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New York Jazz Collective: Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven

Read "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 1, 2001

What a difference a day...err four years make.

I Don't Know This World Without Don Cherry was the first Naxos Jazz recording I listened to some four years ago. Since that time the New York Jazz Collective has been pretty quiet as a group while several of its members have each been recording for the label. Quiet that is, until now. Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven is the Collective's second release for Naxos Jazz. It is, in a phrase, ...

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New York Jazz Collective: I Don't Know This World Without Don Cherry

by Glenn Astarita
April 1, 1999

Released by Naxos Jazz in 1997, “I Don’t Know This World Without Don Cherry” is a noteworthy homage to the late Trumpeter/Composer. Cherry’s lasting influence in modern jazz needs no elaboration here; however, The New York Jazz Collective delve into the creative spirit of Cherry’s vast musical legacy.

Multi-reedman Marty Ehrlich composed the title track and here the band along with Ehrlich’s lead clarinet work, perform an inspired rendering of what could have been a track from Cherry’s association with ...