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The Traveller
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Song for F; The Eye of the Mind; Crazy Stuff; The Line; Adagio 13; Cabbonal; Motivation; Searching and Finding; YWC.
Hrayr Attarian's Best Releases of 2010: Female Instrumentalists
by Hrayr Attarian
More experienced editors before me have already posted their best choices for this past year. Instead of adding yet another list of some of the same, I would like to take a slightly different approach. Here are my top 10 picks for 2010, by female jazz instrumentalists: Mary Halvorson QuintetSaturn Sings
Geri Allen Quartet at the Kimmel Center
by Victor L. Schermer
Geri Allen QuartetJazz Up Close Celebrates Thelonious Monk SeriesKimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Perelman TheaterPhiladelphia, PA December 4, 2010 Once, when asked to define “jazz," Count Basie simply replied, “Tap your feet." At this December, 2010 concert, the fourth member of pianist Geri Allen's quartet turned out to do ...
Geri Allen & Timeline: Live
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'idea di coniugare tip tap e jazz frulla nella testa di Geri Allen da parecchio tempo visto che, come rivela nelle note di copertina, da molti anni si interessa a questo connubio e aggiunge tasselli a questo progetto. E' un progetto che troviamo nella sua forma compiuta in questo CD, registrato dal vivo all'Oberlin Conservatory of ...
Kris Davis: Good Citizen
by Mark F. Turner
It's just a coincidence that pianist Kris Davis has had three stunning trio recordings released in 2010. There are the two on Clean Feed Records--Paradoxial Frog, a brilliant joint collaboration with drummer Tyshawn Sorey and saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock; and Three by the SKM trio, with Davis joined by saxophonist Stephen Gauci and bassist Michael Bisio. But ...
Charles Lloyd Quartet: Mirror
by Warren Allen
Charles Lloyd QuartetMirrorECM Records2010 The perception of Charles Lloyd has changed since he first rose to popularity as a 1960s-saxman, sporting flower power colors and a momentous afro, and was somehow tied to mainstream jazz, the avant-garde and the popular psychedelic movement. A brief recess from recording, ...
Robert Levin: The War is Over - A Conversation About Jazz
by AAJ Staff
[Editor's Note: Interview conducted by Eleanor Brietel, New York Editor of The Drill Press. Most of this interview, originally published on the Buzzle website, was conducted via email.] Eleanor Brietel: You've published fiction and you also write essays on a variety of subjects. I want, however, to confine this discussion to your ...
Announcing the Winners of the "Geri Allen - 2-CD" Giveaway
Ray Davison II, Paul Collins, Michael Goldenberg, Robert McBride and Colin Lammie, Congratulations! You're the lucky winners of the Motema Music “Geri Allen - 2-CD" giveaway. All About Jazz will contact you about claiming your prize. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the contest and please visit Motema Music for more releases. Enjoy the ...
Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un impegno ambizioso sul piano espressivo, che solo una autentica fuoriclasse come la Allen poteva affrontare. Seguendo le tracce di alcuni suoi modelli pianistici (Taylor, Hancock), la lunga suite contenuta in questo disco assume la forma di un vero ritratto - musicale e non - che rivela la composita personalità di un'artista colta ed impegnata sul ...
Recent Listening: Geri Allen
Geri Allen & Timeline, Live (Motema). Allen's considerable strengths are on display in the pianist's recording with her trio and a percussive guest. She integrates dancer Maurice Chestnut's steely tapping with the time-keeping and soloing of her gifted young sidemen, drummer Kassa Overall and bassist Kenny Davis. Chestnut expands on the tradition established by Savon Glover ...
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