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Article: Record Label Profile

Fresh Sound-New Talent

by Laurel Gross
December 24, 2008

Fresh Sound-New Talent owner and founder Jordi Pujol lives in Barcelona where his label is based but he's been up all night following the US Presidential election. Speaking from his native Spain the “morning after," he expresses the hope that the selection of President Elect Barack Obama might bode well not only for America but Europe ...

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Pearl River

By Jakob Bro

Label: Loveland Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Verse; Pearl River; Elephant; Black Is All Colors At Once; Red Hook Railway; Welcome; Mosquito Dance; Chinatown; 3X3.

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Article: Live Review

Emilio Solla's Tango Jazz Project at Smalls, NYC

by James Nichols
May 25, 2007

Emilio Solla's Tango-Jazz Project Smalls New York City April 28, 2007 On the weekend of April 28, Emilio Solla brought a heady blend of jazz and distinctly Argentinian music to the intimate setting of Smalls in the West Village. At Smalls most of the seats are the standard issue kitchen ...

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Chris Cheek: Coral; Orquestra Jazz do Matinhos Invites Chris Cheek

by Donald Elfman
April 7, 2007

Nikolaj Hess/Jens Skou Olsen/Gregory Hutchinson/Cheek Chris Coral Rainbow-Exlibris 2007 Orchestra Jazz de Matosinhos Invites Chris Cheek Fresh Sound-New Talent 2007 Just when you thought that the vocabulary ...

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Blues Cruise

By Chris Cheek

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Flamingo; Low Key Lightly; Coo; Squirrelling; Song of India; Falling; Blues Cruise; John Denver; The Sweetheart Tree.

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Garden of Eden

By Chris Cheek

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: 01. Pithecanthropus Erectus (Mingus); 02. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (Mingus); 03. Etude (Motian); 04. Mesmer (Motian); 05. Mumbo Jumbo (Motian); 06. Desert Dream (Cheek); 07. Balata (Cardenas); 08. Bill (Kern); 09. Endless (Motian); 10. Prelude 2 Narcissus (Motian); 11. Garden of Eden (Motian); 12. Manhattan Melodrama (Motian); 13. Evidence (Monk); 14. Cheryl (Parker)

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Article: Album Review

Chris Cheek: Blues Cruise

Read "Blues Cruise" reviewed by Paul Olson

by Paul Olson
July 16, 2006

Saxophonist Chris Cheek is such a hardworking New York sideman that it's understandable that he hasn't been recording prolifically as a leader. Still, his last CD, Vine, appeared in 1999, so his new quartet set, Blues Cruise, is his first release in six years.The long hiatus certainly seems not to have produced any sense of anxiety ...

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Chris Cheek: Blues Cruise

Read "Blues Cruise" reviewed by Matt Merewitz

by Matt Merewitz
July 8, 2006

Even though he has turned in one stunning performance after another on albums by Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, Guillermo Klein's Los Gauchos and various lesser-known, though equally interesting ensembles, Chris Cheek is still a lurker. Your only good chance of seeing this reedman live is in New York ...

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Paul Motian Band: Garden of Eden

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 29, 2006

Il batterista Paul Motian compie 75 anni e si rimette in discussione con una nuova versione del suo gruppo allargato che cambia nome e diventa semplicemente Paul Motian Band perdendo i riferimenti all'Electric Bebop. Allo stesso tempo nella strumentazione del gruppo si aggiunge una chitarra e questa mossa porta a tre le presenze dello strumento che ...

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