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Joe Zawinul: Faces & Places

Read "Faces & Places" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Joe Zawinul wants us to know a secret, if you take the portrait in the liner notes at face value: fusion never died. Zawinul made his reputation at the keyboards with Miles Davis and soared to stardom as the guiding light of Weather Report, a pinnacle of jazz-rock fusion which the genre has rarely surpassed. Lately ...

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Joe Zawinul: Faces & Places

Read "Faces & Places" reviewed by Jim Santella


At 70, Joe Zawinul can look back with a great deal of pride at his productive career. From Cannonball Adderley to Miles Davis, Weather Report, Zawinul Syndicate, and beyond, the Austrian-born artist has espoused many different aspects of the jazz form: always contemporary, and with a heavy emphasis on creative growth. Electronics play a major role ...

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Hangin' In The City

Label: ESC Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Overture; Wayne Out; Hangin' In The City; I Talk To The Trees; Down For The Count; Pastoral (to Jaco); Them I Came 2 My Senses; Seattle; Never Tell Her U Love Her; I Been Through This Before; One Thing Led To Another.

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Here

Label: ESC Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: 1. Take This! 2. Gemini 3. Back In The Day 4. Seven Groove Interlude 5. Tell It (Like It Is) 6. Big Foot 7. The Clave Groove 8. Billy Groove Interlude 9. Believe Me 10. Solid 11. Baby You're A Rich Man 12. Just For Kicks 13. Seven Groove Interlude 14. The Battle's Over (For Jaco)

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That's Right

Label: ESC Records
Released: 2001

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Dean Brown: Here

Read "Here" reviewed by Phil DiPietro


During my youth in Boston I was blessed to have witnessed its most fertile output (or was it throughput) of jazz guitarists in its history. From 1976 through around 1984, a handful of clubs that charged nominal or no cover played host, on any given night, to one or more of the following list of jazz ...

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Randy Brecker: Hangin' In The City

Read "Hangin' In The City" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


A true stylist who has performed with a who's who of jazz, pop and jazz-fusion artists, trumpeter Randy Brecker's latest solo effort includes his equally renowned brother, saxophonist Michael Brecker and vibraphonist Joe Locke along with perennial studio musicians; guitarist Hiram Bullock, bassist Will Lee and others. Here, Brecker injects a bit of whimsy into a ...

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Randy Brecker: Hangin' In The City

Read "Hangin' In The City" reviewed by AAJ Staff


The looming question on Hangin' In The City is the identity of the mysterious cosmic contributor, Randroid. What do you think? Whoever he is, this Randroid guy does a lot of vocals, and he's using Randy Brecker's lyrics. And he's put together something with Hangin' In The City that aims for pure slurpy pop. (Admittedly, there's ...

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Soul Insider

Label: ESC Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Van's Joint; Cool Eddie; Lose My Number; Cheeks; You Sure Look Good To Me; Big Mama; Sneaky; Gimme Some; Older Days; Thump; The Shorty Shuffle;

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Low Blow

Label: ESC Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Lowblow; Sweet Tooth; City Living; Do You Know Who/Continuum; Knee-Jerk Reaction; She Left Me; Graham Cracker; Babytalk; Feels Like a Hug; Brain Teaser.  (57:24)


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