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Think Tank

by Victor L. Schermer
October 30, 2003

It could be said that Pat Martino most fully represents the evolution of jazz guitar artistry from the 1960's to the present day. His playing displays a striking continuity over time, even though disrupted in mid-stream by his well-known bout with a brain aneurysm that led to nearly total amnesia, and from which he more than ...

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Modern Jazz Quartet: Four Dapper Dans Who Weren't Button Down

by Derek Taylor
October 16, 2003

The Modern Jazz Quartet Complete Modern Jazz Quartet Prestige & Pablo Recordings Prestige 2003 Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond were busy trading in the irregular time signatures that made their album’s staples in college student jazz collections the country over. Chico Hamilton had the lock on chamber jazz popularity on ...

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MJQ: The Complete Modern Jazz Quartet Prestige and Pablo Recordings

by C. Michael Bailey
October 14, 2003

In his homage to Johnny Cash upon the artist's recent death broadcast on CBS's Sunday Morning, commentator and VH1 Executive Director Bill Flanagan opined It's becoming more apparent with every year that goes by that the period from the mid-'50s to the mid-'70s was a golden age for popular music [including jazz]. To have lived in ...

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Playscape Recordings

by Elliott Simon
February 14, 2003

A jazz label that fosters development of a group “gestalt" is rare these days; but Playscape Recordings, led by guitarist Michael Musillami, is doing just that. Armed with the late Thomas Chapin's musical dream of compositional creativity coupled with genre transcending excellence, Playscape is connecting the dialectics of classical with jazz and the mainstream with the ...

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Truco & Zaperoko: Fusi

by Javier AQ Ortiz
March 1, 2002

Truco & Zaperoko Fusión Caribeña Ryko Latino 1999 In Puerto Rico there is a rather illustrious ferryboat called La lancha de Cataño that traverses the bay between San Juan and the seaside town of Cataño. Joe Quijano wrote a celebrated song to it and that city has the ...