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Potsa Lotsa: The Complete Works Of Eric Dolphy

Read "The Complete Works Of Eric Dolphy" reviewed by Keith Henry Brown


The great multi-instrumentalist/composer Eric Dolphy spent almost as much time being criticized in his career as he was praised. Remarkably, there was dissension in some critical circles at the time about his abilities as a performer and writer. In the infamous cover story in the April 1962 issue of Downbeat Magazine, Dolphy and ...

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Pianos in the Foreground: Six Modern Masters

Read "Pianos in the Foreground: Six Modern Masters" reviewed by Eugene Holley, Jr.


Because of its huge range, the piano might be the most expressive and adaptable instrument in western music. And since jazz is a product of western culture, it's no surprise that jazz pianists have been the genre's foremost creators, interpreters and stylists. This has been true since the days of ragtime, New Orleans, stride and swing, ...

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Take Five with Shauli Einav

Read "Take Five with Shauli Einav" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Shauli Einav:Shauli Einav is an emerging jazz saxophonist. He has already performed with his ensembles on prestigious stages such as the Red Sea Jazz Festival, The Israel Festival in Jerusalem, The Rochester International Jazz Festival, Tel-Aviv Intl Jazz Festival, The Knitting Factory NYC, Fat Cat, Smalls and more. Shauli has been invited to ...

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Harold Danko: Escapades & Gone

Read "Harold Danko: Escapades & Gone" reviewed by Francis Lo Kee


Harold DankoEscapadesSteepleChase2009 Rich PerryGoneSteepleChase2009 Pianist Harold Danko is well known in the jazz education field as chair of the Jazz Studies Department at the Eastman School of Music. One would ...

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Lee Konitz In The 1980s

Read "Lee Konitz In The 1980s" reviewed by Robert Iannapollo


Saxophonist Lee Konitz turned 82 in October 2009 and he's still going as strong and as steady as ever. He recently played a birthday duet concert with pianist Harold Danko. While the set included the usual standards there were also a couple of surprises such as the Konitz original “Kary's Trance." Konitz and Danko have a ...

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Take Five With Bob Albanese

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Meet Bob Albanese: Bob Albanese was born in Newark, N.J. in 1957. Growing up and the Jersey shore, he began practicing the piano at age 8. At age 15, he won top honors in the Garden State Talent Expo which culminated in a solo performance at the Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J. This was ...

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Wonderland

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2008

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This Isn't Maybe...

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Whatever Possessed Me, I Thought About You, I Fall In Love Too Easily, Gnid, Deep In a Dream, The Touch of Your Lips, D's Dilemma, These Foolish Things, When She Smiles, Way To Go, Gone With The Wind, This Is Always

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Harold Danko: This Isn't Maybe...

Read "This Isn't Maybe..." reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan


It's a dilemma that has been common to jazz for decades now. It involves those players who might accurately be called “the middle children." You know how it works, players who can't get the same attention from the major labels like the young lions are able to nor are old enough to be referred to as ...

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Stable Mates

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Con Alma, Quietude, Windows, Gingerbread Boy, Dolphin Dance, Solar, Seven Steps To Heaven, Nostalgia in Times Square, Line For Lyons, Stable mates (74:02)


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