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<title>Miles Davis</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:38:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Arguably, no single artist has changed the face of modern music so profoundly, and so many times, as Miles Davis. As Charlie "Yardbird" Parker was busy revolutionizing the jazz world with his stripped-down, freewheeling style called Bop, he invited the young Davis to join him in the mid-1940s. Miles played with Bird for three years before going on to wage his own Cool Jazz revolution, fronting a nine-piece ensemble and creating lush, orchestral arrangements for <I>Birth of the Cool</I>. Due to drug addiction, a fallow period ensued in the early '50s, but Davis returned to the fore with renewed vigor and a new quintet in 1954. The Miles Davis Quintet, including John Coltrane on tenor sax, set new standards for what jazz could represent, achieving a popularity previously thought unattainable in the eclectic realm of jazz. Further milestones lay ahead for Davis -- his groundbreaking orchestral work with his musical soul mate Gil Evans, the recording of the most popular jazz album ever (<I>Kind of Blue</I>), further endeavors with another pivotal quintet in the '60s and finally, the fathering of the Free Improvisation and Funk-tinged riffs and grooves of the Fusion age with <I>Bitches Brew</I>. Through it all, Davis was the consummate professional and master innovator, never pausing to look back while constantly building upon his notoriously irrepressible momentum.
- Noah Enelow]]></description>
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<title>John Coltrane</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:52:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[John Coltrane's recording career took off with his work with Miles Davis' Quintet in 1955 and in '56, he began recording his first solo material. He began a serious investigation of harmony, which culminated in his seminal '59 LP <I>Giant Steps</I>. Coltrane's warp-speed sonic attack on this album was called by the critics but his playing kept evolving. In '61, he solidified the lineup of a new quartet with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison, and drummer Elvin Jones. Their playing was largely modal, based on the approach Coltrane had learned with Miles Davis. In the years that followed, the group began pushing towards total freedom. At the same time, Coltrane began to tackle more spiritual themes, which one can hear on the two suites <I>A Love Supreme</I> and <I>Meditations</I>. By his untimely death in 1967, Coltrane had moved entirely into free-form improvisation; yet even in his most chaotic playing one senses a higher purpose. John Coltrane was both a deeply spiritual person and a relentless stylistic innovator, who demolished the boundaries of jazz in search of transcendence.
- Noah Enelow]]></description>
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<title>Herbie Hancock</title>
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<category>Jazz Piano</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:47 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Just out of knee-pants, Hancock hit the jazz world after performing Mozart with the Chicago Symphony at age eleven. Hancock's piano became a fixture of the New York club and studio scene after he graduated with degrees in music and electrical engineering. His first solo albums at age twenty-one embraced Soul, gospel-infused Hard Bop, and cerebral Post Bop (Hancock is the kind of artist who can pen the groovy club hit "Watermelon Man" and turn around and record the sweeping album <i>Maiden Voyage</i> without seeming to break a sweat). He joined Eric Dolphy and Miles Davis, released groundbreaking soundtrack work like <i>Blow Up</i>, established the Electro-Funk template with <i>Head Hunters</i>, and won an Academy Award for his work on <i>Round Midnight</i>. Today, Hancock continues to look to the future while celebrating music from several centuries and cultures.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Bill Evans</title>
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<category>Jazz Piano</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:38:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bill Evans somehow learned to distill beauty from the air and make it pure. His crystalline, impressionistic touch on the piano produced ballads to dive into deeply. Though he could be a mainstream, swinging jazz pianist, his faster pieces are often less accessible, jagged and angular. Evans was an in-demand sideman in the late 1950s and the main creative catalyst behind Miles Davis' <I>Kind of Blue</I> album. He preferred to work with his own trio (his piano/bass/drums recordings are among the most influential in modern jazz), but he also recorded stellar albums with Jim Hall, Stan Getz, and Tony Bennett. On his own, he multi-tracked <I>Conversations with Myself</I>, yet another milestone. Despite his scholarly image, Evans was plagued with drug addiction for the majority of his adult life. His "NYC's No Lark" depicts some of the pain he experienced he saw and should keep everyone hooked exclusively on Bill Evans' music.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Bill Frisell</title>
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<category>Avant Garde Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:50:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It's rare that such an artistic maverick as Bill Frisell should be such a soft spoken and humble man. He's never one to sing his own praises, yet this truly gifted jazz guitarist has always followed his own muse, quietly gaining more and more fans with each passing year by combining avant garde improvisational jazz with bluegrass, folk and rock. It's to Frisell's credit that his music never sounds like a fusion of styles but seems completely natural and organic. He can bombard the listener with sound or stretch out with soft melodic tunes but that naturalness runs through all his work and may be the key to his success. It's gratifying that the public has embraced Frisell's music -- there is still room for excellence and experimentation in mainstream America after all.]]></description>
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<title>Keith Jarrett</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:12:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jarrett is one of the most influential pianists of the last thirty-five years. With an expressive chordal style and deft stylistic versatility, Jarrett's early stint with Charles Lloyd put his name in the jazz spotlight. His awe-inspiring solos -- including shimmering Post Bop work -- and textural mastery ranged in sound from bellowed grunts to percussive solos where Jarrett struck the inside of the piano. His move to Miles Davis' band in the late 1960s (following Herbie Hancock's departure) took him into the electric age, with notably remarkable results on <I>Live/Evil</I> (1970) and other recordings opposite Chick Corea. After swearing off the electric piano and organ, Jarrett proceeded to set the jazz world on its ear with his melodically masterful straight-ahead jazz dates and solo performances. In the legendary <I>The Koln Concert</I> (1975), he set the stage for a new breed of jazz that organically developed outside the realm of Bop -- though unfortunately a great number of new age pianists have butchered Jarrett's entrancing, rhythmic style. These days he tours sporadically, performing both classical and jazz music when not suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome.
- Noah Enelow]]></description>
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<title>Mark Isham</title>
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<category>Non-Orchestral</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:07:27 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mark Isham's versatility has earned him a place as one of Hollywood's finest film composers, as well as keeper of the Cool Jazz flame. He plays trumpet in the muted, introspective style of '50s-era Miles Davis, he's been an innovator in the use of electronics in jazz, and he's handled arrangements for cult stars Scott Walker and David Sylvian. His straight jazz, Chamber Music, or electronica-based soundtracks are excellent, and he has forged working relationships with such iconoclastic directors as Alan Rudolph, Robert Redford, Carroll Ballard, and Robert Altman. For jazz buffs, Isham is a top improviser <I>and</I> a first rate tunesmith (a rare combination -- refer to Gerry Mulligan and Horace Silver). During live performances, his tunes often depart wildly from their recorded versions, yet he never loses his West Coast cool.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Wynton Marsalis</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:13:26 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Wynton Marsalis is the most important and influential jazz musician of the modern age. He is sometimes seen as a controversial figure because of his outspoken views on what jazz should be, what it isn't and how popular culture and modern society have both generally gone to hell in a hand basket. But for all of his talk (and he's a good talker), Marsalis is also a monumentally gifted trumpet player with a quicksilver musical mind and a pure tone that would have made him a jazz star in any decade. His many critics (usually boho noise-jazzers, aged rockers and diaper-wearing electronica types) tag him as being musically conservative, yet he constantly finds new avenues and styles to explore. This restless creative energy is both Marsalis' strength and one of his major weaknesses. Like Dave Brubeck (or Woody Allen wanting to make "serious" movies instead of comedies), Marsalis sometimes undercuts his own musical strengths in order to stretch himself artistically in just about every direction â classical music, extended orchestral jazz compositions, socio-political explorations, film composition and education. While not everything Marsalis has done has been equally successful, he rarely (if ever) takes the easy road and he brings unflagging energy (and often rarely acknowledged humor) to everything he does. His trumpet playing was hit hard by medical issues in the 2000s but even that didn't slow him down â he now leads the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra in addition to his many other projects. Marsalis comes from a family of New Orleans jazz musicians and his brother, Branford, is a brilliant saxophone player in his own right.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Charles Mingus</title>
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<category>Avant Garde Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:03:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bassist, composer, pianist, bandleader, and poet, Charles Mingus was a creative whirlwind. He began his career as a Bop and Cool Jazz player in New York City, before forming the Jazz Composer's Workshop in 1952. In 1955, Mingus started his own group, known as the Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop. A year later, Mingus enlisted drummer Dannie Richmond, who was to become his lifelong partner in rhythm. And thus began Mingus's creative explosion. He wrote a series of tunes that featured Gospel-inflected shouts, raucous blues, and Ellington-esque arrangements, showcased on the albums <I>Blues and Roots</I>, <I>Mingus Ah Um</I>, and <I>Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus</I>. He enlisted a big band and recorded a masterpiece of modern music, <I>The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady</I>. He also toured Europe with a quintet, featuring the great Eric Dolphy. In 1977, after a short retirement and before his death, he recorded two more small combo albums, both entitled <I>Changes</I>. A virtuoso bassist and composer, Mingus irrevocably changed the face of jazz.]]></description>
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<title>Beegie Adair</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:13:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Brad Mehldau</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:09:52 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Neo-classical jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has risen to stardom in the jazz community largely through impeccably elegant versions of well-known standards. Unlike most young players, Mehldau's strength is in his ballads; he's a player of extraordinary sensitivity and dynamics. He's certainly capable of blowing everyone away with his Bop virtuosity, but he knows when to keep it in check. For instance, on one song he repeats a dirge-like theme several times, altering it just a little bit each time before embarking on a solo flight. The effect is to emphasize the mournful quality of the theme itself, rather than view the theme as an afterthought for the solo statement. As well as being a top-flight soloist, Mehldau's an accomplished composer with a wide repertoire of original tunes.
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<title>Jean-Luc Ponty</title>
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<category>Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:17:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jazz violin isn't exactly electric guitar, but don't tell Jean-Luc Ponty that. He never saw any reason not to pair wa-wa pedals and Echoplexes with the violin, and as a result he's done more for the stringed instrument than anyone since Stephane Grappelli. A classically trained musician who also played clarinet and tenor sax, Ponty developed a love for jazz that finally forced him to choose between jazz and classical. He chose jazz, and his work on the violin was groundbreaking  he mastered the bebop style and played his instrument as if it were a horn. No one had ever heard anything quite like it. As the 1960s wore on, Ponty branched out into experimental rock and free jazz. He has played with Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and his restless quest for novelty has led him from jazz into country, world music and more.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Sonny Rollins</title>
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<category>Bop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:09:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sonny Rollins just might possess the sharpest wit in all of jazz. He came of age musically in the early '50s, developing a style that combined the gruff-toned swing of Coleman Hawkins with the Bebop innovations of Charlie Parker. But while Parker's melodic flights tapped into an emotional core of expression, Rollins' endless permutations convey an ironic sensibility. On tunes such as the Broadway hit "There's No Business Like Show Business," he worked with cliches from Bop, Swing, and Show Tunes, turning them inside out, upside down, and backwards -- partly as a search for the limit of melodic and rhythmic possibility and partly as a joking commentary on the cliches themselves. In his search for new possibilities, his playing will sometimes express an aesthetic minimalism. On his own "St. Thomas" -- now a standard -- he works the same two notes back and forth through a dizzying labyrinth of phrasings. Few improvisers can match the depth of Rollins' craft.
- Noah Enelow]]></description>
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<title>Chick Corea</title>
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<category>Jazz Piano</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Chick Corea's career path mirrors the history of jazz since the 1960s and has had a huge impact on his peers. Working Latin-tinged and straight-ahead jazz dates, Corea's piano style began as a rich mixture of his influences (Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner). After joining Miles Davis's group in the late '60s as Hancock's gradual replacement, Corea began to utilize synthesizers and electric keyboards, becoming a critical practitioner on these instruments. In the early '70s, Corea formed Return to Forever, merging rock, jazz, and Brazilian sounds into what became one of the most influential Jazz Fusion groups ever. Later work with his Elektric and Akoustik bands, as well as Post Bop and modern classical experimentations, has set a high precedent for modern pianists.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>McCoy Tyner</title>
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<category>Bop</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:56:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[McCoy Tyner has always been one of the most emotionally expressive pianists in jazz. In contrast to Thelonious Monk's ironic understatements and Herbie Hancock's lush detachment, Tyner is a man possessed. Bearing the profound spiritual influence of John Coltrane, with whom he played for five solid years, Tyner's playing is pure romanticism: effusive, grandiose, explosive, yearning, pleading. His style, based in Post Bop modal jazz, features harmonic inversions and gradually climbing melodies, built up to a fever pitch and resolved in crashing pedal chords. On quieter material, he tends to employ baroque-sounding flutters, trills, and sixteenth-note decorations. Tyner's solo career reached a peak in the early Â70s; he has also thrived throughout the Â90s through a large body of recent work. His recent recorded output includes everything from big band arrangements of his classic Â60s repertoire to duets with vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, along with solo and small ensemble sessions as well.
- Noah Enelow]]></description>
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<title>John Scofield</title>
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<category>Jazz-Funk</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 4 Oct 2009 09:42:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Throughout his days as a guitarist with Jazz-Funk pioneer Billy Cobham, his 1980s Fusion classics with Miles Davis, and his later solo career, John Scofield has developed an extremely individual sound, bolstered by many top-notch sidemen. He's simplified his style over the years, opting for a bluesy, funkier vibe compared to his earlier, more complex songwriting. While many guitarists express themselves with endless streams of eighth notes, Scofield makes his mark by expertly finding the notes that carry over from chord to chord -- though to be fair, Scofield can blaze a fast Bebop run with unbelievable ease. His distinct, behind-the-beat rhythmic phrasing, trademark chorus, and semi-hollowbody sound have influenced thousands of guitarists.]]></description>
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<title>Freddie Hubbard</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:09:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Graduate of the Hard Bop school, trumpet master Freddie Hubbard possesses a quicksilver playing style that's always masterfully phrased, like that of a balladeer. In the late '50s, he played with Wes Montgomery and Sonny Rollins to little public acclaim, but his career took off in the early part of the following decade when both Quincy Jones featured him often in his orchestra and Oliver Nelson tapped him for the stunning <I>The Blues and the Abstract Truth</I>. Following mid-'60s sessions with Art Blakey, John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock, Hubbard caught the Fusion bug, later adding Funk and soul to his mix. Hubbard ultimately returned to his straight Hard Bop roots in the 1980s.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Branford Marsalis</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:54 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Ahmad Jamal</title>
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<category>Jazz Piano</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Paul Horn</title>
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<category>Ethnic Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:28:43 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Charlie Hunter</title>
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<category>Jazz-Funk</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:18 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If you could take John Scofield and stuff him in the back of a Hammond B3 console you might get something like the sounds Charlie Hunter coaxes from his guitar. (Actually, you'd probably end up with a broken organ and an injured musician, but you get the point.) Hunter is so good he can make other guitar players cry with envy, throw down their axes and switch to some lesser instrument, such as the bass. But he's got that covered, too! Originally transcribing the fancy-footwork basslines of organists like Jack McDuff, Hunter applied them to his custom 8-string guitar, and after what must have been years of practice came up with a way to play bass, rhythm and lead guitar lines all at once. His basslines may not be the most complex, but they're an entirely tasteful backing for his Leslie-effected, organ-like rhythm guitar and his stellar chromatic solos. The band performs groove-oriented jazz, with hints of funk, spicy Latin, and even reggae (Hunter's best work may have been his cover of Bob Marley's album, <i>Natty Dread</i>). A must-see live, Hunter's style keeps getting more and more diverse, while his albums get better and better.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Art Pepper</title>
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<category>Cool/West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:17 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Art Pepper may not be a recognizable figure to the general public, but he is a bright shining star in the jazz world. Pepper, of San Pedro, California was a child prodigy who fell in love with the music of Lester Young. As a teen, he was featured in Lee Young's (Lester's brother) band and with the great Benny Carter. Segregation forbade his touring with them so he joined Stan Kenton's group and quickly became a featured soloist. Pepper shared Stan Getz's good looks and an ability to fit into any musical situation yet retain his own voice, and became an in-demand session player and a solo star. Heroin claimed Pepper for well over a decade and he spent a substantial part of his life in and out of jail and recovery homes. In the '70s he picked his career up and released a string of excellent albums showing a new, tougher style. His biting autobiography, "Straight Life," is closer to literature than the usual celebrity tell-all; it may be the most self-critical, least flattering autobiography ever written.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>John McLaughlin</title>
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<category>Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:56:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Not many people have a Miles Davis track named after them, but guitarist John McLaughlin earned that honor for his raw jazz-based soloing which held together Davis' monumental <I>Bitches Brew</I>. McLaughlin's versatility and stylistic mastery is unmatched; he's worn many hats through the years, helping to invent Fusion with his combination of jazz virtuosity and blistering rock 'n' roll aggression. His playing is layered and tasteful, floating from full speed improvisation to open-sounding chords and chameleon-like variations. He began as a session player in England, jamming with Clapton, Hendrix and Jimmy Page, and worked his way up to a brilliant Post Bop debut <I>Extrapolation</I>. McLaughlin moved on to join Tony Williams' Lifetime and Miles Davis' bands, before founding the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early '70s. Dissatisfied with the limitations of playing a single genre, McLaughlin joined tabla master Zakir Hussain to form Shakti, an innovative and exceptional combination of Indian classical music and jazz. His intense, fruitful collaborations are also numerous: over the years McLaughlin has recorded outstanding albums with Carlos Santana, Buddy Miles, Billy Cobham, Paco De Lucia and Al Dimeola, and many more.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Wayne Shorter</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:09:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It's hard to overstate Wayne Shorter's influence as a saxophonist and composer -- he has rightfully earned a place as a jazz legend. His tenor playing draws on the enhanced Bebop virtuosity of John Coltrane, minus the brittle edge; Shorter's playing has such a flowing feel that he almost seems to be composing heads to a tune in real-time when he improvises. He was groomed to be perfect in any setting. As a featured soloist and music director in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, he mastered the raw, bluesy feel of Hard Bop, moving on to Post Bop in 1964 after joining Miles Davis's influential late '60s quintet. He then helped to pioneer jazz-rock Fusion when he formed Weather Report in 1970. Many of his songs are required learning for aspiring jazz musicians, such as the bluesy "Footprints." But it doesn't take a musician to understand the expansive beauty of a ballad like "Fall." Both songs exhibit his innovations: with one foot in the blues, Shorter expanded the scope of a jazz composition and added complexity to its chords -- but he did it with such melodic perfection that he didn't leave listeners behind, as many of his contemporaries in the '60s did.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Charlie Haden</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:12:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Charlie Haden, a key jazz musician of the modern age, was on the ground floor of the free jazz and avant-garde movement before gaining a wider audience as a keeper of the bop flame. He was born into a musical family and started yodeling as a toddler. After a bout with polio weakened Haden's vocal chords, he switched over to the bass.
Haden was already into jazz when he moved to Los Angeles in 1957 and started playing with such West Coast stars as Art Pepper before he became the bassist in Ornette Coleman's revolutionary free jazz band. Haden continued paving the way for avant-garde jazz, playing long stints with Keith Jarrett, Dewey Redman and drummer Paul Motian. He also trailblazed with his Liberation Music Orchestra. By the late '80s he had formed Quartet West with Kiwi pianist and arranger Alan Broadbent, Ernie Watts (sax) and Lawrence Marable (drums). The group's second Verve album, 1991's <i>Haunted Heart</i>, was Haden's first mainstream hit and reintroduced him as a master of ballads and romantic material. He kept recording with Quartet West while cutting solo sets. In 2008, he recorded <i>Friends & Family: Rambling Boy</i>, a pitch-perfect look back at the folk music of his youth.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Terence Blanchard</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:57 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Joshua Redman</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it's unfair to stick Joshua Redman in the stiff-collared "neo-Bop" category just because he's not shrieking and honking his way to salvation in the basement of the Knitting Factory. The man is simply a Hard Bopper through and through but one who has increasingly taken chances over the years. He's always stuck fairly closely to traditional Bop tonalities while taking certain liberties with his rhythms, spicing up blues-based tunes with Latin and Funk grooves. His improvisation over Funk vamps is particularly masterful: he's able to blend the emotionally reaching qualities of Coltrane with the on-the-one earthiness of Maceo Parker. This combination has made him one of the most accessible and, indeed, commercially successful artists in modern jazz -- deservedly so.]]></description>
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<title>Joe Henderson</title>
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<category>Bop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:12:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Joe Henderson was one of tenor saxophone's strongest voices and gratifyingly received great acclaim late in his career. His playing incorporates blues shouts and Bebop licks into freewheeling modal improvisation, with a dash of avant-garde anarchism. Yet he can also tackle standards with grace and aplomb. Henderson's solo career began in the mid-1960s with a series of seminal Hard Bop LPs for Blue Note. Meanwhile, during his stint as a sideman with Post Bop genius Andrew Hill, his playing approached the avant-garde while remaining melodic and elegantly phrased. When Fusion came along in the '70s, Henderson appeared as a sideman on Freddie Hubbard's <I>Red Clay</I> and even served a stint in Blood, Sweat & Tears! Later in his career, he delved into the songbooks of such diverse earlier masters as Billy Strayhorn, Miles Davis, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Thelonious Monk. Henderson enjoyed a godfather-like status in the world of jazz until complications from emphysema ended his life in 2001.]]></description>
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<title>Lee Morgan</title>
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<category>Hard Bop</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:09:54 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Trumpeter Lee Morgan's rip-roaring, funky style conveyed a brash, larger-than-life attitude that knew no equal in the jazz universe. He combined dazzling virtuosity with a startlingly bright tone. Morgan joined Dizzy Gillespie's big band in 1956, also recording his first solo album that same year. In 1963, Morgan virtually defined Hard Bop with his shuffling blues, "The Sidewinder," and over the next four years he recorded eight solid albums for Blue Note. Though he was a virtuoso, Morgan was not experimental during this period: he found a formula and stuck to it. Later in his career, Morgan began branching out in a modal direction, leaning toward the avant-garde. Morgan was killed in 1972 before he had a chance to fully develop his new musical personality.]]></description>
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<title>Lonnie Liston Smith</title>
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<category>Jazz-Funk</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:55:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Combining the romantic stylings of Barry White and the psychedelic tendancies of Jimi Hendrix, Lonnie Liston Smith's lush keyboard playing is ideal for an evening of hash-fuelled sexual discovery. He started his career in the 1960s, playing jazz piano alongside such luminaries as Pharoah Sanders and Rashaan Roland Kirk before going solo in the early 1970s. Supported by his exceptional backing band the Cosmic Echos, his distinct style consists of trippy, multi-dimensional fusion overflowing with exotic percussion, breezy flutes, and blissful melodies. The group played songs mostly about love, peace, and space traveling, though they also had many lengthy instrumental jams. Lonnie and company recorded a dozen LPs during the seventies, some of them on boutique labels such as Doctor Jazz and Flying Dutchman. He continued to record as a solo artist throughout the '80s and '90s, and found new fans who discovered him through rap samples. Popular amongst hip-hop producers thanks to his use of extended instrumental grooves, he was also featured on Guru's 1993 fusion project <i>Jazzmatazz Vol. 1</i>. Hugely influential, Lonnie Liston Smith is a master musician with devoted fans around the world. His most recent album <i>Transformation</i> was released in 1998.
- Brolin Winning]]></description>
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<title>Roy Hargrove</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>The Bad Plus</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:23 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Kurt Elling</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:58:26 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Larry Coryell</title>
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<category>Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:04:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In many ways, Coryell and fellow guitarist John McLaughlin have had parallel careers, helping to found the Jazz Rock and Fusion genres in the late '60s and early '70s, before moving on to straight-ahead jazz and World Fusion collaborations. Coryell has proven his versatility on distorted electric, hollowbody, acoustic, and even twelve-string guitar, playing with fiery technique and a raw, cutting tone. Perhaps it was the musicians with whom he worked that helped drive his experimental improvisations. McLaughlin, Miroslav Vitous, John Scofield, Bernard Purdie, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea and Jack DeJohnette all brought intense rhythmic and/or harmonic ideas to the table, but Coryell's pioneering ideas surely symbiotically influenced them as well. The albums <I>Spaces</I> and <I>Larry Coryell's 11th House</I> are seminal Fusion albums on which Coryell experiments with new sounds and ways of breaking down jazz's boundaries.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Cyrus Chestnut</title>
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<category>Jazz Piano</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:11:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Brian Bromberg</title>
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<category>Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:16:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Bobby Hutcherson</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:28 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bobby Hutcherson first got attention playing Avant Garde Jazz with such names as Charles Lloyd and Eric Dolphy (on 1964's landmark <i>Out to Lunch</i>). Talented in the extreme, he went on to perform with hard and post-bopsters like Herbie Hancock, Grant Green, and McCoy Tyner. His straight-ahead, crowd-pleasing work is just as tasty as his far-out jams. He has a new contract with Verve and enters the new century showing off his ballad mastery.]]></description>
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<title>Jim Hall</title>
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<category>Cool</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Wes Montgomery came up with such a tantalizing blueprint for guitar players in the 1960s that many fans forget there is more than one way to pluck a string. The freethinking Jim Hall has continued to follow his own impressionistic lead for the past forty years. Always a subtle and introspective player, Hall first came to public attention on the 1950s West Coast Cool scene with Chico Hamilton and Jimmy Guiffre, moving into the '60s with Paul Desmond's sublime quartet. Hall could turn the heat up with Sonny Rollins or Quincy Jones' funky big band, but as his suberb duets with Bill Evans show, he shared a special bond with introspective players. Since then Hall has continued to thrive, and <I>Concierto</I>, with Desmond and Chet Baker, was a mainstream acoustic jazz landmark in the Fusion-mad '70s. Many of today's elite guitarists, such as Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell, are highly influenced by Hall's risk-taking -- showing that there is never just one blueprint for anything, least of all music.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Joe Lovano</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:09:59 -0800</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Joe Lovano</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the most versatile and widely appreciated tenor saxophonists of the last decade, Lovano is neither a staunch traditionalist nor a revolutionary avant-gardist. He plays with an open-minded, history-spanning approach, drawing on a wide range of influences within the Bebop-to-Free Jazz spectrum and seamlessly stitching them together. He does, however, emphasize certain musical aspects over others in his various groups: his piano-less quartets and trios focus more on group interaction and tend to be more outward-leaning, while he turns to a more standard soloist vs. accompaniment Bop format when piano is present. He's also done a couple of intriguing large ensemble records, including <I>Rush Hour</I> (1995), which features arrangements from Third Stream guru Gunther Schuller as well as the hovering wordless vocals of Lovano's wife, Judy Silvano. Finally, his roster of past sidemen -- which includes drummers Elvin Jones and Ed Blackwell and bassist Dave Holland -- brims over with folks who, like Lovano, place substance high above flash.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>John Patitucci</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 1 Aug 2009 10:41:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ever since his days with Chick Corea's Elektric Band, John Patitucci has been one of the most sought-after and respected modern bass players. His earlier work features his astounding electric bass playing, while his more recent albums focus on his equally impressive acoustic work, drawing on the assistance of jazz heavyweights such as John Scofield, Michael Brecker and Bill Bruford.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Pat Martino</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:07:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Brilliant performer started his career playing with Soul Jazz icons Willis 'Gator Tail' Jackson, Jack McDuff and Don Patterson. Philadelphia resident Martino has stretched the boundaries of jazz guitar by coming up with innovative theories and ways of playing that direct his fluid, cerebral lines. Talking with John Coltrane over hot chocolate at the age of 14 helped inspire Martino, who forged a rhythmically solid style that astounds the listener with endless streams of chromatic notes. He's gone on to include world and electronic influences in his bebop oriented playing, consistently delivering dynamic runs over whichever style he chooses to explore. In the early 1980s Martino lost much of his memory due to a brain aneurysm. He recovered to his original form listening to his old records and relearning the guitar.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Lee Konitz</title>
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<category>Cool</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Like many jazz musicians associated with the 1950s Cool jazz scene, saxophonist Lee Konitz's beautiful tone has often blinded critics to his innovative spirit, though he quickly earned the notice of his peers in the late '40s from his work with Lennie Tristano and Miles Davis. These sides were not immediately popular, but the public quickly caught on to them in the '50s. The sense of adventure on these recordings kept Konitz on his toes, and he went on to work with such disparate iconoclasts as Stan Kenton, Jimmy Guiffre, Bill Evans, and Joe Henderson. He has kept up a consistent level of excellence throughout the decades, recording pieces that challenge the mind without assaulting the ears. He and a series of spectacular guests chart the entire history of jazz, from New Orleans jams to Avant-Garde free-form explorations on his 1967 <I>Duets</I> album.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Stefon Harris</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Stanley Jordan</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 6 Jun 2009 08:29:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Eddie Daniels</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:47:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Eddie Daniels played saxophone for many years before he came to much acclaim for his clarinet style in the '80s. One of the GRP label's most dynamic acts, Daniels works in the Hard and Post Bop idioms, but many of his releases find him playing classically tinged Third Stream music without missing a beat.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Nicholas Payton</title>
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<category>Hard Bop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:59 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As a member of the Young Lions along with saxophonist Joshua Redman and guitarist Mark Whitfield, Nicholas Payton helped revitalize jazz with his fiery chops and warm tone. His trumpet skills are phenomenal -- this is the type of player who is unhindered by any technical challenges while also being blessed with mature musicality. In terms of his stylistic approach, Payton plays 1960s Hard Bop with a strong New Orleans influence -- not only can he play, he knows the music's history and proves it by effectively linking its past with its future. Payton's writing becomes stronger with each successive album, consistently incorporating progressive instrumentation and textures into his compositions. His work offers further proof that jazz is not dead.]]></description>
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<title>Rahsaan Roland Kirk</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:38:13 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Rahsaan Roland Kirk could rightfully be awarded the title of Clown Prince of Jazz. His startling, funky, raucous, anarchic music was often comic, often unsettling, and full of both jazz history and biting social commentary. His arrangements took their inspiration from Dixieland, Swing, Bop, R&B, and the Avant-Garde; the effect was a freewheeling musical gumbo. Kirk also pioneered some unusual effects. Through the technique of circular breathing, he would often play several saxophones at once, creating a one-man horn "section!" He played two saxophone-like relics, the manzello and the strich, originally from Spanish military bands, that virtually no other jazz musician has ever played. And he used whistles, sirens, and other unusual sounds to punctuate his unorthodox compositions. Many jazz purists in the '60s dismissed all these effects as pure gimmick. But Kirk maintained that they were essential parts of his music, and listening to him, it's hard to disagree.]]></description>
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<title>Kenny Barron</title>
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<category>Jazz Piano</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:12:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Critics and the general jazz public are finally figuring out what Kenny Barron's peers have known for years -- he is one of the best jazz pianists of any era. Barron has played with just about every major talent there is, but really shined with Dizzy Gillespie in the 1960s and Stan Getz in the '80s and '90s. Barron's style is like a combination of a less flashy Oscar Peterson, McCoy Tyner, and Hank Jones. He helps you see that such genre distinctions as swing, bop, and cool are ultimately meaningless. Kenny Barron is a great pianist, period.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Mark Murphy</title>
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<category>Vocal Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:04:31 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mark Murphy has managed to weather every change in music since the mid-1950s without ever compromising who he is nor what he does (he's not a snob, he just plays to his strengths) and by doing so he has remained the same, exceptional, jazz singer for forty-five years. Murphy comes on like a militant Mel Torme; he's witty and will scat endlessly, but can sing a ballad "straight"; he loves experimenting with different styles and song form itself, but he never really tried to appeal to a mass audience with Disco or soft rock. Based in San Francisco until recently, Murphy has had an adventurous recording career, check out his album "Bop for Kerouac" where he inserted the author's passages in the middle of standards to excellent effect. Whether at a sleek nightclub or coming out of your stereo, Mark Murphy will not disappoint.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>E.S.T.</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:36:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the finest jazz acts of the new millennium, Sweden's E.S.T. have found international recognition for their rather austere piano music that's as arty as it's accessible. Considering how chilly and cerebral their music can be (it reeks of a European university, but in a good way), it's amazing that young fans of downtempo, as well as longtime jazz enthusiasts, have embraced their way of using the traditional jazz piano trio format to create a new kind of music -- just imagine jazz pianist Bill Evans taking on influences from chilly art rock, deracinated hip-hop, and electronica. Like the Kraut rock art bands of the 1970s who reshaped American and British pop music in their own Teutonic image, it's exciting to hear these Scandinavians charting new musical territory instead of just copying established American jazz masters. (By the way, E.S.T. stands for the Esbjorn Svensson Trio, but the group obviously prefers having a more mysterious name that doesn't immediately identify them as a jazz band.)
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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