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<title>Bill Henderson</title>
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<description><![CDATA[To quote Bill Henderson: "The one constant in my life has been singing." So, it is not surprising that in his 83rd year he is still recording and performing live. Born in Chicago, Henderson made his show business debut as a singer and dancer at the age of four, winning in Phil Baker's Artist and Models amateur show. He did a two-year stint in the Army, serving in Europe with a Special Services orchestra and sharing vocal duties with {{Vic Damone = 6070}}. Returning to Chicago's musically rich South Side as a civilian, Henderson obtained a steady gig at a club called Stelzer Lounge, performing with the then little-known Ramsey Lewis Trio...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Marcia Hillman</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-07-03T00:05:16-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Ornette Coleman's Reflections on "This Is Our Music"</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ornette Coleman Royal Festival Hall London June 21, 2009 

 Like the equally successful All Tomorrow's Parties festivals, London's Meltdown--now in its 16th year--leaves the artist selection process in the hands of a guest curator. Though past candidates have included such phenomenally original artists as Massive Attack and David Bowie, asking Ornette Coleman to oversee the 2009 event must still qualify as one of the festival's braver choices. And the line-up was appropriately impressive, from the broadly predictable ({{Charlie Haden = 7320}}, James Blood Ulmer, Acoustic Ladyland, {{Marc Ribot = 10665}}, Keiran Hebden and Steve Reid, Yoko Ono, {{The Bad Plus = 13857}}) to such relative surprises as The Roots, Patti Smith, Yo La Tengo, Mike Patton, Robert Wyatt and, in Ornette's one apparent lapse of judgment, Moby...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Marcus O'Dair</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-07-03T00:05:14-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Roberta Gambarini at Dazzle's, Denver</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Roberta Gambarini Dazzle Nightclub Denver, Colorado June 19, 2009

The really great ones make it sound easy: like walking down the street, nothing to it. That applies to instrumentalists as well as singers. Vocalist {{Roberta Gambarini = 13725}} unequivocally falls into that category. Friday night at Dazzle, Gambarini showed why she's garnering increased attention in the jazz world and why many people are placing her in the very top rankings of female jazz vocalists...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Geoff Anderson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-07-03T00:05:10-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>TD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival -- Ottawa Jazz Festival 2009: Days 4-6, June 28-30, 2009</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 

Amina Claudine Myers / Gary Burton Quartet Revisited John Roney Silverbirch Project / Julian Lage / Enrico Rava-Stefano Bollani Duo Andy Milne/Benoit Delbecq Crystal Magnets / Sylvain Kassap Quartet TD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 25-27, 2009...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>John Kelman</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-07-02T00:05:18-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Ralph Bowen: Dedicated</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ralph BowenDedicated Posi-Tone Records 2009 

 Tenor saxophonist Ralph Bowen's Dedicated is a project that was nurtured and produced by Posi-tone Records' founder Marc Free, who felt that Bowen was under-appreciated by the jazz public at large. Bowen has influenced hundreds of players through his teaching position at Rutgers, and many top jazz players know how skilled he is. Having heard him live several times, Free has long admired Bowen's sound and technical ability on his horn, and wanted people to really hear how good he was...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Blaine Fallis</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-07-02T00:05:14-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Andy Milne and Benoit Delbecq: Where Is Pannonica?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Andy Milne and Benoit Delbecq Where Is Pannonica? Songlines Recordings 2009 

 Welcome to the third dimension. The product of their 2008 winter residency at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, Where Is Pannonica? seals the longstanding, twinlike affinity between pianists {{Andy Milne = 9417}} and {{Benoit Delbecq = 6209}} in one truly astonishing soundscape. And although Nantes puts itself forward as an answer to the title's inquiry, it's possible the question is instead concerned with identifying all manifestations of the late jazz loving baroness' influence--as one would with a certain Waldo--hiding in this musical shivaree. Sure there are plenty of clusters, oblique intervals and other quirks associated with the baroness' friend, pianist {{Thelonious Monk = 9507}}, but clear evidence of the bebop patron's whereabouts remain illusive. The search continues...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Martin Gladu</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-07-02T00:05:10-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Candid Records/Why Not -- Chico Freeman, Air, Walt Dickerson, George Cables: Buried Treasures Now On CD</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Not to be confused with the Swedish trance and electronica label of the same name, the original Why Not label was an adventurous affair run by the Japanese businessman and jazz fan Masahiko Yuh for a brief but productive spell in the 1970s. With few contacts, but armed with an outstanding pair of ears, a cheque book and a heap of enthusiasm, Yuh travelled to the US in 1975 to record emergent or neglected musicians in Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Why Not existed for a short while on the margins of the business before succumbing to economics, and for 30 years its modest but classy catalogue has languished with it. Of this first quartet of 2009 re-releases--from reed player {{Chico Freeman = 6839}}, co-operative trio Air, vibraphonist {{Walt Dickerson = 6272}} and pianist {{George Cables = 3813}}--only Air's Air Song, previously re-released on India Navigation, has been issued before on CD...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Chris May</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-07-01T00:05:18-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Jack Nimitz: Baritone-in-Chief</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Baritone saxophonist {{Jack Nimitz = 12646}} died June 10, 2009 at his home in Studio City, California. He was 79 years old. That's hardly headline news except to a relative handful of jazz enthusiasts who were privileged to hear and appreciate his consummate artistry over the span of more than half a century when Nimitz was at the top of his game...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Jack Bowers</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-07-01T00:05:14-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>3 Cohens at Village Vanguard</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Anat, Uval and Avishai Cohen The Village Vanguard New York, New York June 23, 2009

If jazz is an attitude, then the Cohen family has it in spades. That much was evident from the moment Anat, Yuval and Avishai took the hallowed Village Vanguard stage on a sweaty Tuesday night. In a set whose moods ran the gamut from joyous to melancholy, with a bit of humor thrown in for good measure, there was nary a complacent moment as both the compositional and improvisational acumen of these great musicians was on full display...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>David Miller</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-07-01T00:05:10-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Kermit Ruffins: Swingin' and Smilin'</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There's a rebirth occurring in New Orleans music, and trumpeter/vocalist Kermit Ruffins finds himself front and center. While the post-Katrina recovery has meant many things for the Crescent City, in a number of ways it's been musicians who have taken the lead in bringing the city back to its traditions. Prior to the storm, many musicians and fans of the traditional New Orleans sound spoke despairingly about the musical future for the city that many considered to be the place where jazz got its start. Musicians found it increasingly difficult to sustain a career in their chosen field, and many abandoned their beloved home for apparently better opportunities...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tod Smith</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-06-30T00:05:20-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Steve Kuhn Trio w/ Joe Lovano -- Steve Kuhn Trio with Joe Lovano: Mostly Coltrane</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Steve Kuhn Trio w/ Joe Lovano Mostly Coltrane ECM Records 2009 

Although he's spent most of his career focusing on interpreting the music of others, pianist Steve Kuhn's albums for the ECM label have largely been about his small but significant repertoire of original music. Which makes Mostly Coltrane a real anomaly by comparison to earlier works like those reissued in the three-CD box set Life's Backward Glances - Solo and Quartet (ECM, 2009). Still, Kuhn has a perhaps little-known connection that makes this set of, well, mostly material either composed or covered by {{John Coltrane = 5851}} a stronger fit than might be expected. Kuhn gigged briefly with the iconic saxophonist in the early months of 1960, a transitional time for Coltrane. But instead of focusing on the repertoire Kuhn played with him, the pianist addresses a bigger picture, ranging from the more mainstream standards Coltrane was performing at the time of Kuhn's employment to the extreme experimentation so definitive of the saxophonist's later years, prior to his untimely death in 1967 at the age of 40...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>John Kelman</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-06-30T00:05:14-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Live From New York: Booker T. Jones, Abdullah Ibrahim, Neil Cowley, Nils Petter Molvaer, Arve Henriksen and Dave Douglas</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Booker T. Jones Joe's Pub June 10, 2009

Booker T. Jones, as in Booker T. and The MGs. The quite intimate Joe's Pub is sold out, not surprisingly. This Hammond B3 organ grinder is here to push his new solo disc, Potato Hole. The album features Memphis man Jones working with The Drive-By Truckers and Neil Young, exploring his rockier, bluesier potential. Jones certainly isn't favoring the slinky soul-cruising so beloved of the MGs. He cuts a sprightly, youthful figure, seated at his old wooden-paneled keyboard, Leslie speaker whirling at his side. Most of the set concentrates on the new self-penned material, but there are still some strategically-placed old classics included from the MGs repertoire. Not least the 1962 hit "Green Onions," which arrives surprisingly early in the running order. Jones also drops in "Hip Hug-Her" and "Time Is Tight". With these oldies, it's as if time has reversed by four or five decades, recalling the distinctive MGs sound...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Martin Longley</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-06-30T00:05:12-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Take Five With Larry Slezak</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Meet Larry Slezak: Larry Slezak is one of Houston's great jazz saxophonists. But outside of well-known jazz venues in the southwest, he has seldom been heard on record. His debut release, No Worries treats listeners from Houston and beyond to Slezak's versatility, expressive ideas, energy and mastery of the saxophone...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>AAJ Staff</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-06-30T00:05:08-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Chris Potter: Way Above Ground with Underground</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Saxophonist Chris Potter, at age 38, has long been fast-tracked to the head of his class to become regarded as one of the strongest players on the scene. It doesn't seem that long ago that he was first making waves on recordings, and then became part of the superb {{Dave Holland = 7683}} quintet, where his strengths were put on display all over the globe...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>R.J. DeLuke</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-06-29T00:05:16-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>TD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival -- Ottawa Jazz Festival 2009: Days 1-3, June 25-27, 2009</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 

John Stetch TV Trio / Dave Douglas Brass Ecstasy / Roberta Gambarini Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio / Jimmy Cobb's So What Band; S.M.V. The Botos Brother / Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue / Al Green TD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 25-27, 2009...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>John Kelman</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-06-29T00:05:14-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Michael Jackson -- Remembering Michael: Help Me Sing It</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Lift your head up high / And scream out to the world I know I am someone / And let the truth unfurl Ain't no one can hurt you now / Because you know what's true Yes, I believe in me / So you believe in you Help me sing it..."

Just like I remember where I stood in 1977 when news of Elvis' death ripped across televisions everywhere, most of us will remember where and how we learned of the death of Michael Jackson, "The King of Pop...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Chris M. Slawecki</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-06-29T00:05:10-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Guillheirme Montero -- Guilherme Monteiro Quartet at Jazz Gallery</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Guilherme Monteiro Quartet The Jazz Gallery New York, New York June 20, 2009

Guilherme Monteiro took the stage at the Jazz Gallery with his quartet on a subdued Saturday night in June as part of the Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records (BJUR) festival. Monteiro was playing in support of his debut album, Air, recently released on BJUR. By show time, it had been raining off and on for the better part of three straight days, and walking the streets of New York, it was obvious that much of the energy had been sapped from the city that never sleeps. Monteiro and co. responded with a set made up primarily of ballads, choosing to stay with the mood rather than manufacturing a forced energy...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>David Miller</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-06-28T00:05:26-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Steve Tjernagel -- Reinventing Myself: My Journey Back to Music</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As a child I imagined myself playing guitar. I didn't actually have a guitar, but a tennis racket sort of looked like one and that was enough.

When I did finally get my hands on a guitar for the first time, I figured out that, using only the open strings (luckily it was tuned), I could play most of "Taps." So, with a slight tuning adjustment from someone older and wiser, I gave my first concert to a group of my six- to eight-year-old peers. It wasn't until I was fifteen years old that I actually bought my first guitar and started lessons...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Steven Tjernagel</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-06-28T00:05:22-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Myra Melford: Under The Water (Piano Solo and Duo), Continuation and My Fingers Will Be Your Tears</title>
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<description><![CDATA[{{Satoko Fujii = 6868}} / Myra Melford Under the Water Libra 2009 {{Alex Cline = 2908}} Continuation Cryptogramophone 2009 {{Andrew Drury = 1033}} My Fingers Will Be Your Tears Cadence Jazz Records 2009 

As {{Myra Melford = 9316}} continues to challenge herself with new ensembles and approaches to composing, the opportunities to hear her as a 'session player' grow rarer. And in fact, the pianist has spent most of her career as a leader, so these new discs offer an uncommon glimpse into Melford as improviser and group member...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Kurt Gottschalk</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-06-28T00:05:16-06:00</dc:date>
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<title>Paul Motian: Zen Brushstrokes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Larry Gelb America Is Free ImaginMusic 2008 George Garzone Among Friends Stunt Records 2009 Michael Adkins Quartet Rotator Hat Hut 2008 Ed Schuller and the Reunion Trio Serendipity: Live at A-Trane, Berlin Tutu Records 2009 

Drummer {{Paul Motian = 9653}}, a septua- (going on octo-) genarian and 50-plus-year veteran of the New York jazz scene, continues to sound 'young.' On four recent releases, Motian maintains his stature as a paragon of empathetic and highly interactive accompaniment, one who says more with less...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Tom Greenland</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-06-28T00:05:12-06:00</dc:date>
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