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Lonnie Plaxico: Melange
by AAJ Staff
The fine bassist Lonnie Plaxico, while still somewhat obscure to many, has now been a hard-working sideman on the jazz scene for some twenty years. He has quietly compiled an impressive resume via Dexter Gordon, Art Blakey, Von Freeman, Dizzy Gillespie and Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition band in earlier years, and M-BASE comrades Greg Osby, Steve ...
Lonnie Plaxico: Melange
by AAJ Staff
Lonnie Plaxico is one of those in-demand bassists, like Peter Washington or Dwayne Burno, who shows up on album after significant album, but, like most bassists, stays in the background. Attempting to gain radio play in the early 1990's, Plaxico led some of his own CD's, but fell into the smooth-jazz format in an effort to ...
Greg Osby: Symbols Of Light (A Solution)
by Mark Corroto
With ten previous Blue Note recordings now behind him, Greg Osby’s jazz ship still flies under jazz stardom’s radar. Perhaps it is because he has neither taken the Young Lion’s bebop-rehash approach to music, nor shunned popular appeal and played free jazz. His music, like Charlie Parker 45 years before him, has always been about taking ...
Bobby Hutcherson: The Best of the Blue Note Years
by Michael Fortuna
Quick. Name some jazz vibraphonists.Most of you would pick the legendary Lionel Hampton, who played in Benny Goodman's band, among others. Some of you would name Milt Jackson, who's one-fourth of the Modern Jazz Quartet.But what about Bobby Hutcherson?Thumbing through some jazz history books, you might find a page or ...
Ron Carter: When Skies Are Grey
by Michael Fortuna
The album cover for Ron Carter's When Skies Are Grey shows the jazz bassist contemplatively looking up toward an overcast New York City sky.Perhaps the title is in reference to how Carter felt during the recording sessions because his wife had died the week before. He attended funeral services over that weekend and came ...
Chucho Valdes: Solo: Live in New York
by James Nichols
It’s a wonderful thing that Chucho Valdes has found such a healthy outlet for his aggression. Valdes demonstrates a dizzying exuberance at the piano during this 1998 solo date recorded at Lincoln Center's Kaplan Penthouse. Thoroughout the date it sounds like Valdes can barely contain his enthusiasm. Just when Valdes hits a repeating montuno and solicits ...
Joe Lovano: Flights of Fancy
by AAJ Staff
While Joe Lovano's first Trio Fascination disc explored the spectrum of musical possibilities within a fixed unit, Edition Two goes exactly the opposite way. With four different trios (and playing seven different instruments), Lovano offers variety--and more to spare. On Flights of Fancy, his second celebration of the trio, Lovano plays roles both as melodic leader ...
Pat Martino: Live At Yoshi's
by AAJ Staff
Having received the advance CD of Pat Martino's performance at Yoshi's, I can't contain myself. Really. The street date for Live At Yoshi's is June 19, but a little pre-promotion can't hurt, can it?I'm not excited because I've been eagerly awaiting the next in a sporadic string of Pat Martino CD's. I'm not a ...
Erik Truffaz: Revisit
by Jim Santella
A remix album, Revisité brings back songs from last year's The Mask by trumpeter Erik Truffaz. They're presented through sensual images that have been “enhanced." Remixers Pierre Auditat, Pierre Henry, Bugge Wesseltoft, Alex Gopher and Gilles Peterson add rap, voice samples, scratches, whistles, fuzzy bass, throbbing bass & drumbeats -- and they organize each selection with ...
Chucho Valdes: Solo-Live in New York
by James Nichols
It’s a wonderful thing that Chucho Valdes has found such a healthy outlet for his aggression. Valdes demonstrates a dizzying exuberance at the piano during this 1998 solo date recorded at Lincoln Center's Kaplan Penthouse. Thoroughout the date it sounds like Valdes can barely contain his enthusiasm. Just when Valdes hits a repeating montuno and solicits ...
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