Sunday, September 22, 2013

IMER SANTIAGO PREMIERES 'HIDDEN JOURNEY,' HIS FIRST SHOT AS A SESSION LEADER

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This is Imer Santiago’s first album as a bandleader. And he heaped a lot on his plate. The jazz trumpeter is, 37, a native of Ohio and wa...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

KENNY GARRETT MAKES ANOTHER TRIBUTE, PLUS NEW MUSIC FROM AHMAD JAMAL, THE JEFF HAMILTON TRIO & GREGORY PORTER

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Chances are saxophonist Kenny Garrett will claim his forthcoming album “pushing the world away,” his  seventeenth overall and third for M...
Sunday, September 8, 2013

MEMORIES OF THE 2013 DETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL LINGER ON

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Trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis A  week has passed since the 2013 Detroit Jazz Festival. I still think about the choice performances...
Monday, September 2, 2013

SO FAR, SUNDAY WAS THE BEST DAY OF THE DETROIT JAZZ FEST

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Jazz Vocalist Gregory Porter Sunday, was the most exciting day of concerts at the Detroit Jazz Festival so far. At the J.P. Morgan Chas...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

MCCOY TYNER & CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT HEADLINED THE FIRST FULL DAY OF CONCERTS AT THE 2013 DETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL

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Pianist McCoy Tyner The 74-year-old jazz pianist McCoy Tyner walked on the Carhartt Amphitheater Stage at the Detroit Jazz Fest Saturda...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

OPENING NIGHT OF THE 2013 DETROIT JAZZ FEST WAS A BUST

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Vocalist Macy Gray The 2013 Detroit Jazz Festival began Friday evening at the J.P. Morgan Chase Main Stage with a set by the festival...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

GARY BURTON TALKS ABOUT NEW BAND & NEW ALBUM 'GUIDED TOUR'

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N o matter how hard you press vibraphonist Gary Burton, he will not acknowledge “Guided Tour” is his best album in the last decade. A...