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Please Do Something

Album: Live At The Kennedy Center
By Roseanna Vitro
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2006
Duration: 5:40

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Article: Album Review

Monsieur Dubois: Ruff

Read "Ruff" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Up until now, Monsieur Dubois has been a strictly European live phenomenon, and apparently a popular one. The Dutch downtempo/club jazz group has played all over the continent since 1999, but never once laid down an album. So to the extent the Euro scene has an American equivalent, this full-length debut ought to penetrate nicely on ...

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We Three: Three for All

Read "Three for All" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Just because artists have played with each other in other contexts doesn't necessarily mean they will be successful when they come together as a unit for the first time. Saxophonist Dave Liebman has worked with electric bassist Steve Swallow before--most notably on Swallow's first release as a leader, Home (ECM, 1980)--and drummer Adam Nussbaum in an ...

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The Dutch Jazz Orchestra: Rediscovered Music of Mary Lou Williams

Read "Rediscovered Music of Mary Lou Williams" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

The Dutch Jazz Orchestra is known for performing the obscure and neglected works of better-known composers, arrangers and bandleaders like Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Billy Strayhorn, and Gerry Mulligan. With this album, the group continues its historic mission by unearthing and reviving the music of Mary Lou Williams. One of the few women in jazz who ...

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Enrico Pieranunzi: Live In Paris

Read "Live In Paris" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

Gorgeously lyrical but unpredictable and open to free jazz, Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi always delights. His recordings, which are now frequent going on prolific, move the scenery around so that he rarely plays in the same context twice running. Highlights from the last year or so have ranged from the spare and spacey explorations of Doorways ...

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The Dutch Jazz Orchestra: Rediscovered Music of Mary Lou Williams

Read "Rediscovered Music of Mary Lou Williams" reviewed by Bob Jacobson

by Bob Jacobson

Thankfully, Mary Lou Williams' music has been getting “rediscovered" quite a bit over the past few years through reinvestigation of her sacred works, as well as her own solo and small group performances, plus interpretation/tributes by small groups led by Dave Douglas, John Hicks and Geri Allen. Now the Dutch Jazz Orchestra has given us Williams' ...

Album

All Stations

By James Scholfield

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2005

Album

Lieb Plays Wilder

By Dave Liebman

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Where is the One?; Winter of My Discontent; Trouble is a Man; If Love's Like a Lark; The Wrong Blues; The Lady Sings the Blues; Moon and Sand; Just as Though You Were Here; While We're Young; A Long Night.

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Brand New

By Marc Copland

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Monk Spring (John Abercrombie); Lights Out (Marc Copland); Jive Samba (Nat Adderly); Reach For That Other (Kenny Wheeler); Take Four (Abercrombie); Brand New (Abercrombie); Odyssey (Copland); Watching Simona (Wheeler); Taking A Chance On Love (Vernon Duke, La Touche/Fetter)

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Brand New

By Marc Copland/John Abercrombie/Kenny Wheeler

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Monk Spring; Lights Out; Jive Samba; Reach for That Other Place; Take Four; Brand New; Odyssey; Watching Simona; Taking a Chance on Love


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