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Blo: Phases 1972-1982

Read "Phases 1972-1982" reviewed by AAJ Staff


The '70s were a tumultuous time in Nigerian music. The Afro-Carib-jazz sounds of highlife had swept West Africa, and funk was hitting hard. At any time in Lagos you could find a huge variety of cross-cultural fusions, melding Old and New World, tradition and invention. Out of this creative storm came many influential groups, some of which derived their influences more directly than others. When Ginger Baker (drummer of Cream fame) made the journey from the UK across the desert ...

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James Blood Ulmer, One Of The 'Greatest Guitarists Of All Time,' In Cambridge, MA on November 16, 2023

James Blood Ulmer, One Of The 'Greatest Guitarists Of All Time,' In Cambridge, MA on November 16, 2023

Source: Mary Curtin Productions

James Blood Ulmer is among the most distinctive and influential electric guitarists who has made a career built on left turns and reinvention. One of the most expressive guitarists on the planet, Blood is one of the undisputed keepers of the flame for the “harmolodic movement” created by Ornette Coleman. He takes those fundamentals and applies them at will to any genre he pursues, from rootsy Americana, rock, hyper funk, outside electric, Hendrix-inspired cosmic blues. Blood’s music is rooted in ...

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Recording

Blossom Dearie: The Fontana Years, 1966-1970

Blossom Dearie: The Fontana Years, 1966-1970

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Born in Upstate New York in 1924, Blossom Dearie wasn't really American. The jazz singer, composer, arranger and pianist was more at home in Paris in the 1950s and London in the 1960s. Classically trained as a child, she switched to jazz in high school. After graduation in the early 1940s, Dearie moved to Manhattan and sang in Woody Herman's Blue Flames and with Alvino Rey's Blue Reys. She also recorded with bop vocalist Dave Lambert and pianist Al Haig ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Blossom Dearie

Jazz Musician of the Day: Blossom Dearie

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Blossom Dearie's birthday today!

Blossom Dearie was a remarkable American jazz vocalist, pianist and composer from the bebop era known for her unique voice, definitive arranging style and continent spanning career. From recordings and radio to Calvin Klein ads, the Gilmore Girls television show, and many other film and TV soundtracks, her career swung into the 21st Century. Christina Aguilera and Carly Rae Jepsen are fans, and her friend Tony Bennett honored her as a ...

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Recording

Multi-Cultural Group The Burnt Pines 
Bloom Again On Dazzling 'Don't Look Down'

Multi-Cultural Group The Burnt Pines 
Bloom Again On Dazzling 'Don't Look Down'

Source: 1888 Media

Jammy feel-good folk-pop trio The Burnt Pines, comprised of singer and lyricist, Kris Skovmand, instrumentalist and arranger Aaron Flanders on guitar and banjo, and piano, keyboard player and arranger Miguel Sá Pessoa, have announced the release of Don’t Look Down, their affecting sophomore album, via CEN/The Orchard. Arriving February 3, 2023, the group will pre-release three digital singles beginning with the title track November 4, followed by “The Ghost Living in My Beer" (December 2) and the radio-focus track, “Bring ...

Recording

Backgrounder: Milt Bucker's 'Block Chords Parade'

Backgrounder: Milt Bucker's 'Block Chords Parade'

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

What are block chords? That's when a pianist (or guitarist) plays a melody with chords rather than individual notes. This is done with the top note of the chord playing the melody line with chord notes below creating the harmony. Block chords are often played on piano with a “locked hands" technique, when both hands play block chords in unison or lock-step. To illustrate, let's visit with the great Dick Hyman... As Dick notes, Milt Buckner pioneered the block-chords sound, ...

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Event

Russian Poet Marina Tsvetaeva Reimagined In A New Song Cycle By Lena Bloch

Russian Poet Marina Tsvetaeva Reimagined In A New Song Cycle By Lena Bloch

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications

Acclaimed saxophonist/composer Lena Bloch reimagines work of Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva in a new jazz suite, commissioned by Chamber Music America Premieres of My Name Is Marina for jazz ensemble and voice on Sunday, October 2 in Manhattan and Sunday, October 16 in Brooklyn, both at 7 PM On the 130th anniversary of the birth of Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, during a time when immigrants, women and artists face increasing struggle in the United States, acclaimed Russian-born saxophonist and composer ...

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Recording

Singer/Songwriter Mark Winkler Tops JazzWeek Chart And Receives Wide Acclaim For 'Late Bloomin’ Jazzman,' His 20th Album, An Homage To Aging

Singer/Songwriter Mark Winkler Tops JazzWeek Chart And Receives Wide Acclaim For 'Late Bloomin’ Jazzman,'  His 20th Album, An Homage To Aging

Source: Mouthpiece Music

Late Bloomin' Jazzman, Mark Winkler’s 20th album, released in April 2022 on his Café Pacific Records label, may be his homage to aging, but the 72-year-old singer and songwriter is not about to slow down any time soon. Each of his previous projects has received stellar reviews and consistently topped the jazz charts, and his latest offering may be his most successful yet. Late Bloomin’ Jazzman spent 11 weeks at the top of the JazzWeek radio chart, peaking at #7. ...

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Interview

Interview: Vicki Burns on 'Lottus Blossom Days'

Interview: Vicki Burns on 'Lottus Blossom Days'

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Last October, I received an email from vocalist Vicki Burns: Hello Marc. I'm not sure if you remember me. I wrote you years ago and asked if you'd consider reviewing a live album I did in 2008, Vicki Burns: Live at Anna’s Jazz Island. You wrote back with some excellent advice that I took to heart. You said I had a great voice but the standards I was singing were really over done and that I needed to find ...

Video / DVD

Horace Silver: 'Blowin' the Blues Away'

Horace Silver: 'Blowin' the Blues Away'

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

I'm hard-pressed to think of a post-war jazz pianist-composer who was as electrifying and addictive as Horace Silver. Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans are certainly in the pantheon of exceptional player-songwriters. But Silver was really in a class by himself. In addition to being a gorgeous balladeer and a lyrical hard-bop pioneer, he was a penetrating keyboardist who favored intriguing sweet-and-sour chord voicings, and many of his catchy songs are now standards. Most of all, Silver was first to develop ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Blossom Dearie

Jazz Musician of the Day: Blossom Dearie

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Blossom Dearie's birthday today!

Blossom Dearie was a remarkable American jazz vocalist, pianist and composer from the bebop era known for her unique voice, definitive arranging style and continent spanning career. From recordings and radio to Calvin Klein ads, the Gilmore Girls television show, and many other film and TV soundtracks, her career swung into the 21st Century. Christina Aguilera and Carly Rae Jepsen are fans, and her friend Tony Bennett honored her as a ...

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