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Miles Stiebel
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Jazz music for contemporary times is what violinist Miles Stiebel provides to audiences in his second solo album Excellent Distraction. Produced by Bob Dawson who has worked on numerous Grammy nominated projects, and mastered by Ted Jensen, a Grammy-winning engineer with Norah Jones, Excellent Distraction achieves what Stiebel envisioned, which he describes on his website, “When I write music,...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Spyro Spyro Gyra
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Funksters Spyro Gyra, whose music has traversed numerous genres and drawn from numerous eclectic musical influences during the course of their almost thirty year career, recorded an excellent Christmas jazz album, A Night Before Christmas, while the cherry trees were blossoming in New York. Joining Spyro Gyra’s regular cast, which consists of Jay Beckenstein (saxophones), Tom Schuman (pianist), Julio...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Dave Stryker / Slagle Band
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Album: The Scene
Musicians: Dave Stryker: Guitar, Steve Slagle: alto and soprano sax, flute
Jay Anderson: bass, Victor Lewis: drums, Special Guest: Joe Lovano
Tracks: Skee, The Scene, Six Four Teo, Two Sense, Kindred Spirits, Hopewell’s Last, Brighter Days, Fingers In The wind, Strikology
The Stryker/Slagle Band with Joe Lovano
Interviewing Dave Stryker
JazzReview: Your group is very busy. You have been featured weekly...
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Artist Interview by Nina Goodrich
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Deborah Latz
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Deborah Latz’s new album Lifeline opens her up more personally in front of audiences than ever before. The depth of her vocals and the mood of the music reel audiences into her life in a way that her past experiences as a stage actress/singer and her training, which included Afro/Haitian classes with Madonna in attendance, never gave her the...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Vicki Burns
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Vicki Burns’ new release, Live at Anna’s Jazz Island, tells a lot about her both musically and personally.
Instead of the traditional hard CD format, it is primarily a digital release that serves multiple purposes. First, it gets Burns’ music, a rich blend of jazz genres, out into the world. The digital format, however, serves to cut down on the...
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Artist Interview by Donna Kimura
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JaR
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JazzReview: A new supergroup is born! With your combined careers, you’ve accomplished a phenomenal quantity and diversity of credits on seminal albums over the last four decades. It was an honour to be asked to do this interview for the release of your "Scene 29" CD, thanks guys. Readers will think I’m bound to say this but I really do love this album. I still...
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Artist Interview by Will Minting
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Rob Mosher
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Rob Mosher is one of those musicians that make you ask yourself, “Where did he come from?” Born in Canada and trained on reed instruments such as the saxophone, and later on oboe and English horn, Mosher began writing music in 2003 after studying jazz performance at the University of Toronto. He recalls, “I've always had to figure things...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Harmonious Wail
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In the gypsy jazz field, no one does it any better than the Madison, Wisconsin based group Harmonious Wail. Group founder Sims Delaney-Potthoff says, I knew that wanted to play Django Reinhardt inspired music and pretty much talked to people and put the band together. We just got a bar gig and started by trying out tunes. We called...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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Fourplay
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Salivating fans, awaiting the newest arrival, can now take a breath as Fourplay releases their latest album, Energy, on their debut with Heads Up label.
Captivating hearts for more than a decade, Fourplay brings together four of the hottest talents today—each member a musical genius, mega-star in his own right. Blending R&B, pop and jazz, Fourplay creates a distinct...
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Artist Interview by Nina Goodrich
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Lea DeLaria
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Lea DeLaria is one of the hippest jazz singers around.
Her innate skills and deep love of standards shine through on The Live Smoke Sessions. Unlike her first two CDs, which offered innovative twists of Broadway tunes and rock songs, the latest effort has DeLaria taking on classic jazz numbers. In creating an album that recalls the great live...
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Artist Interview by Donna Kimura
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John Pizzarelli
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John Pizzarelli is full of surprises: surprising influences, surprising insights, and surprising selections on his Richard Rodgers tribute disc, With A Song In My Heart, released on Telarc Jazz on August 19. Also surprising, given the seven-string guitarist’s long-standing relationship with the jazz canon and his penchant for thematic albums, is that he hadn’t done a Rodgers album before...
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Artist Interview by Richard C. Anderson
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Bill Bruford
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A few years after his departure from the group YES, I had the pleasure of seeing drummer Bill Bruford perform with the budding and always cutting-edge progressive-rock band King Crimson back in the mid-‘70s at New York City’s Schaeffer Music Festival in Central Park. As a young drummer, I was fascinated by his distinct percussion vernacular and approach to...
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Artist Interview by Glenn Astarita
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Marilyn Scott
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There is a headlining, sway appeal when the name Marilyn Scott is brought into
conversation. Marilyn is the temperate tone of the modern day cabaret. Her
eloquence comes in multi-faceted forms on stage, and off. It is one reason this
iconic beauty defines the jazz vocalization of the past 30 years. Marilyn Scott
is, in fact, a double bill...
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Artist Interview by Karl Stober
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Kate Schutt
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Singer-songwriter Kate Schutt has invited outsiders into her secret world of songwriting.
Telephone Game, which gets its name from an age-old children’s game, is a unique project that began with Schutt inviting listeners to submit song ideas. She then took those ideas and made them her own, crafting and nurturing them into songs. Along the way, Schutt shared the creative...
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Artist Interview by Donna Kimura
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Al Jarreau
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On or off stage, Al Jarreau exudes a jovial and positive spirit that is highly contagious. For over five decades, Al Jarreau has been known for his golden voice and his unique scatting styles throughout different genres, which include pop, jazz and R&B. He combines all three genres beautifully on his yuletide recording titled Christmas, a plethora of holiday...
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Artist Interview by Asha Brodie
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Patricia Barber
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As a singer, songwriter and piano player, Patricia Barber reflects, “Music chooses her musicians. You know at an early age if you have a talent for music. If you do, it’s such an incredible gift it would be impossible for any reason to turn away from it.”
It is obvious to the viewer that Patricia Barber was built to make...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Darrell Katz
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The Same Thing, the new release by composer/musician Darrell Katz and the Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra utilizes Katz’s skills as a leader, a musician, and an educator. He explains how the music for the recording came together.
Jazzreview: What inspired the music for The Same Thing? Where did these songs come from?
Katz: The material on The Same Thing, except for...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Rick Washbrook
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Touched by a giving spirit, besides driven by a tenacious vision, guitarist Rick Washbrook has again stirred the juices of string-sensitive jazz purists.
In his 2008, self-release West Mystic, the form-fitted excellence of melodies and rhythms bond with a smooth feel. This is why this Canadian music-man has kept with his journey. For the quest for a well-sculpted music...
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Artist Interview by Karl Stober
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George Duke
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It's back to the future for veteran keyboardist George Duke. In his newest CD called Dukey Treats, he takes us back to the 60s and 70s, where music did not only have melody, but it had a message. During those years, artists like James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone not only gave us the funk, but also...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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De'Nate
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Luck, some people have it and others will do anything to acquire it. People
in the eastern hemisphere of this planet believe that you are either born with
it or not, whereas western hemisphere cultures believe that you can make it. The
new NuGroove Records discovery, De’Nate, formed by multi-instrumentalist Nate
Harasim and sultry vocalist Deborah Connors, are a...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Donn Bynum
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Rarely does a musician start his career at the top. Even more rare is staying on
top for three decades, but that’s exactly what Donn Bynum did. Still down to
earth, this mega star is debuting with his own creation—capturing the hearts and
minds of all his listeners.
Playing with Bootsy Collins, The Commodores and The Brothers Johnson, Bynum...
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Artist Interview by Nina Goodrich
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Curtis Haywood
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Driven by his passion for music, saxophonist, composer, Curtis Haywood, is committed to reaching deep into the hearts of his listeners and spreading the universal language of healing into their souls. Crossing all genres with his self-titled album, Haywood, a former member of the group Joshua, stirs the desire for love, intimacy, sharing and spiritual awareness.
Along with his...
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Artist Interview by Nina Goodrich
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Chris Greene
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Chris Greene describes his quartet and their music with a few phrases that
takes audiences into the heart of the band, “We’re a small band of
only four members. We don’t require a large light show, pre-recorded tracks
or a super fancy PA system to give a good show. Each one of the members of the
band is proficient in...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Sheila Cooper
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Saxophonist, singer and composer Sheila Cooper began life in Toronto, Canada,
studying to play the piano at first, and then later, the french horn. But it was
not until she began playing the saxophone that she felt more at ease making
music with the instrument keys. Her skills as a saxophonist netted her a grant
from the Canada Arts...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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Glynis John Martin
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Singer, songwriter and bass player Glynis John Martin (aka Black Ice) delivers a familiar sounding R&B/smooth soul mixture on his self-titled debut release, Black Ice, which recalls of Motown artists like Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye. Martin’s familiar sound might be partly due to the fact that he was exposed to Motown’s music from having been born and raised...
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Artist Interview by Susan Frances
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