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Little Feat: Highwire Act Live in St. Louis 2003
by C. Michael Bailey
Highwire Act Live in St. Louis 2003 Hot Tomato 2004 Little Feat and the Allman Brothers Band have much in common. Both bands incurred losses of integral personnel (Lowell George in the case of Little Feat and Duane Allman in the case of the Allman Brothers Band). Both bands realized ...
Jon Weber: Simple Complex
by Matt Merewitz
Jon Weber Simple Complex SecondCenturyJazz Records 2004 Jon Weber is a virtuoso, pure and simple. Weber delivers what amounts to a five star effort if only for his program of all original compositions, incisive in its compositional aesthetic. Just to set the record straight, we are not talking ...
J.S. Bach - The Complete Orchestral Suites
by C. Michael Bailey
As prolific a composer (and patriarch) as Johann Sebastian Bach was, he managed to compose a precious few instrumental orchestral works. Besides solo instrument concertos, there exist only the six Brandenburg Concertos and the four Orchestral Suites. The fact that these two sets of orchestral compositions are instrumental may be all they have in common. The ...
Robert Josp
by Peter Aaron
Robert Jospé and Inner Rhythm Hands On Random Chance 2004 Hands On is drummer Robert Jospé's third release as a leader and his first for New York's Random Chance label. Jospé, whose credits include work with hard bop icon Joe Henderson, as well as Dave Liebman, Pat Metheny, ...
Mosaic Select: Liebman & Bierach
by John Kelman
It's not often that one hears of musical relationships that last as long as twenty years, but saxophonist Dave Liebman and pianist Richie Beirach have shared a musical friendship that spanned a number of ensembles and contexts; sometimes, as in the case of their groundbreaking group Lookout Farm, they adapted to current trends, but they never ...
Craig Taborn: Junk Magic
by Phil DiPietro
Craig Taborn Junk Magic Thirsty Ear 2004 Craig Taborn has consistently tugged thirsty ears his way in the ensembles of high profile leaders Dave Douglas, Tim Berne and James Carter. His work has been so remarkable that some very big expectations have ensued. Here, Taborn pulls off the ...
Lajos Dudas: Nightlight
by Terry Collison
Lajos Dudas Nightlight 2003 Double Moon From the opener, a reworking—both lovely and cooking—of Bach's “Bourree,” through standards as well as three compositions from Dudas himself, there is not a weak element on this session. It takes the form of a quartet on five of the tracks and ...
Eric Clapton: Me and Mr. Johnson
by C. Michael Bailey
Eric Clapton Me and Mr. Johnson Reprise/Duck In the same way that Louis Armstrong was at center of the genesis of Jazz in the 1920s, so was Eric Clapton at the center of the British Blues invasion of the 1960s. Between 1965 and 1970, in turn, Clapton was a member ...
The Nat Janoff Group: Looking Through
by Walter Kolosky
The Nat Janoff Group Looking Through NATJ 1999 Better late then never. I have some vague recollection of being contacted by Mr. Nat Janoff several years ago by phone and being asked to review this CD. For one reason or another, it never happened. Upon my favorable view ...
National Youth Jazz Orchestra: Jazz in Film
by Jack Bowers
National Youth Jazz Orchestra Jazz in Film Silva Screen 2004 This is the twenty-second album in my library by Britain’s remarkable National Youth Jazz Orchestra, and the first one that I’ve not thoroughly enjoyed. (Well, it was bound to happen one day.) Can’t blame NYJO for that, however; Bill Ashton’s ...


