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John Pizzarelli: Let There Be Love

Read "Let There Be Love" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

After a decade of recording as a leader on several labels like RCA and Chesky, John Pizzarelli seems to have found a home at Telarc Jazz. Fast on the heels of his last his first Telarc trio release, Kisses In The Rain, Pizzarelli is delving even further into the style he established there: romantic standards.

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John Butcher/Phil Durrant: Requests And Antisongs

Read "Requests And Antisongs" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Requests And Antisongs represents a series of pieces performed by two prominent masters of the British improv scene, saxophonist John Butcher and violinist, electronics expert Phil Durrant. Yet here, Durrant often counters or parallels Butcher’s fragmented themes and lines by solely utilizing – live electronics and modular feedback. With the opener, “Sheet Bends”, the listener should ...

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John Scofield: Bump

Read "Bump" reviewed by Scott Morrow

by Scott Morrow

John Scofield, who's played with everyone from Miles and Mingus to Medeski Martin and Wood, has finally gone and done released a classic of 21st century groove jazz. Not exactly the Hammond-style soul jazz of it's predecessor A Go Go, Bump -- one of those rare cases where the sequel surpasses the original -- attains pure ...

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John Scofield: Bump

Read "Bump" reviewed by David Adler

by David Adler

John Scofield continues to venture deeper into simple, stripped-down groove music — and farther away from jazz. Bump is practically a dance record. Mark De Bli Antoni’s keyboard sampler even appears on several tracks; on “Drop and Roll" it’s poorly integrated and sounds like filler. Don’t get me wrong: Boundary-smashing experimentation is good for jazz, and ...

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John Scofield: Bump

Read "Bump" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan

Ever since he signed with the Verve label a few years back, guitarist John Scofield has been on the upswing of the trendy movement we’ll call, for lack of a better term, the “Acid Jazz" scene. He scored really big with A Go Go, his critically-acclaimed 1998 collaboration with the supergroup Medeski, Martin, and Wood. Now ...

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John Pizzarelli: Kisses In The Rain

Read "Kisses In The Rain" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

When jazz families are discussed, the discussion usually stops after the Marsalises, Joneses and Heaths. But of course, you've got the Eubankses, the Coltranes, the Monks. And the Pizzarellis: Bucky, John and Martin. Two-thirds of the performing Pizzarellis are represented on “Kisses In The Rain," but it seems that the influences emanate most strongly from Nat ...

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A Little Blue

By John Hardee

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 1999

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Infinitesimal Flash

By John Tchicai

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 1999

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Light's View

By John Butcher

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 1999

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The Illinois Concert

By Eric Dolphy

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 1999


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