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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Vinson Valega

by AAJ Staff
February 25, 2010

Meet Vinson Valega: Vinson grew up in a musical family near Washington, D.C., studying classical piano from age seven until switching to the drums when he was 12. He played drums for three years in the All-County Jazz Ensemble during high school and subsequently held the drum chair in the University of Pennsylvania Big ...

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Article: Album Review

John Butcher & Mark Sanders / Alex Ward & Roger Turner / John Tchicai & Tony Marsh: Treader Duos

Read "Treader Duos" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
December 11, 2009

These three contrasting reeds/drums duos are a fine record of the concert at which they were recorded, in February 2008 at St Giles-in-the-Fields church, London. Each of the three tracks lasts about twenty five minutes, long enough for the duos to give a good account of themselves. The three tracks give an opportunity to hear some ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Bobby Bradford: With John Stevens and the Spontaneous Music Ensemble

by Clifford Allen
October 23, 2009

Bobby Bradford With John Stevens and the Spontaneous Music Ensemble Nessa Records 2009 In the instances that European and American improvisers have commingled and produced concerts and recordings, especially in the halcyon days of European free improvisation (the 1970s), a significant number of these situations resulted from expatriation. And it's ...

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Article: Album Review

Taylor Ho Bynum / Spider Monkey Strings: Madeleine Dreams

Read "Madeleine Dreams" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
September 21, 2009

That this is cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum's fourth leadership date so far this year speaks volumes about his growing stature as a bandleader, writer and virtuoso instrumentalist. Justly known as one of celebrated composer/saxophonist Anthony Braxton's foremost interpreters over the last decade, Bynum's star now shines even more brightly in the creative music firmament, thanks to ...

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Article: Interview

Ornette Coleman: Music is a Verb

by Warren Allen
September 21, 2009

"Some people think of music as being on some higher level," Ornette Coleman says by phone from his apartment in New York City. “But basically it's the human being that receives the pleasure from sound. Not from the argument over what it is." There are a lot of questions about Ornette Coleman and ...

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Article: Live Review

Montreal Jazz Festival: Days 4-6, July 4-6, 2009

by John Kelman
July 8, 2009

Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 Joshua Redman By Invitation Day 1 / Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band Joshua Redman By Invitation Day 2 / Kenny Werner QuintetJeff Beck / Anat CohenFestival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 4-6 2009

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Article: Extended Analysis

CODONA: The CODONA Trilogy

by Jeff Stockton
May 16, 2009

CODONA The CODONA Trilogy ECM Records 2009 Somewhere along the way “world music" became a suspect term. Mixed up with the concept of “new age," it makes you think more about hemp clothing, crystal therapy and holistic healing than the sort of basic elemental sounds trumpeter Don Cherry pioneered in ...

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Article: Interview

Brian Blade: Songs From His Heart

by R.J. DeLuke
April 21, 2009

Known in the jazz world for his slick and superlative drumming skills, Brian Blade is engaged in making other musical statements these days. Statements that are outside the jazz genre, but are an essential part of this enlightened man and serious musician whose musical tastes run “between Bela Bartok and Wayne Shorter to Al Green," who, ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings

by Clifford Allen
January 19, 2009

Anthony BraxtonThe Complete Arista RecordingsMosaic2008 Few artists in the realm of improvised music can claim as important or varied a series of recordings as reedman-composer Anthony Braxton did during his contract to Arista Records in the 1970s. With the financial backing provided by what was then an upstart ...

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