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Andrew Hill: Mosaic Select 16

by Jim Santella
March 16, 2005

Andrew Hill Mosaic Select 16 Mosaic Records 2005 All but six of the 31 tracks on this 3-CD boxed set from Mosaic have never been issued before. Recorded between 1967 and 1970, the mainstream jazz on Andrew Hill's Mosaic Select 16 represents the last remaining unissued sessions from his Blue ...

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Art Pepper: Mosaic Select 15

by Jim Santella
March 15, 2005

Art Pepper Mosaic Select 15 Mosaic Records 2005 Featuring Art Pepper's 1956 and 1957 Aladdin sessions, which have been issued on The Return of Art Pepper (Jazz West), Collections (Intro), Modern Art (Blue Note), Just Friends (Pacific Jazz), Solo Flight (Pacific Jazz), The Art of Pepper (Omega) and The Art ...

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Marc Ribot: Scelsi Morning

by Nenad Georgievski
March 15, 2005

Marc Ribot Scelsi Morning Tzadik 2005 It would be diminishing and inappropriate to say that Marc Ribot is an eclectic guitarist as too many artists fall into this category. Even using a term such as abstract is not suitable. What is certain is that his work defies categorization, it has ...

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Friends of Gravity: Thankful

by Paul Olson
March 6, 2005

Friends of Gravity Thankful Self Published 2005 The Louisiana groove trio known as Friends of Gravity aims its sound directly at Jamband Nation on its debut CD, Thankful. The group--consisting of Andy Bourgeois on a multitude of keyboards (and on the leadoff track “Horeshackin', tenor sax), Tommy Sciple on electric ...

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Ravi Coltrane: In Flux

by Mark F. Turner
March 5, 2005

Ravi Coltrane In Flux Savoy 2005 The progression of Ravi Coltrane as a musician and leader reaches a momentous level on his fourth recording, In Flux, his most striking and mature work to date. Having been in the jazz game for awhile, various roles have found him as a sideman ...

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Jim Pearce: Washington Square Park

by Paul Olson
March 3, 2005

Jim Pearce Washington Square Park Self Published 2005 Atlanta-based pianist Jim Pearce is such a busy working musician (he averages over four hundred gigs per year ) that one wonders how he even found the time to record his new CD Washington Square Park --his first since 2003's Thirty Year ...

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The Complete Mercury Art Farmer/Benny Golson/Jazztet Sessions

by Germein Linares
February 22, 2005

Art Farmer & Benny Golson The Complete Mercury Art Farmer/Benny Golson/Jazztet Sessions Mosaic Records 2004 Mosaic's 7-disc The Complete Argo/Mercury Art Farmer/Benny Golson/Jazztet Sessions is an extensive dissection of hard-bop's better proponents. In early '59, saxophonist Benny Golson was already playing with a formidable quintet of young players that included ...

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Jimmy Smith: Retrospective

by Germein Linares
February 22, 2005

Jimmy Smith Retrospective Blue Note Records 2004 Blue Note Records' 4-CD Retrospective is a 38-song summary of Jimmy Smith's music from 1956-62. Along with artists like Art Blakey and Horace Silver, Smith not only came to define the “Blue Note" sound, he also molded and enriched the genres of hard ...

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Cor Fuhler: Corkestra

by Clifford Allen
February 22, 2005

Cor Fuhler Corkestra Data Records 2004 Though a significant number of fluxus and neo-dada artists were in fact American and American expatriates, the penchant for obtuse, referential destructuralization did not catch on in American jazz as much as it did in European improvised music. One has only to ...

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Cecil Taylor Unit: One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye

by Jerry D'Souza
February 21, 2005

Cecil Taylor Unit One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye Hatology 2004 (1978) It seems to me that what music is, is everything that you do. Those words from pianist Cecil Taylor, in the documentary Imagine The Sound , are a pointer to his craft. A little ...