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Russ Lossing: Phrase 6

Read "Phrase 6" reviewed by Jeff Stockton

by Jeff Stockton
August 11, 2005

Fresh Sound launched its New Talent series in 1995 and has stayed true to its name by recording a stream of New York unknowns, including the debut of the Bad Plus. Continuing this established piano trio pedigree, composer and leader Russ Lossing (a typical jazz “newcomer, having arrived in town in 1986) works with his current ...

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Eivind Opsvik: Overseas II

Read "Overseas II" reviewed by Michael McCaw

by Michael McCaw
August 6, 2005

Eivind Opsvik is going to be very interesting to watch over the next couple of years. The bassist is forging an identity that belies simple labeling and is creating an interesting body of work. Overseas II is the second release under his own name for the Fresh Sound New Talent label and continues where the fine ...

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Rick Germanson: You Tell Me

Read "You Tell Me" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
August 2, 2005

With You Tell Me, Rick Germanson has created an immensely satisfying piano trio album in which the musicians engage the compositions, and each other, with mature dialogue, wit, and extroverted passion. To top it off, the music swings like crazy. Germanson exhibits a roiling swing and a steady flow of solid ideas. He favors ...

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Dave Allen: Untold Stories

Read "Untold Stories" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
August 2, 2005

Having attempted to play the guitar, I have a special place in my heart for guitarists, especially when in the aural presence of a master like Dave Allen, who brings to mind the ironic cartoon where one guitarist is watching another play and the bubble says, “I can do that. Many guitarists come ...

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Bryn Roberts: Ludlow

by AAJ Staff
July 20, 2005

Ludlow is a showcase for the considerable gifts of the young Canadian pianist and composer Bryn Roberts. It's a sparkling, varied CD that gets better with each listen. The music is characterized by strong compositional frameworks and flowing improvisation. Pianist Roberts composed all the material on Ludlow except the standard “Dancing In The Dark." ...

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Myron Walden: This Way

Read "This Way" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
July 10, 2005

There have been many notable jazz saxophone pairings recalling the great collaboration of John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley on Kind of Blue (Legacy, 1959), including several very recent recordings with younger players like John O'Gallagher's Axiom, where the altoist is matched with tenor Tony Malaby. The duality and contrast of reed tones propelled by the unique ...

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Peter Kenagy: Little Machines

Read "Little Machines" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
July 5, 2005

Peter Kenagy is a young trumpeter and composer, born in Seattle and based in Boston, who already has a lot to say on his first album. His original compositions explore areas that most jazz musicians don't seem drawn to. His tunes, like the relaxed “Nile," are spacious, letting in air and light. He also looks at ...

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Myron Walden: This Way

by AAJ Staff
July 2, 2005

Myron Walden is a refreshing, individualistic alto saxophonist, perhaps the most original player on his instrument to come along since Kenny Garrett. Walden's sound, plaintive, shot through with a bluesy wail, is fully his own; there's nothing quite like it in jazz today. He takes lots of chances, often leaping outside the changes or bursting into ...

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Rick Parker Collective: New York Gravity

Read "New York Gravity" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
May 17, 2005

Happily, trombone-led sessions are making a comeback in modern jazz circles these days, and a listen to the Rick Parker Collective's New York Gravity provides ample evidence of why. A relative newcomer to the NYC environs, Parker has put together a disc with a swinging little big band feel intertwined with a hard bop modernistic edge. ...

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Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee: Borrowed Time

Read "Borrowed Time" reviewed by Paul Olson

by Paul Olson
May 5, 2005

Bay Area bassist Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee writes in the liner notes to Borrowed Time, his second CD, that its music “grew out of a creative need to manifest the feelings [he] experienced becoming a father ; to convey “the joy, confusion, intimacy and sleeplessness of this defining period of life. I can't hear any of that on ...