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Solo Piano: 5 by 4

by Ken Dryden
September 5, 2009

Fred Hersch Fred Hersch Plays Jobim Sunnyside 2009 Richie Beirach Jazz Adagio Venus 2009 Hal Schaefer How Do You Like This Piano Playing? Summit 2009 Eddie Higgins Standards By Request 1st Day Venus 2009 Eddie Higgins Standards By ...

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Dan Block: Solid Sideman

by Ken Dryden
September 5, 2009

The Andrew Scott Quartet Meets Jon-Erik Kellso & Dan Block Nostalgia Sackville 2009 Marty Grosz Hot Winds, The Classic Sessions Arbors 2009

Dan Block has worked in a variety of musical settings during his long career and has been a sideman in bands led by Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan and Toshiko Akiyoshi, currently working with Jerry Dodgion's Joy of Sax and the Sultans of ...

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Four on Clean Feed: Darren Johnston, Luis Lopes, Daniel Levin, Avram Fefer

by Clifford Allen
September 5, 2009

Darren Johnston The Edge of the Forest Clean Feed 2009 Luis Lopes/Adam Lane/Igal Foni What Is When Clean Feed 2009 Daniel Levin Quartet Live at Roulette Clean Feed 2009 Avram Fefer Ritual Clean Feed 2009 Since its 2001 ...

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Satoko Fujii: Chun, Heat Wave & Summer Suite

by Robert Iannapollo
September 5, 2009

Natsuki Tamura / Satoko Fujii Chun Libra 2008 Satoko Fujii ma-do Heat Wave Not Two 2008 Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York Summer Suite Libra 2008 Pianist Satoko Fujii and husband, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, have been performing and releasing their music since 1996, resulting in over 60 recordings in their ...

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Stacy Dillard: One & Tarbaby

by Laurel Gross
September 5, 2009

Stacy Dillard One Smalls Records 2009 Stacy DillardTarbaby Imani Records 2009 Saxophonist Stacy Dillard's spirited energy is laced with nuance and intelligence and, while he's not shy of passion or feeling, everything he does is grounded in superb technique and focused and appealing ideas. Listeners who haven't been able to hear Dillard on the ...

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Jack DeJohnette: Music We Are & America

by Jeff Stockton
September 5, 2009

Jack DeJohnette/John Patitucci/Danilo Perez Music We Are Kindred Rhythm 2009 Jack DeJohnette/Wadada Leo Smith America Tzadik 2009

It's been a while since Jack DeJohnette made a CD as a leader that fit so perfectly into the jazz genre as Music We Are, a straightforward recording of his trio with ...

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Dan Tepfer: Oxygen & Duets with Lee

by Martin Longley
September 5, 2009

Dan TepferOxygenDIZ Productions2009 Dan TepferDuets with LeeSunnyside2009 The full arrival of pianist Dan Tepfer has been signaled by his recent sideman work with the august alto saxophonist Lee Konitz. These two albums find him adopting a similar playing stance in different settings, both allowing ample space for his lightly classicist touch; he inhabits the ...

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Chris Potter: Monterey Quartet & Underground

by George Kanzler
September 5, 2009

Dave Holland / Gonzalo Rubalcaba / Chris Potter / Eric HarlandThe Monterey Quartet: Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz FestivalMonterey Jazz Festival RecordsYear Chris PotterUltrahangArtistShare2009 Although he was the youngest ever winner (at 29 in 2000) of Denmark's International Jazzpar Prize, the sadly-now-suspended most prestigious and lucrative award in jazz, saxophonist Chris Potter has ...

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Coltrane Tributes: Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Khan Jamal, Azar Lawrence & Joel Holmes

by Marc Medwin
September 5, 2009

Jamaaladeen TacumaColtrane ConfigurationsJazzwerkstatt2009 Khan JamalImpressions of ColtraneSteepleChase2009 Azar LawrenceLegacy and Music of John ColtraneClarion Jazz2009 Joel HolmesAfrican SkiesBlue Canoe2009 John Coltrane was revered during his all-too-brief career and in the 42 years since his death, his legacy has ...

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Punkt Festival 2009: Day 1, Kristiansand, Norway, September 2, 2009

by John Kelman
September 4, 2009

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4

---> Every festival has its raison d'être, but the Kristiansand festival, in Norway, has many. It's primary definer is its “Live Remix" concept--where performances in Agder Theatre's main hall are immediately followed by live remixes of the performance just passed, with additional musicians interacting, in real-time, with the remixer's vision.

But there's more to Punkt than its moveable feast--one that's already been brought to London, England ...