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Take five: John Fordham's month in jazz – May

Tue, May 21 2013 4:12pm - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

"My ideas have been realised not in a passive manner but in an active manner which has recreated and reinvented what I have done."

Take Five: John Fordham's month in jazz – April

Fri, April 19 2013 9:49am - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

A lot more connects the Bad Plus pianist Ethan Iverson and the late drummer/composer Paul Motian than the happenstance that Iverson plays a non-Bad Plus trio gig and a masterclass in London this weekend, and ECM has just released a box set of classic Motian-led albums from the 1970s and 80s, graced by Iverson's informally scholarly liner notes.

London jazz festival 2012: from Herbie Hancock and Esperanza Spalding to John Paul Jones – what to see

Wed, November 07 2012 1:23pm - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

For the past five years, trumpeter, arranger and composer Guy Barker has opened the London jazz festival with this massively ambitious project , in which numerous vocalists are backed by a 41-piece orchestra: half jazz big band, half string section.

Mike Ragogna: Jazzin' Around: Conversations With David Sanborn, Lee Ritenour and Kurt Elling

Fri, October 05 2012 11:23am - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

David, let's get into Then Again: The David Sanborn Anthology , your new doubledisc anthology.

New Music Monday: John Hiatt, Lee Ritenour, Shemekia Copeland, the Gaddabouts, Lee Konitz

Mon, September 24 2012 12:02pm - Source: Something Else!

Another New Music Monday, another truckload of cool sounds — this time from the likes of John Hiatt, Lee Ritenour, Medeski Martin and Wood, Shemekia Copeland, Iron Maiden's Steve Harris and the Gaddabouts, among others.

Lee Ritenour – Rhythm Sessions (2012)

Fri, September 21 2012 11:53am - Source: Something Else!

"I love making albums!" declared super session guitar player Lee Ritenour, and he continues, "For me, creating a new project from beginning to end, is one of the most musically and spiritually rewarding things that I do in my life."

The Reigning Jazz Artist Two Years In A Row

Thu, June 21 2012 5:26am - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

Tenor sax legend Sonny Rollins was a triple winner Wednesday at the annual Jazz Awards, garnering musician of the year honors for the second straight year.

Kurt Elling Puts Jazz Spin on Classic Rock With Producer Don Was

Thu, March 24 2011 6:23pm - Source: Spinner

The first time we came across Kurt Elling was in June of 1997 during a guerilla campaign of gigs in the Northeast over a six-week stretch.

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