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Phil Kelly and the SW Santa Ana Winds: My Museum

by Jack Bowers
October 27, 2006

Phil Kelly and the SW Santa Ana Winds My Museum Origin Records 2006 To paraphrase the peerless Bard of Avon, a wind from any other clime would blow as hot--or as cool. Last year, composer/arranger Phil Kelly happily introduced big band enthusiasts to the turbulent NW Prevailing Winds (Seattle) on ...

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John Coltrane: Fearless Leader

by John Kelman
October 24, 2006

John Coltrane Fearless Leader Prestige Records 2006 By the time saxophonist John Coltrane headed into the studio in May of 1957--for the first of nine sessions as a leader that would result in eleven albums released on Prestige between 1957 and 1965-- his reputation was already well-established. Coltrane was now ...

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Buddy Guy: Can't Quit The Blues

by Jim Santella
October 22, 2006

Buddy Guy Can't Quit The Blues Legacy Recordings 2006 The Silvertone/Legacy release of this three-CD box set, with DVD documentary, follows blues legend Buddy Guy's career from his arrival in Chicago in 1957 up to the present day. The soulful singer/guitarist pours emotion into his performances--track after track, night after ...

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Nucleus: UK Tour '76

by Roger Farbey
October 19, 2006

Nucleus UK Tour '76 MLP 2006 Mike Dixon, of the record label Major League Productions (MLP), by his own admission doesn't know much about jazz, but he does know what he likes. This recording--spanning over 100 minutes of a recorded-for-radio Nucleus concert at Britain's Loughborough University in February 1976, and ...

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Mort Weiss Meets Sam Most: Recorded Live At Steamers

by Samuel Chell
October 18, 2006

Mort Weiss and Sam Most Mort Weiss Meets Sam Most: Recorded Live at Steamers SMS Jazz 2006 If a quieter recording has been produced by a jazz quintet, I have yet to hear it. In fact, any listener who breathes too heavily while playing this CD may be forgiven for ...

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Weather Report: Forecast: Tomorrow

by Ronald S. Russ
October 13, 2006

Weather Report Forecast: Tomorrow Columbia/Legacy 2006 If you followed jazz during the 1970s you were well aware of Weather Report. They consistently won the Down Beat readers' poll for jazz group of the year and helped forge a link between jazz, rock, and what would be later termed world music. ...

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The Great Deceiver (Live 1973-1974)

by John Kelman
October 12, 2006

Despite bassist/stick player Tony Levin stepping in to replace departing touch guitarist Trey Gunn, the incarnation of King Crimson that released The ConstruKction Of Light (Virgin, 2000) and considerably stronger The Power To Believe (Sanctuary, 2003) seems to be, at the very least, on hiatus. While Crimson's only remaining original member, guitarist Robert ...

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Weather Report: Forecast: Tomorrow

by John Kelman
October 11, 2006

While the virtuosity of its members was never in dispute, of all the groups that emerged in the 1970s fusion era, Weather Report was the one that best avoided the trappings of excess--the victory of technical facility over musical substance to which other bands of the time fell prey. However, despite an auspicious beginning that leaned ...

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Lee Konitz: New Nonet

by A. Henkin
October 7, 2006

Lee Konitz New Nonet OmniTone 2006 The latter part of the '70s found alto saxophonist Lee Konitz leading a nonet (after a couple of unofficial and partial attempts in 1959 and 1967). The group made albums in 1976 (Roulette), 1977 (Chiaroscuro) and 1979 (SteepleChase and Soul Note). In 2003, a ...

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Steve Reich: Phases: A Nonesuch Retrospective

by John Kelman
October 6, 2006

When the history book is written on the minimalist scene that emerged in the 1960s, it's likely that composer Steve Reich will emerge as the most influential figure. Certainly artists including Philip Glass and Terry Riley have made extremely significant contributions to contemporary classical music and have evolved, like Reich, beyond the inherent constraints of the ...