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• Jazz Setlist: Nov. 26 – Dec. 2

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 144
  Nov. 27 Antonio Parker is a smallish-built fellow, with dapper dress and a huge smile. His looks may leave you unprepared for his sound on the saxophone: 100 percent pure brawn. So much muscle is flexed in any one of his solos that his astonishing harmonic sense—trumpeter Kenny Rittenhouse notes how he ...
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• London Jazz Festival | Music review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Various venues The 10-day London Jazz Festival ends tonight, leaving the capitals jazz community more than usually dazed and confused. We all start off making long and impractical wish lists and end up defeated by musical indigestion and, with the more remote events taking place in Richmond and Croydon, by sheer ...
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• Sonny Rollins/Jazz Voice | Jazz review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Various venues, London With a symphony-sized orchestra and a raft of singers, the Jazz Voice concert was numerically the heavyweight contender of the 2009 London Jazz festivals opening weekend. But the biggest show of the weekend featured just one man: Sonny Rollins, the unchallengeable old lion of the tenor ...
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• Disc of the day: 14-11-09

  
  thejazzbreakfast — Authority: 134
  Sonny Rollins: Moving Out (Prestige 0888072315945) Sonny in 1954 with Kenny Doreham on trumpet, Elmo Hope on piano, Percy Heath on bass and Art Blakey on drums. This is still bebop inspired music, and swift from the start with the title track, even swifter to follow with Swingin’ For Bumsy . The whole band is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Me Me Me Me Sonny Rollins

  
  Mostly Movies — Authority: 134
  Ive been thinking about an artists work habits lately, inspired by the fact that I am appearing in a production of As You Like It at my alma mater and everyone else in the cast is an undergraduate. It occurred to me that I really have no memories from my student days of doing shows there; that is, I remember being ...
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• November Links

  
  Hot House — Authority: 412
  Via One Working Musician, Nas mashed up with the Jason Parker Quintet . Be sure to also check out Jasons 100 CDs Project . Ill be reviewing his new album in this space soon. Also to be reviewed soon, Robin Kelleys exhaustive new Thelonious Monk biography . I would review it sooner, but Im taking my time with the ...
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• Front-Row Hero

  
  The Front Row — Authority: 131
  The Front Row gets its title from this blogger’s increasingly unusual movie-house preference. I’ve observed, anecdotally, in about thirty-five years of movie-going, that the bell curve of movie-theatre seating choice has shifted from about a third of the way from the screen to about two-thirds of the way back; I ...
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• Sonny Rollins: Confessions of a colossus

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  He jammed with Miles and went Zen with Coltrane. As Sonny Rollins heads to the UK, he reveals the secrets of his success When Sonny Rollins plays the worlds biggest concert halls, the posters outside often hail him as "the greatest living improviser". Hes a whole lot more than that. The 79-year-old US saxophonists ...
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• Sonny Rollins 2010 Calendar

  
  Cahl's Juke Joint: A rock, blues and jazz blog — Authority: 137
  I ordered a copy of the official Sonny Rollins calendar as a Christmas present for a friend, the biggest Sonny Rollins fan I know. Ive attended Rollins concerts with my friend in places ranging from Austin, Texas, to Chicago. My pals also flown to Paris a couple of times to see the great saxophonist. So Im sure ...
  3 weeks ago

• TENOR MADNESS (Hanna, Phil, and Tom)

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  If you saw the title and assumed that this was a Sonny Rollins tribute band, get that thought right out of your head.  As much as I admire Rollins, the tenor saxophone is sufficiently well-established in jazz so that it doesn’t need the extra publicity. No, TENOR MADNESS looks like this: I’m only sorry that ...
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• Jazz Don’t Hurt: Taking a Stand with ‘Conscious Jazz’

  
  Popdose — Authority: 617
  Drummer Ted Sirota and his band Rebel Souls have a new record out called Seize the Time (Naim Jazz, 2009). It’s an explicitly political instrumental album, very in line with Sirota’s previous CDs, all of which have featured album titles, song titles and liner notes that make clear Sirota’s progressive ...
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• Sonny Rollins To Play The Tarrytown Music Hall: Benefit concert for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater

  
  All Your Jazz — Authority: 128
  Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and his band will perform a special benefit concert for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater on Sunday, December 6, 2009 at the Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, NY. The concert will begin at 2:00 pm. Original Posting Performance Details Sonny Rollins ’s performance in ...
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• FINEST FIG JAM

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  Some history might be needed here.  ”A fig,” ”a Moldy Fig,” even “a Mouldy Figge,” is now-archaic language invented during the Forties, when jazz found itself divided into warring factions called Dixieland and Bebop.  This divisiveness may have splintered the music and its audiences irrevocably.  ...
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• Notes from the Net: Lester Bowie reissued; Jimmy Cobbs So What band reviewed; plus news, reviews, interviews, and more

  
  St. Louis Jazz Notes — Authority: 128
  Heres the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest. Starting off, as we usually do, with a couple of ...
  4 weeks ago

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