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3 hrs ago | All About Jazz

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: A Special Selection of Black Saint and Soul Note...

A Special Selection of Black Saint and Soul Note Recordings Will Be Available in an Exclusive Sale on iTunes CAM Jazz announced that iTunes, the world's largest digital music service, will be the retailer of 56 selected albums from the seminal Black Saint and Soul Note catalogs.

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Related Topix: Lester Bowie, Jazz, Charlie Haden, Art Farmer, Archie Shepp, Max Roach

Tue Nov 24, 2009

All About Jazz

Joe Morris: Colorfield

Much dirt has been spread about concrete art because it lacks heart and is almost always cold by its very nature.

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Related Topix: Jazz

Mon Nov 09, 2009

All About Jazz

Charles Tyler Ensemble: Charles Tyler Ensemble

Charles Tyler was an innovative musician who could unfurl a maelstrom of ideas from just a spark.

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Related Topix: Inventions, Science / Technology, Albert Ayler, Jazz, David Murray, Dewey Redman, Billy Bang

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Ink 19

Gary Giddins

Since he was neither as gonzo as Lester Bangs nor as infuriatingly smarty-pants as Robert Christgau, music critic Gary Giddins never attracted the same attention as did his contemporaries in rock-writing circles.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Louis Armstrong, Black Entertainment, Bix Beiderbecke, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane

Wed Oct 28, 2009

All About Jazz

The Charles Tolliver Big Band Live at The Iridium Jazz Club

Charles Tolliver leads a modernist 16 piece big band that pushes the envelope of contemporary orchestral jazz sounds.

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Related Topix: The Big Band, Jazz, Henry Threadgill, Andrew Hill, Max Roach

Tue Oct 27, 2009

National Public Radio

Sirone, 'Revolutionary' Bassist, Dies

The world has lost another tie to the original New Thing jazz: bassist and composer Norris Jones, better known as Sirone, has died in Berlin, Germany.

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Related Topix: World News, Germany, Jazz, Charles Gayle, George Adams

Thu Oct 22, 2009

Pittsburgh City Paper

Jason Stein | Clarinet Clarity

It's not easy to get on Leo Records. The U.K. label, founded 30 years ago by Leo Feigin, is a bastion of the avant-jazz/improv scene, releasing Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Sun Ra and Eugene Chadbourne.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Sun Ra, Anthony Braxton, Pittsburgh, PA

Mon Oct 19, 2009

Jazz & Blues Music Reviews

Cecil Taylor - Conquistador

As Nat Hentoff notes in the original liner notes to this album, pianist Cecil Taylor had scant few chances to record or even perform live during his formative years in the late 1950's and early '60's. So he had quite an opportunity in the mid '60's to record a few albums for Blue Note Records, including this influential LP where he improvises with ...

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Related Topix: Jazz

All About Jazz

David S. Ware Quartet: Live in Vilnius

The year 2009 could be a rather big year for tenor saxophonist and improvising composer David S. Ware, and that's saying a lot.

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Related Topix: David S. Ware, Jazz, William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Branford Marsalis, Black Entertainment, Europe, Lithuania, World News

Tue Oct 13, 2009

All About Jazz

Paul Giallorenzo: Get In To Go Out

The 15th album in 482 Records' Document Chicago Series, Get In To Go Out is the debut of pianist Paul Giallorenzo's quintet.

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Related Topix: Thelonious Monk, Jazz, Herbie Nichols

Sat Oct 10, 2009

International Herald Tribune

Riffing by the Bosphorus

The American saxophonist Joe Lovano is one of the musicians scheduled to appear at the Akbank Jazz Festival in Istanbul.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Joe Lovano

Thu Oct 08, 2009

Undomondo

Radio Show #79

The in-house gag about this show was that we were ready to work at the BRT simply because it never wanders off brasileira & exotica, albeit a few breathers of downtempo jazz from Cecil Taylor and Marc Copland.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Marc Copland, Pop/Rock, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster

Sat Sep 26, 2009

All About Jazz

FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Follow the Sound in Antwerp, Belgium

SOURCE: All About Jazz Publicity The 36th edition of Follow The Sound will run from September 30 - October 4 in Antwerp.

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Related Topix: World News, Belgium, Jazz

Fri Sep 25, 2009

All About Jazz

Sunny Murray Trio At The Vortex, London, England

John first fell under the spell of free jazz in the 1970s when he wistfully regarded the loft jazz scene from afar More about John .

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Related Topix: Jazz, Sunny Murray, Essex County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England, Albert Ayler

Mon Sep 21, 2009

All About Jazz

Taylor Ho Bynum / Spider Monkey Strings: Madeleine Dreams

John first fell under the spell of free jazz in the 1970s when he wistfully regarded the loft jazz scene from afar More about John .

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Related Topix: Anthony Braxton, Jazz

Wed Sep 16, 2009

All About Jazz

Max Roach / Archie Shepp: The Long March

Recorded live in concert at the Willisau Jazz Festival on August 30, 1979, The Long March documents another of drummer Max Roach 's historic duo collaborations with the leaders of the jazz avant-garde. This stellar date with tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp follows Streams of Consciousness , with pianist Abdullah Ibrahim , and Birth and Rebirth , ...

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Related Topix: Archie Shepp, Max Roach, Jazz, Abdullah Ibrahim, Anthony Braxton

Sat Sep 12, 2009

Village Voice

Clip Job: LeRoi Jones, Art D'Lugoff and Nat Hentoff Duke it Out

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives March 18, 1965, Vol. X, No.

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Related Topix: Nat Hentoff, Blues, Paul Butterfield, Jazz, New York

Thu Sep 10, 2009

The St. Petersburg Times

Voice of an exile

Emigre radio presenter and record label owner Leo Feigin pictured on a visit to St.

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Related Topix: Sun Ra, Jazz, Art Ensemble of Chicago, The Ganelin Trio, New York

Paste Magazine

Ears We Trust: Yo La Tengo

Cecil Taylor "Bemsha Swing" Still riding the high of the incredible set I saw him play with Tony Oxley, I recently got this record from 1956 and was knocked sideways to hear him covering Thelonious Monk.

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Related Topix: Indie, Yo la Tengo, Jazz, Thelonious Monk, Pop/Rock, The Flamin' Groovies

Fri Sep 04, 2009

Chicago Sun-Times

Muhal Richard Abrams returns for Chicago Jazz Festival

He was a widely admired, veteran bop pianist when the new free-jazz ideas of Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor and others led him to explore the new music in the early 1960s.

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Related Topix: Chicago, IL, Muhal Richard Abrams, Jazz, Ornette Coleman, Chicago Metro, Classical, Music, Entertainment

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