaging and glamour photography to the eleven very...
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Artist Interview by Gerard W. O'Brien
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Jim Brock
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June 2007 - Percussionist Jim Brock needs no introduction to those in the music industry. He has during his career played live with and recorded on the projects of such esteemed artists as Brandford Marsalis, Victor Wooten, Delbert McClinton, Arturo Sanoval, Hootie and the Blowfish, Kathy Mattea and John Melencamp. He has, however, remained one of those artists who is untarnished from the lure of...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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dee brown
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April 2008 - On the surface, the electric guitar and God aim to inspire two polarized
behaviors from people. The electric guitar is typically idolized for being loud
and wild, unlike the soft billowing resonance of the violins which people
associate with angels, God’s choir made in the image of himself. But smooth jazz
guitarist/arranger/composer Dee Brown shows us that the guitar...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Norman Brown
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August 2004 - Guitarist Norman Brown is very glad to have received a Grammy award in 2003 for the Best Pop Instrumental for his CD Just Chillin'. In 2004, George Harrison won the award posthumously for Marwa Blues, which Brown feels made his award in 2003 more important because of the voting. He says, "The Grammy’s were so fair. Everybody felt like...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Paul Brown
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March 2004 - After years of producing some of smooth jazz' most prominent stars, Paul Brown is returning to his first love of performing as he debuts his solo CD Up Front. Brown says that performing as a musician is "the ultimate musical expression."
Brown started his musical career a lot like many performers, growing up in the business through their parents....
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Bill Bruford
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- Mention the name Bill Bruford to most musicians, especially drummers, and what you get is a response that is usually filled with awe. After helping form the group “Yes” in 1968, Bruford went on to work with a who’s-who of progressive rock groups, including Genesis, Gong, his own band Bruford, and three different stints with Robert Fripp’s King...
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Artist Interview by Michael Bettine
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Ray Bryant
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January 2005 - Ray Bryant has been playing jazz for over 50 years, and during that time he has accompanied jazz legends like Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Lester Young. In addition, Bryant achieved wider popular recognition during the 1960’s with some of his most widely recognized songs like “Cubano Chant” and “Slow Freight.”
Born into a musical family, Bryant is...
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Artist Interview by Don Williamson
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Anatholi Bulkin
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- JazzReview.com: Where were you born?
Anatholi Bulkin: I was born in Kalmar in the southeastern part of Sweden just outside of Nybro where we lived at the time. We moved around quite a bit after that though, and I was raised in a small town about 1 hour drive to the west from Stockholm called Surahammar. The first Swedish car...
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Artist Interview by Randy McElligott
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