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Charlier / Sourisse: Imaginarium
by John Kelman
To affirm that jazz is, indeed, a global concern one only need look at transatlantic collaborations taking placed on a regular basis. One look at the list of albums reviewed at All About Jazz and it's patently clear that, while cultural cross-pollination has been going on for decades, it's now a norm rather than a phenomenon. Whether meeting at international jazz festivals, or simply making cold calls to artists with whom they'd like to play, more and more musicians are ...
Continue ReadingAl Cohn: We Remember You
by Johnny Wills
Al Cohn was a tenor saxophonist from New York, born in 1925. Sadly he died in 1988, but his performance at the 1986 Oslo Jazz Festival in Norway is documented on this live recording. On this session Cohn teams up with Totti Bergh also on tenor sax, bringing back memories of his many famous past partnerships with Zoot Sims. The first track introduces the female vocalist Laila Dalseth on the Gershwin ballard “Someone To Watch Over Me," ...
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