Sunday, April 26, 2015

A LOOK AT NEW ALBUMS BY HAROLD MABERN, ASHAKI ZEIGLER, JACKY TERRASSON & VINCENT HERRING

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To call the jazz pianist Harold Mabern a legend is a gross understatement. Piano God would be a more fitting distinction. Mabern's m...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

'SPHERICAL' TIM WARFIELD'S NEW RECORDING IS ALL ABOUT MONK

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“Spherical” is saxophonist Tim Warfield’s eighth album for Criss Cross Records. The album is dedicated to the iconic pianist Thelonious ...
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 ...