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<description><![CDATA[George Garzone is one of the unsung heroes of the saxophone, who is known for playing fast and hard. Anyone who has heard his legendary group, The Fringe, whether live or on record, can testify to his ability to blow any competition off the stand, but there is also a softer side to his playing and it is this other aspect of Garzone's art that comes into full fruition on Among Friends, which finds him exploring the mood and aesthetic of the ballad...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Jakob Baekgaard</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-11-21T00:05:16-07:00</dc:date>
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<description><![CDATA[Charles Tyler Ensemble possesses a profound quality. Unlike many records of the mid-1960s, it burns with a quiet blue flame, eschewing the intellectual posturing that characterized much new music in the avant-garde era. Tyler, a baritone saxophonist who became an acolyte of {{Albert Ayler = 3538}}--following him to New York in the early part of the movement--transposes Ayler's famous gravitas to the horn of a higher register, the alto...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Raul d'Gama Rose</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[It's only right that the whole membership of this quartet gets equal billing, as this is a group that sublimates the individual in the interest of collective identity. Given the instrumental line-up--two horns, bass and drums--there are, of course, countless precedents for music in this form. The group proves itself to be abundantly aware of them, but the degree to which it transcends them is ultimately a matter for debate...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Nic Jones</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-11-21T00:05:09-07:00</dc:date>
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<description><![CDATA[It's a tough time to be a singer. With an excessive plethora of vocalists mining the Great American Songbook ad nauseum, or trying their hands at songwriting with less than distinctive results, it's harder than ever to be heard. Even once-innovative singers like {{Cassandra Wilson = 11433}}--now a Grammy Award-winning "star"--have deserted experimentation, resting instead on their not inconsiderable laurels in pursuit of consistent record sales, but losing the edge that got them where they are in the first place...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>John Kelman</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-11-21T00:05:05-07:00</dc:date>
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<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you don't need more than a sax and a drum set. Tenor saxophonist Jon Irabagon--winner of the 2008 Thelonious Monk Saxophone Competition and a potent and articulate front man of the post-modern be-bop quartet Mostly Others Do The Killing--and versatile drummer {{Mike Pride = 14952}}--a collaborator of {{Anthony Braxton = 5267}} and punk outfits such as Millions of Dead Cops--prove this point on their first recorded duet. It is a powerful and dynamic exhibition of flowing improvisation that does not bind itself to a specific style or genre...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Eyal Hareuveni</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-11-21T00:05:03-07:00</dc:date>
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<description><![CDATA[What a surprise to hear the first-ever recording that joins piano maestros {{Hank Jones = 8166}} and {{Oliver Jones = 8185}}. 

 A Detroit native, ninety-year-old Hank Jones is from the family that gave us {{Thad "Bartok with Wings" Jones = 8200}} and polyrhythmist {{Elvin Jones = 8162}}, and he has participated in historic bebop sessions with {{Charlie Parker = 10115}} and memorable duets with {{Tommy Flanagan = 6729}}. Montreal's Oliver Jones, who once followed in the footsteps of {{Oscar Peterson = 10250}}, has emerged to forge a virtuosic path as a Canadian music icon not unlike his erstwhile predecessor...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Raul d'Gama Rose</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[This global block party, by saxophonist David Murray, blends ebullient African- rhythms with funk and jazz, brought by a fiery band that integrates two Gwo ka masters (Guadalupean drummers/vocalists), some sassy urban soul from pianist/vocalist Sista Kee, and the world renowned blues voice of {{Taj Mahal = 8981}}. The Devil Tried To Kill Me is Murray's third release with the Gwo ka Masters, following 2004's well received Gwotet (Justin Time), a recording that also featured avant-garde icon, saxophonist {{Pharoah Sanders = 4045...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Mark F. Turner</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-11-20T00:05:14-07:00</dc:date>
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<description><![CDATA[Twelve years after his death, activity around the legacy of Afrobeat originator Fela Kuti is growing exponentially and the US, finally, is getting in on the act. Choreographer Bill T. Jones' musical, Fela, is to open on Broadway on November 23, 2009, and meanwhile New York's Knitting Factory label has begun a reissue program which will, between fall 2009 and the close of 2010, see 45 Kuti titles released...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Chris May</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-11-20T00:05:10-07:00</dc:date>
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<description><![CDATA[It's rare that an album of outtakes and rejected music not only succeeds, but actually hangs together as a cohesive work in its own right. As the only member of 21st Century Schizoid Band (performing late-1960s/early-1970s-era Crimson repertoire) who wasn't a King Crimson alum, Jakko M. Jakszyk not only handled the daunting challenge of Crimson co-founder {{Robert Fripp = 16099}}'s guitar parts, but lead vocals as well. Jakszyk emerged as a confident and compelling leader on The Bruised Romantic Glee Club (Iceni, 2006), a double-disc set filled with autobiographical confessions of a progressive bent, and imaginative tributes to seminal groups from Jakszyk's formative years...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>John Kelman</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-11-20T00:05:06-07:00</dc:date>
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<description><![CDATA[Saxophonist James Moody has been an important fixture in the jazz world since the late 1940s, when he emerged and gained notice as a member of the {{Dizzy Gillespie = 7040}} Orchestra. Now, a robust 84 years young, Moody offers 4A, the first release from a two-day recording session which took place in July of 2008 with the inevitable 4B to follow. Still going strong, as his sharp solos demonstrate, his suave tenor voice glides over the melodies slightly more gently than in the past, perhaps, but just as gracefully. Along with Moody's long-time bassist {{Todd Coolman, = 5898}}, pianist {{Kenny Barron = 3659}} and versatile drummer {{Lewis Nash = 9750}} round out a top notch rhythm section who lend their own appreciable measure of chops to this album...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Edward Blanco</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-11-20T00:05:03-07:00</dc:date>
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<description><![CDATA[Christian Wallumrod has that rare gift of having an instantly recognisable sound. The pianist's music is characterised by unique blend of early music, romanticism, and traditional Scandinavian folk music idioms played with the looseness of jazz and academic curiosity reminiscent of two of his major influences, {{John Cage = 16632}} and Morton Feldman. Wallumrod has managed to harmonise these contradictory elements to create a wondrously obscure new music. However, the sound is never dependent on the polarity of these oppositions; its existence and strength lie in the blurring of these lines...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>David McLean</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-11-19T00:05:20-07:00</dc:date>
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<description><![CDATA[Around long enough that the phrase "coming late to jazz" is no longer relevant, pianist Gwilym Simcock's star has been rapidly rising on the British scene for the past seven years, as he continues to mine the nexus of a classical upbringing with his more recent "conversion" to jazz. All too often, young artists release albums as leaders before they're ready, but in the case of the still twenty-something Simcock--a member of saxophonist {{Tim Garland = 6953}}'s innovative Lighthouse Trio responsible for the superb Libra (Global Mix, 2009)--Perception (Basho, 2007) was a fully realized debut that highlighted his skills as performer, composer, and bandleader...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>John Kelman</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Many of us were turned on to jazz before we even knew what it was, thanks to Vince Guaraldi. His soundtracks for the Peanuts television specials were a novel idea in cartoon scoring, yet seemed to perfectly fit the deceptively sophisticated adventures of Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang. His originals were some of the best jazz to come from the West Coast scene and a tribute to what can happen when a great muse hits a gifted composer...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>David Rickert</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Moonlight's Back In Style is a swing album. In fact, according to songwriter Nicky Campbell's liner notes, it's a New Swing album--songs in a classic style but rooted in contemporary experience. Whether this recording heralds a new musical genre or not it's an easygoing and likeable set of songs. Old swing fans should find plenty to enjoy...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Bruce Lindsay</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Coto Pincheira, as Julio Alejandro Pincheira Cubillos prefers being called, has made an enthusiastic impression with The Sonido Moderno Project, literally, the Modern Sound Project. This virtuoso pianist, to whom clave comes naturally, has attempted to pour this rollicking backbeat into a cauldron set alight by the vast number of Afro-Caribbean metaphors and rhythms. The result is a molten mix that gathers momentum from Cuba and from Chile, as well as half a dozen other South American musical traditions. To these, Pincheira adds two fleet-fingered bassists: Gary Brown and {{Sam Bevan = 3201}}, who bob and wobble around the Latin beats, creating a deeply modern and shape-defying groove...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Raul d'Gama Rose</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[A work of exquisite beauty, and an exemplary adventure in cross-cultural music making, banjoist Bela Fleck's Throw Down Your Heart deserves every bit of hyperbole that is going to be thrown at it. The third volume in Fleck's Tales From The Acoustic Planet series, it's subtitled "Africa Sessions" and finds him in East and West Africa, mostly on field recordings or in improvised studios, playing with musicians from Mali, Madagascar, Tanzania, Uganda, Senegal, South Africa, Cameroon and Gambia. It's simply sublime...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Chris May</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Recorded live in France in July 2007, this is the second release from SLW, the follow-up to its debut, SLW (Formed, 2008), recorded live in October 2006. The quartet, with its line-up of Burkhard Beins, Lucio Capece, Rhodri Davies and Toshimaru Nakamura, merits the title "super group"; however outmoded and gauche that phrase may seem, it does describe the conglomeration of improvising talent on display here...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>John Eyles</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-11-18T00:20:15-07:00</dc:date>
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<description><![CDATA[Virtue is Eldar's fourth album--his sixth, if his early independent releases are included--something of an achievement for a musician who was only 22 years old at the time of the album's release. The album further affirms the Kyrgyzstan-born, New York-based musician's deserved reputation for technical ability. Across the 11 tracks Eldar shows speed and virtuosity--on one or two ballads there are also welcome signs of a developing awareness of the impact of space and silence...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Bruce Lindsay</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Once, as they were jamming, {{Duke Ellington = 6521}}'s drummer {{Sam Woodyard = 12796}} called out to Danish violinist Svend Asmussen, "Man, you play your ass off," to which The Fiddling Viking replied, with that charmingly naively innocent wit so typical of his homeland, "From now on then my name is only Mussen...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Chris Mosey</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-11-18T00:20:09-07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Mark Kramer: Jazz Greetings</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's easy to be jaded by the endless production of Christmas and New Year holiday recordings by jazz artists attempting to cash in on the shopping impulses of this time of year. It's also unfortunate that much of what is produced is simply spruced-up, dispensable noise.

Pianist Mark Kramer's "Jazz Greetings" is a rare exception. While Kramer does have a predilection towards popular themes, he is a fine jazz musician, and this album is a tasteful collection of traditional holiday songs where the emphasis is on jazz improvisation rather than holiday hype. Together with bassist {{Charles Fambrough = 6628}} and drummer {{Jim Miller = 1344}}, along with special guest artists featured on a few tracks, Kramer artfully renders the tunes in a laidback, sensitive manner. Moreover, the recording quality is excellent...]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Victor L. Schermer</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-11-18T00:20:03-07:00</dc:date>
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