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Roy Hargrove Quintet + Pharoah Sanders @ Yoshi’s
Roy Hargrove and Pharoah Sanders... at first glance it might have looked like a misprint. But it was true. Kicking off a two-week residency that Yoshi's hopes to make an annual tradition, Hargrove's quintet was booked at the club's San Francisco stage for four nights with saxophonist Sanders as a special guest star. But would this unlikely pairing of divergent musical personalities work? [more] »
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Short takes on recent releases by Wayne Escoffery (Uptown), Von Freeman (Vonski Speaks), Komeda Project (Requiem), Donny McCaslin (Declaration) and James Weidman (Three Worlds). [more] »
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- Enjoying the heck out of @MitchMarcus' "Countdown 2 Meltdown," a steamroller of a CD out next week on Porto Franco Records.
- My playlist from today's installment of "No Cover, No Minimum" on KZSU-FM: http://bit.ly/bzf719
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- Revisionist history: Donny McCaslin & Dana Hall's recent CDs belonged on my Best of 2009 list. And Miguel Zenón should've been higher.
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