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Getatchew Mekurya: Negus Of Ethiopian Sax
by Chris May
Getatchew Mekurya Ethiopiques 14: Negus Of Ethiopian Sax Buda Musique 2003 Buda Musique's mind-expanding Ethiopiques series--23 discs strong and counting--is a treasure trove of strange and wonderful music, none more so than that contained on Negus Of Ethiopian Sax, which is devoted to tenor saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya and ...
Michael Musillami Trio with Mark Feldman: The Treatment
by Troy Collins
Michael Musillami Trio with Mark Feldman The Treatment Playscape Recordings 2007 The Treatment offers two views of the current incarnation of guitarist Michael Musillami's working group by bundling a studio recording with live performance video. Violinist Mark Feldman was invited by Musillami to join his long-standing trio with bassist Joe ...
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Caravan
by Samuel Chell
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Caravan Riverside Keepnews Collection 2007 Given the limited activity of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for the Riverside label, Caravan is a somewhat curious early entry in the string of remasters making up the Keepnews Collection. Even avid collectors of the band's recordings tend to ...
Zeitkratzer and Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music
by John Eyles
Zeitkratzer and Lou Reed Metal Machine Music Asphodel 2007 The original Metal Machine Music (RCA, 1975) may be the most notorious and controversial album ever released by a major rock star. Possible competitors? Two Virgins (Apple, 1968)? Self Portrait (CBS, 1970)? Not even close. When first released, MMM was almost ...
Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio: Terminal Valentine
by Lyn Horton
Fred Lonberg-Holm Terminal Valentine Atavistic 2007 Recalibrating the idea of a piano-less jazz trio by excluding a wind instrument and including a cello takes a certain amount of chutzpah. But in 2000, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm convened such a trio to record music honoring the cellist Fred Katz, who ...
Chu Berry: Classic Columbia And Victor Sessions
by AAJ Staff
Chu Berry Classic Columbia And Victor Sessions Mosaic Records 2007 Loren Schoenberg gets to the heart of saxophonist Chu Berry's story near the end of his superlative liners when he notes that “Ghost Of A Chance," the 1940 ballad feature recorded by Cab Calloway's Orchestra in response ...
Don Friedman: Waltz For Marilyn
by A. Henkin
Don Friedman Waltz For Marilyn Jazz Excursion Records 2007 In jazz, for all of its love of the all-star session, the long-term collaboration is of utmost importance. There have been many such relationships: bassist Charles Mingus and reed player Eric Dolphy, saxophonist John Coltrane and drummer Elvin Jones, ...
David S. Ware Quartet: Renunciation
by Matthew Sumera
David S. Ware Quartet Renunciation Aum Fidelity 2007 While it is always tempting to over-praise the final work of any major artist--in this case arguably the greatest jazz combo of the last twenty years--sometimes a more measured, nuanced approach is useful. After all, hagiography does little to situate such works ...
Sarane Ferret, Django Reinhardt & Others: Gypsy Jazz
by Chris May
Sarane Ferret, Django Reinhardt & Others Gypsy Jazz Proper Records 2007 This wonderful 4CD collection of Gypsy jazz--an Aladdin's Cave of rarities, curiosities and lesser known virtuosi of the genre--covers the first twenty or so years of the music's history. Disc one starts in 1934, with future Quintette Du Hot ...
Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd Quartet: Early And Late
by Nic Jones
Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd Quartet Early And Late Cuneiform Records 2007 You're off to a good start when a band is headed by two of the most distinctive musicians ever to grace our music, and this two-disc set proves that in abundance. It proves also that both saxophonist Steve Lacy and ...
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