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News: Award / Grant

Philadelphia Music Project Announces 2009 Grant Awards

April 21, 2009

Support from the Philadelphia Music Project brings 118 Events to the Philadelphia region Nineteen local music organizations receive almost $1.2 million in funding Philadelphia, PA -- The Philadelphia Music Project (PMP), a program of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, has awarded $1,179,675 to 19 local music organizations in support of 118 concerts and residency ...

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Article: Album Review

Search: Today Is Tomorrow

Read "Today Is Tomorrow" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 7, 2009

The Brooklyn-based quartet Search is molded after Ornette Coleman's classic quartet. Reed player Matthew Maly, trumpeter RJ Avallone, bassist David Moss and drummer Bryson Kern worked on their debut, Today Is Tomorrow, for two years, with continued encouragement from Coleman himself and additional assistance from Coleman's Prime Time/current bassist Al McDowell, who beautifully captured the sonic ...

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News: Interview

Saxophonist Jessica Jones Interviewed at AAJ

March 24, 2009

Tenor saxophonist Jessica Jones has worked with the likes of Joseph Jarman, Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Steve Coleman and Peter Apfelbaum. A current resident of Brooklyn, NY, she lives with her saxophonist/husband Tony and is a long time jazz educator focusing on children to develop their talent for improvising, composition and oral tradition. She has previously ...

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Article: Interview

Jessica Jones: More "Word"

by Mark Corroto
March 24, 2009

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Article: Interview

Jochen Pfister: Touring with Sheila Jordan

by AAJ Staff
March 6, 2009

German pianist Jochen Pfister had played in workshops with Sheila Jordan in Germany and, at her invitation, in the United States. In 2008, while in Cologne, he asked her if she might be interested in a German tour. “Yes" was the answer, and now it's about happen The first gig is Friday Match 6, 2009, in ...

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Article: Interview

Gary Husband: There were these three Yorkshiremen...

by Ian Patterson
February 16, 2009

Gary Husband has long cemented his reputation as one of fusion's premier drummers--hell, even Billy Cobham thought two was better than one and hired him as a second drummer. Husband's flexibility has seen him drum in the NDR Big Band, with jazz-funk outfit Level 42, and in a trio format with guitarist Robin Trower and bassist ...

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Article: Live From New York

February 2009

by AAJ Staff
February 7, 2009

Jeff “Tain" WattsJeff Tain" WattsWinter JazzfestLe Poisson RougeNew York City January 10, 2009The big draw of Winter Jazzfest was drummer Jeff “Tain" Watts' midnight set at Le Poisson Rouge Jan. 10th in honor of Max Roach's birthday, with Terence Blanchard (trumpet), Branford Marsalis (tenor and soprano ...

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Article: Music and the Creative Spirit

Paal Nilssen-Love: Transforming the Boundaries of Creative Music

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
February 2, 2009

He learned to play the drums before he could walk, battled cancer before the age of thirty, and is a driving force behind several of today's most innovative and progressive bands (Atomic, The Thing, Ken Vandermark, Frode Gjerstad and the Peter Brotzmann Tentet) just to name a few. He has taken the drums to new creative ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Don Cherry: Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966 Volume Two

by Henry Smith
January 30, 2009

Don Cherry Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966 Volume Two ESP Disk 2008 Trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Don Cherry has long been a somewhat enigmatic figure. His well known beginnings with saxophonist Ornette Coleman soon gave way to Cherry's increasing interest in world music, where he would become an important ...

Article: Album Review

Don Cherry: Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966 - Vol. 2

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 12, 2009

Il periodo a cavallo tra il 1965 il 1966 è certamente un momento tra i più significativi nella carriera di Don Cherry. Il baricentro della sua vita si è spostato prepotentemente in Europa, ma alla vigilia di Natale del 1965 è nei classici studi di Rudy van Gelder che il trombettista registra il primo capolvaoro a ...