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Russell Mills: Paintings In Sound

by Nenad Georgievski
November 3, 2005

One wonders what such diverse people as Brian Eno, Miles Davis, David Sylvian, Bill Laswell, Nine Inch Nails, Hector Zazou, Michael Brook, Roger Eno, Harold Budd, Youssou N'Dour, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Wire, Penetration, Toru Takemitsu, Djivan Gasparyan, Gavin Bryars, Adiemus, David Toop and Jan Garbarek would all have in common. The answer to that is ...

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Gerry Teekens: At the Helm Of Criss Cross Jazz

by C. Andrew Hovan
October 29, 2005

Back in the heady jazz days of the '50s and '60s, independent jazz labels ruled the roost while offering a variety of jazz musicians the kind of carte blanch that would allow them to most truly express themselves in unfettered fashion. Be it Lester Koenig's Contemporary label on the West Coast or the legendary Blue Note ...

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Ken Vandermark: That Was Now

by Rex Butters
October 28, 2005

For almost a decade, the Vandermark 5 has been the main outlet for the diabolically driven and creative Ken Vandermark. Spreading his involvement across at least ten active and demanding musical enterprises, Vandermark's main outlet still remains the V5. This year for the third time in its history the quintet loses a founding member, this time ...

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Brian Lynch: The Brian Lynch / Eddie Palmieri Project

by Tomas Pena
October 27, 2005

Few musicians embody the 21st Century credo as profoundly as trumpet master Brian Lynch. A respected insider within both the hard core bebop and Latin communities, he's as comfortable negotiating the complexities of clave with Afro-Caribbean pioneer Eddie Palmieri as swinging through advanced harmony with bebop master Phil Woods. Lynch has worked in recent years with ...

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Jack Dangers: The Mind of Meat Beat Manifesto

by Paul Olson
October 24, 2005

After more than fifteen years recording, Meat Beat Manifesto leader Jack Dangers is something of an electronic music elder statesman. Early recordings like Storm the Studio (1989) and Satyricon (1992) got MBM tagged as, respectively, an industrial and electronica act, but Dangers has always followed his own path. The new Meat Beat Manifesto CD At the ...

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Bill Ward: From Jazz to Black Sabbath, Part 1-2

by Jack Gold-Molina
October 23, 2005

Jazz is no longer the domain of classical purists. Renowned jazz and creative improvisational musicians Daniel Carter and Reuben Radding have both stated in interviews that jazz and creative musicians are increasingly coming out of the rock domain and looking to rock for inspiration, themselves included. The most creative of musicians are no longer content to ...

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Sonny Rollins and David S. Ware: Sonny Meets David

by Franck Médioni
October 21, 2005

Sonny Rollins and David S. Ware, two of today's most important jazz musicians, are friends. For the first time, they speak together to the press about their music and spirituality. This interview has been published, in part, in France (Jazz Magazine), Germany (Jazz Thing), Portugal (Jazz.pt), Denmark (Jazzznytt) and Spain (Cuadernos de Jazz). The ...

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George Lewis: AACM Veteran

by Brian P. Lonergan
October 20, 2005

After a nearly twenty-year absence, trombonist George Lewis has recently returned to New York City to live and work as the Edwin H. Case Professor of Music at Columbia University. An active composer and improviser with a deep interest and vast experience in computer music, Lewis has been a member of the Association for the Advancement ...

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Quamon Fowler: His Life and Faith

by AAJ Staff
October 20, 2005

Twice-winner of the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, tenor saxophonist Quamon Fowler performed earlier this summer at the Jazz Journalists Association's Awards program at B.B. King's in New York. Following the award Fowler--who recently celebrated his 25th birthday and the release of his third CD, The Vision--was praised by Ken Cicerale of ASCAP as, “...a player ...

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Stanton Moore: Living Outside the Box

by Renato Wardle
October 17, 2005

These days, it seems as if everyone is obsessed with the phrase, “thinking outside the box. Aside from being the most over-used phrase in marketing, it also happens to be the most misused phrase. Typically, it is applied to the antithesis of the idea, like a fastfood chain. When in comes to music, in these days ...