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Jazz Concert and Album Review: Guitarist Bill Frisell — Mingling the Sublime and the Stimulating

Leave it to guitarist Bill Frisell — he always knows where the musical goodies are to be found.

By: Steve Feeney Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Bill-Frisell, Blue-Note, Rudy Royston, Steve Freeney, Thomas Morgan, Valentine

Jazz CD Review: The Nels Cline 4 — Eclectic Accomplishment

This disc is mainly a showcase for guitarist Nels Cline’s compositions as well as his cleverness at commanding group improvisation.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Review Tagged: Blue-Note, Constellations, Currents, Julian Lage, Nels Cline, The Nels Cline Four

Jazz Concert Review: Nels Cline 4 — Mindbenders

Nels Cline 4 is a group that can cross musical and cultural boundaries with exhilarating ease.

By: Steve Feeney Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Blue-Note, Currents Constellations, Julian Lage, Nels Cline, Nels Cline 4, Steve Feeney

Film Review: “I Called Him Morgan” — A Superb Jazz Documentary

I Called Him Morgan has been lauded as one of the best films of the year, and rightfully so.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Blue-Note, documentary, I Call Him Morgan, Jazz, Kasper Collin, Lee Morgan, Matt Hanson, trumpeter

Music Review: Patricia Barber’s `The Cole Porter Mix’

by J.R. Carroll “Singer/songwriter” is not a description often applied to jazz musicians, and generally with good reason: Jazz instrumentalists have demonstrated again and again that as wordsmiths they are, well, outstanding instrumentalists. At best, the typically after-the-fact lyrics strive uneasily for either social uplift or hipster knowingness; at worst, they are just embarrassingly lame. […]

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Featured, Jazz Tagged: Blue-Note, Cole-Porter, Featured, Jazz, Patricia-Barber

Music Review: Becoming Coltrane: Part One

By J. R. Carroll This review/commentary will focus on Coltrane’s recordings with the Miles Davis Quintet for Columbia (in October 1955 and June and September 1956) and Prestige (in November 1955 and May and October 1956), as well as a variety of sideman dates and nominally leaderless sessions, many of which have recently been reissued […]

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Jazz Tagged: bebop, blowing-session, Blue-Note, Charlie-Parker, Columbia, Concord-Music-Group, discography, Elmo-Hope, Henry-Martin, Interplay, J-R-Carroll, Jazz, John-Coltrane, Johnny-Griffin, Lewis-Porter, Mal-Waldron, Miles-Davis, Mosaic-Records, Music, Paul-Chambers, Pepper-Adams, Prestige, Riverside, Sonny-Rollins, Tadd-Dameron, Thelonious Monk

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