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Brian Lynch Meets Bill Charlap
by David A. Orthmann
Brian Lynch Brian Lynch Meets Bill Charlap Sharp Nine 2004 While he adroitly blows his way through a couple of medium-to-up tempo tracks with the edgy assurance of a veteran bebopper, the largest part of trumpeter/flugelhornist Brian Lynch’s latest disc on Sharp Nine Records displays a temperate approach ...
The Allman Brothers Band: One Way Out-Live at the Beacon Theatre
by Doug Collette
Skeptics may wonder why there’s any need for another live Allman Brothers album, but they’d no doubt be part of the same group unaware of the miraculous rejuvenation of this seminal Southern rock band over the last few years. One Way Out (Peach/Sanctuary), due out March 23rd in the middle of the band's annaul stint at ...
Stan Kenton: Horns of Plenty
by Jack Bowers
Stan Kenton Horns of Plenty Tantara Records 2004 It's not often that I devote an entire column to a new big-band release, but Horns of Plenty, a superlative six-disc set from Tantara Records, is the exception that proves the rule. And what a storehouse of riches it is, ...
Jeff Beck: Live At BB King Blues Club
by Doug Collette
Leave it to Jeff Beck to make a brand new recording available only online within six months of his last studio release. Live is an erratic but nevertheless brilliant piece of work by an erratic and brilliant artist.Recorded last September at BB King's House of Blues in New York, this CD constitutes a reunion ...
Dominico Scarlatti
by C. Michael Bailey
Domenico Scarlatti was born in Naples Italy October 26, 1685. His father was the famous and domineering 17th-century operatic composer Alessandro Scarlatti, who began directing the younger Scarlatti's career early on, helping him acquire appointments with various patrons. Little is known of his training. A harpsichord virtuoso, Scarlatti, in 1709, was employed by exiled queen of ...
John Zorn's 50th Birthday Celebration
by John Kelman
Masada String Trio 50th Birthday Celebration: Volume 1 Tzadik 2004 For the entire month of September 2003, multi-instrumentalist/composer John Zorn celebrated his 50th birthday with a series of concerts at Tonic in New York City. For thirty days he looked at groups past and present, for one of ...
For All Time
by Joshua Weiner
Popularity is double-edged, and perhaps no jazz artist exemplifies this better than Dave Brubeck. The unparalleled success of his classic quartets with Paul Desmond, which expanded the market for jazz into colleges and the homes of suburbia, often obscured his very real musical innovations. The ever-increasing professional sheen of Brubeck's '60s albums for Columbia, his interest ...
Skip Heller: Fakebook
by C. Michael Bailey
Skip Heller FakebookHyena Records2004Ever since I heard of Career Suicide and Homegoing , I have enthusiastically anticipated the next Skip Heller release. In 2003, Mr. Heller continued his organ trio investigations that began with Homegoing with the well-received live recording Battle in Seattle , where he hooked up ...
Prasanna: Be The Change
by Phil DiPietro
Prasanna Be the Change 2004 For this, his second solo project, the astonishing Indian (and currently Bostonian) guitarist Prasanna assembles two world-class bands, going south for Flecktones Victor Wooten, saxman Jeff Coffin and drummer Derico Watson; and west (or for him, further east) for seminal fusion bassist Alphonso Johnson, drummer Ralph Humphrey ...
The Allman Brothers Band: Hittin' The Note Indeed!
by Doug Collette
The Allman Brothers BandHittin' The Note Indeed!Peach/Sanctuary2004 On their first studio effort in nine years, The Allman Brothers Band displays as much of a joyous sense of adventure as they do a sense of rigorous self-discipline. The first thing you notice about Hittin' the Note (Peach/Sanctuary) is how splendid it ...


