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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
A three day symposium and concert series celebrating and documenting the life, music and legacy of Clifford Brown. For people interested in attending symposia events or evening concerts we have provided an on-line registration form and invitation providing further details regarding concert tickets and so forth. There is no cost to register for daytime symposia events...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Jazz aficionados, musicians and educators will gather at The University of the Arts (UArts) October 30-November 1 for "Brownie Speaks," a symposium and concert series celebrating and documenting the life, music and legacy of Clifford Brown, the influential jazz trumpeter who died in 1956 when he was just 25...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Test of Time Records proudly announces the release of the remastered Holy Mama by the Junior Mance. This album was originally released in 1976 and is now available on CD for the first time here in the U.S. This work by the Junior Mance-led trio, with Martin Rivera on bass and Salvatore LaRocca on dr...
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Bosses blog (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Wikipedia Domnérus was best known for his recordings with visiting American players such as James Moody, Art Farmer and Clifford Brown. Domnérus also played with Charlie Parker when he made his tour of Sweden 1950. Domnérus worked with the Swedish Radio Big Band from 1956 to 1978, and wrote for television and films during the period. He also recorded extensively with Bengt Hallberg.
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Rifftides (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
The list of veterans of the glory days of modern jazz in Sweden grew significanty shorter on Tuesday with the death of Arne Domnérus at the age of eighty-three. The alto saxophonist and clarinetist came to popular attention in the late...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
The Detroit International Jazz Festival has been celebrating two great cities of jazz this weekend, Detroit and Philadelphia, but the focus narrowed to Philly history early Sunday afternoon at Hart Plaza.
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
You know you're talking about a jazz musician when the artist in question has played and recorded with Elvis, Streisand, Sinatra, Lalo Schifrin, the Lighthouse All-Stars, Quincy Jones, Gerald Wilson, Clifford Brown, Maynard Ferguson, Lionel Hampton, Paul Bley, Dinah Washington and Frank Zappa, to name a few, while still finding time to record soundtracks, release highly regarded and collectible sessions...
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BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
With the tragic deaths of Clifford Brown and pianist Richie Powell in 1956, Max Roach's first great quintet literally lost two of its members. Kenny Dorham and Ray Bryant would replace Brown and Powell and Max's new group was called the Max Roach Plus Four, and it featured the tenor saxophone talents of none other than Sonny Rollins. By 1958 it proved too difficult to keep a band with this many individual...
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Later On (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
I’ve been told by more than one that the great sequence of jazz trumpeters consists of: Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Clifford Brown. A place in this pantheon means that the trumpeter did new things. Billy Butterfield, for example, is a fine trumpeter but he didn’t break new ground, as did [...]
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Art Farmer Brass Shout/The Aztec Suite Blue Note 2008 Art Farmer The Time And The Place Mosaic 2008 The '50s and '60s were exceedingly bountiful in turning out accomplished trumpet players with personally memorable voices spanning the stylistic spectrum from Clifford Brown to Chet Baker. There were so many that tags or short-cuts were often applied, consigning each player to a neat pigeonhole, often...
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Straight No Chaser - A Jazz Show (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Recordings from Freddie Hubbard, one of the last of the trumpet masters from the Clifford Brown,/Lee Morgan school of Hard Bop, have been scarce this century. For the most part, except for the 2001 release New Colors , his recorded output has been nil, as he has concentrated on teaching on the West Coast and working through the lasting problems he'd developed in the late 1990's with his lip. With the...
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Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
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,...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
"This music says so much, particularly in revealing the warmth these musicians feel for each other, their interest in experimentation, and their love of their craft. In their choice of fine songs, performed in new and different settings, they invite you to become involved. Listen, and you will understand and appreciate the shade of difference here." - Marian McPartland, liner notes...
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Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Once again we’re paying a visit to Concord’s tribute to long-time producer Orrin Keepnews, the Keepnews Collection, a series of 24-bit reissues of a number of timeless jazz recordings. (Previously: Wes Montgomery, Coleman Hawkins, Nat Adderley.) In this review, we’re covering Freedom Suite, Sonny Rollins’ 1958 classic. Unlike most of the legends in the series, tenor [...]
