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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 03/07/2020
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Jazz interview with jazz guitarist Dave Kain. An interview by email in writing.  JazzBluesNews.com: – First let’s start with where you grew up, and what got you interested ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 03/07/2020
New CD's Review VIDEOS
Soul Food – Cooking with Maceo’ blends raw, old school funk with the flavours of the New Orleans school of music. Parker worked with Ivan Neville, Nikki Glaspie ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 03/07/2020
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For 82 days straight, a diverse group of musicians found their way to a stoop in Flatbush, and everybody followed the sax player. (It was his house.) He ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 01/07/2020
INTERVIEWS VIDEOS Woman in Jazz & Blues
Jazz interview with jazz guitarist Shelley King. An interview by email in writing.  JazzBluesNews.com: – When you improvise, you know where you’re going. It’s a matter of taking certain ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 01/07/2020
New CD's Review VIDEOS
Polish pianist Marcin Wasilewski augments his crisply articulate piano trio – featuring bassist Slawomir Kurkiewicz and drummer Michal Miskiewicz – with the addition of great American saxophonist Joe ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 01/07/2020
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Johnny Mandel, a composer and orchestrator who brought emotional depth and a sophisticated sheen to the realms of popular song, television and film, died on Monday at his ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 30/06/2020
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 30/06/2020
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Jazz interview with jazz pianist and composer John Di Martino. An interview by email in writing.  JazzBluesNews.com: – First let’s start with where you grew up, and what ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 30/06/2020
New CD's Review VIDEOS
In the chordless trio tradition of tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins on A Night at The Village Vanguard (1957) and alto saxophonist Lee Konitz with his Motion (1961), alto ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 30/06/2020
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Marsalis, the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, puts his late father, Ellis Marsalis Jr., as well as Frederick Douglass and young musicians on his list of ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 29/06/2020
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Freddy Cole, whose debonair yet unassuming vocal style lighted his way through a distinguished jazz career, in and out of the shadow of his older brother Nat “King” ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 28/06/2020
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Jazz interview with jazz pianist and composer Angel Zaberski. An interview by email in writing.  JazzBluesNews.com: – First let’s start with where you grew up, and what got ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 28/06/2020
New CD's Review VIDEOS Woman in Jazz & Blues
An easygoing, straightahead venture, Another Place is a fitting title for Karen Sharp’s latest effort. The U.K. saxophonist, a member of the Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra, has pared ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 28/06/2020
ARTISTS BOOKS NEWS VIDEOS
One day in the late Nineties, Dave Lombardo, the metal drumming powerhouse best known for bringing a tornado-like fury to Slayer’s early thrash masterpieces, was driving from San Francisco to ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 25/06/2020
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Jazz interview with jazz pianist and composer Niels Lan Doky. An interview by email in writing.  JazzBluesNews.com: – First let’s start with where you grew up, and what ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 25/06/2020
New CD's Review VIDEOS Woman in Jazz & Blues
Initially from St. Thomas but now based in Toronto, Canada, saxophonist, composer and educator Sophia Smith has formed her own modern jazz ensemble, The Sophia Smith Quartet, showcasing ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 25/06/2020
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Terence Blanchard is a jazz trumpeter, composer and music educator. His most recent work is the score for the 2020 film Da 5 Bloods, his latest of many collaborations with ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 23/06/2020
BLUES INTERVIEWS VIDEOS
Interview with Canada-based pianist/singer Michael Kaeshammer: Boogie On The Blues Highway How has the Blues and Jazz Counterculture influenced your views of the world and the journeys you’ve ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 23/06/2020
New CD's Review VIDEOS
French soprano saxophonist Stephane Spira and Italian-born pianist Giovanni Mirabassi recorded their first album together back in 2009. Improkofiev is the pair’s first collaboration since then. After a ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 23/06/2020
ARTISTS BOOKS VIDEOS
As black Americans fought for equal rights in the 1960s, music reflected their calls to action. In jazz, that meant sounds that were spiritual, boundary-pushing and celebrated blackness. ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 21/06/2020
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Jazz interview with jazz bassist Daniel Toledo. An interview by email in writing.  JazzBluesNews.com: – First let’s start with where you grew up, and what got you interested ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 21/06/2020
New CD's Review VIDEOS
The British-born bass player Dave Holland’s recent own-name albums include free improv with a starry transatlantic band and tough contemporary quartet jazz featuring sax and guitar. At this ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 21/06/2020
ARTISTS BOOKS VIDEOS
On June 4, the iconoclastic composer, esteemed academic/pedagogical luminary, and free-jazz firebrand Anthony Braxton turned 75 years old. To trace the course of Braxton’s career, from its beginnings ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 18/06/2020
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Jazz interview with jazz composer, arranger, guitarist, vocalist Joel Harrison. An interview by email in writing.  JazzBluesNews.com: – First let’s start with where you grew up, and what ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 18/06/2020
New CD's Review VIDEOS
In September 1966, organist Jimmy Smith and guitarist Wes Montgomery got together at Rudy Van Gelder’s famed studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Over the course of three ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 18/06/2020
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The former James Brown collaborator talks to Martin Chilton about growing up in segregated America, wangling saxophone lessons from Sonny Rollins, and how his civil rights anthem has ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 16/06/2020
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Jazz interview with jazz pianist Bartosz Hadala. An interview by email in writing.  JazzBluesNews.com: – First let’s start with where you grew up, and what got you interested ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 16/06/2020
New CD's Review VIDEOS
While sheltering at home with his family in the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic this spring, pianist and composer Brad Mehldau wrote twelve new songs about what he was experiencing; ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 16/06/2020
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The legendary saxophonist, approaching ninety, discusses civil rights, jazz, and creative change. The gains and revolutions, both political and musical, of the past sixty years can be measured ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 14/06/2020
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Jazz interview with jazz vibraphonist Chris Dingman. An interview by email in writing.  JazzBluesNews.com: – First let’s start with where you grew up, and what got you interested ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 14/06/2020
New CD's Review VIDEOS
The title of this CD, Inside out, is an homage to the Dutch jazz pianist Rob Madna (1931-2003). I also would like to show gratitude to a generation of ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 14/06/2020
ARTISTS BOOKS VIDEOS
My New Yorker Culture Desk essay “Think of Monk” is a well-edited aerial view. What follows is a ramble though the underbrush of musicianly detail, stuff I thought about while ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 12/06/2020
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Jazz interview with jazz pianist and composer Silvio Amato. An interview by email in writing.  JazzBluesNews.com: – First let’s start with where you grew up, and what got ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 12/06/2020
New CD's Review VIDEOS
The current iteration of the Denny Zeitlin Trio was born for a large stage but finds itself at home in all settings. The ever-evolving Trio finds a special ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 12/06/2020
ARTISTS BOOKS VIDEOS
1930: The Orquesta Típica is out and the Conjunto is in The year 1930 marked a turning point in the development of popular Cuban music. Traditional outdoor ensembles ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 11/06/2020
BLUES INTERVIEWS VIDEOS Woman in Jazz & Blues
Interview with UK guitarist Chantel McGregor – the Blues came first, but rock and pop was always waiting on the corner. How has the Blues and Rock Counterculture ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 11/06/2020
New CD's Review VIDEOS
Produced by Dodicilune, distributed in Italy and abroad by Ird and in the best online stores by Believe Digital, L’equilibrista, the new recording project by Pierluigi Balducci. In ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 11/06/2020
NEWS VIDEOS Woman in Jazz & Blues
Young but multifaceted: jazz pianist Johanna Summer is one of the great hopes of German jazz. Munich is a good place for her, in 2018 she won the ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 09/06/2020
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Jazz interview with jazz trumpeter Marvin Frey. An interview by email in writing.  JazzBluesNews.com: – First let’s start with where you grew up, and what got you interested ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 09/06/2020
New CD's Review VIDEOS
Guitarist John Scofield celebrates the music of his friend and mentor Steve Swallow in an outgoing and spirited recording, made in a day in New York in March ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 09/06/2020
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This was going to be a year of great jazz centennials. For 1920 marked the birth of several jazz musicians who either changed the course of the music ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 07/06/2020
INTERVIEWS The bad musicians VIDEOS Woman in Jazz & Blues
Jazz interview with jazz trumpeter and vocalist Susana Santos Silva. An interview by email in writing.  JazzBluesNews.com: – First let’s start with where you grew up, and what ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 07/06/2020
New CD's Review VIDEOS
The combination of concept, effort and the right collaborators typically leads to good things no matter what the goal might be. These elements are especially integral to cohesion ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 04/06/2020
INTERVIEWS The bad musicians VIDEOS
Jazz interview with jazz guitarist Aron Namenwirth. An interview by email in writing.  JazzBluesNews.com: – First let’s start with where you grew up, and what got you interested ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 04/06/2020
New CD's Review VIDEOS Woman in Jazz & Blues
The first thing we hear from Esperanza Spalding in this set, recorded at the Village Vanguard in 2018, is an appreciative grunt during Fred Hersch’s oblique introduction to ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 04/06/2020
ARTISTS NEWS VIDEOS
Musician, arranger, bandleader and soon-to-be-professor Peter Welker spent more than 50 years embodying the spirit of jazz in the Bay Area. Schooled in tradition and musically evolving since ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 02/06/2020
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Jazz interview with jazz vibraphonist Warren Wolf. An interview by email in writing.  JazzBluesNews.com: – First let’s start with where you grew up, and what got you interested ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 02/06/2020
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“One of the greatest musicians in jazz” (NY Times), Havana-born piano genius Gonzalo Rubalcaba returns with music from his new album, Viento y Tiempo, recorded in collaboration with ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 02/06/2020
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Along with some duo magic from Esperanza Spalding and Fred Hersch, and a ray of sunshine from Matt Wilson. Georgia Anne Muldrow (as Jyoti), “This Walk” The singer-songwriter, ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 31/05/2020
BLUES INTERVIEWS VIDEOS
Interview with Wayne Nicholson & John Campbelljohn – The Canadian duo keeps the legend of Elmore James alive! How has the Blues and Rock Counterculture influenced your views ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 31/05/2020
New CD's Review VIDEOS
It may be somewhat ironic, yet ultimately fitting that this, the final recording by Larry Willis, brought the veteran pianist/composer right back to the Rudy Van Gelder Studio where ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 31/05/2020
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Iconic trumpeter, A&M Records co-founder, painter, sculptor, philanthropist and past recipient of WBGO’s Champions of Jazz Gala Award continues to give back during the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking to ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 27/05/2020
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Jazz Interview with jazz pianist and composer George Kontrafouris. An interview by email in writing.  JazzBluesNews.com: – First let’s start with where you grew up, and what got ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 27/05/2020
New CD's Review VIDEOS Woman in Jazz & Blues
With the jazz landscape so heavily populated with piano trios, one priority for proponents might have to with finding ways to differentiate their outfits from others. That doesn’t ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 27/05/2020
ARTISTS NEWS VIDEOS
Jimmy Cobb, the incomparable hard-bop drummer, died on Sunday at 91. In his honor, here is the first installment of Take Five, compiled in celebration of his 88th birthday ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 25/05/2020
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Jimmy Cobb died on Sunday, May 25, 2020. The cause of death is not yet available. After almost 60 years in the business, drummer Jimmy Cobb has earned ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 25/05/2020
INTERVIEWS The bad musicians VIDEOS
Jazz interview with jazz saxophonist Sam Gendel. An interview by email in writing. There are also such fools who appear to be the bad musicians, to be burned. ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 25/05/2020
New CD's Review VIDEOS Woman in Jazz & Blues
Jackie, Amy, and Sherrie are the closest of friends and kindred musical spirits. They recognize their musical selves in each other, and that amazing and powerful force opens ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 25/05/2020
BOOKS VIDEOS
A review of the book by Dafnis Prieto, entitled Rhythmic Synchronicity – Individual and Collective Drumming Skills: A rhythmic course for non-drummers. Anyone who has heard Dafnis Prieto play ...
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By http://jazzbluesnews.com
- 23/05/2020
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Jazz interview with jazz bassist​ ​Stephen Menold. An interview by email in writing. JazzBluesNews.com: – First let’s start with where you grew up, and what got you interested ...
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