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Article: Live Review

Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - World Premiere

Read "Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - World Premiere" reviewed by Eric Benson


Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present TenseWorld PremiereThe Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln CenterNew York, NYApril 15, 2009 The Jazz Wars are over. Now what? A new documentary asks. Since the early 1980s, jazz has been engaged in its own nonviolent, low-intensity civil war. Decentralized and ...

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Article: Album Review

Borah Bergman Trio: Luminescence

Read "Luminescence" reviewed by Nic Jones


The piano-bass-drums trio has become such a staple of jazz recording that it must be difficult for any trio to come up with something fresh. Borah Bergman and his crew accomplish this task, and whilst their work lacks the compositional integrity of the holy trinity of Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols, and Andrew Hill, there's enough substance ...

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Article: Album Review

Bruno Hubert: Live @ The Cellar

Read "Live @ The Cellar" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


It seems that Bruno Hubert's hands can work independently of each other, creating a unique kind of excitement on Live @ The Cellar, sounding, at times, like two pianos. He can also, it appears, keep two ideas going at one time and that is one hell of a wonderful trick to play on the unsuspecting. Because ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Herbie Nichols

Jazz Musician of the Day: Herbie Nichols

All About Jazz is celebrating Herbie Nichols' birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Herbie NicholsHerbie Nichols - pianist, composer (1919-1963) Herbie Nichols is a perennially neglected jazz pianist and composer... more Website | Videos | Articles Join Herbie Nichols' fan network Put AAJ's Musician ...

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Article: Interview

Branford & Ellis Marsalis: The Dawn of Marsalis Music

Read "Branford & Ellis Marsalis: The Dawn of Marsalis Music" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The first family of jazz, the Marsalis of New Orleans, have seemingly been in the eye of a musical hurricane for the past twenty years. With the news that Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his father Ellis Marsalis had severed their ties with Sony music, comes the announcement that they have formed the independent label Marsalis Music. ...

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Strange City

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Moments Magical, Enrapture, Delights, Blue Shout, Strange City, Karna Kangi, The Happenings, Change of Season, Some Wandering Bushmen, Shuffle Montgomery

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Article: Album Review

The Herbie Nichols Project: Strange City

Read "Strange City" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan


Since 1992, the Herbie Nichols Project has been dedicated to performing the music of a gentleman who in his lifetime was sadly neglected but who left behind a body of work just as idiosyncratic and distinctive as that of Thelonious Monk. Following their two previous releases, Dr. Cyclop’s Dream and Love Is Proximity, the group now ...

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The Art Of Herbie Nichols

Label: Sine Qua Non
Released: 1992

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The Modern Jazz Piano Album

Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 1986
Track listing: Bebop In Pastel; Seven Up; Blues In Bebop; Supersonic; Supersonic - Master; On A Planet; Air Pocket; Celestia; 's Wonderful; Nichols And Dimes; Who's Blues; My Lady Gingersnap; The Night Is Young; Blue Room; Why Was I Born; My Foolish Heart; Twins; Polka Dot; I'll Remember April; High Score; Hyacinth; Joy Bell; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; Fine And Dandy; Budo; I Married An Angel; The Jazz Message (Freedom For All);


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