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Album Review

Acuna/Hoff/Mathisen: Jungle City

Read "Jungle City" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
December 5, 2009

While some accuse the musical innovations taking place in Scandinavia as diluting “America's art form," there's plenty of evidence to the contrary. Many of the artists regularly stretching jazz's boundaries by introducing outside references can play in the tradition; they just choose not to. With Finding Nymo (ACT, 2009), Norwegian trombonist Helge Sunde and his Ensemble Denada incorporated elements of modern technology, traditional music and cinematic Zappa-esque classicism, but swung hard--and with conviction--in the best tradition of American big band ...

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Weather Report: Black Market

Read "Black Market" reviewed by Todd S. Jenkins

by Todd S. Jenkins
April 24, 2002

Another key turning point in the colorful evolution of Weather Report. Around the same time that Alphonso Johnson replaced founding bassist Miroslav Vitous in 1974, the band moved towards a new sound centered around electronic instruments and studio experimentation. The vital funk and soul grooves that Johnson brought into the band helped them pull off that extreme paradigm shift. Black Market is part of a reissue trilogy (along with Tale Spinnin' and Mysterious Traveller ) with which Columbia/Legacy honors the ...