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Kenny Garrett: Night and Day (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music March 06, 08

Kenny Garrett's 1986-1987 stint with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (he was concurrently a steady member of Miles...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE BEST OF THE ART BLAKEY ALUMS

There are post-Swing Era bandleaders, and then there is Art Blakey. After a brief time spent developing his craft by ...

Kenny Garrett: Sing A Song Of Song (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 31, 08

Kenny Garrett has a penchant for writing spiritual, circular melodies, and "Song" is one of his better examples of th...

Kenny Garrett: Wayne's Thang (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 06, 08

On his live CD Sketches of MD, Kenny Garrett features five tracks. All are long excursions (the shortest song on the...

Kenny Garrett: Beyond the Wall (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

Often considered the last great sideman of Miles Davis, Garrett emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a defini...

Clifton Anderson: Z (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 03, 09

Clifton Anderson has been standing on a stage or bandstand next to his uncle Sonny Rollins since 1983. Such is the ty...

Cameo (with Miles Davis): In The Night (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music February 04, 09

Miles Davis's sideman appearances post-Kind Of Blue are about as rare as Arizona Cardinals Super Bowl appearances, bu...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WHEN JAZZ CATS MEET ROCKERS

Jazz musicians performing sidemen roles on recording dates of non-jazz performances is a practice nearly as old as ja...

John McLaughlin and Chick Corea: In A Silent Way / It's About That Time (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 24, 09

Here’s a recent, live all-star recreation of the entire backside of Miles Davis’ classic early fusion platter, In A S...

Freddie Hubbard & Woody Shaw: Desert Moonlight (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

The meeting on record of Woody Shaw and all-time trumpet great Freddie Hubbard was a cause for rapt anticipation befo...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BRIAN LYNCH SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL WOODY SHAW TRACKS

Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...

A Conversation with Kenny Garrett posted in Features and Interviews October 23, 07

By Patrick Spurling “I wanted to the hear the opera” Not a comment one expects coming from a well-known J...

Garrett, Kenny posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Garrett, Kenny, alto and soprano saxophonist, flutist; b. Detroit, 9 October 1960. His father was amateur tenor saxis...

Miles Davis: Catembe (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music July 19, 08

In Miles: The Autobiography, the book Davis wrote with Quincy Troupe, Miles said "amandla" means "freedom" in Zulu. W...

A Jazz.com Sampler: 25 Track Reviews posted in The Jazz.com Blog January 08, 09

Is it really possible to review all the important jazz tracks recorded since the first story was told in Storyville? ...

In Conversation With Chick Corea posted in Features and Interviews June 30, 09

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In Conversation with Jeff "Tain" Watts posted in Features and Interviews May 04, 09

By Ted Panken Seven years ago, I interviewed drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts upon the release of Bar Talk, his sec...

Watts, Jeff "Tain" posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 09

Hailing from the rich musical city of Pittsburgh, drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts has established himself as one of the mos...

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

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In Conversation With Brian Blade posted in Features and Interviews July 14, 09

By Ted Panken "The way I was brought up, boundary lines were never laid on the ground between people or the musi...

Stern, Mike (Michael Philips) posted in Encyclopedia October 19, 09

Guitarist Mike Stern's experimental technique draws equally from hard bop, fusion and funk. Since his early professio...

Brown, Donald (Ray) posted in Encyclopedia September 17, 09

Pianist Donald Brown’s synthesis of post-bop styles has placed him at the forefront of a new school of melodicists. B...

Frisell, Bill posted in Encyclopedia March 31, 08

Guitarist Bill Frisell has a borderless musical personality which sounds at home in virtually any context. His abilit...

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