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Gil Evans: Moon Taj (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 05, 08John Carisi was one of the most highly respected composers in jazz, at least by those insiders who were aware of his ...
Taj Mahal (with Toumani Diabaté): Zanzibar (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 13, 08Although blues music has deep African roots, the combination of these two traditions in the recording studio typicall...
David Murray & the Gwo Ka Masters (with Taj Mahal and Sista Kee): Southern Skies (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 08, 09David Murray returns to the studio with traditional Guadeloupian gwo-ka percussionists, and this time brings along Ta...
Song of the Day posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 17, 07The Song of the Day is a regular feature at jazz.com. Five days per week, jazz.com highlights an exceptional track d...
Johnson, Howard (Lewis) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Johnson, Howard (Lewis), tuba, baritone saxophonist, trumpet; b. Montgomery, AL, 7 August 1941. Besides his main inst...
Stewart, Bob (Robert Alvin) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Stewart, Bob (Robert Alvin), tuba; b. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 3 February 1945. He lived in New York, N.Y. 1947-...
Daley, Joseph (Peter) posted in Encyclopedia August 01, 09Tuba, euphonium, valve trombone, composer, educator; b. Harlem, New York, 6 August 1949. His father, John Joseph...
21 Tracks to Check Out posted in The Jazz.com Blog November 01, 08I like to listen to new music every day, but even a jazz hound like me sometimes is overwhelmed by the sheer number ...
The Best Blues CDs of 2008 posted in The Jazz.com Blog December 24, 08I recently published here my choices for the best jazz CDs and world music CDs of 2008. Below is my last list of the...
Levinovsky, Nick (Nikolay Jacovlevich) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Levinovsky, Nick (Nikolay Jacovlevich), pianist, composer; b. Saratov, Russia, 14 December 1944. His father, Jacob Le...
Daly, Claire (Anne) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Daly, Claire (Anne), saxophone, clarinet; b. Bronxville, NY, 26 February 1958. She grew up in Yonkers, NY with her pa...
Jackson, D.D. (Robert Cleath Kai-Nien) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Jackson, D.D. (Robert Cleath Kai-Nien); piano, organ/keyboards, composer; b. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 25 January 1967...
Jenkins, Kathy (Kathleen Jean) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Jenkins, Kathy (Kathleen Jean), singer; b. St. Paul, MN, 2 December 1954. Her father is Jack Norman Jenkins (born 192...
Margolis, Kitty (Katherine Kahn) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Margolis, Kitty (Katherine Kahn), singer; b. San Mateo, CA, 7 November 1955. Margolis is a fourth generation Californ...
Paul Horn: Mirage for Miles (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 07, 07The exceptional versatility of jazz flutists transcends the fact that most were primarily saxophonists. Even fulltime...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL JAZZ FLUTE PERFORMANCES
"The flute," flutist Bud Shank informed historian Ted Gioia in 1988, "is a stupid instrument to be playing jazz music...
Tommy Dorsey: Song of India (Rating: 73/100) posted in Music November 12, 07Rimsky-Korsakov's 1898 opera Sadko depicts a Russian harpist who deserts wife and home for foreign adventure. During ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ EXOTICA
Exotica is armchair tourism. We experience foreign strangeness without the hassles of leaving home. No passports, imm...
The Best Jazz Web Links: November 2008 posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 02, 08Wayne Shorter on 75th birthday tour The saxophonist turns philosophical in interview with Bob Young. ...
Toumani Diabaté: Si Naani (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 09, 08The stereotyped view of African music presents it as dominated by drums—you remember the old Hollywood films with the...
OctoJAZZarian Profile: George Wein posted in Features and Interviews April 28, 09For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their eighth decade. Octo...
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