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CHARLIE HUNTER TO RELEASE GENTLEMEN, I NEGLECTED TO INFORM YOU YOU WILL NOT BE GETTING PAID ON JANUARY 12, 2010 Charlie Hunter Charlie Hunter 's latest recording effort, Gentlemen, I Neglected To Inform You You Will Not Be Getting Paid , features the jaw-dropping guitarist alongside drummer Eric Kalb , and a new horn section including trombonist ...

With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, AAJ Managing Editor John Kelman wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.

With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, AAJ Managing Editor John Kelman wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.

Kenny Wheeler at the Vortex Jazz Club, review The veteran trumpeter's performance only sporadically took flight.

THE acclaimed Richard Iles/Tim France Quintet - boasting a trumpet and sax frontline - makes its first appearance in Waen this month for the first in a new series of jazz concerts.

One imagines that there must be literally thousands of sessions like this, live gigs by groups that only a small handful of people got to enjoy.

"THE sound of Norma Winstone, the groove of Flora Purim, the swing of Annie Ross and a dash of Anita O'Day." That was the glowing assessment by leading jazz singer Lee Gibson given to the Brigitte Beraha Trio, who perform at The Wynd in Melrose on Saturday, August 29.

Pete McCann may be a kind of a guitar superman, considering his work with bands led by Patti Austin , Lee Konitz , Kenny Wheeler , Dave Liebman , Kenny Garrett , Peter Erskine , Gary Thomas , Greg Osby , Brian Blade and Maria Schneider .

Pete McCann may be a kind of a guitar superman, considering his work with bands led by Patti Austin , Lee Konitz , Kenny Wheeler , Dave Liebman , Kenny Garrett , Peter Erskine , Gary Thomas , Greg Osby , Brian Blade and Maria Schneider .

CHARLES LLOYD QUARTET: Fish Out Of Water Charles Lloyd, tenor sax, flute; Bobo Stenson, piano; Palle Danielsson, bass; Jon Christensen, drums ECM 1398 .