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Resonance Records: Non-Profit Jazz Label with a Mission
by Samuel Chell
It's a story often heard before: musically, these are the best and worst of times. Only this time, in 2010, it seems different. Even as the pool of fresh talent expands, jazz continues to witness a dearth of venues along with the slump in CD sales. Uncounted numbers of talented musicians, young and otherwise, are reduced ...
Take Five With Ian Carey
by AAJ Staff
Meet Ian Carey: Ian Carey was born in upstate New York, where he was introduced to jazz by a performance by the great Slam Stewart at his elementary school. After studying classical trumpet at the University of Nevada, Ian headed to New York City, where he studied with legends like Andrew Cyrille and Reggie Workman. He ...
Big Bands: Fred Ho, Roy Hargrove, Brooklyn Big Band, Charles Tolliver
by Brandt Reiter
Fred Ho and the The Green Monster Big Band Celestial Green Monster Mutable Music2009 Roy HargroveEmergenceGroovin' High2009 Brooklyn Big Band Live at Sweet Rhythm Candid2009
Marion Brown: Why Not?
by Clifford Allen
Marion Brown Why Not? ESP-Disk 2009 (1966) While the term fire music" has held sway as a descriptor of the music of post-John Coltrane/Albert Ayler saxophonists from the 1960s onward, it's long been an incomplete summation of the work of most of these musicians. Alto saxophonist Marion Brown ...
Emperor March: Live at the Blue Note
Label: Half Note Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: On the Nile; I Want to Talk About You; Emperor March; Chedlike; In the Trenches; Toughin'.
Ed Palermo: We're Only In It For The Music
by Ian Patterson
It's got to be love, hasn't it? Why else would someone bother to transcribe 200 of Frank Zappa's tunes? For what other reason would someone dedicate himself for over 15 years to presenting his arrangements of Zappa's music in the setting of a 17-piece jazz big band, and at a loss to boot? Yes, ...
Live Big Bands From New York: Charles Tolliver, Darcy James Argue & Charli Persip
by Martin Longley
The Charles Tolliver Big BandIridiumOctober 18, 2009 Trumpeter Charles Tolliver likes to keep his big band well-drilled. His arrangements are concerned with a cutting, eagle-swoop precision, built up from portable clusters that can be detonated at any time. He enjoys settling into a sleek groove, but will suddenly find the urge ...
The Charles Tolliver Big Band Live at The Iridium Jazz Club
by Dave Kaufman
The Charles Tolliver Big BandThe Iridium Jazz ClubNew York, NYOctober 17, 2009Charles Tolliver leads a modernist 16 piece big band that pushes the envelope of contemporary orchestral jazz sounds. The Big Band played a four night stand at the Iridium Jazz Club and I was fortunate to catch the second set ...
John Hebert
by A. Henkin
John Hebert is the answer to the sad trivia question, Who is the last bassist to play with pianist Andrew Hill? That final performance came on Mar. 29th, 2007 at Trinity Church in downtown Manhattan in a trio with drummer Eric McPherson; Hill would die just over three weeks later. For the New Orleans-born Hebert, being ...
Big Awards Day in Gotham
by Dan Morgenstern
It's been a while since we last met in my Den, so I thought I'd share a very special summer doubleheader with you.June 16 was a big jazz day in New York. It began in mid-afternoon at the Jazz Standard, with the 13th Annual Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards. Arriving not long after starting ...


