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Article: Album Review

Kristina: Offshore Echoes

Read "Offshore Echoes" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
January 15, 2010

Oakland singer-songwriter Kristina Smith--who prefers to go by her first name--makes a charming debut with the ambitious Offshore Echoes. Drawing on a multicultural background, she channels music from Afro-Cuban, Brazilian and world rhythms to American music for a varied and rich palette of styles. Kristina is part Angolan, German and Native American (Cherokee Indian), giving her ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Eberhard Weber: Colours

by John Kelman
January 14, 2010

As the jazz-rock fusion movement gained ground from its early years in the late 1960s through its glory days in the early-to-mid-1970s—blending the more sophisticated harmonies of jazz with rock music's rhythmic power and high volume—all too often it was about muscular chops and complex writing for the sake of it. Little attention was paid to ...

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Chick Corea / John McLaughlin: Five Peace Band Live

Read "Five Peace Band Live" reviewed by Chris Kompanek

by Chris Kompanek
January 13, 2010

From the psychedelic cover art to the expansive and innovative playing, Five Peace Band Live is a throwback to the great live albums Miles Davis made in the late-1960s-1970s, with some of the same musicians. Chick Corea and John McLaughlin actually met in 1969 during the recording sessions that would become the classic fusion albums In ...

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Article: Album Review

L'Image (Mainieri/Bernhardt/Spinozza/Levin/Gadd): 2.0

by John Kelman
January 11, 2010

It may seem odd to take nearly 40 years to release a debut, but in the case of L'Image it's definitely a case of never-too-late. A collective formed by vibraphonist Mike Mainieri in the early 1970s, L'Image generated considerable buzz for its live shows before, on the cusp of recording its first album, circumstances forced the ...

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News: Interview

British Pianist Gwilym Simcock Interviewed at AAJ

January 4, 2010

Pianist/composer Gwilym Simcock has achieved a lot in a short time. His debut album as leader, Perception (Basho, 2007) was roundly praised as heralding the arrival of a significant new talent. Prior to that Simcock had captured attention for lighting up Bill Bruford's Earthworks, Tim Garland's Lighthouse Trio and Malcolm Creese's Acoustic Triangle. Awards and commissions ...

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Gwilym Simcock: It's All Just Music

by Ian Patterson
January 4, 2010

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Article: Year in Review

AAJ's Top 15 Interviews of 2009

by AAJ Staff
December 31, 2009

With nearly 150 interviews published in 2009, AAJ continues to provide the most extensive jazz coverage on the web. We also expanded our interview coverage to include, for those surrounding new CD releases: associated Daily Download tracks; accompanying CD reviews; contest giveaways; and more. As always, AAJ provided coverage of well-known artists ...

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Five Peace Band Live

By Chick Corea

Label: Universal Music K.K.
Released: 2009

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Duet

By Chick Corea

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2009
Track listing: Very Early; How Insensitive; Déjà Vu; Fool on the Hill; Humpty Dumpty; Bolivar Blues; Windows; Old Castle, by the river, in the middle of a forest; Summertime; Place to Be; Do Mo (Children's Song #12); Concierto de Aranjuez/Spain.

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Crystal Silence: The ECM Recordings 1972-79

By Chick Corea

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: CD1 (Crystal Silence): Señor Mouse; Arise, Her Eyes; I'm Your Pal; Desert Air; Crystal Silence; Falling Grace; Feelings and Things; Childrens Song; What Game Shall We Play Today.

CD2 (Duet): Duet Suite; Children's Song No. 15; Children's Song No. 2; Children's Song No. 5; Children's Song No. 6; Radio; Song to Gayle; Never; La Fiesta.

CD3 (In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979, Disc One): Señor Mouse; Bud Powell; Crystal Silence; Tweak.

CD4 (In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979, Disc Two): I'm Your Pal/Hullo, Bolinas; Love Castle; Falling Grace; Mirror, Mirror; Song to Gayle; Endless Trouble, Endless Pleasure.