The three elements to jazz - three things that make music jazz as opposed to rock or folk or anything else - are the blues, improvisation and swing. And while one can pract…
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Born out of the trauma of 9/11, Charles Lloyd’s new two-disc ECM recording, Lift Every Voice, is a remedy for the sabre rattling so coolly analyzed on the news each …
Skill and joy are in amply evidence on Phillips, Grier & Flinner’s sophomore release on Compass Records, Looking Back, the much-anticipated follow-up to their 1999 s…
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By now, even if you haven’t heard Norah Jones sing, you’ve most likely heard of Norah Jones. She’s cut a few tracks on a few albums, been enjoying airplay and appearances o…
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Rachelle Ferrell doesn’t like to call herself a jazz singer. She released her debut CD, First Instrument, in 1990 in Japan specifically to avoid being pigeonholed as…
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