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Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band: Mosaic Select

by Samuel Chell
July 6, 2009

Jazz was never more schizophrenic than in the 1970s. On the one hand, musicians equally savvy about mixing genres and running mixing boards were selling out arenas and producing lucrative, widely played albums, with bass-heavy danceable beats or soothing instrumental sounds tailor-made for air play on FM radio. At the other extreme, many of the jazz ...

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Ralph Bowen: Dedicated

by Blaine Fallis
July 2, 2009

Ralph Bowen Dedicated Posi-Tone Records 2009 Tenor saxophonist Ralph Bowen's Dedicated is a project that was nurtured and produced by Posi-tone Records' founder Marc Free, who felt that Bowen was under-appreciated by the jazz public at large. Bowen has influenced hundreds of players through his teaching position at ...

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Andy Milne & Benoit Delbecq: Where Is Pannonica?

by Martin Gladu
July 2, 2009

Andy Milne & Benoit Delbecq Where Is Pannonica? Songlines Recordings 2009 Welcome to the third dimension. The product of their 2008 winter residency at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, Where Is Pannonica? seals the longstanding, twinlike affinity between pianists Andy Milne and Benoit Delbecq in one truly ...

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Steve Kuhn Trio with Joe Lovano: Mostly Coltrane

by John Kelman
June 30, 2009

Although he's spent most of his career focusing on interpreting the music of others, pianist Steve Kuhn's albums for the ECM label have largely been about his small but significant repertoire of original music. Which makes Mostly Coltrane a real anomaly by comparison to earlier works like those reissued in the three-CD box set Life's Backward ...

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The Half Naked Truth (1998-2008)

by Marc Medwin
June 13, 2009

Jonas Kullhammar The Half Naked Truth (1998-2008) Moserobie 2009 In celebration of its tenth anniversary, Swedish saxophonist Jonas Kullhammar's quartet drops an eight-disc set of live tracks and studio recordings. It traces the group's development as this energetic quartet comes to terms with a formidable musical legacy that ...

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Emil Viklicky: Emil Viklicky 60

by Victor Verney
June 12, 2009

Emil Viklicky Emil Viklicky 60 Multisonic 2009 Imagine Barack Obama introducing, say, keyboard player Herbie Hancock for a live concert at the White House on the occasion of Hancock's 60th birthday (a milestone, incidentally, that Hancock reached on April 12, 2000). Pianist Emil Viklicky's latest CD was created ...

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Nathan Davis: The Best of Nathan Davis '65-'76

by Clifford Allen
June 11, 2009

Nathan Davis The Best of Nathan Davis '65-'76 Jazzman 2009 The concept of a “Best Of" album seems like it should be set aside for those musicians who have entered the popular consciousness to the degree that a sampler disc would be an easy sell. In jazz, canonical ...

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Tina Brooks: Back To The Tracks

by Matt Marshall
June 4, 2009

Tina Brooks Back To The Tracks Blue Note / Music Matters 2009 (1985) Although probably not the intention, Back To The Tracks appropriately labels saxophonist Tina Brooks' mode of operation during the 1960 Blue Note sessions that would produce this album. Going unreleased until Mosaic put it out ...

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Orchestre National de Jazz: Around Robert Wyatt

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
May 30, 2009

Orchestre National de JazzAround Robert WyattBee Jazz2009 Hearing that France's National Jazz Orchestra has prepared a program of music by Robert Wyatt, the venerable sage of English rock and roll, is intriguing, but not necessarily shocking. After all, the legendary Soft Machine, for which Wyatt served as drummer ...

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The Arab Roots of Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain

by John Murnane
May 17, 2009

Miles Davis Sketches Of Spain Columbia 1960 His biographer Ian Carr called trumpeter Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue (Columbia, 1959) “one of the seminal albums, and one of the most enduring classics, of jazz." It was, indeed, a pioneering leap into modal jazz, and most Davis fans would ...