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Article: Album Review

Adam Rogers: Art of the Invisible

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by C. Andrew Hovan
June 25, 2003

Hard to say whether or not producer Gerry Teekens has a special affinity for guitarists, but over the years his catalog has swelled with such skilled plectrists as Jimmy Raney, Peter Bernstein, Bobby Broom, Kurt Rosenwinkle, and Jesse Van Ruller. Now add to that list the name of Adam Rogers, a versatile and valuable sideman who ...

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Wycliffe Gordon: United Soul Experience

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by C. Andrew Hovan
June 25, 2003

It's dangerous to take labels too seriously where music is involved. Take Wycliffe Gordon, for instance. A protégé of Wynton Marsalis and former charter member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the trombonist is most clearly associated with mainstream sensibilities. Truth be told, however, Gordon has evidenced varied interests by such projects as his studio effort ...

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Carmell Jones: Mosaic Select 2

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by C. Andrew Hovan
June 25, 2003

I have to claim a special affinity for the music of trumpeter Carmell Jones as documented on this three-disc set. Going back to an interview I conducted with Mosaic’s Michael Cuscuna a few years back, I commented on how much of the Pacific Jazz material that had been reissued up to that point consisted largely of ...

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Article: Jazz From The Vinyl Junkyard

Bob Brookmeyer: 7 x Wilder

by C. Andrew Hovan
May 5, 2003

Although he never really received much of the recognition due to him at the time, valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer developed a distinctive catalog in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s that asserted the lighter strains of West Coast ‘cool’, but below the surface burned with a hale and hearty flame that owed just as much to ...

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Article: Live Review

Tri-C JazzFest 2003

by C. Andrew Hovan
May 4, 2003

Cuyahoga Community College Cleveland, Ohio April 2-13, 2003 Now in its 24th season, the nation’s premier educational jazz festival gets things swinging in Cleveland, a town better known for rock and roll, for a few weeks every spring. This year’s program was as eventful as in previous years, a fact that ...

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Steve Wilson Quartet

by C. Andrew Hovan
May 4, 2003

Jilly’s Dayton, Ohio March 22, 2003 While it’s often assumed that only the big cities can entice touring jazz names to their concert venues, the fact remains that there are pockets of activity in unlikely places throughout the country that would surprise even the most avid of jazz followers. Such is ...

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One For All

by C. Andrew Hovan
May 4, 2003

Jilly’s Dayton, Ohio April 26, 2003 As the Dayton arts support group Cityfolk prepared to wind down their jazz series for the year, they couldn’t have wished for a stronger or more accomplished unit than One For All to help them wrap things up with a bang. This gathering of New ...

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Lou Donaldson: The Complete Blue Note Lou Donaldson Sessions 1957-1960

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by C. Andrew Hovan
April 2, 2003

A soul survivor in every sense of the term, this alto saxophonist is one of the few remaining jazz artists who made a major impact on the jazz community via an extensive run with producer Alfred Lion and the Blue Note label (Horace Silver being another Blue Note legend that comes to mind). From his first ...

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Article: Interview

Matt Wilson: Beyond Category

by C. Andrew Hovan
March 27, 2003

The world thrives on order and the type of categorization that is as much a part of everyday life as breathing. Single or married, democrat or republican, each one of us can be pigeonholed into general and then more specific categories. Music is certainly no different, as anyone can tell you if they've found themselves in ...

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Article: Jazz From The Vinyl Junkyard

Lou Donaldson: Say It Loud!

by C. Andrew Hovan
March 17, 2003

Although it was fun while it lasted, it seems that we might have seen the end of that whole acid jazz movement. At its height, labels were searching fast and furiously for lost trinkets of soul. Fantasy launched its Legends of Acid Jazz series and Blue Note had its Rare Groove series. At the ...