By Jazz News on June 30, 2012
While national acts dominate the Electric Forest Music Festival, held this weekend at the Double JJ Ranch, one local act has managed to snag a spot and perform.
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By Jazz News on June 30, 2012
Some Conrad Smith magic and Beauden Barrett’s icy disposition have ensured the Hurricanes’ Super Rugby play-off hopes have a heartbeat.
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By Jim Harrington on June 30, 2012
The guitar great pays elegant homage to a Beatle
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By Jazz News on June 30, 2012
A The 14th annual KUAF Summer Jazz Concert Series begins at 8 p.m. tonight with a performance from the Aaron Goldberg Trio in the Starr Theater at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville.
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By Jazz News on June 30, 2012
Over nearly half a century, composer-pianist-ensemble leader Andrew Hill gained international jazz renown for his uniquely original music and recorded ouevre, which is by turns dark, fragile, funny, stark, unforgettably tuneful, percussive, insightful, oblique, transparent and mysterious.
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By Jazz News on June 30, 2012
ERIC JACKSON of WGBH-FM conducted the only interview of Dizzy Gillespie that the trumpeter wanted a copy of.
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By Dan Bilawsky on June 30, 2012
Most musicians firmly plant themselves in one particular territory in the music world, but clarinetist Lajos Dudas prefers to set up camp at the border crossings, allowing for swift travel between stylistic realms. Dudas doesn’t discriminate when it comes to direction, and he’s made that evident through his own endeavors over the past fifty years. He spars with the avant-garde elite, swings like mad in straightforward settings, tackles classical music with the requisite grace and technique that the repertoire demands and appears to have a damn good time doing all of it. While his skills and artistic scope have allowed him to work successfully in all of these settings, he doesn’t come across as a musician with multiple-personality disorder when he puts a project together. He always shows extreme focus on the task at hand and Jazz And The City is no exception…
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By Mort Weiss on June 30, 2012
The following will be an exercise in candor. I like to see my name in print on a Major–the major jazz web site. And I hope it will further better my record sales. I like to think that folks/people are finding things of interest in my remembrances that I’ve accumulated within my persona over a long life time–most of which was lived in and around the highly complex (yet very simple) world of jazz. And last but not least, it gets my dick hard! What that leads to is yet another story–albeit a very short one. To have reached the age of 77 and having to practice the clarinet two and three hours each day–and a daily physical work out, five days a week, which includes light weights–fast reps of 100 sit ups and leg raises, and finishing with a one-and-a-half mile power walk up a 2% grade in 20 minutes–brings to mind the words of the only hero that I ever had, except as of late, myself, the greatest jazz clarinetist that ever lived–Mr. m: Buddy De Franco–and that is, “to really play the clarinet good, that one must have an obsessive compulsive personality.” I resemble that remark…
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By Eyal Hareuveni on June 30, 2012
Copenhagen-based Sweish guitarist Samuel HA llkvist, winner of the prestigious 2010 Jazz In Sweden award, demonstrated his eclectic tastes on his 2010 debut as a leader, Samuel HA llkvist Center (Caprice), albeit still rooted in the jazz legacy. On Variety of Loud he even goes further, blurring genre boundaries between improvised jazz and his primary love for the turbulent energies of m: John Zorn, progressive rock, metal and electronic, while impressively juggling muscular, punchy delivery and sophisticated improvisations. HA llkvist calls his new hybrid style “asymmetrical dance music…
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By Nic Jones on June 30, 2012
While Paul Motian’s music could be regarded as amalgam of the predetermined and the free, that tells only a small part of the story. Similarly, arguing that his drumming was a merging of m: Kenny Clarke and m: Sunny Murray is no more helpful, even as it hints at the freedom in his work. But at this moment in time, and of course in light of his recent death in November, 2011, it feels too soon to determine whether or not he was an innovator on par with those two gentlemen…
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