Jazz Articles about Joe Lovano

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Charlie Haden: Nocturne

by Jim Santella
February 1, 2002

What do you hear in darkness? The little things? Sounds that go unnoticed during the day. Crickets, creaking hinges, softly purring machinery, the hum of automobile traffic, and perhaps a distant television or radio. Night creatures are everywhere; but you don't see them. You hear the same things they hear, though; and it helps you to concentrate on your work.

Charlie Haden's ballad album, Nocturne , follows from his love of film noir. Like his Quartet West, this ...

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Joe Lovano's Flights of Fancy

by Dave Kaufman
December 1, 2001

This has been a banner year for Joe Lovano. He was appointed to the newly created Gary Burton Chair in Jazz Performance at Berklee College of Music, a position he assumed this past September. Recently the Downbeat's Critics and Readers Poll named Joe Lovano as its artist of the year. In the past year, he also released 2 critically-acclaimed recordings, 52nd Street Themes an homage to Tadd Dameron and classic music of the bebop era, and Flights of Fancy, a ...

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Joe Lovano: Flights of Fancy

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 2001

While Joe Lovano's first Trio Fascination disc explored the spectrum of musical possibilities within a fixed unit, Edition Two goes exactly the opposite way. With four different trios (and playing seven different instruments), Lovano offers variety--and more to spare.

On Flights of Fancy, his second celebration of the trio, Lovano plays roles both as melodic leader and as rhythmic stylist. While it's impossible to pin him down, the real high notes of the disc are his intermittent tenor playing in ...

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Joe Lovano: Flights of Fancy

by AAJ Staff
April 1, 2001

While Joe Lovano's first Trio Fascination disc explored the spectrum of musical possibilities within a fixed unit, Edition Two goes exactly the opposite way. With four different trios (and playing seven different instruments), Lovano offers variety--and more to spare.

On Flights of Fancy, his second celebration of the trio, Lovano plays roles both as melodic leader and as rhythmic stylist. While it's impossible to pin him down, the real high notes of the disc are his intermittent tenor playing in ...

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Joe Lovano: Flights of Fancy

by James Nichols
April 1, 2001

Joe Lovano’s most recent release finds the talented saxophonist stretching out in four different trio combinations. Just as Sonny Rollins discovered in his immortal piano-less Village Vanguard performances, a trio allows more freedom than the conventional saxophone settings of a quartet or quintet. The music breathes easily, flirting with both silence and sound. The horns stroll without the harmonic fetters of a traditional rhythm section. This is lovely music.

Highlights of the album include the cerebral interplay between Joe Lovano ...

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Joe Lovano: Flights of Fancy

by AAJ Staff
April 1, 2001

While Joe Lovano's first Trio Fascination disc explored the spectrum of musical possibilities within a fixed unit, Edition Two goes exactly the opposite way. With four different trios (and playing seven different instruments), Lovano offers variety--and more to spare.

On Flights of Fancy, his second celebration of the trio, Lovano plays roles both as melodic leader and as rhythmic stylist. While it's impossible to pin him down, the real high notes of the disc are his intermittent tenor playing in ...

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Joe Lovano: Flights Of Fancy: Trio Fascination, Edition 2

by AAJ Staff
March 1, 2001

Will Joe Lovano never cease to amaze?“Flights Of Fancy" being a literary term for the human capacity for “imagination," Lovano's new trio CD is aptly named.Following up on his 1998 trio CD with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones, “Trio Fascination, Edition 1," Lovano imaginatively transforms even the expectations for a reed-led trio by recording four trio configurations over the compressed time of two days. Lovano switches to drums from sax on a few of the tracks ...