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Bill Frisell: This Land

by John Kelman
December 27, 2014

Bill Frisell This Land Elektra Nonesuch 1994 Today's Rediscovery? This Land, guitarist Bill Frisell's landmark 1994 album with Don Byron, Curtis Fowlkes, Billy Drewes, Kermit Driscoll & Joey Baron. Coming on the heels of 1993's eclectic covers record Have a Little Faith (Elektra Nonesuch), This Land is as much about ...

Article: Album Review

Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: OverTime: Music of Bob Brookmeyer

Read "OverTime: Music of Bob Brookmeyer" reviewed by John Ephland

by John Ephland
October 23, 2014

There's a richness, a depth, a density to his varied charts. And the soloists and ensemble passages inside those charts! Such has always been the case with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, then, and now. For real, gliding from the spirit of Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, this edition of the VJO now embraces another one of ...

Article: Album Review

Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: OverTime: Music of Bob Brookmeyer

Read "OverTime: Music of Bob Brookmeyer" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 13, 2014

While it may be hard to believe, the reality is that the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra is nearing the end of its first half-century together. Formed in 1966 as the Thad Jones -Mel Lewis Orchestra, it continued on after Jones' departure as the Mel Lewis Orchestra, then as the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra after Lewis' death in February ...

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Article: Album Review

Jack Cooper: Mists: Charles Ives for Jazz Orchestra

Read "Mists: Charles Ives for Jazz Orchestra" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
September 23, 2014

Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954), one of the first American composers of classical music to earn an international reputation, derived his inspiration from themes he had heard while growing up in Connecticut: hymns, traditional folk songs, marching bands (his father led one), patriotic songs, parlor ballads, Saturday night dances, and especially the melodies of the great Stephen ...

Article: Live Review

2013 TD Ottawa Jazz Festival: Ottawa, Canada, June 21-26, 2013

by John Kelman
July 1, 2013

TD Ottawa Jazz FestivalOttawa, CanadaJune 20-July 1, 2013Having made the decision, in 2012, to broaden its stylistic purview to include not only music on the periphery of jazz, but artists with no real connection to the founding raison d'être of the festival, the 2013 TD Ottawa Jazz Festival continued to bring extracurricular music ...

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Article: Album Review

Kendra Shank Quartet: Mosaic

by Donald Elfman
May 11, 2009

Kendra Shank is a complete vocalist--an appealing and intelligent interpreter of known and unknown material, a startlingly inventive improviser and the possessor of a rich, darkish voice that draws in the listener with feelings both familiar and brand new. Mosaic is a beautiful collection of tunes from favorite composers--some her friends, others her inspirations, all now ...

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The Neal Kirkwood Octet - Baghdad by the bay

By Neal Kirkwood

Label: Self Produced
Released: 1996
Track listing: Baghdad By The Bay; Portrait Of Pony Poindexter; Portrait Of Sidney Bechet; The Dog Who Smokes; Passion Flower; Bye Ya; Ghost Shadows; The Dream; Gemarek's Tango; Chopin's Waterloo

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This Land

By Bill Frisell

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 1994
Track listing: Is it Sweet?; Strange Meeting; Jimmy Carter (Part 1); Jimmy Carter (Part 2); This Land; Dog Eat Dog; Amarillo Barbados; Monica Jane; Resistor; Julius Hemphill; Unscientific Americans; Cartoon; Rag; Tag.

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Lyle Mays

By Lyle Mays

Label: Geffen Records
Released: 1986
Track listing: Highland Aire; Teiko; Slink; Mirror of the Heart; Alaskan Suite: Northern Lights; Alaskan Suite: Invocation; Alaskan Suite: Ascent; Close to Home.