John Hilderbrand
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Top Contemporary Jazz Albums – October 31, 1998
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The top ten contemporary jazz recordings from Oct. 31, 1998!
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Chris Botti on recording today
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Chris Botti, touring right now, hasn’t put out a recording in six years and has a new deal with Blue Note Records. But he doesn’t appear to view it as a priority, stating that “the record business is over.” “Unless you’re bubblegum teen pop, it’s over. What’s the point? It’s a very tricky time right…
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Yellowjackets raising their voice?
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The new Yellowjackets recording, Raising Our Voice, supposedly is “subtly taking a resistant stand against the status quo of the cultural and political undercurrent of our times.” But I don’t even hear any subtle stand. No resistance, protest, or even a song title that indicating the current times other than maybe “Strange Times.” It’s the…
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Pat Metheny NEA Jazz Master and Acceptance Speech
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Metheny and Wayne Shorter – two men I always love listening to speak in addition to playing.
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Aretha Franklin has passed
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The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, passed away today at age 76. The cause of death was “advance pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type.” Indisputably a legend, she impacted many lives. Here’s what some jazzers had to say: From the time that Dinah Washington 1st told me that Aretha was the “next one” when she…