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Jazz Live! The Best of Be-Bop! (All About Jazz)
When: Friday, March 23, 2007, 8 P.M. Where: Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd., Flushing, NY Subway: 7-train to Main Street/Flushing; Free parking available.
Screamin' the Blues (All About Jazz)
Screamin' the Blues is an apt description of the soloists' approach on this 1960 session, here reissued as an RVG remaster, the first of three matching leader Oliver Nelson with avant-gardist Eric Dolphy.
Paul de Barros: Critically Speaking (All About Jazz)
Admittedly, Paul de Barros could use a good ass-kicking. As the only on-staff jazz critic in a city with four major newspapers and a local scene overflowing with clubs and exceptional musicians, de Barros is in need of some healthy competition. Make that any competition.
Ace of Bass (Metro Santa Cruz)
Put yourself in Stanley Clarke's place: A musical prodigy who'd left his hometown Philadelphia for the jazz clubs of New York City as a teenager, he was barely 20 years old when he'd already begun playing with jazz greats like Art Blakey and Dexter Gordon.
Electrifying bassist Clarke is unplugging (a little) (Inside Bay Area)
STANLEY CLARKE is accustomed to performing with superstars.
'School' in session for Clarke (Contra Costa Times)
Stanley Clarke is accustomed to performing with superstars. During his lengthy career, he has played with a veritable who's who list of jazz, pop and R&B greats, including pianist Chick Corea, Police drummer Stewart Copeland, saxophonist Pharoah Sanders and guitarist Jeff Beck.
Noteables nice fit for Stelling after graduating from UNK (Kearney Hub)
KEARNEY ? Chris Stelling knows what it takes to be a successful jazz saxophone player.
Michael Brecker: Celebration of a "Healer" (All About Jazz)
Town Hall was the scene for a spirited memorial service for Michael Brecker, universally acclaimed as one of the most influential jazz sax players since John Coltrane?and certainly among the most productive and ubiquitous: think of a name in innovative jazz or pop, and chances are Brecker's sax has been in the studio or on stage with them?from McCoy Tyner to Paul Simon, Herbie Hancock to Bruce ...
Grand Entrances: Five Fantastic Debut Albums of Jazz (Blogcritics.org)
A while back we looked at some of jazz's most notable swan songs , a short but certainly not complete list of the best last recordings of some jazz greats. So, what about some of the best beginnings? Here are five of what I'd consider some of the finest debut albums in jazz. As before, this isn't a definitive list; I may very well crank out a followup later on as I've thought of even more while ...
Vukovich leads a tribute to jazz greats at Copia (Napa Valley Register)
Jazz pianist Larry Vuckovich and an eight-piece all-star band present a ?Tribute to the Giants of Jazz? from Benny Goodman to Miles Davis, Saturday at Copia. The concert begins at 8 p.m.