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Baritone Sax Titans: The Big Sax; The King of All Instruments; The Vilnius Implosion
by Jeff Stockton
Various Artists The Big Sax Slam 2009 Charles Evans The King of all Instruments Hot Cup 2009 Mats Gustaffson The Vilnius Implosion No Business 2009
Fred Anderson Quartet: Live at the Velvet Lounge Volume III
by Jeff Stockton
Fred Anderson's sound on tenor can be heard in his stance. With his horn hung on a harness that looks like something a moving man would wear as he prepares to hoist a TV, Anderson bends his knees and hunches over as if muscle more than breath is needed to lift the notes into the air. ...
Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble: Proverbs of Sam
by Jeff Stockton
Master of semi-exotic Eastern double-reed instruments, Bill Cole has spent most of his professional life as an academic. Criminally under-recorded, when Seasoning the Greens, a 2001 concert of his Untempered Ensemble was released in 2002, fans of freely improvised worldbeat jazz only had to wait one year. So the question raised by Proverbs of Sam is: ...
CODONA: The CODONA Trilogy
by Jeff Stockton
CODONA The CODONA Trilogy ECM Records 2009 Somewhere along the way “world music" became a suspect term. Mixed up with the concept of “new age," it makes you think more about hemp clothing, crystal therapy and holistic healing than the sort of basic elemental sounds trumpeter Don Cherry pioneered in ...
Fly: Sky & Country
by Jeff Stockton
15 years ago Mark Turner was among a trio of young tenors who were poised to have a lasting impact on jazz. However, having not had Joshua Redman's pedigree or James Carter's flair for self-promotion, Turner's major-label output came and went without generating the attention a musician of his caliber deserved. Today he is a member ...
Branford Marsalis Quartet: Metamorphosen
by Jeff Stockton
Branford Marsalis has always had contrarian tendencies. From joining Sting's band to quitting The Tonight Show, he's followed his own path, even when his motivations have moved him away from conventional jazz forms. Today, being the artistic director of his own record label (at a time when record labels are floundering) and playing with the same ...
Steve Swell's Rivers of Sound Ensemble: News from the Mystic Auricle
by Jeff Stockton
Journeys. Greek religious artifacts. Oracles that send into the mystic. Trombonist Steve Swell and his Rivers of Sound Ensemble direct its stream-of- consciousness improvisations toward the deepest sea of musical inspiration it can find. Swell's Slammin' the Infinite piano-less quartet has been expanded before--on Live @ the Vision Festival (Not Two, 2007), when ...
Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue
by Jeff Stockton
If you're reading this, chances are you already own a copy (or copies) of Kind Of Blue, widely acknowledged to be the best-selling jazz record of all time. The funny thing, and what makes it a phenomenon, is how many people who don't visit All About Jazz own a copy of the record. It's usually the ...
Twin Sax Attack: Ancestors/Introducing the E.R.A./Bearing the Bell/The Early Show
by Jeff Stockton
Mario Pavone's Double Tenor Quintet Ancestors Playscape 2008 The E.R.A. Introducing the E.R.A. Empty Room Music 2008 Andrew Robson Bearing the Bell - The Hymns of Thomas Tallis ...
Charles Gayle: Live at Crescendo and Forgiveness
by Jeff Stockton
By Any Means Live at Crescendo Ayler 2008 Charles Gyale Trio Forgiveness Not Two 2008 20 years ago Charles Gayle forged a reputation for iron chops, a ...
