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Boom Box: Jazz

Read "Jazz" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Some might think there an element of presumption in titling a CD Jazz, but German saxophonist Thomas Borgmann gets right to the essence in this set by his Boom Box trio, with drummer Willi Kellers and bassist Akira Ando: spontaneous three-way conversations which swing. Borgmann has a back story that takes in iconoclasts such as saxophonists ...

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Boom Box: Jazz

Read "Jazz" reviewed by Henry Smith

by Henry Smith

Free jazz can have some fairly antisocial connotations. Too often, the term raises an undeserved fear in the uninitiated, as freedom can be scary. That hardly necessitates that it lack beauty, lyricism or intimacy, however; it simply means that those traits are arrived at by organic means rather than controlled ones. Few artists ...

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Boom Box: Jazz

Read "Jazz" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

Inspired by the spirit of the great reeds and woodwinds player Eric Dolphy, Thomas Borgmann is not the only musician in Europe to become a Dolphy acolyte. Dolphy is, in fact, all but deified across the pond and it is not hard to understand why. In many ways he personifies not only the eternal, fluttering quality ...

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Boom Box: Jazz

Read "Jazz" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

Surprises can come in the most unlikely guises and under the least likely names. Jazz is the latest example of that old maxim to never judge a book by its cover. The combination of the group name Boom Box--conjuring up images of hip-hop and oversized ghetto blasters--and a graphic style reminiscent of Peter Brötzmann albums does ...

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Jazz

By Ray Barretto

Label: Fania
Released: 2009
Track listing: Esp

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Ray Barretto: Jazz

Read "Jazz" reviewed by Graham L. Flanagan

by Graham L. Flanagan

Although both of his parents were full-blooded Puerto Ricans, Ray Barretto was as American as they come. Born in Brooklyn, by the age of seven he had already resided in that borough, as well as Spanish Harlem and the Bronx. His biological lineage, combined with the place he was born and raised, gives new meaning to ...

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Wallace Roney: Jazz

Read "Jazz" reviewed by Andrew Velez

by Andrew Velez

Even as Jazz is a tribute to Roney's mentors Art Blakey, Miles Davis and Tony Williams, it is much more. The musical flavors here cover a spectrum of jazz feeling, everything from bop to fusion to funk and other local stops. “Vater Time," the set's jump-right-in opener, is a Roney tune that moves from a funky ...

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Jazz

By Wallace Roney

Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Vater Time; Children of the Light; Inflorescent; Fela

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Jazz

By James Brown

Label: Warner Bros. Records
Released: 2007

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Wallace Roney: Jazz

Read "Jazz" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

In a time when the definition of the word jazz is in heated debate, it takes a certain amount of courage for trumpeter Wallace Roney to use it as the title of his third release for HighNote. Roney continues to mine the place where contemporary rhythms and technology meet the language of jazz, and while there ...


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