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Article: Album Review

Gunter Hampel: Vibes Vibes (Vibrafon Solos 2008)

Read "Vibes Vibes (Vibrafon Solos 2008)" reviewed by Marc Medwin

by Marc Medwin

Glass, shimmer, impressionism and cool all vie for prominence throughout these excursions into the multiplicitous world multi-instrumentalist Gunter Hampel creates on every solo . Logical proportions are exposed only to disappear; tones glisten, swell and fade, either in rapid succession or in glacial dance. This is only the second solo release from the prolific improviser on ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Alejandro Florez

Read "Take Five With Alejandro Florez" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Alejandro Florez:Guitarist Alejandro Florez earned a Master's degree in Jazz Performance and Composition from the University of North Texas before moving to NYC. He now performs in various jazz and Colombian bands, and works as a composer/arranger, session player and educator. Alejandro's current projects include “Tibagui," which performs his original music; the Alejandro ...

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News: Radio

Sun Ra Sunday on Freedom Jazz Dance

Sunday from 5 PM 7 PM EST 90.1 FM WDCE Richmond Listen online via live webcast at wdce.org Archived shows uploaded at freedomjazzdance.net two days after each live broadcast. Greetings, people of earth! Tune in to Freedom Jazz Dance this Sunday for the unstoppable sound of freedom in the groove with the latest, greatest performers and ...

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Article: Album Review

Sean Nowell: The Seeker

Read "The Seeker" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

It would be foolish to describe saxophonist Sean Nowell as a 21st century schizoid tenor man, but two distinct strands characterize the New York-based player's work. On the one hand, Nowell is active in funk and post-fusion styles, with the Kung-Fu Masters and his own MonAtomic groups, among other line-ups. On the other hand, he's a ...

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Article: Album Review

Rez Abbasi: Things To Come

Read "Things To Come" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner

Pakistani/American guitarist Rez Abbasi has been a part of the emerging growth of South Asian jazz musicians which includes the very noted names of pianist Vijay Iyer, saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa and guitarist Fareed Haque, and celebrated recordings Apti (Innova Recordings, 2009) and Kinsmen (Pi Recordings, 2008). A brilliant technician, Abbasi is noted for ...

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Article: Album Review

Horace Tapscott: The Dark Tree

Read "The Dark Tree" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

The year of writing this review, 2019, is the thirtieth anniversary of the recording of The Dark Tree. It is also the twentieth anniversary of the passing of Horace Tapscott, a forgotten master of politically engaged African American spiritual jazz. The album, which is among Tapscott's finest, is crying out for a 2019 anniversary reissue. STOP ...

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Article: Music and the Creative Spirit

Amiri Baraka: Perspectives on Music and Race

Read "Amiri Baraka: Perspectives on Music and Race" reviewed by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.

Amiri Baraka is the author of the insightful and comprehensive book, Blues People. It is a book that has opened many minds and readers to the African American Diaspora along with the history and roots of African American music. Baraka has now published a new book of essays titled, Digging (The Afro-American Soul of American Classical ...

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Article: Album Review

Second Sight: Flying With The Comet

Read "Flying With The Comet" reviewed by Warren Allen

by Warren Allen

Some jazz fans have come to look down on the '80s as a lost decade. A band like Second Sight shows just how wrong they can be, with the reissued Flying with the Comet (1986) thrumming with intensity. The brainchild of pianist and composer John Esposito, the band refuses to choose between tradition and innovation. All ...

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Article: Album Review

Trio 3 + Geri Allen: At This Time

Read "At This Time" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones

The trio of Lake, Workman and Cyrille is, by now, seasoned in the right way. All three players are relative veterans and the depth of their shared musical understanding is obvious in everything they do. This time, Geri Allen's pianist's skill is an amalgam of Paul Bley and Andrew Hill harmonically speaking, though it's only fair ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Lee Morgan: Tom Cat

Read "Lee Morgan: Tom Cat" reviewed by Matt Marshall

by Matt Marshall

Lee Morgan Tom Cat Blue Note / Music Matters 2008 (1980) Tom Cat continues Music Matter's program of re-releasing generally unavailable Blue Note sessions from the 1950s and 1960s on 45-rpm vinyl double albums. As Michael Cuscuna explains in the liner notes from the original 1980 release, Tom Cat was ...


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