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Sam Newsome & Lucian Ban: The Romanian-American Jazz Suite

Read "The Romanian-American Jazz Suite" reviewed by Budd Kopman


The Romanian-American Jazz Suite, by soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome and pianist Lucian Ban, is another very good example of how the jazz aesthetic of personal expression be applied to other music (here Romanian folk music and Christmas carols) and, in essence, subsume it. The project has its genesis in an award given by CEC Artslink to ...

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Sam Newsome & Lucian Ban: The Romanian-American Jazz Suite

Read "The Romanian-American Jazz Suite" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes


Sam Newsome and Lucian Ban took a handful of Romanian folk songs and gave them jazz arrangements, then combined them with some original songs inspired by Romanian culture to produce The Romanian-American Jazz Suite, an excellent balance of the modern and the traditional, rendered artfully by a first-rate band. “Transylvanian Dance" isn't what ...

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Jazzmob: Infernal Machine

Read "Infernal Machine" reviewed by Nic Jones


This isn't so much a recreation as it is a reinvestigation of the fusion genre in that brief period thirty odd years ago when the idea was rife with positive implications and before the sterility set in. While this program isn't as radical in its departure from the norm as Miles Davis' music from that period ...

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Sonny Simmons: Last Man Standing

Read "Last Man Standing" reviewed by Nic Jones


This is the latest in a series of albums under saxophonist Sonny Simmons' name put out by the Norwegian Jazzaway label; a further instalment in the documentation of an abundantly creative artist, but one who only relatively recently has started to receive the kind of exposure he deserves. The setting here is a straight-ahead one and ...

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Klaus Holm Kollektif: What Was That You Said?

Read "What Was That You Said?" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The Kollektif is the third incarnation of Norwegian reed player Klaus Ellerhusen Holm's group. Holm was awarded as the Young Nordic Jazzcomet in 2003 and is a member of bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten Norwegian Quintet, Zanussi 5 and Geir Lysne Listening Ensemble. His current Kollektif members--bassist Ole Morten Vågan (Motif, Bugge Wesseltoft New Conception of Jazz, ...

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Blue Sky

Label: Jazzaway
Released: 2006
Track listing: Cavemans Blues; Illiman Dance; Blue Sky, Blue Eyes; Shoot the Evil Dog; Indian Song.

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The Core: Blue Sky

Read "Blue Sky" reviewed by Tom Greenland


The Core is an exciting, highly energetic young band from Norway, consisting of Espen Aalberg (drums), Kjetil Møster (tenor, soprano saxophones), Erlend Slettevoll (piano) and Steinar Raknes (bass), with Nils Olav Johansen (guitar) sitting in. Drawing their inspiration from such '60s energy players as Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler and John Coltrane, these former schoolmates ...

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Two Way Street

Label: Jazzaway
Released: 2005
Track listing: Gibsy Love; Jimmy; Sweden; Free Two to Five; P.B; A.A; Gushes From the Past; Texas; Free Seven.

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The Traveller

Label: Jazzaway
Released: 2005
Track listing: Humphrey; Armada; Spheres; Duet; Brainstorm; Sunset.

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Tone Collector

Label: Jazzaway
Released: 2005
Track listing: Never Removed From Box; Swedish Summer; Matchbox; Waltz; Waltz Coda; Glorious; Shelf/Regular Model; Mint No Box.


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