Saturday, March 21, 2015

WAYNE SHORTER'S QUARTET RETURNED TO THE PARADISE JAZZ SERIES

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Brian Blade, Wayne Shorter, Danilo Perez, John Patitucci Several things are apparent when you catch the Wayne Shorter Quartet live. On...
Monday, March 16, 2015

FEMALE JAZZ ENSEMBLE PUT ON A FLAWLESS SHOW AT KERRYTOWN CONCERT HOUSE

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Pianist Ellen Rowe It is a crying shame the female jazz ensemble that performed Sunday afternoon at Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arb...
Monday, February 16, 2015

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESRTA PERFORMED THE MUSIC OF MINGUS, DIZZY, ELLINGTON, COLTRANE & BRUBECK AT THE UMS JAZZ SERIES CONCERT

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Of the fifteen members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, nine pitch in regularly with arrang...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

ALTO SAXOPHONIST RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA BREAKS DOWN HIS NEW ALBUM 'BIRD CALLS'

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Rudresh Mahanthappa You could spend damn near a year listing all the jazz alto saxophonists who owe a debt to bebop icon Charlie Parke...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

KENNY GARRETT MOSTLY STUCK TO HIS RECENT MUSIC AT THE PARADISE JAZZ SERIES CONCERT

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Kenny Garrett If you caught the Kenny Garrett set Friday night at Orchestra Hall, the third of the Paradise Jazz Series, and expected ...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

THE OAKLAND JAZZ QUARTET WITH REGINA CARTER TOOK A STAB AT SOME OF JIMI HENDRIX'S BIGGEST HITS

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Regina Carter Chances are the full house at the Virgil Carr Center Saturday evening really didn’t know what to expect. Yes, Detroite...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

DRUM ROLL PLEASE, I DIG JAZZ TOP TEN JAZZ ALBUMS OF 2014

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1.           Embraceable Vincent Chandler (Self-produced) Trombonist Vincent Chandler left Detroit this year to run the Jazz S...