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Article: Album Review

Russ Kassoff: Bird Fly By

Read "Bird Fly By" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

As of this writing, jazz pianist Russ Kassoff is the pianist and conductor of a seventeen-piece big band, and the musical director of Come Fly Away the Twyla Tharp Broadway dance musical tribute to Frank Sinatra. These associations became the inspiration and, as Kassoff states, the “final piece of impetus...needed," for recording Bird Fly By. Not ...

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News: Recording

The Stryker / Slagle Band Release "Keeper" on Panorama

The Stryker / Slagle Band Release "Keeper" on Panorama

In jazz recording parlance a “keeper" is a take that is worth saving—one to be listened to over and over again. It's also a most appropriate heading for the fifth outing by The Stryker / Slagle Band, as it well describes not just the date's title track, but each of the other nine pieces that comprise ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Harold Danko: Escapades & Gone

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

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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Sound Check - Jack Cortner & His NY Big Band

By Jack Cortner

Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2009
Track listing: 1. Strike Up The Band - George Gershwin 04:44 2. Speak Low - Kurt Weill 05:24 3. Sometime Ago - Sergio Mihanovich 05:18 4. Cantaloupe Island - Herbie Hancock 05:43 5. Sound Check - Jack Cortner 04:55 6. Yesterdays - Jerome Kern 06:34 7. Caravan - Juan Tizol 05:17 8. Cinema Paradiso Love Theme - Andrea Morricone 05:11 9. A La Mode - Jack Cortner 04:35 10. You and the Night and the Music - Dietz/Scwartz 05:22 11. It's All Right With Me - Cole Porter 06:09

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Article: Album Review

(Another) Nuttree Quartet (Abercrombie / Anderson / Liebman / Nussbaum): Something Sentimental

Read "Something Sentimental" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

It's always a pleasure to hear a group of musicians who, over the years, have developed not just a strong musical bond, but a personal one as well. If it's a truth that most musicians' style is a direct extension of their personality--of who they are--then it's equally logical to extrapolate that the musical interaction between ...

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Article: Live From New York

August 2009

Read "August 2009" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Frank KimbroughBirdlandNew York City July 14, 2009When Frank Kimbrough made his leader debut at Birdland (Jul. 14th), easily one of the best piano showcase rooms in New York, there was no doubt he would meet the lofty standard maintained at the club by such fellow pianists as Steve Kuhn and ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Jazz Eyes: Eyes and Ears Wide Open

Read "Jazz Eyes: Eyes and Ears Wide Open" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard

In jazz, spontaneity is essential. It can also be useful when setting up a label. So it's no great coincidence that, once the Italian jazz enthusiasts Paolo Siculiana and Toti Cannistraro realized they both loved the production and distribution of records, their Jazz Eyes label rapidly became a reality. “The story starts on a dark night," ...

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Article: Album Review

Mark Isaacs Resurgence Band: Tell It Like It Is

Read "Tell It Like It Is" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Sometimes it's better to work on home turf, with familiar musicians. Mark Isaacs' studio disc, Resurgence (ABC Jazz, 2007), paired the Australian pianist and guitarist James Muller--another Australian talent deserving of far greater attention--with American heavy hitters including drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, bassist Jay Anderson and saxophonist Bob Sheppard. But as fine as the relative miniatures of ...

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Article: Album Review

Irene Atman: New York Rendezvous

Read "New York Rendezvous" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

Canadian songbird Irene Atman follows her highly acclaimed self-titled, indepedent debut of 2007 with another remarkable effort, this time recording ten gentle standards in an auspicious New York Rendezvous with pianist Frank Kimbrough and other New York players, providing a new meaning to the phrase “New York state of mind." Meeting Kimbrough twenty years ago on, ...

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Article: Live Review

New Classics: Mark Soskin Quartet with Ravi Coltrane at the Kitano Hotel

Read "New Classics: Mark Soskin Quartet with Ravi Coltrane at the Kitano Hotel" reviewed by Warren Allen

by Warren Allen

Mark Soskin Quartet with Ravi Coltrane The Kitano Hotel New York, NY May 2, 2009 Mark Soskin is one of the more underrated pianists working today. Perhaps best known for his sideman work alongside greats like Sonny Rollins and Herbie Mann, Soskin combines an always melodic approach with a ...


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