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Kenny G: Summertime (Rating: 79/100) posted in Music November 28, 07

No surprises in this smooth jazz version of the Gershwin standard. Kenny G keeps fairly close to the sheet music cho...

Kenny G: Songbird (Rating: 60/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Seldom has a jazz track ignited such firestorms. Songbirding, as it's now known, gained notoriety during the 1989 ove...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING

Jazz.com visitors will notice that most of our reviews are favorable. That's because (a) we love jazz and (b) in bu...

The Rippingtons: Moonlighting (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

In 1986, guitarist Russ Freeman enlisted some musician friends to “moonlight” as a band called the Rippingtons and re...

Cavaseno, Joseph "G-Clef" (Harry) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Cavaseno, Joseph "G-Clef" (Harry), saxophonist, clarinetist, pianist, singer, composer; b. Mineola, NY, 2 June 1967....

Forsh, Kenny (Kenneth Allan) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Forsh, Kenny (Kenneth Allan), saxophones, flute, educator; b. Brooklyn, NY, 8 February 1949. A native New Yorker, he ...

Dorham, Kenny (McKinley Howard) posted in Encyclopedia February 18, 09

Kenny Dorham has been scandalously undervalued in the jazz trumpet lineage. His breathy tone was not the immediate wa...

McNeill, Lloyd (G.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

McNeill, Lloyd (G.), flute; b. Washington DC, 12 April 1935. He's been in NY since Sept. 1970. He's been teaching ...

Smooth Jazz Obits Are Premature posted in The Jazz.com Blog June 11, 08

Editor's Note: Alan Kurtz, jazz.com's resident curmudgeon, is our fledgling site’s most widely read and fiercel...

Griffin, Rayford (Galen) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Griffin, Rayford (Galen), drummer, composer, producer; b. Indianapolis, IN, 6 February 1958.  He's the nephew of...

Breaking Jazz News & Opinion: June 2009 posted in Miscellaneous Pages July 03, 09

Anat Cohen plays Benny Goodman Josh Jackson reports from A Blog Supreme. 50,000 show ...

Lorber, Jeff posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Lorber, Jeff, keyboards, composer, producer; b. Philadelphia, PA, 4 November 1952. He took piano lessons from the ...

THE DOZENS posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 01, 07

In African-American tradition, "the dozens" is an informal exchange filled with ribaldry, taunting and clever put dow...

Has the Clarinet Gone the Way of the Banjo? posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 27, 09

Michael Pellecchia concludes his look at the rise and fall of the clarinet below, in the final installment of this t...

In Conversation With Clifton Anderson posted in Features and Interviews January 24, 09

By Tomas Peña                &#...

John Coltrane: My Favorite Things (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

    John Coltrane, photo by Herb Snitzer In 1960, adding the soprano saxophone to his bag of tri...

Joshua Redman (featuring Brad Mehldau): Summertime (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 28, 07

Summertime . . . and the fish are jumpin' in 5/4 time. From Sidney Bechet to Kenny G, saxophonists have delighte...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BRAD MEHLDAU PERFORMANCES

Few jazz musicians in recent years have put together a more exciting and innovative body of work than Brad Mehldau....

Knife Fight Breaks Out Over Sun Ra Review posted in The Jazz.com Blog January 17, 08

Well maybe not a real knife fight. This is the Internet, after all, and the bloodshed is only virtual. But if th...

David Sanborn: Another Hand (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 05, 08

Another Hand is a collection of the type of ballads that Sanborn so excels on. The saxophonist is a bit of an en...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BODY PARTS FOR HALLOWEEN

A few months ago I was writing a Jazz.com review of Bireli LaGrene’s tune “Hips.” It started getting me think...

Andreas Oberg: Uptown Downtown (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 19, 08

At age 29, Stockholm's Royal Music Academy alumnus Andreas Öberg has advanced to the fore of the burgeoning avant-gar...

Barnacled: Losing Weight Through Prayer (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 17, 08

With instruments listed such as a shortwave radio and modified Speak & Spell, you're not exactly expecting Kenny G. T...

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