I DIG JAZZ

Live Concert Reviews from Detroit's Jazz Scene

Friday, January 28, 2011

PASSING THE HAT

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T his is your sixth album. That’s a big deal given you’re still a teenager. I wonder if that’s a world record. I’ll have to investigate tha...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

BLOWING SESSION

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"W here’ve you been, man”?” I asked my friend Cory the barber. In the background, I heard saxophonist Cliff Jordan’s album “Cliff C...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

TOP 10

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I Dig Jazz top ten jazz albums of 2010. 1.) Geri Allen, Geri Allen and Time Line Live (Motema) Throwing a tap dancer into the rhythm sec...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

SKILLED TRADESMAN AT HEART

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Tenor saxophonist James Moody (1925-2010) "J ames Moody is dead,” my friend Cory the barber announced. Then he paused. In the backgr...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

BRUTE'S GENTLE SIDE

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Tenor saxophonist Ben Webster T oday, Mr. Webster, I found a copy of Jazz Masters of the 30’s by jazz trumpeter Rex Stewart. I purchased...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

TALKING MILES

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Miles Davis "I ’ve been in a Miles Davis frame of mind lately,” my friend Cory said passing me a cold Heineken. He picked up the sli...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

SOFT JAZZ

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F or a Wednesday afternoon, 100% Barbershop was unusually crowded. Three customers waited on Cory the barber. Dana worked on his tenth head....
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Charles L. Latimer
is a veteran jazz journalist based in Michigan.Since 1997, he's covered jazz for the alternative newspaper the Metrotimes. He's been writing this jazz blog since 2007.
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