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Take Five With Lisa Hilton

Read "Take Five With Lisa Hilton" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Lisa Hilton: Lisa Hilton is considered one of the most distinctive composers and pianists in jazz today. Trained as a classical pianist but with a degree in art, she has created her evocative, individualistic and impressionistic “sound paintings" for over a decade as a leader. In the book, The New Face of Jazz, Hilton was ...

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Article: Album Review

David Weiss & Point Of Departure: Venture Inward

Read "Venture Inward" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Fans of trumpeter David Weiss may be a bit confused when they take a look at this album. At quick glance, it reads like a re-tread of Weiss' Snuck In (Sunnyside, 2010), which has a near-identical line-up playing a near-identical program, but there's a good reason for that: both albums were actually recorded a day apart ...

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David Weiss & Point Of Departure: Venture Inward

Read "Venture Inward" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

If music can be described as either masculine or feminine, then recordings by trumpeter David Weiss and his Point of Departure quintet are simply testosteronic. Built upon the legacy of trumpeter Miles Davis' second great quintet and saxophonist Billy Harper's Black Saint inheritance, Weiss presents dexterous arrangements of muscular, second wave hard bop music.This ...

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Francisco Mora Catlett: Afro Horn MX

By Francisco Mora Catlett

Label: AACE Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: CD1: Egun Moyuba; Saints at Congo Square; Barasuayo; Quinto Regimento; Hush Rush; 125th & Lenox. CD2: 125th & Lenox; Los Consejos Del Olumo; Wemilere; Afro Horn MX; Cultural Warrior.

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Four by Six

By Gregg August

Label: Iacuessa Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. Affirmation - 6:15: 02. For Calle Picota - 6:52; 03. For Max - 6:09; 04. Bandolim - 9:04; 05. Strange Street - 7:02; 06. A Ballad For MV - 5:34; 07. Relative Obscurity - 7:16; 08. For Miles - 7:39.

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Enter the Best of Blue Note Festival Ticket and CD Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Enter the Best of Blue Note Festival Ticket and CD Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Jazz at Lincoln Center hosts the Best of Blue Note Festival November 13-18 in New York City, and one lucky winner will receive a pair of tickets to the Saturday, November 17th The Best of Blue Note performance (8pm at Rose Theater), while another lucky winner will receive 10 CDs from the Blue Note Records catalog ...

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Francisco Mora Catlett: Francisco Mora Catlett: Afro Horn MX

Read "Francisco Mora Catlett: Afro Horn MX" reviewed by Steve Bryant

by Steve Bryant

When Afro-Mexican Drummer Francisco Mora Catlett first came to this country in the1970s, he dreamed of playing drums for the Sun Ra Arkestra. Not only did Mora achieve his dream, he also forged a lifelong relationship with drum legend Max Roach, which resulted in his performing in Roach's seminal drum ensemble, M'Boom. As a composer and ...

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Article: Album Review

Lisa Hilton: American Impressions

Read "American Impressions" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Complacency can threaten to creep into a musician's being without their knowledge as time passes, but the opposite seems to have happened with pianist/composer Lisa Hilton. Her early records dealt in friendly pastel colors delivered in relatively safe fashion, but she's become more daring as time has passed. Her playing has become more limber, loose, organic, ...

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Article: Album Review

Ehud Asherie with Harry Allen: Upper West Side

Read "Upper West Side" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

Upper West Side is as fine a duet album as has been made by a pianist with another instrumentalist. This declaration may very possibly include the albums made by Hank Jones with Tommy Flanagan and Oscar Peterson with Dizzy Gillespie. It is a credit to pianist Ehud Asherie that he made this album at such a ...

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Article: Album Review

David Weiss and Point of Departure: Snuck Out

Read "Snuck Out" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

Point of Departure: from where a takeoff ensues. The name of this ensemble is most appropriate when it comes to the performances by this extraordinary group of musicians. Snuck Out presents the companion set of a memorable date recorded on March 25, 2008 that produced Snuck In (Sunnyside, 2010). The same intense energy pervades both recording ...


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