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Charles Lloyd At The Musical Instrument Museum
Saxophonist Charles Lloyd, who has continually reinvented his musical style since the late 1960s, delivered a deluge of sound and rhythm changes in a spell-binding concert that integrated avant-garde jazz with elements of Asian and Eastern European music.
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Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra At Mesa Arts Center
By PATRICIA MYERS Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra Mesa Arts Center Mesa, Arizona March 7, 2014The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, one of the best big bands in the nation for three decades, swung mightily all night long with strong section work and stylish solos arranged for specific members, per Duke Ellington and Count Basie. A brief post-intermission QA period from triumverate co-leaders bassist John […]
Continue ReadingJeff Hamilton At Phoenix Musicians Union
An Oscar Peterson Trio-like swingfest was delivered by Los Angeles-based drummerJeff Hamilton in a reunion with longtime Phoenix pianist Armand Boatman, for a scholarship benefit concert presented by the Phoenix Musicians Union as part of its Centennial celebration.
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The Jeff Hamilton Trio’s performance at Arizona Musicfest was aptly and enticingly billed as “Paragon of Groove,” and the combo delivered that groove from first note to last.
Continue ReadingTJI Ellington Big Band At Musical Instrument Museum
The Ellington Big Band of the Tucson Jazz Institute delivered an ambitious repertoire that ranged from Wynton Marsalis’s complex “The Tree of Freedom” to a Pat Metheny chart, with plenty of Ellingtonia in between.
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