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Inside out

Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club, Lee Konitz + Minsarah, and Steve Swallow recanting
Charlie Kohlhase's love affair with jazz began with the avant-garde. As a high-school kid in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he found that it was Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago who rocked his world.
By JON GARELICK  |  July 06, 2009
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Various artists | Spiritual Jazz: Esoteric, Modal, and Deep Jazz from the Underground, 1968-1977

Jazzman (2009)
Apple-pie Mormon missionaries the Millers travel through Iran to spread the gospel of Joseph Smith among Muslims and Zoroastrians, and their kid discovers the glorious sound of the santur.
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  April 21, 2009
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Avanti!

Garrison's Fewell's journey out
By the time guitarist Garrison Fewell made his first record as a leader, in the early '90s, he was nearly 40 years old, and the sound he displayed on his debut, A Blue Deeper Than Blue , was ripe.
By JON GARELICK  |  February 06, 2009

Year in Jazz: Playing for keeps



By JON GARELICK  |  December 22, 2008
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Medicine men

Two Boston poets use their art for the good of the tribe
What if a poem had the power to heal loneliness?
By JAMES PARKER  |  November 28, 2008
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Good fellows

Brian Blade and company help blaze jazz’s newest path
The jazz tide is shifting once again.  
By JON GARELICK  |  October 20, 2008
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Getting it live

Noah Preminger, Fernando Huergo, the John Coltrane Memorial Concert, and the BeanTown Jazz Festival
Noah Preminger — bearded, shaggy-haired, 23 years old — plays tenor saxophone like a man at least twice his age while remaining completely of the moment.
By JON GARELICK  |  September 23, 2008
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Remembering a Rhode Island icon

Jefferson Thomas was in the vanguard of the Providence underground
There was never anyone remotely like Jeff Thomas.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  July 30, 2008
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Mining the past

The classic sounds of the Mars Volta and Louis XIV
John Coltrane acid blasts rage through the Mars Volta’s new The Bedlam in Goliath.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  February 12, 2008
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Personal code

Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-jazz connection
The connection between jazz and India is at least as old as John Coltrane’s composition named for that country.
By JON GARELICK  |  February 12, 2008
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The long view

Bob Blumenthal’s history of jazz
Bob Blumenthal’s first book is out, and the wonder is that we didn’t get it sooner.
By JON GARELICK  |  January 29, 2008
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Peace meal

His Name Is Alive are alive and well
Open-eared rockers often pay lip service to outré jazz figures, but this HNIA exploration is deeper and more selfless than the usual soundboy dabbling.
By FRANKLIN BRUNO  |  January 14, 2008
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An old lion roars

McCoy Tyner at the Regattabar, December 27, 2007
In recent years, McCoy Tyner has looked frail for his age — once robust and round-faced, he now appears gaunt.
By JON GARELICK  |  December 31, 2007
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Listen up

Providence national pop + jazz picks: 2007 in review
It’s the first year a long time where I truly felt like I didn’t listen to enough music.
By JIM MACNIE  |  December 18, 2007

Sweet reads

Books: 2007 in review
Here, listed alphabetically by author, are 10 of the best works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry the Phoenix wrote about in 2007.
By JON GARELICK  |  December 17, 2007
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In action

The ‘Jazz Icons’ DVDs
In the era of YouTube, we’re apt to forget that not every note of music ever played has been captured on film or video.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  November 26, 2007
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Voice choices

Stacey Kent and Julie Hardy find two different ways to make singing swing
Julie Hardy and Stacey Kent come at jazz singing from opposite ends of the spectrum.
By JON GARELICK  |  November 19, 2007
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Seven layers of heaven

John Coltrane Memorial Concert, Blackman Theatre, September 22, 2007
Working on the fly, the organizers created an odd layer cake.
By JON GARELICK  |  September 24, 2007
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Trane, Joyce Dee Dee, Sco, and more

A jam-packed season of jazz
The official kickoff to the season begins with the week of activities celebrating the 30th anniversary of the John Coltrane Memorial Concert.
By JON GARELICK  |  September 12, 2007
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Holy spirit of the saxophone

The John Coltrane Memorial Concert and Ben Ratliff’s Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
John Coltrane died 40 years ago this past July at the age of 40 of liver cancer.
By JON GARELICK  |  September 12, 2007
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Son of a beach

Leave it to state minions to spoil a perfect summer day
The beach at Casa Diablo is closed.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  July 11, 2007
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David Torn

Prezens | ECM
If you’re looking for a middle ground between Tool and John Coltrane, this is it.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  June 19, 2007
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I think I have the vapors

Dennis Brennan CD release bash, Lizard Lounge, May 19, 2007
Listen and learn, people.
By JON GARELICK  |  May 23, 2007
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Fathers and son

Joshua Redman goes East
It must be daunting to have Joshua Redman’s talent.
By JON GARELICK  |  May 01, 2007
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Rhyme schemes

Some 'Poetry Month' bon-bons
In honor of poetry month, these books have been plucked from the torrent.
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  April 10, 2007
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Discovering Dilla

A posthumous look at a hip-hop great
As with so many other figures in pop music, death has been good to hip-hop producer and MC J Dilla.
By RICHARD BECK  |  April 09, 2007
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Road shows

Dave Fiuczynski, John Tchicai, Chris Potter, and John Stetch live
“I’ve got $30 — which three CDs do you recommend?” The fan was at the corner of the stage at Johnny D’s talking to guitarist Dave Fiuczynski, who was on his knees hawking about half a dozen of his discs with different bands at 10 bucks a pop.
By JON GARELICK  |  February 15, 2007
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Permanent shuffle

Box sets and jazz history
Every year the box sets reshuffle jazz history.
By JON GARELICK  |  December 12, 2006
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Looking back

Everett celebrates 20 years of excellence
At the end of a jam-packed 20th anniversary year, Everett Dance Theatre is at the Carriage House Stage — and it should not be missed.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ  |  October 31, 2006
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Midwestern master

Roscoe Mitchell brings the word from Chicago
I was going to say Roscoe Mitchell laughs like Mutley. But that’s not it exactly.
By JON GARELICK  |  October 17, 2006

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