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Joey Baron: Just Say Yes

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Combining technical acuity with a deep sense of groove, Joey Baron drums with playful exuberance. Throughout his more than 35-year career, he's propelled experimentalists like guitarist Bill Frisell and saxophonist John Zorn, as well as mainstreamers like vocalist Carmen McRae and saxophonist David Sanborn. He's even played with pop stars David Bowie and Marianne Faithfull. But ...

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Bobby Bradford: Self-Determination in the Great Basin

Read "Bobby Bradford: Self-Determination in the Great Basin" reviewed by Clifford Allen


Born in Cleveland, Mississippi in 1934 and raised between Dallas and Los Angeles, trumpeter Bobby Bradford began playing with Ornette Coleman in Los Angeles in the 1950s, and replaced Don Cherry in an unrecorded Coleman quartet during the early 1960s. However, the most significant partnership in Bradford's musical life was with the clarinetist and composer John ...

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Enja Records

Read "Enja Records" reviewed by Donald Elfman


Matthias Winckelmann's favorite recording of the hundreds he's made is the one just finished. Over the years, he's documented music from all over the world and of many different stripes and has always been eloquent and passionate. His label Enja has been in existence for 38 years and a look at the catalogue tells you that ...

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Article: Music and the Creative Spirit

Paal Nilssen-Love: Transforming the Boundaries of Creative Music

Read "Paal Nilssen-Love: Transforming the Boundaries of Creative Music" reviewed by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.


He learned to play the drums before he could walk, battled cancer before the age of thirty, and is a driving force behind several of today's most innovative and progressive bands (Atomic, The Thing, Ken Vandermark, Frode Gjerstad and the Peter Brotzmann Tentet) just to name a few. He has taken the drums to new creative ...

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Article: Live Review

L.A. Jazz Scene 2008: Alive and Swingin'

Read "L.A. Jazz Scene 2008:  Alive and Swingin'" reviewed by Chuck Koton


The Los Angeles scene has often been referred to in patronizing terms by jazz lovers, musicians and writers. It has been said that the city's laid-back vibe deprives musicians of the energy that a New York audience can impart to the bandstand. Others complain that the growth of a hip jazz scene has been impeded by ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings

Read "Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings" reviewed by Clifford Allen


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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Focus

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Opus 1; Children

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Exhale

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Cousin Mary, Come Sunday, Exhaust Suite, Night Train, 7/4 Thang, Equinox, Just Friends, CJ, All Blues, Straighten Up and Fly Right, Exhale

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Arthur Blythe: Exhale

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Arthur Blythe continues his fruitful association with producer/drummer Cecil Brooks III on Exhale, his latest for the Savant label, also teaming up with longtime partner and tuba player Bob Stewart, plus John Hicks on piano. The eclectic playlist conveys the many facets of the musicians involved. Coltrane's "Cousin Mary" gets the party started in swing time ...

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A Fireside Chat With Arthur Blythe

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At one time, Arthur Blythe was part of the Columbia machine (not unlike the Miramax machine, how else do you explain the Gangs of New York phenomenon). Then trends took precedent over music and a young Wynton over a middle-aged Blythe (so the urban legend goes). Blythe still managed to record a classic Lenox Avenue Breakdown. ...


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