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Article: Multiple Reviews

Mingus Tributes: Normand Guilbeault & Dok Wallach

Read "Mingus Tributes: Normand Guilbeault & Dok Wallach" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

by Kurt Gottschalk

Normand Guilbeault Ensemble Hommage a Mingus: Live at Upstairs 2008 Ambiances Magnetiques 2009 Dok Wallach Live in Lisbon Jazzwerkstatt 2009 It's common, although not common enough, for the great bassist ...

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Article: Album Review

Erica Lindsay / Sumi Tonooka: Initiation

Read "Initiation" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

The naked emotion of Initiation can be so heartfelt at times that the urge to block out all external sound and focus solely on the music that issues out of the speakers is often overwhelming. Tenor saxophonist Erica Lindsay and pianist Sumi Tonooka have made a journey here that has taken them right to the center ...

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Article: Album Review

Ullmann / Swell Quartet: News? No News!

Read "News? No News!" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

In these days of global jazz alliances, the partnership of downtown trombonist Steve Swell and German reedman Gebhard Ullmann won't raise too many eyebrows. More noteworthy is its endurance, spanning some six years since its auspicious inception with Desert Songs and Other Landscapes (CIMP, 2004). Swell is also a fixture in Ullmann's Basement Research band, another ...

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Article: Interview

Forbes Graham: Magenta Haze

Read "Forbes Graham: Magenta Haze" reviewed by Gordon Marshall

by Gordon Marshall

Forbes Graham isn't hell-bent on taking the jazz world over by fiat. Then again, a sterling tone like Louis Armstrong's, a sense of stride and a sidewinder sleekness position him to do so. He brings spot-on timing, inherited from his key precursor, Don Cherry, into the icy age of post jazz--and swings, too, situated ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Phil Kelly and the NW Prevailing Winds; Eric Essix and the Night Flight Big Band; University of North Texas Two O'Clock Lab Band

Read "Phil Kelly and the NW Prevailing Winds; Eric Essix and the Night Flight Big Band; University of North Texas Two O'Clock Lab Band" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Phil Kelly & the Northwest Prevailing Winds Ballet of the Bouncing Beagles Origin Records 2009 The Ballet of the Bouncing Beagles, Marius Nordal writes in the liner notes to composer / arranger Phil Kelly's latest recording, “was inspired by an actual photograph of Phil's two beagles jumping up in the ...

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News: Education

Charles Mingus Festival Highlights Include Historic High School Band Competition

Charles Mingus Festival Highlights Include Historic High School Band Competition

MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC and LET MY CHILDREN HEAR MUSIC:THE CHARLES MINGUS INSTITUTE announce 2nd Annual CHARLES MINGUS FESTIVAL Saturday and Sunday, February13 and 14 in New York City SUE MINGUS and JUSTIN DICIOCCIO, Producers The music and legacy of Charles Mingus will be returning to Manhattan School of Music on Saturday, February 13 and Sunday, ...

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Article: Big Band Report

The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Meets Fred Sturm

Read "The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Meets Fred Sturm" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra was onstage January 23, 2010 at the University of New Mexico's Woodward Hall for a concert featuring the compositions and arrangements of Fred Sturm, director of Jazz Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. The concert was a part of the New Mexico All-State Band Competition, which was being held at the ...

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Article: In the Artist's Own Words

Bill Dixon: Excerpts from Vade Mecum

Read "Bill Dixon: Excerpts from Vade Mecum" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Introduction by AAJ Contributor Clifford Allen. It is rare in the climate of this music to be presented with a view of an artist that is truly multifaceted, even though the collected works of most artists operate at a number of levels and, on occasion, in a number of media. Bill Dixon is probably best known ...

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Article: Album Review

Christian Scott: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow

Read "Yesterday You Said Tomorrow" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

Trumpeter Christian Scott started raising expectations in 2006, with Rewind That (Concord), and hit the spot again in 2007 and 2008. Those earlier promises of greatness are clinched by Yesterday You Said Tomorrow. Scott's fourth Concord album is a gym-ripped amalgam of edgy jazz, hip hop and rock rhythms, off-kilter ostinatos, intimate rhapsodies and full-on passions, ...

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Article: Album Review

Erica Lindsay / Sumi Tonooka: Initiation

Read "Initiation" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard

While the discography of saxophonist Erica Lindsay is yet relatively modest, she still plays with the knowledge and authority of a seasoned musician. Initiation sees her teaming up with an old acquaintance, pianist Sumi Tonooka, and together they make a profoundly swinging and poetic music whose life-affirming quality it is hard to deny. ...


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