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Article: Live Review

Norwegian Road Trip, Part 6: Molde Jazz, Days 3-4

by John Kelman
July 25, 2010

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Article: Live Review

Vision Festival 2010 - Opening Night

by John Sharpe
July 22, 2010

Prologue | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Opening Invocation, The Blues Escaped, Stomp It, Rob Brown New Quartet, Broken Flowers, In Order To SurviveVision FestivalAbrons Arts Center23 June 2010 After three days of activity ...

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Article: Album Review

Peter Madsen: The Litchfield Suite

Read "The Litchfield Suite" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
June 8, 2010

Peter Madsen fortified an already solid reputation with a pair of stellar solo piano works in the last decade: Sphere Essence: Another Side of Monk (2003) and Prevue of Tomorrow (2006), both on Playscape. Now he works his magic with bassist Andy McKee and drummer Gerald Cleaver on The Litchfield Suite, a vibrant performance captured live ...

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Chris Lightcap: Deluxe

Read "Deluxe" reviewed by Stuart Broomer

by Stuart Broomer
June 5, 2010

Bassist Chris Lightcap released a CD called Bigmouth on Fresh Sound-New Talent in 2003, featuring a quartet with drummer Gerald Cleaver and the unusual frontline of two tenor saxophonists, Tony Malaby and Bill McHenry. Seven years later, Lightcap returns to the concept, with “Bigmouth" now the name of the band rather than the CD. In the ...

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Article: Album Review

John Hebert: Spiritual Lover

Read "Spiritual Lover" reviewed by Stuart Broomer

by Stuart Broomer
June 4, 2010

John Hébert's skills as a bassist have been amply apparent for several years, in projects that have called on rock-solid tone, time and pitch to imaginative free improvisation. But Byzantine Monkey (Clean Feed, 2009) demonstrated his substantial talents as a composer and bandleader, fronting a quintet/sextet dense in reeds and percussion. On Spiritual Lover he's taken ...

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Article: Interview

Mike Reed: The Drum Thing

by Gordon Marshall
May 4, 2010

There is not a name yet for what Mike Reed does on drums. Elvin Jones created polyrhythmics; Rashied Ali, multi-directionalism. Reed is delivering something related but distinct. It has as much to do with tonal complexity as with keeping the beat, but the complexity goes beyond that, into a recombination of the many drumming styles of ...

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Article: Album Review

Tivoli Trio: Tivoli Trio

Read "Tivoli Trio" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 2, 2010

Pianist Frank Carlberg's trio is named after the Tivoli amusement park he remembers from his youth in Helsinki, not the famous Tivoli Gardens amusement park in Copenhagen, Denmark, the second oldest amusement park in the world and a huge tourist attraction. Carlberg's Tivoli is more of the roving carnivals or circus that might be associated with ...

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Article: Interview

Jeremy Pelt: A Man of Honor

by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
April 12, 2010

For the younger generation of jazz musicians, those in their thirties today, the path is not always as smooth and easy as we may think it is. Nobody likes to live in anybody's shadow. Jazz is populated with giants who left their mark and those who look up to them in order to be able to ...

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Cuong Vu / Chris Speed: From The Pacific Northwest To The Atlantic Northeast And Beyond

by Robert Iannapollo
April 3, 2010

Myra Melford's Be Bread The Whole Tree Gone Firehouse 12 2010 Jakob Anderskov Agnostic Revelations ILK 2010 Lovedale Coziness Kills ILK 2009

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David Binney / Alan Ferber: In the Paint

Read "In the Paint" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
March 24, 2010

With an influence felt, perhaps, as much or more in the work of others than in his own record sales, alto saxophonist David Binney rarely co-leads groups, but his longstanding collaboration with pianist Edward Simon has been fruitful in more ways than one. Sharing compositional and conceptual duties frees him to focus more on his playing, ...