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Guitarist Mike Moreno Is Focusing on the Music

Part of jazz's next wave, guitarist Mike Moreno has already amassed a significant résumé recording with other emerging artists, including pianist Aaron Parks (whose 'Invisible Cinema' (Blue Note, 2008) was widely acclaimed as one of last year's best releases), saxophonist John Ellis, trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and drummer Kendrick Scott. ...

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Gary Burton Is Forging Ahead With the Good Vibes

Since emerging in the 1960s, Gary Burton has quickly become one of the primary litmus tests for four-mallet vibraphonists in jazz. From his early days with Larry Coryell through to his groundbreaking ECM albums featuring a young legend-in-the-making, guitarist Pat Metheny, Burton changed the way that the vibraphone could be used, with music that ...

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Hassell, Vandermark and Argue: Three Distinct Voices in the Jazz Family

Modern jazz cuts a wide stylistic swath, making the music difficult to categorize or define. Today's composers, such as Jon Hassell, Ken Vandermark and Darcy James Argue, are considered leaders and innovators -- all brilliant men with vision whose music may sound vastly different but whose wellspring of creative ideas are undoubtedly drawn from the ...

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Jazz Icons Are Still 'Among Us'

Our friends at AllAboutJazz.com keep you hip to what's happening in the world of jazz and improvised music with featured interviews, free downloads and spotlights on important releases. Expand your musical horizons with weekly dispatches courtesy of AAJ. Jazz has a rich legacy dating back to the turn of the 20th century, but the music is ...

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