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December 19, 2009
John Abercrombie QuartetWait Till You See Her(ECM Records) Although one might deem this a rather “quiet” album, it does not lack in energy. Abercrombie, whose guitar work is always ...
Back To A New Beginning
December 15, 2009The Jazz Page.com started almost a decade ago as a single page newsletter reviewing 4 music releases each month. We went online in February of 2004. Through server challenges and other issues, ...
2010 Grammy Nominations – Jazz
December 12, 2009Below are the nominees for Grammy Awards in the Jazz categories, with some commentaries from us in highlights Best Contemporary Jazz Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) ...
December 11, 2009
Roy Hargrove Big BandEmergence(Emarcy Records) Trumpeter Roy Hargrove has recorded in just about every kind of musical context imaginable, from quintets to hip-hop collectives, so it’s ...
December 5, 2009
Claudia Acuña En Este Momento(Marsalis Music) Singer Claudia Acuña’s delivers a lyric with such beauty and passion that you are captured from the very first word, even if you don’t understand ...
November 28, 2009
Sean JonesKaleidoscope(Mack Avenue Records) Trumpeter Sean Jones is one of the most exciting voices in jazz and deserves tremendous acclaim for what he’s doing to advance the idiom. ...
Review: Lizz Wright Live @ Alys Steven Center – Birmingham
November 23, 2009On Friday, October 23, 2009, I had the great pleasure of seeing Lizz Wright perform live at Alys Stephen Center in Birmingham, Alabama. Wright walked on to the stage in bare feet and a hypnotically, ...
November 20, 2009
Melissa WalkerIn The Middle Of It All(Sunnyside Recordings) From the very first song you know that this album isn’t just a collection of songs, but something personal to vocalist Melissa Walker. In The ...
Bill Boynton
November 19, 2009Bill Boynton was the host and flamekeeper of jazz from noon to 6PM every Sunday on WVAS, a public radio station on the campus of Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama. Bill was the most jovial guy I ever ...
