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Dick Hyman: Century of Jazz Piano

by Graham L. Flanagan
May 16, 2010

Dick Hyman Century of Jazz Piano Arbors Records 2010 This intimidating, six-disc set (five CDs and a DVD) succeeds on two key levels. Rarely do we find a release that is equally effective in terms of its value as both an educational tool and a source of entertainment. ...

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Wadada Leo Smith: Spirit Catcher

by Clifford Allen
May 12, 2010

Wadada Leo Smith Spirit Catcher Nessa Records 2009 Certainly, composition in jazz has gone well beyond head arrangements that bracket solos and group playing--sometimes approaching areas that sound so open as to seem free-form. Multi-instrumentalist, trumpeter and composer Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith is one of a number of ...

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Nat Birchall: Guiding Spirit

by Chris May
May 10, 2010

Nat BirchallGuiding SpiritGondwana Records2010 Who would have guessed that a group of musicians in the brash English city of Manchester would, in 2010, be rekindling the astral jazz forged by saxophonist Pharoah Sanders and harpist and pianist Alice Coltrane in the late 1960s? But it's happening, and happening ...

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Von Freeman: Vonski Speaks

by Clifford Allen
May 10, 2010

Von Freeman Vonski Speaks Nessa Records 2009 The “musician's musician" is a tiring phrase--assuming that only someone who actually plays an instrument can receive joy from listening to players such as tenor saxpohonists Dexter Gordon, Don Byas and Ike Quebec, trumpeter Dupree Bolton or drummer Walter Perkins. None ...

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Graham Collier: Darius / Midnight Blue / New Conditions

by Nic Jones
May 9, 2010

Graham Collier Music Darius / Midnight Blue / New Conditions BGO 2009 The benefit of hindsight reveals how the three LPs, recorded in the mid-1970s, collected here form the bridge between British bassist, composer and bandleader Graham Collier's early small group work and the expansion of tonal palette and compositional ...

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Grateful Dead: Crimson, White & Indigo - Philadelphia, July 7, 1989

by Doug Collette
May 8, 2010

Grateful Dead Crimson, White & Indigo: Philadelphia, July 7, 1989 Rhino 2010 Designed as if to represent a microcosm of its unique style of improvisation, Grateful Dead's Crimson White & Indigo, July 7, 1989 is a worthy companion piece to its predecessor--Truckin' Up to Buffalo: July 4, 1989 (Monterey Video, ...

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Luis Munoz: Invisible

by Raul d'Gama Rose
May 6, 2010

Luis Munoz Invisible Pelin Music 2010 Keyboardist and percussionist Luis Muñoz thinks with an open palette of sound. His aural vision embraces a wide spectrum of color and tone texture, from the sophisticated rough and tumble of trance-like Afro-centric ritual music to the delightful swing of idiomatic phrases that spring ...

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Anat Cohen: Clarinetwork Live At The Village Vanguard

by Dan Bilawsky
May 5, 2010

Anat Cohen Clarinetwork Live At The Village Vanguard Anzic Records 2010 For a jazz musician, performing and recording an album at New York's Village Vanguard is akin to an opera singer performing at the Metropolitan Opera. Both of these accomplishments signify a milestone in an ...

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Ray Charles: Genius + Soul = Jazz

by C. Michael Bailey
May 2, 2010

Ray Charles Genius + Soul = Jazz Concord Music 2010 Ray Charles spent the 1950s and 1960s transforming the atomic American musics of gospel, the blues, R&B and country into what has been tagged “soul." Should jazz have been immune to his considerable charms? No, of course not. During the ...

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John McLaughlin & the 4th Dimension: To The One

by Ian Patterson
April 23, 2010

John McLaughlin and The 4th Dimension To The One Abstract Logix 2010 It's seems like a while since John McLaughlin recorded in such a stripped down context with a working band. Recordings such as Industrial Zen(Verve, 2006) and Floating Point (Abstract Logix, 2008) found the ...