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Phil Kelly: My Museum (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Seattle-based arranger Phil Kelly changes pace from his customary straight-ahead big band jazz to support the Pacific...

In Conversation with Karrin Allyson posted in Features and Interviews February 15, 08

by Marissa Dodge Editor’s Note: As part of jazz.com's focus on jazz vocalists this month, we are delighted to pr...

Contributors posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 28, 07

Richard Abowitz: Richard Abowitz has written for literary periodicals such as The Kenyon Review, but he is best know ...

The Jazz Network Takes Off posted in The Jazz.com Blog June 29, 08

The word "community" has taken on many new meanings since the rise of the Internet. Certainly the often fragment...

Karrin Allyson: Follow the Footprints (Footprints) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Buddha Shorter tossed this pebble into the pond and each ripple embraced a new set of lyrics. Its re- incarnations in...

Karrin Allyson: All You Need To Say (Never Say Yes) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Imagine Einstein theorizing on jazz: “Physics/Jazz constitutes a logical system of thought which is in a state of evo...

Marian McPartland: Cloudy (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

Mary Lou Williams was a leading light through each epoch of jazz; her playing, composing, and arranging were equally ...

Mary Lou Williams: Medi No. 2 (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

Composed during her religious chapter, “Medi No. 2,” also on Zoning (1974) and Mary Lou’s Mass (1977), demonstrates h...

Nancy King: Sweeper Man (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 10, 08

Music: the encompassing ocean. The wind: the omnipresent Miles. The vessel: one of his transcendent compositions; its...

Nancy King: Stompin' at the Savoy (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music January 10, 08

Bugattis are scarce in the Kia-filled parking lot of current jazz vocalists, but Nancy King is that rare marquee. She...

Don Grolnick (with Michael Brecker): Pools (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 11, 08

“Space is the breath of art.“ – Frank Lloyd Wright An inspired harmonic architect, Grolnick designed spacious stru...

Marian McPartland: Threnody (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 13, 08

True, she blazes bebop and swings steadier than Big Ben, but when Marian McPartland enfolds her hands around a ballad...

Mark Elf: Tea Cup (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music February 01, 08

"We are living on a conducting globe surrounded by a thin layer of insulating air, above which is a rarefied and cond...

Mark Elf: Liftoff (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music March 18, 08

Aural astronaut "Mach" Elf gracefully defies the gravity of these heavy changes. Like Mark's "Elfin's Pace" (a nod to...

Brazil and Other Musical Wonders of the World posted in The Jazz.com Blog March 31, 08

In Jean-Luc Godard’s film Les Carabiniers, two soldiers return home to their wives after years away – with a suitca...

Jimmy Bruno: Moonlight In Vermont (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 17, 08

Intro like a dream falling lines, Lucullan chords. Lucid jazz guitar. Nimble fingers play riffs both swift an...

Fred Randolph: Eclipse (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music May 07, 08

"All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natura...

Fred Randolph: Ice Nine (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music May 07, 08

"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God." – Kurt Vonnegut Fred Randolph's peculiar travels began...

Elli Fordyce: Don't Blame Me (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music May 13, 08

A lyric should last a thousand years. – Jon Hendricks … and a singer should sing it like she's lived a thousan...

Jimmy Bruno: Jimmy's House (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music May 23, 08

Like a luthier crafts an archtop guitar, from the headstock to the tailpiece this top-notch recording was built by Br...

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