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Will Bernard – Just Like Downtown
August 30, 2013(Positone) Guitarist Will Bernard’s Just Like Downtown is a great recording that sounds like it’s name. It sounds the way you would imagine the downtown of any big city would sound. Bernard not only ...
Gina Kronstadt – Come Over
August 27, 2013(Falloff Records) Gina Kronstadt brings a fresh, contemporary voice to jazz, both in her singing and her songs. The Los Angeles-based artist creates her own musical landscape on her debut recording Come Over. ...
James Zollar – It’s All Good People
August 23, 2013(JZAZ) Veteran trumpeter James Zollar has produced a nice new release in which he features an array of talents, in addition to his own. It’s All Good People finds Zollar wearing as much of a producer hat as ...
Cedar Walton Dies at 79
August 23, 2013Back in the day at Ronnie Scott’s club in London, when artists were booked on the personal whims of the founding proprietors Scott and Pete King without much regard for the box office, the same performers ...
OnPoint Radio: The Legacy of John Coltrane’s ‘A Love Supreme’
August 21, 2013NPR’s OnPoint Radio featured this program on the legacy of “A Love Supreme” on the verge of its 50th anniversary. Tom is joined by Tony Whyton, author of “Beyond A Love Supreme: John Coltrane ...
Marian McPartland, Jazz Pianist and NPR Radio Staple, Dies at 95
August 21, 2013Peter Keepnews New York Times Marian McPartland, the genteel Englishwoman who became a fixture of the American jazz scene as a pianist and, later in life, hosted the internationally syndicated and immensely popular ...
Scott Hamilton – Swedish Ballads & More
August 20, 2013(Charleston Square) Saxophonist Scott Hamilton pays homage to Sweden on his great new recording. Swedish Ballads & More lives up to its billing in a grand way. Hamilton’s rich tone on the horn really gives ...
Chick Corea – The Vigil
August 16, 2013(Stretch/Concord) Chick Corea, prolific as ever, remains one of jazz’s modern master craftsmen. His latest handiwork is The Vigil, a production which sees him working with a team of mostly younger musicians ...
Verve Remixed:The First Ladies
August 13, 2013(Verve Records) To be sure, this is not the way jazz lovers are used to hearing some of its greatest female singers, but Verve Remixed:The First Ladies re-works them in an entirely, modern and grooveable way. This ...
Litchfield Jazz Festival delights music fans for 18th year
August 12, 2013By Jack Coraggio/The Register Citizen GOSHEN, CT – For an 18th year in a row the Litchfield Jazz Festival, the music and culture celebration that draws music fans from all over the state and beyond, ...
