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Kidd Jordan, Dave Burrell, Hamiet Bluiett, Maynard Chatters, Billy Bang, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Joel Futterman, Elvin Fielder, Gerald Cleaver, Fred Anderson 13th Annual Vision Festival Clemente Soto Velez ...

Any album combining '60s hits like "Ode to Billie Joe" and "Respect" with Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman" deserves more than a passing glance.

Fans of avant-garde free jazz will find a new collection of recordings to sift through with a new handful of ESP-DISK re-releases. With typewriter fonts and vivid graphics, the digipak albums are a handheld ...

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Musicians Ornette Coleman and Natalie Cole present the award for "Best New Artist." Grammy-winning singer Natalie Cole has been diagnosed with hepatitis C, her publicist said in a statement Wednesday.

In July of 1961, the bass genius Scott LaFaro , perished in a fiery car crash after visiting family and friends in upstate NY, just ten days after doing the last gigs he would ever do with the great Bill ...

Don Cherry was an enigma. In the early days of his career the trumpeter was part of the scene that took jazz through several changes.

Kidd Jordan felt something stir deep down inside. He just had to let it out. That's the way the tenor saxophonist explained it during a Vision Festival pre-concert discussion when poet Kalamu ya Salaam asked, ...

BassPlayer.com >> This Month >> Jamaaladeen Tacuma Introduces Thelonious Monk's Music To A By Anil Prasad June, 2008 One never knows what to expect from a new Jamaaladeen Tacuma album.

Track The Rumpus Artist/Band Cosmologic Duration 4:47 Album Eyes in the Back of My Head Record Label Cuneiform Description Cosmologic was founded as a collective quartet in 1999, and still consists of the ...

Track Under the Skin Artist/Band Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Duration 3:00 Album Forked Tongue Record Label Cuneiform Description Formed in 1990, Revolutionary Snake Ensemble is an experimental brass band with ...

The explosion of interest in so-called alternative music that began in the early '90s has largely neglected perhaps the most alternative of all musical genres; experimental or "new" music.

Ornette Coleman and his quartet were the headline act that closed the exceptionally successful 25th Annual Discover Jazz Festival, playing to an almost full house at the Flynn Theatre in downtown Burlington on ...

The many-sided figure defined by the intersecting lines among saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman is the space that tenor saxophonist Odean Pope inhabits and expands ...

Even in a form of music as decidedly left-of-center as "free jazz," a canon of musicians and works has been built.

Ornette Coleman :: 06.07.08 :: Flynn Theater :: Burlington, VT Ornette Coleman In most cases, the debate over a given artist's "genius" is generally moot - relative, as it were, to the way a listener fits the ...

The Free Press chatted with a few local musicians about jazz. We share their words.

Freddie Hubbard is part of the most concentrated group of trumpet talents in jazz history, born on Apr.

The transition from promising talent to well-established artist isn't always easy and some musicians seem doomed to be placed in the eternal category of "interesting new voice." Clearly that is not the case ...

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