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Article: Extended Analysis

Commitment: The Complete Recordings 1981-1983

by John Sharpe
September 3, 2010

CommitmentThe Complete Recordings 1981-1983No Business Records 2010 Following on from the artistic success of their splendid Muntu Box Set (2010), No Business Records has restored the only release by the ground-breaking cooperative Commitment to availability. As one of first bands to unite Asian American with African American musicians, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

hatOLOGY Reissue Bonanza Continues

by Mark Corroto
June 17, 2010

Begun in 1975, Hat Hut Records was to become the model for adventurous, independent, new music labels such as Okka Disk, AUM Fidelity and Clean Feed. From the start, founder Werner X. Uehlinger sought out challenging and innovative musicians and music that might have been too risky for major labels to produce. This very small Swiss ...

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Article: Album Review

Curtis Clark: Taagi

by John Sharpe
May 1, 2010

Recorded live on successive nights in May, 2009 in Texas, Taagi provides a welcome bulletin on under-exposed pianist Curtis Clark. Though born in Chicago, Clark first made his mark in Los Angeles back in the 1970s under the influence of the late pianist/bandleader Horace Tapscott. Since then he has resided in Amsterdam, recording with many of ...

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Andrew Cyrille: Tell Us Only the Beautiful Things; Opus de Life & The Dark Tree

by Clifford Allen
April 3, 2010

Walt DickersonTell Us Only the Beautiful ThingsWhynot-Candid1975 (2009) Profound Sound TrioOpus De LifePorter2009 Horace TapscottThe Dark TreeHat Hut1991 (2009) Percussionist Andrew Cyrille ...

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Curtis Clark, Marilyn Lerner and Chad Taylor: Chasing the Piano

by Clifford Allen
March 12, 2010

November 15, 2010 will mark the 75th anniversary of the first recorded jazz piano-trio session, with pianist Jess Stacy, bassist Israel Crosby and drummer Gene Krupa recording for UK Parlophone ("Barrelhouse" and “The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise"). Certainly much has happened in jazz and improvised music since that date, but the piano ...

Article: Interview

Intervista inedita con Horace Tapscott

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 25, 2010

Quest'intervista inedita con Horace Tapscott risale al 28 giugno 1987, il giorno prima del concerto del suo gruppo al Teatro Romano di Verona nell'ambito di “Verona Jazz". Il pianista texano di nascita ma californiano d'adozione [per leggere un approfondimento sulla sua sua figura clicca qui], giungeva per la seconda ed ultima volta in Italia, dopo aver ...

Article: Lyrics

Il gigante si è (ri)svegliato: vita e musica di Horace Tapscott

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 25, 2010

PrologoCapita spesso a chi scrive di jazz di cedere alla tentazione di ragionare per dischi. Coltrane, Miles, Monk, il periodo Impulse e quello Atlantic, il periodo Blue Note e quello Columbia, il pre-Bitches Brew e il post-Bitches Brew, il primo quintetto e il secondo quintetto, la svolta di Giant Steps e quella di Ascension: ...

Article: Album Review

Horace Tapscott: The Dark Tree

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 25, 2010

Quando The Dark Tree fu registrato, nell'89, Horace Tapscott non aveva mai pubblicato dischi per un'etichetta europea e da vent'anni non incideva con il clarinettista John Carter (come membri del progetto Bob Thiele Emergency i due avevano inciso nel '69, per la Flying Dutchman, Head Start un disco che voleva essere una sorta di bigino di ...

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