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Auckland Jazz Orchestra: Inverted
by John Fenton
We lost jazz pianist Phil Broadhurst back in 2020, but his legacy is enduring, and unsurprisingly, he is constantly in the thoughts of the musicians he worked with. Here we have a loving tribute to the man and his music, appropriately performed by the Auckland Jazz Orchestra, which is peopled with musicians who knew him well. It is the AJO's fourth album and arguably their finest to date. Tribute albums may be commonplace, but tribute albums like this, born out ...
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by C. Michael Bailey
Early in his musical career, pianist and composer Thelonious Monk was ordained the “Hight Priest of Bebop." This sounds more like a disingenuous pronouncement by an overeager period critic than any credible music reportage. Monk's essential musical approach owed more to stride, blues, and swing than to Charlie Parker's and Dizzy Gillespie's bebop. Monk's technical brilliance, if one could call it that, was not geared toward the “technique" of rapid and complexly rendered chord changes. Monk's brilliance lay somewhere much ...
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