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Don Menza Big Band: Menza Lines

by Jack Bowers
August 31, 2005

Don Menza Big Band Menza Lines Jazzed Media 2005 Menza Lines is the second big-band album recorded in October '04 during Stratospheric, the Los Angeles Jazz Institute's salute to the music and career of high-note trumpet maestro Maynard Ferguson. Like the first one, Bill Holman Live, it's a ...

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John Santos & The Machete Ensemble: 20th Anniversary

by Forrest Dylan Bryant
August 28, 2005

John Santos & The Machete Ensemble 20th Anniversary Machete Records 2005 When percussionist John Santos founded the Machete Ensemble in 1985--back then it was called the Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble--he probably had no idea that he was creating an institution. With a difficult mission of blending jazz, folkloric, and dance idioms ...

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Rory Gallagher: Big Guns

by Doug Collette
August 28, 2005

Rory Gallagher Big Guns: The Very Best of Rory Gallagher Sony/BMG/Legacy 2005 Rory Gallagher is the unsung hero of contemporary blues-rock guitar. Unlike his peers who compromised their loyalty to the genre for the sake of commercial acceptance( Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page for example) the feisty Irishman ...

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Tantric Triage: Entromological Etudes

by Jack Gold-Molina
August 25, 2005

Tantric Triage Entromological Etudes Zzaj and Kramtones 2005 “Arthropod Aerobics" opens this set of musical movements with bass keys in rhythm interjected with shots of synthesizer; tonal and sound beings float on top of the structure causing fear and agitation. Buzzing, like being attacked in your sleep by menacing things ...

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Vandermark 5: Alchemia

by Michael McCaw
August 25, 2005

Vandermark 5 Alchemia Not Two Records 2005When Ken Vandermark was awarded the MacArthur Genius Grant in 1999, a lot of eyebrows and questions were raised. Past jazz oriented recipients had included such luminaries as Ornette Coleman, Steve Lacy, Cecil Taylor, and Anthony Braxton; Vandermark's name carried little recognition ...

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Don Cherry: Symphony For Improvisors

by Renato Wardle
August 23, 2005

Don Cherry Symphony For Improvisers Blue Note 2005 (1966) By September of 1966, the so-called “free jazz" movement was in full swing. It had been nearly six years since Ornette Coleman's highly controversial landmark residency at the Five Spot. Cecil Taylor had recently been pushing the limits of ...

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First Dance

by Bill Siegel
August 15, 2005

What do a Mescalero Apache electric bassist, a Michoacan-Mexican percussionist, a Chicano guitarist, a Nicaraguan-Jewish drummer, and French-Iranian, Argentine and Chinese-American saxophonists have in common with John Coltrane and Jim Pepper?The answer comes in the form of John-Carlos Perea's First Dance. Perea--who plays fretted and unfretted electric bass--produced the CD and composed all but ...

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Bill Evans Trio: Sunday At The Village Vanguard & Waltz for Debby

by C. Michael Bailey
August 10, 2005

To look at Bill Evans in the 1950s and '60s, one might think that he was the most unlikely looking jazz titan to ever depress a piano key. Thin and bespectacled with a dweeb's haircut, Evan's was the picture of a bookish intellectual. He was well versed in the European Impressionism of Les Six and Debussy, ...

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Charles Mingus: Mingus At Antibes

Read "Mingus At Antibes" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
August 10, 2005

Charles Mingus. You just have to know that he would have nudged, cajoled, or bullied his way into the top of this list, even twenty years after his death. Mingus at Antibes is a kinetic, frenetic, dysthymic document of the genius of an overly stimulated, overly indulgent, and overly gifted personality. Mingus was not unlike Mozart ...

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Sonny Rollins: A Night At The Village Vanguard

by C. Michael Bailey
August 10, 2005

Sonny Rollins A Night At The Village Vanguard Blue Note 99795 1957/1999 (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) Located on 7th Avenue just below West 11th Street in New York City's Greenwich Village, the Village Vanguard has been the seat of live jazz since the 1940s. Ninety-one live recordings have ...