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Etsy Scavenger: Jazz

Apartment Therapy - San Francisco (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008

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VARIOUS ARTISTS / Ole Mixtape

breath of life (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008

Released, literally within the midst of a Coltrane-led revolution in jazz, Ole is a too-often overlooked masterpiece.

Jazz pianist dies on eve of his homecoming

IOL (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008

He was a jazz great who wanted to return to the land of his birth, but Bheki Mseleku never made it home.

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Jazz at Holmes Fall 2008 Schedule Includes Concert by Dave Liebman

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008

The Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University has announced its lineup of free concerts for Fall 2008, and, given that the series presents mostly local talent along with the occasional up-and-coming touring performer, they've snagged a relatively big name for this fall in the person of saxophon...

McCoy Tyner In Hong Kong

Fernando's Desk (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008

Last night we had the chance to see McCoy Tyner in concert at Hong Kong City Hall. In my experience, City Hall is the best concert venue for jazz in Hong Kong and last night was a rare priveedge as Tyner is one of the true living legends of Jazz. The concert itself was short. [...]

Very Sad News: Ian Hibell

Large Fella on a Bike (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008

Ian Hibell. If you like to ride your bike and strap things on it, and then go off to distant places of the mind or globe [be it thousands of miles or down the road to a secret camping place......

free jazz research project

Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008

Let’s call attention to a new collective project initiated by Mr. Pierre Crepon. His premise is to allow readers and listeners to lay claim to out of print literature and audio files that are far out of reach. Prior to the internet, access to news and events related to Free Improv was hellishly [...]

Changing tracks: Jim Sclavunos

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008

SISTER RAY The Velvet Underground

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FESTIVAL/CRUISE: The 2008-09 Jazzerie Season Brings Eric Alexander, Dave Liebman, Pete Mills, Robin McKelle to Town

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008

If you're among those in the Erie area who feel they've heard some good music this summer, well, wait until you hear what's yet to come. JazzErie has put together a highly promising 2008-09 concert season (its fifth annual) featuring some of the best jazz musicians in the world, as well as outstanding local and regional players...

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Steve Smith's Jazz Legacy - Fall Tour

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008

STEVE SMITH'S JAZZ LEGACY NATIONAL FALL TOUR STARTS OCT. 2 Steve Smith's Jazz Legacy plays music that is dedicated to honoring the legacy of many of the great jazz drummers such as Art Blakey, "Philly" Joe Jones, Elvin Jones, and Tony Williams. Jazz Legacy also performs original compositions and arrangements written by the individual band members which serves to gives the band a unique direction...

BBtv: Russell Porter with EMPIRICAL (music)

Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008

Boing Boing tv's UK-based music correspondent Russell Porter interviews the young experimental jazz band EMPIRICAL, from London. Today's episode includes an extended musical interlude, to ensure the mellowest possible Monday for all the peeps out there in BBtv-land. The band's "influences" roster says it the best: Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Booker Little, Miles Davis,...

"That Must be the Answer"

The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008

My Coltrane listening seems to be progressing backwards in time, moving from the Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings of the "Classic Quartet" of John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones back to the Heavyweight Champion anthology of all of the recordings he made for Atlantic. Many things happened over this relatively short period of sessions, the first of which was on January 15,...

Friday Jazz Lesson: John Coltrane Quartet- Afro Blue

Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008

John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones ... bring 'Afro Blue' from '63. Now, dig this, becuz all the bands you love from the 60s love Coltrane. Not only that, he looks like Dr Dre as well.

`Other People's Words'

Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008

Few newspaper reporters get wealthy by writing the news but the job offers less tangible, non-negotiable benefits. Chief among them is the opportunity to meet people you admire. My press pass gained me entrée to Count Basie, William Gass, Ralph Ellison, Elvin Jones, Dave McKenna, William Gaddis and B.B. King, among others. I met and interviewed more famous people (I sat across the table from Dan Quayle...

MARK STRYKER: Jazz in Idlewild worth the trip

Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008

The summer jazz festival season heats up again this weekend, though the action is far enough out in the provinces that most of us will face a healthy drive to get within earshot. Still, there's enough talent on the docket to make it worth an extra trip to the gas station, even with the high prices at the pump.