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Jacques Coursil

by A. Henkin
September 11, 2005

Since Henry Grimes' resurfacing, the bar has been raised for dramatic stories of life away from music. During the summer, trumpeter Jacques Coursil released a new record, his first since 1969. Was there a commensurate exciting story for his long sojourn away from music? Not really. Since an early age, music has just been one of ...

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Montreal Jazz Festival 2005

by A. Henkin
August 17, 2005

Why would a New Yorker make the trip up the thruway for six hours to see jazz in another country? Maybe most performers will come through the city eventually but there is something about Montréal. Perhaps it is the easygoing vibe, almost European, of the city or its lovely weather. But the main reason to attend ...

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Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2005, Day 5

by A. Henkin
July 5, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 After the absolutely stellar Hussain/McLaughlin show on Day 4, your correspondent mulled over the idea of having that be the last impression of this ...

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Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2005, Day 4

by A. Henkin
July 5, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 In 1989, Charlie Haden inaugurated the Montreal Jazz Festival Invitation Series. Those were monumental concerts with performers like Paul Bley, Joe Henderson, Don Cherry ...

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Peter Br

by A. Henkin
July 4, 2005

Since his first recordings in the mid '60s, German saxophonist Brötzmann can either be accused of being limited or extremely focused. Whatever the ruling, there has been no one player over the past decades who better encapsulates the upheaval of post-war Europe. Four “new discs with different groups, but with different sounds, are consistent with his ...

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Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2005, Day 3

by A. Henkin
July 3, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 As reported previously, the Montreal Jazz Festival likes to make its programming thematic. This usually applies by venue: the big-draw acts play the Theatre ...

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Graham Collier & John Surman: Workpoints & Way Back When

by A. Henkin
July 3, 2005

England in the late '60s was an exciting place for music and musicians. After years of accomplished, though derivative, jazz, the British scene was beginning to produce conceptualists with larger visions and to have the players in droves willing and able to play them. Around the same time that Mike Westbrook was developing his ideas, bassist ...

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Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2005, Day 2

by A. Henkin
July 2, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 On Day 2, after having written yesterday about the lucky weather, we had rain intermittently throughout Friday. They were thankfully brief spells and the ...

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Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2005, Day 1

by A. Henkin
July 1, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10| Day 11 The folks who run the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal must be blessed. When your correspondent drove in the night before the first full ...

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Wayne Shorter: The Soothsayer

by A. Henkin
June 6, 2005

At over 70 years of age, with a career that began in 1959 and included celebrated stints with Art Blakey and Miles Davis, 12 albums for Blue Note during that label's most creative period, the founding of one of the more influential fusion groups and work with major jazz and pop musicians throughout the '80s, it ...