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Article: Interview

Eliane Elias: Something for Bill (Evans)

Read "Eliane Elias: Something for Bill (Evans)" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke


The brilliant pianist Eliane Elias, who hails from the land of so much beautiful indigenous music, but calls American jazz her first love, has always been touched by the music of Bill Evans. It started at childhood. “The first that I remember, I was about ten or eleven years old," she says, recalling listening ...

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Article: Live Review

IAJE 2008: Cool Jazz in a Cool City - Take 2

Read "IAJE 2008: Cool Jazz in a Cool City - Take 2" reviewed by Ken Dryden


I have been to every IAJE conference beginning in 2000 (New Orleans), but the 2008 Toronto event was a bit unusual in many ways. First of all, many of the folks I usually run into did not attend, possibly because the drop of the U.S. dollar vs. the Canadian Looney, the lack of the required passport, ...

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Article: Album Review

Arturo Stable: Notes on Canvas

Read "Notes on Canvas" reviewed by Russ Musto


Like so many of his Cubano compatriots, several of whom join him on this, his second date as a leader, percussionist/composer Arturo Stable is expanding the range of what is commonly called Latin jazz--and indeed scope of jazz itself--with original compositions that are drawn from myriad musical influences and, in the case of Notes on Canvas, ...

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Article: Album Review

Trio M: Big Picture

Read "Big Picture" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell


Superficially, the combination of pianist Myra Melford, bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Matt Wilson might seem unusual, though the three have previously commingled. Melford and Dresser are known for their work in freer contexts or exploring extended compositional forms, while Wilson--by no means a neo-traditionalist--has forged a reputation playing more established forms and grooves. After years ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Benny Goodman: The Essential & With Benny in Mind

Read "Benny Goodman: The Essential & With Benny in Mind" reviewed by Ken Dryden


Benny Goodman The Essential Benny Goodman Columbia/Bluebird/Legacy 2007 Allan Vaché With Benny in Mind Arbors 2006 By the time of his death in 1987, clarinetist Benny Goodman was firmly ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Frank Foster: Well Water & Manhattan Fever

Read "Frank Foster: Well Water & Manhattan Fever" reviewed by Marcia Hillman


Frank Foster Well Water Piadrum 2006 Frank Foster Manhattan Fever Blue Note 2007 Well Water--Frank Foster leading an exciting 20-piece big band--was recorded in 1977 and never ...

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Article: Year in Review

C. Andrew Hovan's Top Jazz Picks For 2007

Read "C. Andrew Hovan's Top Jazz Picks For 2007" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan


Taking time to reflect back on the year in jazz music brought with it mixed emotions in regards to the current state of the record industry in America. Without a doubt, the affects of internet downloads and other ways of acquiring music, both legal and illegal, have had a huge impact on the amount of product ...

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Article: Album Review

Steve Lehman Quintet: On Meaning

Read "On Meaning" reviewed by Troy Collins


Saxophonist Steve Lehman is a Fulbright scholar and former student of legendary saxophonists Jackie McLean and Anthony Braxton. His recent collaborations with pianist Vijay Iyer and guitarist Liberty Ellman have found him further expanding the intricate polyrhythms and asymmetrical structures that define the M- Base aesthetic. Incorporating the angular polyphony of Braxton's concepts with the advanced ...

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Article: Album Review

Ron Blake: Shayari

Read "Shayari" reviewed by Greg Camphire


Following excursions in the worlds of pop, funk and Latin music, saxophonist Ron Blake veers back towards jazz with Shayari, a series of acoustic duets and trios featuring a revolving lineup of A-list sidemen. Mixing up original compositions written or co-written by Blake along with a handful of standards, the album is a varied and well-paced ...

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Article: Highly Opinionated

The Unfinished Score

Read "The Unfinished Score" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


In the act and art of writing--whether word or music, prose or poetry, a writer is almost completely lost in the creative challenge; the adventure that unfolds as words or notes start to appear on the page or in between the lines and spaces of a score sheet--both of which start off blank--is both exciting and ...


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