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Devin Gray: Dirigo Rataplan

Read "Dirigo Rataplan" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
April 5, 2012

Despite his youth, drummer Devin Gray has built an impressive resume and a well- deserved reputation as both an improviser and instrumentalist. His first CD as a leader, Dirigo Rataplan shows that he is not a slouch in the composition or bandleader department either. The record's title, loosely translated from Latin and French, ...

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Article: Album Review

Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: ETO

by Troy Collins
July 26, 2011

In addition to an ever-changing array of small combos, tireless Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii continues to lead four international big bands, each based in a different city (Kobe, Nagoya, New York and Tokyo). Of the four, her New York based Orchestra is both her oldest and most prolific, having maintained virtually the same line-up since 1997. ...

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Arc Suite t/pi t/po

By Dave Ballou

Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2010
Track listing: 01. Continuing - 7:16; 02. East Arc - 9:57; 03. Poles - 6:12; 04. Nokimo - 1:45; 05. West Of Crash - 5:27; 06. Half Dome (for Bill Dixon) - 1:50; 07. The Dom - 7:41; 08. Silver Print 5 :06; 09. Dome - 1:06; 10. t/pi t/po - 5:12; 11. Mid Code - 2:51; 12. 17 Note - 4:47.

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Mario Pavone: Arc Suite t/pi t/po

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 7, 2010

L'incisione di questo nuovo splendido gruppo celebra al meglio i settant'anni di Mario Pavone, uno dei contrabbassisti chiave degli ultimi tre decenni d'avanguardia: lo abbiamo visto collaborare a lungo nelle formazioni e nei progetti di Paul Bley, Bill Dixon, Anthony Braxton, Marty Ehlrich e costituire, negli anni novanta, un proficuo sodalizio con Thomas Chapin. I suoi ...

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Mario Pavone Orange Double Tenor: Arc Suite t/pi t/po

Read "Arc Suite t/pi t/po" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
November 6, 2010

This release is something of a milestone for bassist and leader Mario Pavone. Now in his 70th year, he's also in his 45th year in music, which in a lot of cases would understandably mark a slowing down or restatement of established values. But Pavone is nothing if not forward-looking. So while looking back to the ...

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Article: Interview

Nobu Stowe: Beyond Free

by Glenn Astarita
August 25, 2010

The music of NS (Nobu) Stowe is synonymous with the musical storytelling characterized with spontaneity and melodic romanticism--a true rarity in the field of fully improvised music. Stowe has not only mastered the art of total improvisation--a method of fully improvised music that embraces song-like melody, tonal harmony and rhythmic propulsion as well as more commonly ...

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Article: Live From New York

April 2010

by AAJ Staff
April 10, 2010

Myron Walden Jazz StandardNew York, NY March 9, 2010One of saxophonist Myron Walden's four new albums this year is called To Feel and, indeed, if a single quality stands out in Walden's music, it is deep and palpable feeling, a big emotional sweep carried off with great finesse by his ...

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Article: Album Review

The MacroQuarktet: Each Part a Whole: Live at the Stone

Read "Each Part a Whole: Live at the Stone" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
October 12, 2009

Pushing the boundaries of spontaneous expression, one of trumpeter Herb Robertson's latest projects is the MacroQuarktet with fellow trumpeter Dave Ballou and the formidable rhythm tandem of bassist Drew Gress and drummer Tom Rainey. Eschewing a blitzkrieg approach, the three improvisations on Each Part a Whole exude deliberative patience with ideas tested and developed into longer ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge / Swiss Jazz Orchestra / The Aggregation

by Jack Bowers
October 1, 2009

Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge The Comet's Tail MAMA Records 2009 On The Comet's Tail, Chuck Owen's superb Florida-based Jazz Surge performs the compositions--yes, compositions--of the late great tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker. As Owen writes in the liner notes, “[Michael's] blinding brilliance as a performer / improviser...may ...

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