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Chris Connor: Chris Connor Sings Gentle Bossa Nova

Read "Chris Connor Sings Gentle Bossa Nova" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert

If you were a jazz singer in the mid-sixties, chances are you recorded a bossa nova album. It might have been great, it might have been terrible, but it most likely fell somewhere in-between. You may not have wanted to record one, but bossa nova was too popular a fad to resist, and not many people ...

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Levin Torn White: Levin Torn White

Read "Levin Torn White" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Pity poor Alan White. The British drummer had racked up plenty of street cred playing on projects by then-ex-Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison, Joe Cocker and Free's Paul Kossoff, when progressive rockers Yes came knocking in 1973, looking to replace Bill Bruford, who'd departed, on the cusp of massive commercial success, to join up with ...

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Bill Frisell: All We Are Saying...

Read "All We Are Saying..." reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

If there's any sign that Bill Frisell's move to Savoy was a good one, it's the release of All We Are Saying..., which makes three albums from the veteran guitarist in just thirteen months. Frisell left two decades at Nonesuch to be able to release more than one album a year, in order to keep up ...

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Patrick Brennan: Rhythms of Passion

Read "Patrick Brennan: Rhythms of Passion" reviewed by Ludwig vanTrikt

by Ludwig vanTrikt

Since moving to New York City in 1975, one-time bassist/painter Patrick Brennan has crafted a musical path that is open in its candor and indebtedness to all facets of black music. Much like trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, the alto saxophonist brews a thicket of his own distinct musical language that “unlike much contemporaneous vanguard music is ...

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Jason Reolon: Raising the Bar

Read "Jason Reolon: Raising the Bar" reviewed by Seton Hawkins

by Seton Hawkins

South Africa may well be in the midst of its third jazz renaissance. While the late 1950s saw the rise of legendary artists such as Kippie Moeketsi, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Philip Tabane, the early 1990s marked the emergence of trailblazers Moses Taiwa Molelekwa and Zim Ngqawana. The past five years have born witness to a surge ...

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South African Pianist Jason Reolon Interviewed at All About Jazz...And More!

South African Pianist Jason Reolon Interviewed at All About Jazz...And More!

South Africa may well be in the midst of its third jazz renaissance. While the late 1950s saw the rise of legendary artists such as Kippie Moeketsi, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Philip Tabane, the early 1990s marked the emergence of trailblazers Moses Taiwa Molelekwa and Zim Ngqawana. The past five years have born witness to a surge ...

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Laszlo Gardony: Signature Time

Read "Signature Time" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

As composer, Laszlo Gardony posits--without much opposition--that the inspiration of all modern music owes a debt to the “birthplace of culture and sound: Africa. As a composer and pianist he develops his hypothesis with Signature Time, an album of considerable and somewhat dark beauty. Driven by the percussive nature of African music--in almost continuous binary rhythms--Gardony's ...

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Gutbucket: Cascades and Collisions

Read "Gutbucket: Cascades and Collisions" reviewed by Gordon Marshall

by Gordon Marshall

Over its 12-year career, Gutbucket has resituated its various musical parts like the pieces of a Rubik's cube. The elements of that cube, the sonic strains, have remained similar--an amalgam of fuzz rock, jumpy jazz, post-serial classicism--but its panoply of shifting color has been redeployed in unique ways on each of the Brooklyn-based quartet's five CDs, ...

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Yuzima: Soulful Rocker

Read "Yuzima: Soulful Rocker" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes

New York-born Yuzima is not your average singer-songwriter. For starters, it's hard to pigeonhole exactly what kind of influences he has, as he incorporates various genres and makes them his own, as can be heard on his self-titled debut.Live, Yuzima is very charismatic, and has a fiery stage presence, as witnessed firsthand, by playing ...

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Colin Towns & The NDR Big Band: John Lennon - In My Own Write

Read "John Lennon - In My Own Write" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Since 2005, British arranger/conductor Colin Towns has trawled the discographies of Frank Zappa, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Miles Davis for collaborative potential with Germany's NBR Big Band. In every case--most recently, on Visions of Miles (In + Out, 2009)--the focus was on source material in and around the jazz sphere, with plenty of built-in grist for Towns' ...


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