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The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
What's been happening to jazz? There's hardly a sharp-suited bopper to be seen in the line-up for the 17th London Jazz Festival, which begins on Friday. The great tradition is there if you want to look for it, with appearances by the veteran saxophonist Sonny Rollins and his contemporary equivalent, Branford Marsalis. But this year, such performers are in a conspicuous minority on an outrageously...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
All About Jazz is celebrating David S. Ware's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY David S. WareDavid S. Ware has been playing the saxophone for over 40 years. First in New Jersey public school bands, and in informal practice sessions with Sonny Rollins as a youth in the \'60s; then as part of the fertile NYC Loft Jazz era of the \'70s... more...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Roscoe Mitchell Nonaah Nessa 2008 Paul Flaherty Aria Nativa Family Vineyard 2009 John Butcher Resonant Spaces Confront 2008 The solo horn concert was one of the landmarks of the early days of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. It wasn't without precedent (see Sonny Rollins on the Manhattan Bridge), but the Chicago collective of eclectic virtuosity made it repertory. AACM member...
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LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
All of these shows are now sold out: Sonny Rollins at Barbican Marcus Miller at Barbican Chick Corea at Barbican (both shows) Naturally 7 at Theatre Royal Stratford East (tickets still available for shows at Royal Festival Hall and Fairfield, Croydon) Branford Marsalis at QEH Tomasz Stanko at QEH Dave Holland/Overtone Quartet at QEH Tord Gustavsen at QEH John Scofield at QEH Vijay Iyer at Purcell Room...
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Jazz Lives (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
If you saw the title and assumed that this was a Sonny Rollins tribute band, get that thought right out of your head. As much as I admire Rollins, the tenor saxophone is sufficiently well-established in jazz so that it doesn’t need the extra publicity. No, TENOR MADNESS looks like this: I’m only sorry that the picture [...]
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
In the days when I was learning to truly listen, Red Kelly gave me a piece of valuable advice. He told me to close my eyes and in my mind isolate and concentrate on the bass player. He said that when I felt and understood what the bassist was doing, the rest of the music would begin to fall into place. It was a coincidence, of course, that Red was a bass player...
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LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
I asked blogger and avid gig-goer Patrick Hadfield what he had down as unmissable in the LJF. Here's his answer. Thank you, Patrick! LJF gathers together a variety of gigs, with a high concentration of international stars. These are "must see" gigs, I think, if only because I feel the need to see these stars play. But, in fact, it is only with hindsight that one finds out which gigs really...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Jazz is a Romance language. It relies as much, if not more, on music already played and pondered over than that being performed right now, much less germinating in a musician's mind for the future. How does a classic become a classic if not through the passage of time and repeated listenings? The beauty of recorded music is that it exists to be repackaged, reconsidered and re-appreciated. Trumpeter...
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Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Barry Murphy returns once more to trawl the TV and radio guides (so you don't have to), finding anything worth tuning into this week. All listings are for UK terrestrial TV, Freeview and national radio, with the shows running from...
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Living in Italy (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Rome Jazz Festival brings an array of international artists to the eternal city. This year Sonny Rollins and Jamie Cullim to name but a few. Concerts are held at the state-of-the-art Auditorium Parco della Musica and are divided into three sections - Focus Orchestras, Events and Previews. Events commence at 9:pm. The 2009 edition is entitled Jazz [...]
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Rifftides (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Art Farmer, Live in '64 (Jazz Icons). Farmer's quartet with guitarist Jim Hall was one of the greatest small groups in jazz history. For this television appearance, he featured pieces never released in the quartet's recordings. Among them are an...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and his band will perform a special benefit concert for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater on Sunday, December 6, 2009 at the Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, NY. The concert will begin at 2:00 pm. Rollins's performance in Tarrytown on behalf of Pete Seeger's Clearwater will mark the first time the renowned environmental organization has ever hosted a benefit concert dedicated...
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ifp | 17/06/2009
We have made a selection of the best music and cultural festivals in France this summer. SOUTH: * Vence, Côte d'Azur, Les Nuits du Sud, 10th July to 8th August - The 12th edition of this "Music of the World" festival with exhibitions, activities and free concerts on the 16th and 23rd of July and 5th of August. Artists include Gilberto Gil, Grand Corps Malade, Pascale Picard, Amadou et Mariam, Khaled,
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