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Article: Album Review

Marcin and Bartlomiej Brat Oles: Duo

Read "Duo" reviewed by John Sharpe


Faced with any bass and drums duo, the question is always going to be: does it pass the music minus one test? It is a brave and unforgiving furrow which not too many choose to plough. Of those that do, they often stretch the parameters by using tuned percussion or additional wind instruments like William Parker ...

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Article: Live Review

The Kidd Jordan Trio in Amherst, MA

Read "The Kidd Jordan Trio in Amherst, MA" reviewed by Lyn Horton


Kidd Jordan, William Parker, Hamid Drake Magic Triangle Series Bezanson Recital Hall UMass Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts Febrary 26, 2009 During one of the most tempestuous winters in memory, the twentieth season of the Magic Triangle Series at UMass Amherst began with the highly energetic performance of ...

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Article: Music and the Creative Spirit

Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet: Bridging the Future with the Past

Read "Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet: Bridging the Future with the Past" reviewed by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.


There may not be a more creative group of artists anywhere within the boundaries of any art form than those within the Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet. These are individuals that comprehensively understand their responsibility to art and it is only through this level of integrity and creativity that art can, and will continue to move forward. ...

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Blissful

Label: Rogue Art
Released: 2008
Track listing: My Blissful Mother; Playful Dance at Soma; Visions of Ma; Supreme Lay Victorious in Battle; Only Longing of My Soul; There Is Nothing Left But You; The Beautiful Names.

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Hamid Drake and Bindu: Blissful

Read "Blissful" reviewed by Lyn Horton


For every musician, music is a serious endeavor and one that has no equal. Yet, music also means something different for each musician and it is this difference that generates vitality of the art. For drummer Hamid Drake, music links him to an explicitly spiritual world. The name of his group, Bindu, finds its source in ...

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Hamid Drake & Bindu: Blissful

Read "Blissful" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Non abbiamo mai fatto mistero della nostra ammirazione per Hamid Drake, come uomo e come percussionista: tra le figure più rappresentative del jazz nero contemporaneo, attivo quasi fino alla saturazione in mille progetti, senza perdere mai in smalto, umiltà, spiritualità, capacità tecniche [mostruose], Drake è artista in grado di dare in ogni circostanza un qualcosa in ...

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Corn Meal Dance

Label: AUM Fidelity
Released: 2007
Track listing: Doctor Yesterday; Tutsi Orphans; Poem For June Jordan; Soledad; Corn Meal Dance; Land Song; Prayer; Old Tears; Gilmore's Hat.

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Climbing With Mountains

Label: BMC Music
Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. Marcius; 02. Autumn in Sicily; 03. Message for Fishes; 04. Snake; 05. Train to Sarajevo; 06. Mese; 07. R's day; 08. The Meaning of Three (Szandai); 09. Late Late Serenade; 10. Ornette's Smile; 11. Green with Blue. Tutte le composizioni sono di Viktor Toth tranne quelle indicate.

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Viktor Toth: Climbing With Mountains

Read "Climbing With Mountains" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il classico trio sax/basso/batteria con l’aggiunta in alcuni brani della tromba, un repertorio di composizioni originali e una provenienza (Ungheria) inusuale per un ensemble di jazz. Inusuale ma non troppo vista la crescita di talenti - Gabor Gado, Gabor Winand, Robert Szakcsi Lakatos e il giovanissimo Gabor Bolla su tutti - che negli ultimi anni la ...

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Article: Live Review

Assif Tashar and Hamid Drake with Zohar Fresco in Tel Aviv

Read "Assif Tashar and Hamid Drake with Zohar Fresco in Tel Aviv" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Assif Tsahar and Hamid Drake with Zohar Fresco Levontin 7, Tel Aviv March 13, 2007, First Set Israeli reed player Assif Tsahar and Chicago-based and globetrotter drummer Hamid Drake consider themselves as soul bodies, as is apparent by the sub-title of their recently released second duet, Live at Glenn Miller Café: ...


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