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Finding that Jazz Unites - I love living in Chicago. Chicago is a truly great city and for those of you who live and have lived much of your lives, on either coast, you may just think of the city as a place to fly over or perhaps an airport you are often required...

As If One New U2 Album Wasn’t Enough… -

U2 disappear off the face of the planet, well apart from those do-gooding bouts of guilt-tripping us ordinary folk that Bono seems to think are a good idea every now and then, for five years. Which was good of them.

But now, not content with releasing one terrible album, U2...

Joshua Redman, Compass -

Using Sonny Rollins' 1957 album, Way Out West, as a basis for his 2007 album Back East, saxophonist Joshua Redman expanded the idea of the jazz three-piece. Redman calls its follow-up, Compass, "a further exploration of the trio format . . . an expansion on, and an extension of Back...

Brad Mehldau - Highway Rider -

Such is the cult of the soloist in contemporary jazz that other elements of the creative equation are often overlooked. One is the sideman; the other is the producer. In the case of Highway Rider, the input of Jon Brion, in the latter role, is crucial insofar as he...

Keith Jarrett Trio Turns 25 With Tour, DVDs - The Keith Jarrett Trio is celebrating its 25th anniversary with the reissue of two out-of-print concert DVDs and a short fall tour. On Aug. 26, ECM will re-release "Standards I" and "II," which were previously available as separate VHS and DVDs, in a single package. The shows were taped in Tokyo...

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