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Article: Live Review

The Autumn of Their Year: The Benevento/Russo Duo Live

by Doug Collette
September 16, 2005

Ya gotta love The Duo! Marco Benevento and Joe Russo obviously relish taking the stage and playing with each other for any audience that will come to see them. This early fall/late summer show, billed as a “Back to School concert was the largest audience the Duo have gotten at HG, and the late night finish, ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Rory Gallagher: Big Guns

by Doug Collette
August 28, 2005

Rory Gallagher Big Guns: The Very Best of Rory Gallagher Sony/BMG/Legacy 2005 Rory Gallagher is the unsung hero of contemporary blues-rock guitar. Unlike his peers who compromised their loyalty to the genre for the sake of commercial acceptance( Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page for example) the feisty Irishman ...

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Article: Live Review

Finding His Own Level: Trey Anastasio Live In Boston

by Doug Collette
August 13, 2005

August 4th in Boston was not your Trey Anastasio show on April Fools Day back in Vermont. The two-set performance at the Bank of America Pavilion was, in contrast, well- paced and structured to accent the momentum of the material, much of which was new and served to provide what may have been subliminal focus for ...

Article: Jazz Journal

August 2005

by Doug Collette
August 7, 2005

McCoy Tyner Counterpoints: Live in Tokyo Milestone 2004 Recorded in Japan in 1978 at the Live Under the Sky Festival, this title could quite conceivably go directly into the must-hear category of the great pianist's discography just by dint of his collaborators: bassist Ron Carter and the late ...

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Article: Album Review

Chris Whitley: Soft Dangerous Shores

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by Doug Collette
July 28, 2005

Soft Dangerous Shores is something of a companion piece to Chris Whitley's last album with a band, Hotel Vast Horizon, right down to the closing piece played virtually solo on banjo. If there's anything more haunting than silence and space, as on the ever so sparse predecessor, it's the judicious use of effects--and that's what's at ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Charlie Hunter: Renaissance Man of Jazz

by Doug Collette
July 27, 2005

Groovemeister Charlie Hunter is one of the most innovative musicians in contemporary jazz right now and one of the most prolific as well. Not only does the 8-string guitarist front his own band---currently a trio, formerly a quintet--he also tours regularly with Garage a Trois. In addition, in 2004 he initiated a series of recordings with ...

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Article: Film Review

The Dead Keep On: Truckin' Up to Buffalo

by Doug Collette
July 17, 2005

Grateful Dead Truckin' Up to Buffalo Grateful Dead Prod/Monterey Media 2005 A plethora of books have been published since the death of Grateful Dead founder/ leader Jerry Garcia ten years ago (in August). Written by insiders and bandmembers, factual and observed histories and journals, none capture the essence of this ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Jerry Garcia Lives... In More Ways Than One!

by Doug Collette
June 26, 2005

Jerry Garcia Merriweather-Post Pavilion Live at Keystone Korner Pure Jerry 2004, 2005 Jerry Garcia may embody the essence of non-conformism, but he honored musical tradition like perhaps no other musicians of his generation. Flaunt it as he might've with the Grateful Dead, when he took respite ...

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Article: Live Review

Discover Jazz Festival 2005 Burlington VT: Bouncing Around the Room(s)

by Doug Collette
June 24, 2005

Each year Burlington's Discover Jazz does an admirable job in providing jazz fans a chance to hear music to suit their taste, reaffirm their taste or broaden their taste, and this year is certainly no exception... Bill Charlap Trio/Flynnspace - Monday, June 6 One wonders if the approach of The Bill Charlap Trio was ...

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Article: Album Review

Miles Davis: Miles Davis: Round About Midnight (Legacy Edition)

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by Doug Collette
June 23, 2005

Miles DavisRound About MidnightColumbia/Legacy2005 (1956)The detail to which Sony Music's Miles Davis reissue series lends itself is a pretty good example of how far ahead of his time the trumpeter/bandleader actually was. Packages such as this Legacy Edition of Round About Midnight suggest we are just beginning to ...