LATEST JAZZ NEWS • REVIEW: Sanchez Quartet delivers jazz with pleasant tenor • Houston Person: The Wizard of Jazz A Tribute to Harold Arlen,... • Memorial Hall features tribute to Duke Ellington • South Africa: 'Jazzing-up' Frontier Country • Jazz • Brent Parkin entertains the lunch-hour crowd at the newly re-landscaped Old Market Square. • Essence, artists remember Michael Jackson • Jazz fest fans were treated to the voice and expressive faces of Dee Dee Bridgewater Thursday night. • The Latin Jazz Corner Album of the Week: Jazzambia, Paoli Mejias • Prince to close this year's Montreaux Jazz Festival

JAZZ ARTICLES • The Taj Mahal Trio at Higher Ground • Esperanza Spalding Live at Central Park Summerstage • July 2009 • Reggie Nicholson: Timbre Suite and Surreal Feel • Michael Bisio Five Bass Hit: Live at Vision Fest. XII; By Any Other Name; Collar City Creatology; Colored Houses; Sideways • Houston Person: The Wizard of Jazz A Tribute to Harold Arlen, Well,Alright! Nancy Kelly Live, A Song For You • Bending the Mainstream: Harry Allen, Nicki Parrott and Eddie Metz Jr. • Piano and Bass: Now Was the Time/Blues for Zarathustra • Ted Daniel: Tapestry and The Loft Years • Bill Henderson

JAZZ CD REVIEWS • By Request: The Best of Karrin Allyson - Concord Jazz • Scotty Barnhart - Say It Plain - DIG • Joey Peró - “Resonance” - self-published • Bill Evans Trio – Turn Out the Stars – The Final Village Vanguard Recordings, June 1980 – Nonesuch (6 CDs) • Bobby Broom Trio – Bobby Plays for Monk – Origin Records • Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Steve Swallow, and Antonio Sanchez - Quartet Live - Concord Jazz • Pat Metheny, baritone guitar - One Quiet Night - Metheny Group Productions/Nonesuch • The 1956 Red Garland Trio - Essential Jazz Classics Art Tatum & Ben Webster - The Album (1956) - Essential Jazz Classics • Kobie Watkins – Involved – Origin Records • Jim Rotondi – Blues for Brother Ray – Posi-Tone

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