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Anthony Braxton: 23 Standards

by Rex Butters
January 26, 2005

Anthony Braxton 23 Standards Leo Records 2004 Anthony Braxton returns with a 4-disc set that resumes where 2001's 8 Standards left off. 23 Standards features the same quartet as the previous release, again touring the archives of jazz and popular song composition to come up with a refreshing and varied ...

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Itaru Oki Unit: Live

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 23, 2005

Itaru Oki Unit Live Polystar 2004 Japanese trumpet player Itaru Oki is one of the pioneers of the free jazz scene in Japan, but for the past thirty years he's lived in France, first in Lyon and now in Paris, where he collaborated with fellow free-minded expatriates such ...

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Rolling Stones: Live Licks

by C. Michael Bailey
January 23, 2005

Rolling Stones Live Licks Virgin Records 2004 All About Jazz comrade Doug Collette has already astutely commented on this recording. I have been listening to it since entering Best Buy two weeks ago and, like a lemming marching into the sea, purchased it. I was not holding out very much ...

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The Way Up

by John Kelman
January 20, 2005

Like him or not, the one thing you cannot accuse guitar icon Pat Metheny of is complacency. Over the course of his thirty-year career he has tackled everything from the Midwestern folk sensibility of New Chautauqua to the free-spirited interplay of his collaboration with Ornette Coleman, Song X. But as significant and diverse as his solo ...

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Billy Bang: Untitled Gift

by Rex Butters
January 20, 2005

Billy Bang Untitled Gift 8th Harmonic Breakdown 2005 This essential set reactivates two historic sessions led by vibrant violinist Billy Bang. Like the legacies of too many innovators of the last 25 years, Bang's sweetness, bravado, and blues traveling the outlands languishes in small label vaults, like those ...

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Grachan Moncur III: Exploration

by Michael P. Gladstone
January 16, 2005

Grachan Moncur III Octet Exploration Capri Records 2004 After a lengthy absence, trombonist/composer Grachan Moncur III returns with his first album as a leader since 1977's Shadows (Denon Jazz). The trombonist is best known for his particiation on two Jackie McLean albums, One Step Beyond and Destination Out! ...

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Soweto Kinch: Soweto Kinch: Conversations With The Unseen

Read "Soweto Kinch: Conversations With The Unseen" reviewed by Mark Sabbatini

by Mark Sabbatini
January 13, 2005

The journey from disdain to serious respect takes about twenty seconds. It just requires two minutes to get there.Soweto Kinch opens Conversations With The Unseen with a hip-hop “welcome to the session" rap that might trick new listeners (guilty) into thinking a bunch of self-hyping doo-wop lies ahead. But the alto saxophonist literally blows ...

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The New Talent Jazz Orchestra: The Sound Of New York Jazz Underground

by Mark Sabbatini
January 13, 2005

The New Talent Jazz Orchestra The Sound Of New York Jazz Underground Fresh Sound New Talent 2004 Modern jazz fans could throw darts at a board listing Fresh Sound New Talent albums and probably hit a winner nine times out of ten. So leave it to this label ...

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Jimmy Smith: Retrospective

by John Kelman
January 10, 2005

Jimmy Smith Retrospective Blue Note 2004 With the proliferation of Hammond B-3 organ players that have emerged in the past ten years including Joey DeFrancesco, Larry Goldings, John Medeski and Dan Wall, it's hard to imagine a time when the instrument wasn't a common texture And, as the liner notes ...

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Miles Davis: A Tribute to Jack Johnson

by Paul Olson
January 9, 2005

Well, here it is, finally: the Miles Davis album A Tribute to Jack Johnson, newly remastered and affordably available to those unwilling or unable to pay for the five-disc Complete Jack Johnson Sessions, which has been available since 2003. That's been Columbia/Legacy's modus operandi for Bitches Brew, In a Silent Way, and now Jack Johnson: put ...