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Played Right

Label: Cheetah
Released: 2010
Track listing: A Baptist Beat; Speak with Helen; Del Sasser; Jacki; Low and Behold Suite 1; Phase Dance; Maxine; Smells Like Teen Spirit; Low and Behold Suite 2; I Know Why; Crebwalk; Django; Softly As in a Morning Sunrise; Reunion; Low and Behold Suite 3; Another Girl.

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Take Five With Boris Kozlov

Read "Take Five With Boris Kozlov" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Boris Kozlov: Currently serving as a bassist, arranger and Musical Director for the Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty and The Orchestra, as well as leading his own projects, he has also been a first-call bassist for such important jazz acts as Michael Brecker, John Blake, Ray Barretto's New World Spirit, Lew Tabackin, David Kikoski, Alex ...

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Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet: Natural Selection

Read "Natural Selection" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


Profound spirituality and soulfulness is not a quality associated with secular music. However, once in awhile, even secular music reaches levels of such ecstasy that these elements become entwined in the heart of its melody and harmonic changes, as well as its iterant rhythm. Less often, this fusion is found at the confluence of mystic rivers ...

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Jazz Passengers: Reunited

Read "Reunited" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Don't mistake the music made by The Jazz Passengers as merely camp or burlesque send-ups. Sure, trombonist Curtis Fowlkes dons the persona of the infamous “Peaches," from the duo Peaches and Herb, for the 1970's hit, “Reunited." The irony dissolves underneath Roy Nathanson and Fowlkes' spoken/sung duet with Sam Bardfeld's pizzicato violin and Marc Ribot's now-patented ...

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The Jazz Passengers: Reunited

Read "Reunited" reviewed by Troy Collins


Reunions have become a requisite aspect of the music business, though the end results can vary in quality. Reunited, The Jazz Passengers first recording in twelve years, is a stellar example of this phenomenon. Picking up where they left off, this vivacious studio session juxtaposes mellifluous crooning, adventurous post-bop and stylistic eclecticism with irrepressible charm and ...

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Tommaso Cappellato: Open

Read "Open" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


The demise of modern jazz has been greatly exaggerated. Countless musicians around the globe are contributing new chapters to the wonderfully complex idiom of composition and improvisation. One such example can be found in Open, the debut from drummer Tommaso Cappellato. His experience stretches from taking lessons with local drummers in Italy at 16; enrolling in ...

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Bill Ware: Played Right

Read "Played Right" reviewed by Gordon Marshall


Never one to swoop into the limelight or blithely steal the show, vibraphonist Bill Ware has built a model résumé that weaves silently and inscrutably through the best of most modern genres. Ware's Played Right accordingly shows the touch of a resilient, serpentine stylist, a master of quiet spectacle. Titles alone offer a ...

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Sir Duke

Label: Birdology
Released: 2001

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Peggy's Blue Skylight

Label: RCA Victor
Released: 2000
Track listing: Boogie Stop Shuffle; Tonight At Noon; Reincanation Of A Lovebird; Opus Three; Cumbia Jazz Fusion; Remember Rockefeller At Attica; Peggy's Blue Skylight; Weird Nightmare; Goodbye Pork Pie Hat / Where Can A Man Find Peace?; Free Cell Block F; Self Portrait In Three Colors; Myself When I Am Real.

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Keeping Up With the Jones

Label: Cathexis Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Patterns of Rainfall; On Putnam Street; So I Can Live Again; Off the Hook; Walk With Me; Speak With Helen; Silk Flowers; Wednesday Afternoon; A Meager Existence; Orbits. (Total Playing Time 56:33)


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