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"...have quite as much soul as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, but a pair of Crescent City..."

"...its bread and butter, or perhaps its gumbo and jazz, where business is concerned. Great food and music are..."

"...Szymborska's delicious hush on another Stanko keepsake for avant-classical jazz indie ECM, a union fast approaching four decades. His..."

"...letting up. Native Austinite and pillar of the local jazz scene, the tenor hornsman leads his sterling quintet in..."

"...to the title track, a gem from Duke Ellington's jazz symphony, Black, Brown and Beige. Let the congregation say..."

"...– the next, Tim Berne's debut as bandleader on jazz and classical vanguard ECM frames a quartet blurring all..."

"...Another Shade of Blue, this multigenerational trio reconvened on jazz/classical indie ECM Records with the addition of drummer Paul..."

"...Elias Haslanger sounds every bit as formidable as a Jazz Messengers front line. The intensity hardly lets up as..."

"...spearheaded the M-Base movement of the 1980s that pushed jazz in a more rhythmically complex direction. Harvesting Semblances and..."

"...scope, grandeur, or commercial appeal to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, this far more modest fete is..."

"...up their best Roy Haynes: 12 additional vintage ECM jazz Touchstones are beginning to sound a lot like Dec...."

"...singing “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and Sony’s Jingle Bell Jazz collection. With the holidays finally upon us, here’s a..."

"...daring UCLA 1965 is a loose, fractious, politically minded, jazz-workshop-type octet affair. Eighteen months after Cornell, the musicians and..."

"...by Don McGlynn, with a special introduction by the jazz bassist's widow, Sue Mingus...."

"...Armstrong pops up on six performances. At this time, jazz solos were short, ensemble improvisation dominating the recordings, but..."

"...Dorn's Label M. Whereas the Civil Rights overtones and jazz-centric production on The Source justifies recognition as Scott's ultimate..."

"...photograph by Diane Watts Smooth jazz is the work of the devil. It is a..."

"...and generally making the joint presentable as a local jazz quartet, Blue Construct, began the business (or labor) of..."

"...at Cedar Street June 11 photograph byJohn Carrico NEW JAZZ SHOWCASE..."

"...The most important element in any community of jazz musicians is its elder statesmen, players who have seen..."

"...stage, stood one of the premier divas of modern jazz, Cassandra Wilson - Wilson and the spirit of two..."

"...skill. So it was with the innovators of free jazz: Critics, peers, and the general public heard cacophony, but..."

"...Jazz's Generational Divide..."

"...have become home to a tight community of smooth jazz musicians, and they've found a new representative in East..."

"...batch of Blue Note reissues, three of the major jazz tenor saxophonists emerging since 1950 appear. Hank Mobley belonged..."

"...a bevy of industry suits on the "What Is Jazz?" panel, Russell Gunn was asked by moderator and Blue..."

"...of albums, mostly blues, both acoustic and electric, and jazz, ranging from the boogie woogie piano of Speckled Red..."

"...the wave of an imaginary wand, it's off to jazzland. The Gathering has begun...."

"...he does "transient soul," there's also this endorsement from jazz legend Jimmy Smith: "He's like Dylan, but not really."..."

"...enough, but her more recent turn into straight-up vocal jazz deserves equal emphasis. I haven't heard her new albums,..."