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Sep 20, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
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Jazz Observer in Recovery Mode
The Jazz Observer website was down for a few hours on September 18 due to a database catastrophe. All posts have been restored, but many are still missing their images. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your support.Sep 18, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
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Live from MJF/54
The Jazz Observer is back, and what better way to relaunch than with a trip to Monterey? It's time for the 54th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, and once again I'll be on the scene with live reports throughout the weekend.Sep 16, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
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2011 Monterey Jazz Festival
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Monterey 2011: Final Thoughts
The 54th annual Monterey Jazz Festival has come and gone, one more weekend of music and merriment to file in the list of fond jazz memories, but with a few desperate hours in the middle your friendly neighborhood Jazz Observer would just as soon forget. Luckily Sunday’s website outage had only a limited impact on [...]
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Monterey 2011: Sonny Rollins
There’s a crazy rumor going around that Sonny Rollins just turned 81 years old. Impossible. Can’t be. When he blows into that tenor sax, time becomes simply irrelevant.
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Photos from the 2011 Monterey Jazz Festival, Day 3
A collection of shots from the final day of the 54th annual Monterey Jazz Festival
Sep 19, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
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Monterey 2011: Steve Coleman and Five Elements
Saxophonist Steve Coleman and his adventurous quartet bridge the cerebral and the physical, challenging the mind with new ideas but still speaking to the essential connection between music and movement.
Sep 18, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
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Monterey 2011: Tia Fuller Quartet
Saxophonist Tia Fuller first came to Monterey playing in a student ensemble. But her powerhouse performance at the head of her own band is more like a master class.
Sep 18, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
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Other Recent Articles
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Monterey 2011: Sunday Afternoon Impressions
Sunday, 5:00 p.m. — The Fairgrounds The database disaster which took the Jazz Observer website offline for nearly five hours today kept me away from the Monterey Jazz Festival until deep into the afternoon, but I managed to gather a few quick impressions before the early shows ended… It’s a good vibe here today, as [...]
Sep 18, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
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Sep 18, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
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Monterey 2011: James Farm
The supergroup of Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Matt Penman and Eric Harland needs a few tunes to hit its stride, but then its all out to close Monterey’s second night.
Sep 18, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
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Monterey 2011: Bill Carrothers Trio
Saturday, 9:30 p.m. — Coffee House Gallery Two sides of the Bill Carrothers Trio are on display in the second of three sets in Monterey’s smallest, darkest room. On one hand there are heavy, high-powered blasts that pound the floors as if trying to drill through to bedrock. But in between these monoliths drift lighter, [...]
Sep 17, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
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Monterey 2011: Geri Allen and Timeline
Saturday, 8:00 p.m. — The Arena Tap dance is far from a lost art, but it’s fair to say it’s become a somewhat arcane one, and downright underground where modern jazz is concerned. So it’s refreshing to hear an artist like pianist Geri Allen embrace tap percussion in her Timeline quartet, adding dancer Maurice Chestnut [...]
Sep 17, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
