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Jeff Ballard Trio Feels the Beat at Montreal Jazz Festival
Drummer Jeff Ballard’s trio delivered a program that was one of the many highlights at the 35th edition of the Montreal Jazz Festival, which ran June 26–July 5. Late-
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REVIEWS ★ EDITORS’ PICKS JULY 2014
Archives ★ CLassic interviews
Horace Silver: In Pursuit
Horace Silver remembers a time years ago in a Boston hotel room when he wrote out the idea for a new tune on a cardboard bath mat. He doesn’t have to do that today, of course; the creative process has been augmented by the miniature tape recorder tha
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Tony Williams: Two Decades of Drum Innovation
Tony Williams erupted onto the jazz scene in 1963 as a 17-year-old prodigy with a full-blown, volcanic style of drumming that would blow hard-bop tastiness out the door. Williams’ arrival was hailed with a great deal of fanfare. The week he came with
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Freddy Cole: Melody Man
Freddy Cole is a singer and a pianist. Outside of a couple of showpieces he was compelled to compose by way of acknowledging and freeing himself from the looming presence of his famous brother, Nat Cole (“I’m Not My Brother, I’m Me” and “He Was The K
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Benny Goodman: From the Inside
About 27 years have gone by since they danced in the aisles to the music of Benny Goodman and his band at the Paramount Theater in New York City. In April 1937, the New Yorker ran a profile on “one Benny Goodman.” The writer commented in wonderment o
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