Monday, December 22, 2014

CD Review: Phil Haynes-No Fast Food - In Concert

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Phil Haynes - No Fast Food In Concert (CornerStoreJazz) www.philhaynes.com Drummer Phil Haynes drew inspiration for the No Fas...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Me and the 2014 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll

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For about the past five years, I've been polled as part of a national survey of jazz critics for the best albums of the year. The result...
Tuesday, December 09, 2014

I'll Have a Bland Christmas...

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I've never really cared either way for the holiday perennial "Santa Baby." Eartha Kitt's original version was fine, comple...
Friday, December 05, 2014

CD Review: Bud Powell - Live at the Blue Note Cafe Paris 1961

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Bud Powell Live at the Blue Note Cafe, Paris 1961 (ESP-Disk') www.espdisk.com This album marks the second reissue by ESP of live ...
Monday, November 24, 2014

In Memory of John P. Shanley, Sr

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Last Thursday, my dad, John P. Shanley, passed away at the age of 79. Without going into details, it was an illness that came on fairly quic...
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Thursday, November 13, 2014

CD Review: Charles Lloyd- Manhattan Stories

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Charles Lloyd Manhattan Stories (Resonance) resonancerecords.org 2014 will probably be seen as a banner year for Resonance Records. W...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Loss of Another Friend

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Death is a natural part of our day-to-day existence. We get older, our bodies don't work like they used to. All that carefree living cat...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

CD Review: Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Blue

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Mostly Other People Do the Killing Blue (Hot Cup) www.hotcuprecords.com I once attended a local jazz competition, where three groups w...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

I Almost Died Last Week

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Well, maybe that's a slight exaggeration but there were a few scary moments last Friday. Throughout the week I had been dealing with a b...
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Monday, October 13, 2014

CD Review: Trio 3 with Vijay Iyer - Wiring

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Trio 3 & Vijay Iyer Wiring (Intakt) www.intakrec.ch To call Trio 3 a supergroup affixes an overused label to the band. But at the ...
Friday, October 10, 2014

CD Review: Wadada Leo Smith - The Great Lakes Suites

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Wadada Leo Smith The Great Lakes Suites (TUM) www.tumrecords.com Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has recently been composing large scale w...
Monday, October 06, 2014

CD Review: The Group - The Feed Back

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The Group The Feed-Back (Schema) www.ishtar.it/ Sometime around 1970, soundtrack maven Ennio Morricone and a group of musicians known...
Friday, October 03, 2014

CD/LP Review: John Coltrane - Offering: Live at Temple University

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John Coltrane Offering - Live at Temple University (Impulse! - Resonance) www.resonancerecords. org/johncoltrane It's all Allen G...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

My Trip to Chicago

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Last week, the family had to go to Chicago for a wedding. It was the furthest west I've ever traveled in my life, and for that reason al...
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Saturday, September 20, 2014

The Mail, Matthew Shipp, the Love Letters

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Yesterday was a banner day for the mail. I received the October issue of JazzTimes (which has my profile of Sean Jones in it), a TIAA-CREF c...
Tuesday, September 09, 2014

The Oliver Lake Big Band at City of Asylum

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Each September the organization City of Asylum hosts an event on the North Side that combines poets (who are usually exiled from another cou...
Friday, September 05, 2014

CD Review: The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers

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The New Pornographers Brill Bruisers (Matador) www.matadorrecords.com A review of the New Pornographers on this blog - it's like ...
Saturday, August 30, 2014

CD Review: Lee Konitz/Dan Tepfer/Michael Janisch/Jeff Williams - First Meeting: Live In London Vol. 1

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Lee Konitz/Dan Tepfer/Michael Jansch/Jeff Williams First Meeting: Live in London Volume 1 (Whirlwind) www.whirlwindrecordings.com Lee...
Friday, August 22, 2014

J.J. Wright In Pittsburgh

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Listening to WDVE-FM right now, relieved that Randy Baumann is back on the air today. I was starting to worry that his "vacation" ...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Uh Oh, Jazz is Dead Again...Wait - It's Not. But WJAS Is

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Originally the title of this post was going to stop at the ellipsis, but I didn't get to post it in time. The last week included a weddi...
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