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Musicians' Collective Harks Back to '70s Avant-Garde

Source: Michael Ricci
November 1, 2009

The rainstorm raging outside Never Ending Books, a modest space on State Street, seemed to echo the sonic deconstruction taking place inside as the New Haven Improvisers Collective held its monthly workshop dedicated to breaking down music into its basic parts and building it up again on the fly. The workshop focused on melodic fragments, metric patterns and the like as the basis for group improvisations that, to the casual listener, might have seemed subversive. But the collective, which welcomed ...

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Interview: Marty Sheller (Part 3)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
November 1, 2009

Many people think jazz went into a tailspin in the 1960s. In fact, out of commercial necessity, jazz hitched its wagon to many different music forms, from pop and soul to r&b and Latin. Each merger produced different genres. Soul-jazz resulted in organ-tenor sax combos like those recorded on Prestige. Funk-jazz was pioneered by Horace Silver and other Blue Note stars. Pop-jazz emerged with Wes Montgomery's Goin' Out of My Head on the Verve and A&M labels. Latin-jazz came in ...

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Iswhat?! Interview

Source: All About Jazz
November 1, 2009

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Sam Rivers Interview

Source: All About Jazz
November 1, 2009

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Other Places: Doing Monk

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
October 30, 2009

In his blog I Witness, Ed Leimbacher muses about the pervasiveness of Thelonious Monk as a model for or influence on other pianists. In an essay packed with album citations, he acknowledges 18 pianists from Jelly Roll Morton to Keith Jarrett who have made an impact, then writes:

... but I still think that over the last half century Monk has outlasted and out-"performed" the competition. Why? Relatively straightforward numbers like “'Round (about) Midnight" and “Monk's Mood" have entered the ...

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Jamie Cullum on Fame, Fortune and All That Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
October 30, 2009

Jamie Cullum is telling me that he never dreamt of success on this scale. He is outlining the upcoming tours of the UK, France, the US, Japan, Australia and, oh, pretty much most of the known world, that will accompany the anticipated multimillion sales of his new album. “I honestly, honestly never thought it would pan out like this," says the 30-year-old singer who, looking tanned and fit, radiates a mix of easy charm and brittle energy. “When I started ...

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From Jazz Royalty, Boston Drum Talent Zeke Martin Makes a Musical Mark for Himself

Source: Mixed Media Promotion
October 29, 2009

You don't have to go back too far to find the musical inspiration in Zeke Martin's past. His father, Stu Martin, accompanied some of jazz's great talents, including Herbie Hancock, Charlies Mingus, Quincy Jones, and John McLaughlin. But the Brussels-born/Boston-bred offspring quickly began to make a name for himself, culminating in his band's newest record, U4RIA. Boston jazz fans might know Martin through his work in either the Ed Jones Quartet or the Ray Brown Quartet. Regardless, the fact is, ...

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