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Article: Music and the Creative Spirit

Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet: Bridging the Future with the Past

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
February 5, 2009

There may not be a more creative group of artists anywhere within the boundaries of any art form than those within the Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet. These are individuals that comprehensively understand their responsibility to art and it is only through this level of integrity and creativity that art can, and will continue to move forward. ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings

by Clifford Allen
January 19, 2009

Anthony BraxtonThe Complete Arista RecordingsMosaic2008 Few artists in the realm of improvised music can claim as important or varied a series of recordings as reedman-composer Anthony Braxton did during his contract to Arista Records in the 1970s. With the financial backing provided by what was then an upstart ...

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Article: Year in Review

2008 Contributor Picks

by AAJ Staff
January 16, 2009

We solicited opinions from all active All About Jazz contributors, and out of more than 1,000 nominations, the following 2008 releases garnered the most votes. New Releases Charles Lloyd Rabe de Nube (ECM Records) Reviews ...

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Article: Year in Review

Jeff Dayton-Johnson's Best of 2008

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 11, 2009

When the world economy entered into a tailspin this year, Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner dubbed the event the “Jazz Effect“ given that it emanated from the United States (she was drawing a parallel, for example, to the 1994 “Tequila Effect" that followed a botched currency devaluation in Mexico). I was so happy that a ...

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News: Recording

Anthony Braxton & Italian Instabile Orchestra CD Now Available!

January 9, 2009

Anthony Braxton & Italian Instabile Orchestra Creative Orchestra (Bolzano) 2007 Rai Trade Records Available now at The Jazz Loft for $15.95. Superbly recorded live at Alto Adige Jazz Festival in Bolzano, Italy in June of 2007. Considering that we just listed some dozen discs (including several box sets) from Mr. Braxton that ...

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Article: Album Review

Adam Niewood & His Rabble Rousers: Epic Journey, Volumes I & II

Read "Epic Journey, Volumes I & II" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
December 31, 2008

Adam Niewood's Epic Journey, Volumes I & II is the third vertex in an isosceles triangle of recent releases, the other two points being Noah Preminger's Dry Bridge Road (Nowt, 2008) and Chris Potter's Follow the Red Line: Live at the Village Vanguard (Sunnyside, 2007)--records by saxophonist-leaders ranging from reasonably to very young, with similar instrumentation--notably ...

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