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Article: Live From New York

Big Bands: Wayne Horvitz, Satoko Fujii, Steve Lehman, Kenny Werner & Andrew D'Angelo

Read "Big Bands: Wayne Horvitz, Satoko Fujii, Steve Lehman, Kenny Werner & Andrew D'Angelo" reviewed by Martin Longley

by Martin Longley

The New York Composers OrchestraUniversity Of The StreetsOctober 23, 2010 Even for local residents, an appearance by the New York Composers Orchestra has become a rarity. Its guiding forces, the pianists Wayne Horvitz and Robin Holcomb, have long been living in Seattle (they moved in 1989), so get-togethers have ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Erik Friedlander

Read "Take Five With Erik Friedlander" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Erik Friedlander: Cellist Erik Friedlander is a composer and an improviser, a first-call studio player and a jazzbo. A veteran of NYC's downtown scene, his 12 CDs as a leader recently include, Block Ice & Propane, his solo cello reinterpretation of American roots music; The Broken Arm Trio, a trio tribute to jazz ...

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Article: Live Review

Undead Jazz Festival: Kenny's Castaways Edition

Read "Undead Jazz Festival: Kenny's Castaways Edition" reviewed by Daniel Lehner

by Daniel Lehner

Every zombie film fan knows that being bitten by a creature of the night is a fate worse than death. The only cure is to have a member of your party load up a shotgun and take you out before you turn into a limping, brain-hungry shell of a person. So giving an event a header ...

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Article: Album Review

The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast

Read "Royal Toast" reviewed by David Adler

by David Adler

With one exception, drummer John Hollenbeck hasn't taken prominent front-cover credit on releases by The Claudia Quintet. This holds true for Royal Toast, the band's extraordinary fifth album. The decision makes sense, for Hollenbeck's labyrinthine compositions get much of their subtlety and force from the individual players that have defined the group's identity from the start. ...

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Article: Album Review

The Claudia Quintet with Gary Versace: Royal Toast

Read "Royal Toast" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins

The humorously titled Royal Toast is the fifth album from the Claudia Quintet, percussionist and composer John Hollenbeck's longstanding five-piece that is--in the eternal words of Duke Ellington--a band “beyond category." Eradicating the tenuous boundary lines between idioms, Hollenbeck and company draw on ethnic traditions, free jazz, contemporary composition and progressive rock in their multifaceted explorations.

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Article: Live From New York

May 2010

Read "May 2010" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Adam Lane Brooklyn LyceumBrooklyn, NY April 14, 2010While bassist Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra is named to conjure up great size and bombast, at present it's a compact sextet whose sonic inventory includes passages of nuance and overall calm. With a Bay Area lineup, Lane has released No(w) Music (Cadence, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Cuong Vu / Chris Speed: From The Pacific Northwest To The Atlantic Northeast And Beyond

Read "Cuong Vu / Chris Speed: From The Pacific Northwest To The Atlantic Northeast And Beyond" reviewed by Robert Iannapollo

by Robert Iannapollo

Myra Melford's Be Bread The Whole Tree Gone Firehouse 12 2010 Jakob Anderskov Agnostic Revelations ILK 2010 Lovedale Coziness Kills ILK 2009

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Article: Live Review

Into the Fire: Winter Jazzfest 2010

Read "Into the Fire: Winter Jazzfest 2010" reviewed by Gordon Marshall

by Gordon Marshall

Winter Jazzfest New York, New York January 8-9, 2010 Fast-forward 30 years from the days in the late 1970s and early '80s when the world-weary wisdom that jazz wasn't a living force anymore was whispered to us--maybe you are getting out of jail, maybe waking from a cryogenic sleep. Before this happened, ...

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Article: Album Review

Nicholas Urie: Excerpts From An Online Dating Service

Read "Excerpts From An Online Dating Service" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

Young and gifted American composer/conductor Nicholas Urie had a brilliant idea. Basing his debut suite, Excerpts From An Online Dating Service, on real Internet personal ads collected from cities all over United States and Canada, Urie attempts to transform these coded messages into poetic statements about the current human condition. This is implied by poet and ...

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Esopus Opus

By Chris Speed

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Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Key Lime; 02. Manic Depression; 03. Within You Without You; 04. Esopus Opus; 05. Perolas; 06. New Um Talvez; 07. Flying; 09. Murnau on the Bayou; 10. Present Distance; 11. Red Hook.


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