Month: September 2016

Atlantis Quartet Celebrates Tenth Anniversary With Digital Anthology, Shows at Vieux Carré September 15-16

Andrea Canter10062

Few jazz bands can claim ten years of nonstop collaboration, but then the Atlantis Quartet is no ordinary jazz band. Together since 2006 with only one (early) personnel change, Atlantis has moved from its humble beginnings as a quartet of unknowns through four recordings, a McKnight Fellowship, and a decade of accolades from local media […]

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Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau, “Nearness” (Nonesuch, 2016)

Kevin O'Connor9628

  More than twenty years ago, Duke DuBois, the legendary promotional lion for Verve and GRP records, would service gleeful public radio programmers like myself with scads of beautifully packaged reissues from the aforementioned labels. He would also send along delicacies from the vaults of Decca, EMarcy, Norgran and Veejay records. Unabashed salivation ensued. Free […]

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