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Bill Frisell: Sign of Life -

Bill Frisell rarely follows conventional musical pathways. The guitarist has released albums of Americana, world, blues and classical musicâ€"all with a jazz edge. Improvisation is at the heart of what Frisell does, magically forming loose ideas into compelling and frequently exigent listening experiences. Sign of Life, recorded with the virtuosic...

A Link to Eric Dolphy - When it comes to jazz you run across certain names and they are usually whispered by fans with a kind of awe. For me, as you may already know, that name is Miles Davis. For my brother, it is Charlie 'Bird' Parker. For some it is John Coltrane. One of...

Party Intellectuals - I consider Marc Ribot to be the ultimate guitar renaissance man. Just consider a small portion of his resume: Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, The Lounge Lizards, John Zorn, T Bone Burnett, Patti Scialfa, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Rob Wasserman, Ellery Eskelin, Marianne Faithfull, Mike Patton, Cibo Matto, Dave Douglas, Robert...

Freddie Hubbard Dead At Age 70 -

Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard died Monday, Dec. 29 in Los Angeles, California, of complications from a recent heart attack. He was 70-years-old. The musician helped bridge the gap between be-bop and jazz fusion.

Freddie Hubbard's esteemed career combined raw talent and a little bit of luck. As a teenager,...

Earfood - My, how time flies. It didn't seem so long ago when Wynton Marsalis spotted this young trumpet talent at a Dallas high school in the mid-eighties. Since then, Roy Hargrove has recorded fourteen albums as a leader, and another co-led with Herbie Hancock and Michael Brecker. For these efforts, he's won...

Act Like You Know: Ornette Coleman -

When Ornette Coleman won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007, Stephen Colbert did a routine which summed up why you should like Ornette Coleman. Colbert cued up a particularly raucous clip from Sound Grammar, Coleman’s latest album, and started dancing uncontrollably to it. When it finished, he went for his first...

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