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Greg Abate: The World Can Sleep Better
Moscow :: ID :: USA | 4 months ago
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January 15, 2013 Only about 10 minutes late for a lunchtime interview with saxophonist Greg Abate, driving up to the restaurant he's clearly visible, standing by the door looking at his watch and scanning the parking lot with a slightly anxious
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Alto sax great Phil Woods a hero beyond the music
New York City :: NY :: USA | 10 months ago
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Phil Woods , leading his quintet at Dizzy's Club Thursday through Sunday, may well be, pound for pound, the greatest alto saxophonist in the world. His burnished tone, distilled like fine brandy, his molten swing at any speed, and his virtuosic range
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John Zorn: Nosferatu
Warsaw :: NY :: USA | 1 year ago
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May 14, 2012 The idea of saxophonist/composer John Zorn writing music to accompany a production about vampires has exciting implications. After all, it would seem logical that a man who has, over the past 40 years, helped expand the scope of sounds
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Junior transfer finds musical niche
Fresno :: CA :: USA | 2 years ago
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A recording of him playing both instruments is available at the bottom of this article...From practice to performances, his talents serve not only as hobbies but also as ways to meet new people. Passmore transferred from Clovis Christian at the
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Oliver Lake / Christian Weber / Dieter Ulrich: For A Little Dancina€(TM)
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 years ago
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Marion Theme; Z Trio; Rollin' Vamp; Art 101; In This; Spring-ing Trio; Spots; For A Little Dancin'; Spelman; Backup. Personnel: Oliver Lake: alto sax; Christian Weber: bass; Dieter Ulrich: drums. Alto and soprano sax man Oliver Lake has been a key
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Jazz Meets Jesus On Chapel Street
New Haven :: CT :: USA | over 2 years ago
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On Sunday he was worshiping in Wooster Squareto the strains of alto saxes offering Coltranesque riffs on the Christian hymn Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow. Beaullan has joined what might be called a happening new phenomenon in the pews: a
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Sanborn trio ranges beyond pop jazz
Lexington :: KY :: USA | over 2 years ago
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His recordings, especially his popular albums from the 1980s, were conceived with generous pop accents and glossy production designs. That translated into a profile that has served Sanborn well in the marketplace but has often made serious jazzers
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Alonzo Holliday: The Archaeology of Out-Bop
Mór :: Hungary | over 3 years ago
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he is in a smoky bar where jazz floats in the background. Coming up to sit down next to him is a hip, old cat who begins to tell him stories of playing sax in bands in the early '40s. He introduces himself as Alonzo Holliday. Back to waking life, in
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Big Bands: Fred Ho, Roy Hargrove, Brooklyn Big Band, Charles Tolliver
New York :: NY :: USA | over 3 years ago
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The quintessential American orchestra is not the symphony, but the big band. If so-called 'jazz' is 'America's classical music' ... then its attendant large ensemble is the 'jazz' orchestra, popularly called the big band." So Fred Ho begins his liner
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Jeremy Pelt Threefer: Caution! Hard Hat Area!; Relentless and Twilight and Blues
Ljubljana :: Slovenia | over 3 years ago
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Jeremy Pelt has become a sought-after sideman and his trumpeting has been tapped for three recording projects here: two auspicious debuts by emerging talents, the other from a veteran West Coast pianist. Drummer Gasper Bertoncelj is from Slovenia,
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