In Count Basie’s book, the best big jazz orchestra in America is Duke Ellington’s.
When reminded of his own consistent poll victories as the nation’s favorite, Basie is likely to shake his head in smiling dissent with popular and critical choi …
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Kurt Elling: Invitation to Epiphany
On his latest recording, The Gate(Concord Jazz), perennial DownBeat poll winner and recent Grammy Award winner Kurt Elling invites the listener on a journey. That’s standard patter for any artist intent on capturing, holding and increasi …
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It has become painfully evident of late that a great many young jazz musicians have neither knowledge of nor respect for anything played before 1955. Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy is a rarity not only for his instrument and his awareness of jazz his … More…
More… The small, gray bus slid quietly to a halt outside the Vieux-Colombier, and a handful of musical gypsies tumbled out. They stretched their limbs and surveyed the indifferent Parisian afternoon—Malachi Favors, serious, with heavy features; Rosco …
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