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Steve Korn: Third Time's a Charm

by Jason West
January 15, 2004

Good things come in threes, the saying goes, and so it is with the third release from Seattle drummer Steve Korn. While his first and second CD projects contained a total of six original compositions, Points in Time features seven Korn originals, providing us with the clearest glimpse into his musical psyche. Recorded at Studio X ...

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Ran Blake: From Music to Film and Back

by AAJ Staff
January 9, 2004

By Matana Roberts More than a four-decade career as a recording artist, a winner of numerous iconic awards (including being named a Mac Arthur fellow in 1988) with more than 30 recordings to his credit collaborating with artists creatively diverse as saxophonist/composer Anthony Braxton, pianist Jaki Byard, and saxophonist Ricky Ford, pianist Ran ...

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Dom Minasi: A Matter of Time

by Eric J. Iannelli
January 8, 2004

When Dom Minasi steps away from his intense schedule of composing, writing, teaching, recording and performing and pauses long enough to talk -- and even then the pace doesn't slow: the guitarist's sentences arrive in a relentless, stream-of-conscious barrage, full of names, anecdotes and ideas -- he seems to dwell on two words above all others: ...

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Roscoe Mitchell: In Search of the Super Musician

by Jack Gold-Molina
January 8, 2004

For more than 35 years Roscoe Mitchell's innovation as an improvisor, composer, and solo performer has placed him at the forefront of modern music. He is a founding member of the Creative Arts Collective of East Lansing, Michigan, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. He is the recipient ...

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Mark Winkler Sings Bobby Troup

by Dave Hughes
December 29, 2003

All About Jazz: You've recently released Mark Winkler Sings Bobby Troup. What motivated you to devote an entire CD to Bobby's works? Mark Winkler: I really wasn't planning to do a whole CD of Bobby Troup tunes, I was looking for some outside material to fill out a CD of my originals. His work was always ...

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A Fireside Chat With Horace Silver

by AAJ Staff
December 18, 2003

It's difficult for me to imagine hard bop without Horace Silver. It is impossible for me to imagine Blue Note without Horace Silver. And I would wake up in a cold sweat at the mere thought of not having Six Pieces of Silver, The Stylings of Silver, Further Explorations by the Horace Silver Quintet, Finger Poppin' ...

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My Conversation with Horace Silver

by AAJ Staff
December 18, 2003

Horace Silver's popularity should be on the same level as the band that came up with the genius buzz word “nookie," but that would be a perfect world and for the time being I am content with having the honor of speaking with him about his stellar recording career (which is mammoth for all of you ...

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McCoy Tyner: Nothing ventured, nothing gained

by AAJ Staff
December 17, 2003

For the better part of nearly five decades McCoy Tyner has remained the most pervasively influential, highly acclaimed, widely imitated jazz pianist in the world ' universally acknowledged for the invention of a style that continues to be uniquely personal, powerfully passionate and consummately creative. From his early association with the great John Coltrane, through his ...

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Dewey Redman: The Sound of a Giant

by R.J. DeLuke
December 15, 2003

Dewey Redman has been on the scene for a long time, adding his musicianship to diverse musical settings with a long list of great jazz artists, and pursing his own challenging projects. It seems that each path he has taken, he has done so in a manner that speaks to who he is: straightforward and genuine.

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A Fireside Chat with Michael Henderson

by AAJ Staff
December 15, 2003

There’s a level of cool that all of us at one point or another attempt to achieve. Then there’s a level of cool that all of us know we’ll never achieve – Miles Davis cool, Frank Sinatra cool, Errol Flynn cool, James Dean cool. Dig the cover of Michael Henderson’s Wide Receiver and you’ll have an ...