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Odean Pope: Odean's List

Read "Odean's List" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
May 27, 2010

Though best known for his lengthy tenure accompanying legendary drummer Max Roach, Philadelphia-based tenor saxophonist Odean Pope has long demonstrated a flair for writing and arranging that is as impressive as his sideman work. His most arresting compositions have been conceived for his decades-old Saxophone Choir, while smaller-scale projects have featured his improvisational prowess in collaboration ...

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Giuseppi Logan: The Giuseppi Logan Quintet

by Clifford Allen
April 8, 2010

Giuseppi Logan The Giuseppi Logan Quintet Tompkins Square 2010 In terms of surprising musical rediscoveries, 2010 has started off rather auspiciously with the first recording of reedman and composer Giuseppi Logan in over 40 years. Logan's appearances in the heady days of New York's fire music were scattered but strong ...

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Curtis Clark, Marilyn Lerner and Chad Taylor: Chasing the Piano

by Clifford Allen
March 12, 2010

November 15, 2010 will mark the 75th anniversary of the first recorded jazz piano-trio session, with pianist Jess Stacy, bassist Israel Crosby and drummer Gene Krupa recording for UK Parlophone ("Barrelhouse" and “The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise"). Certainly much has happened in jazz and improvised music since that date, but the piano ...

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Marion Brown: Why Not?

by Clifford Allen
January 13, 2010

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 ...

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European Jazz Jamboree 2009

by AAJ Staff
November 18, 2009

European Jazz JamboreeBerlin, GermanySeptember 18-24, 200920 years after the Berlin Wall came down, the global appreciation of Germany's jazz is arguably finally getting its due, with no small help from the European Jazz Jamboree (EJJ). In its sophomore year, EJJ has quickly garnered attention throughout Europe, and now the States, too, is (and/or ...

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David S. Ware Quartet: Live in Vilnius

by Clifford Allen
October 19, 2009

David S. Ware Live in Vilnius No Business 2009 The year 2009 could be a rather big year for tenor saxophonist and improvising composer David S. Ware, and that's saying a lot. After all, Ware has long been one of the most celebrated figures in free jazz, owing not only ...

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Suoni Per Il Popolo 2009

by Mathieu Belanger
August 9, 2009

Suoni Per Il Popolo FestivalMontreal, CanadaJune 2009For the ninth time since 2001, the whole month of June in Montreal was the affair of the Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival. In past years, it would take place at Casa del Popolo and La Sala Rossa, a logical choice since the festival is the brainchild ...

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Vinnie Sperrazza: Peak Inn

Read "Peak Inn" reviewed by Clifford Allen

by Clifford Allen
June 3, 2009

The piano trio is a medium that became immensely popular with Bill Evans' meteoric rise on the international scene in the '50s and has remained an astonishingly equilateral creative outlet for an extraordinary array of harmonic and rhythmic complexity. However, there aren't a lot of groups taking the chances available to them, instead mining the standard ...

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Take Five With Steve Lehman

by AAJ Staff
May 18, 2009

Meet Steve Lehman: Named a Rising Star on the alto saxophone in 2006, 2007, and 2008 by the Down Beat Magazine International Critics Poll, Steve Lehman is a saxophonist and composer whose work resides on the frontier of contemporary music. He has been recognized as one of today's truly original creative voices by The ...

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