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Album Review

Karen Bach Trio: Secret Rooms

Read "Secret Rooms" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
October 5, 2010

One of the joys of following a trio throughout many years of musical communication is the pleasure of hearing a distinctive sound emerge from intense work with form and content. Pianist Karen Bach's third album with her trio, Secret Rooms, is a work of distinction from three talented musicians who have worked hard to achieve their own sound, and the album represents the refinement of an aesthetic that has been developing over a long time. Back in ...

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Album Review

Sebastien Paindestre: Live @ Duc des Lombards

Read "Live @ Duc des Lombards" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
October 5, 2010

French pianist Sébastien Paindestre teams up with his longtime band mates for a blend of originals and smart cover tunes on Live @ Duc des Lombards. Recorded live at the Duc des Lombards jazz club in Paris, France in 2008, the disc documents a session of primarily instrumental music, with the exception of Brad Mehldau's “Ron's Place," featuring vocalist Michele-Anna Mimouni.Paindestre is quick to establish himself as the dominant musical force on this set, with a solid and ...

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Music and the Creative Spirit

John Gilbreath: Within Earshot

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
October 5, 2010

Over the past 90 years, a music scene has been developing in the northwest corner of the US that has provided a fertile imprint on jazz. It may not be as critically important within a historical context as that of New York and New Orleans, but Seattle has a landscape that has been developed and nurtured by the caring and delicate hands of a diversity of creative individuals. It has developed its own abstract voice, its own individual personality and ...

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Album Review

Amit Chaudhuri: Found Music

Read "Found Music" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
October 4, 2010

Calcutta-born singer Amit Chaudhuri's follow-up to This Is Not Fusion (Babel, 2010) is another captivating and deeply idiosyncratic fusion/not fusion of Hindustani classical music, jazz, rock and blues. It's a style Chaudhuri, with several albums of “pure" Hindustani music already behind him, began developing in 2004 with the Amit Chaudhuri Band, which features his singing alongside electric guitars and keyboards, acoustic trumpet and tabla. If you haven't heard the band before, you're in for a treat--dreamy raga-based discursions which incorporate ...

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Album Review

King Crimson: In the Wake of Poseidon (40th Anniversary Series)

Read "In the Wake of Poseidon (40th Anniversary Series)" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
October 4, 2010

Considered a poor cousin to In the Court of the Crimson King (DGM Live, 1969), 1970's In the Wake of Poseidon may possess superficial similarities to its groundbreaking predecessor, but as a 2005 All About Jazz review of an earlier edition suggested, ..."Poseidon also hints of changes in the wind." Part of the second round of 40th Anniversary Series CD/DVDA remasters/expansions of the King Crimson catalog along with 1971's Islands, Poseidon deserves reconsideration for its transitional music, Porcupine Tree founder ...

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Live Review

Dave Liebman Quartet Live at Anthology

by Robert Bush
October 4, 2010

Dave Liebman Quartet Anthology San Diego, CA September 23, 2010 Soprano saxophone master Dave Liebman kicked off a short West Coast tour Thursday evening at Anthology, San Diego's premiere jazz nightclub. Liebman is experimenting with a more electrified version of his working ensemble (of over 20 years now), to that end, long-time bassist Tony Moreno was heard on electric bass all night. Liebman's front-line partner in the quartet is the vastly under-rated guitar virtuoso ...

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Album Review

Ellen Honert: Hummingville

Read "Hummingville" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 4, 2010

Ellen Honert's previous recording, Breath of the Soul (Mill Station, 2006), was a well-balanced affair accented by Honert's precise and sensitive singing. Hummingville, the recording and the title piece are something else altogether. There is a sea breeze in this recording and song, but it is not so much Caribbean as Mediterranean, but in either case, the Latin influence cannot be denied. “Hummingville" is a Honert original, composed with pianist Frank Martin. It is a very tactile ...

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Album Review

Scott Lee: Leaving

by Mark Corroto
October 4, 2010

Maybe te annual jazz awards need to add a new category for musicians like Scott Lee. It could be titled “master musicians deserving of wider recognition." The veteran bassist has been on the New York scene since the 1970s, and a member of numerous bands including those led by titans Chet Baker, Joe Lovano, and, Kenny Werner. He has also been a sympathetic contributor to the careers of Loren Stillman and Andrew Rathbun. With Leaving, his followup to One Thought ...

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Album Review

Joe Gilman: Americanvas

Read "Americanvas" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins

by Woodrow Wilkins
October 4, 2010

Originality plus artistic vision equals an irresistible palette for jazz. Pianist Joe Gilman, music director of the Brubeck Institute's fellowship program, mixes both elements with Americanvas, musical interpretations of 10 American paintings. “Gossip" begins with a spirited solo piano that shifts gears a few times before bringing in the rest of the band. The saxophones lead in a series of frenetic, stop-time phrases. Bass and drums are fully engaged behind the soloists, starting with the alto sax, followed ...

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Extended Analysis

Islands (40th Anniversary Series)

by John Kelman
October 4, 2010

With iconic progressive rock progenitor King Crimson's first batch of 40th Anniversary Series reissues, sole remaining co-founder, guitarist Robert Fripp--and, perhaps more importantly, Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson--embarked on a program that will, over the next couple years, bring Crimson's catalog into the 21st century, with double-disc reissues featuring (for the most part) brand new mixes in CD and DVDA format, and a plentiful bounty of previously unavailable bonus features, ranging from studio outtakes and live performances in audio format, to ...