admin on July 8th, 2010

In this corner!
The Middleweight Champion of the Tenor Saxophone!
Hank Mobley!

This is how British born Jazz journalist Leonard Feather, famously described the artistry of Hank Mobley. Many take this as Mobley being a mediocre musician, when in all actuality the complete opposite is true. What Feather meant by this famous quotation is where Mobley’s bop style [...]

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admin on May 4th, 2009

WUSF Television had an awesome special on the other day I believe it was coverage of the Rochestor International Jazz Festival. Of course with my luck I only caught about the last fifteen minutes of it. I was able to catch Slide Hampton, who I have seen before….Live… none the less, he is a living [...]

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admin on October 26th, 2008

Every fall I begin school. Every fall baseball season is in a crescendo to the end, Football season is getting under way, College Football season is beginning as well, and the English Premier League Soccer season is in action. Not to mention the Olympics this past summer and the Euefa Championship.  This sounds like heaven [...]

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