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Wayne Shorter

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Born in Newark, New Jersey on August 25, 1933, Wayne Shorter had his first great jazz epiphany as a teenager: “I remember seeing Lester Young when I was 15 years old. It was a Norman Granz Jazz at the Philharmonic show in Newark and he was late coming to the theater. Me and a couple of other guys were waiting out front of the Adams Theater and when he finally did show up, he had the pork pie hat and everything. So then we were trying to figure out how to get into the theater from the fire escape around the back. We eventually got into the mezzanine and saw that whole show — Stan Kenton and Dizzy Gillespie bands together on stage doing ‘Peanut Vendor,’ Charlie Parker with strings doing ‘Laura’ and stuff like that. And Russell Jacquet…Ilinois Jacquet. He was there doing his thing. That whole scene impressed me so much that I just decided, ‘Hey, man, let me get a clarinet.’ So I got one when I was 16, and that’s when I started music.

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Mephistopholes To Orgasm Revisited

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2024
Track listing: Mephistopheles; Parabola; Joseph; Straits Of Blagellan; Rapids; Outeroids; Orgasm.

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Celebration Volume 1

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Zero Gravity To The 15th Dimension; Smilin’ Through; Zero Gravity To The 11th Dimension; Zero Gravity To The 12th Dimension; Zero Gravity Unbound; Orbits; Edge Of The World (End Title); Zero Gravity To The 90th Dimension; Lotus; She Moves Through The Fair.

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Miles In France 1963 & 1964: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8

Label: Legacy Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Tracks: CD 1:. Introduction by Andre Francis; So What; All Blues; Stella By Starlight; Seven Steps To Heaven; Walkin’; My Funny Valentine; Joshua. CD 2: The Theme Closing announcement by Andre Francis; Introduction by Andre Francis; Autumn Leaves; Milestones; I Thought About You; Joshua. CD 3: All Of You; Walkin’; Bye Bye Blackbird; The Theme. CD 4: Introduction by Andre Francis; If I Were A Bell; So What; Stella By Starlight; Walkin’; The Theme. CD 5: Autumn Leaves; So What; Stella By Starlight; Walkin’; The Theme. CD 6: All Of You; Joshua; My Funny Valentine; No Blues; The Theme.

Article: Live Review

Kraków Jazz Week: Seifert Competition & Jazz Juniors

Read "Kraków Jazz Week: Seifert Competition & Jazz Juniors" reviewed by Martin Longley


Kraków Jazz Week Cricoteka/Hevre Kraków, Poland September 26th-October 3rd 2024 This was the second Kraków Jazz Week, but there is a much deeper history unearthed when studying the roots of this new event. Fundamentally, it involves the amalgamation of two long-running festivals: the Seifert Competition and Jazz ...

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Article: Album Review

Alain Bedard Auguste Quartet: Particules Sonores

Read "Particules Sonores" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The experience of bassist Alain Bedard's Partcules Sonores begins--for those who read liner notes--with a rumination on “sound waves that interact with every particle of matter they encounter. The energy created is transported and diffused, becoming sound particles." Hm. A bit cerebral for some tastes, perhaps. But then jazz guys are known to go ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Some Overlooked 2024 Releases

Read "Some Overlooked 2024 Releases" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Here are reviews of some of the many worthwhile jazz albums that came out in the latter half of 2024. Leslie Pintchik Prayer For What Remains Pintch Hard Records 2024 The latest album by pianist Leslie Pintchik has a gentle, swinging calm to it. She ...

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Article: Album Review

T. K. Blue: Planet Bluu

Read "Planet Bluu" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Is T.K. Blue the coolest name for a jazz artist? Only “Thelonious Monk" competes in the category. Blue (aka Talib Kibue) a New Yorker of Trinidad and Jamaican descent who boasts a wide-ranging career--involvements with saxophonist Sam Rivers and pianist Randy Weston (he plays on Weston's 1991, Verve Records masterpiece, The Spirits Of Our Ancestors)--showcases a ...

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Article: Year in Review

Mike Jurkovic's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

Read "Mike Jurkovic's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


It has been, to say the least, one hell of fright night year. But here is the music that stayed with me, through thick and thin, and all manner of human foible and political upheaval. Vijay IyerCompassion ECM Records Kris Davis


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