THE INDEPENDENT JOURNAL OF CREATIVE IMPROVISED MUSIC George Benson Charlie Haden Dave Holland William Hooker Jane Monheit Steve Swallow CD Reviews International jazz news jazz stories Volume 39 Number 4 Oct Nov Dec 2013 More than 50 concerts in venues all around Seattle Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, & Jack DeJohnette • Brad Mehldau Charles Lloyd Group w/ Bill Frisell • Dave Douglas Quintet • The Bad Plus Philip Glass • Ken Vandermark • Paal Nilssen-Love • Nicole Mitchell Bill Frisell’s Big Sur Quintet • Wayne Horvitz • Mat Maneri SFJAZZ Collective • John Medeski • Paul Kikuchi • McTuff Cuong Vu • B’shnorkestra • Beth Fleenor Workshop Ensemble Peter Brötzmann • Industrial Revelation and many more... October 1 - November 17, 2013 Buy tickets now at www.earshot.org 206-547-6763 Charles Lloyd photo by Dorothy Darr “Leslie Lewis is all a good jazz singer should be. Her beautiful tone and classy phrasing evoke the sound of the classic jazz singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah aughan.V Leslie Lewis’ vocals are complimented perfectly by her husband, Gerard Hagen ...” JAZZ TIMES MAGAZINE “...the background she brings contains some solid Jazz credentials; among the people she has worked with are the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, members of the Ellington Orchestra, John Bunch, Britt Woodman, Joe Wilder, Norris Turney, Harry Allen, and Patrice Rushen. Lewis comes across as a mature artist.” CADENCE MAGAZINE “Leslie Lewis & Gerard Hagen in New York” is the latest recording by jazz vocalist Leslie Lewis and her husband pianist Gerard Hagen. While they were in New York to perform at the Lehman College Jazz Festival the opportunity to record presented itself. “Leslie Lewis & Gerard Hagen in New York” featuring their vocal/piano duo is the result those sessions. www.surfcovejazz.com Release date August 10, 2013. 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The brilliant bassist Bill ‘Blue Monk’ (including a brief chordal Coleman – a favourite for jazz guitarists over Coltrane” SLAMCD 290 homage to Eps)and ‘Cantaloupe Island (with many years as well as a soloist of metoric its Wesleyan echoes) are both textbook speed and lithe melodic gifts - is similarly examples of how to play blues-based music just as capable of working with Kenny Ball’s on what Eps called the ‘lap-piano’ without Jazzmen as Peter King’s Quartet and does Dunmall/Bianco, the falling into the thoughtless and profligate both.