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Article: Album Review

Paul Desmond: Pure Desmond

Read "Pure Desmond" reviewed by John Kelman


With a dry tone, and unhurried phrasing definitive of the emergent West Coast Cool--a relaxed alternative to the edgier hard bop coming from New York--alto saxophonist Paul Desmond had already made a name for himself with pianist Dave Brubeck's quartet on the legendary Time Out (Columbia, 1959). Desmond also wrote the tune that became Brubeck's signature, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

CTI Masterworks: The Second Batch

Read "CTI Masterworks: The Second Batch" reviewed by John Kelman


After a mighty kickoff near the end of 2010, CTI Masterworks is pushing ahead full-steam with another set of six remastered reissues, beautifully packaged in soft digipak editions. Its first batch of reissues included a tremendous, four-disc retrospective box set, CTI Records--The Cool Revolution, and an expanded, double-disc version of 1971's California Concert: The Hollywood Palladium, ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Omar Tamez

Read "Take Five With Omar Tamez" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Omar Tamez:He studied music with master in composition. He studied with the composer and teacher Nicandro Tamez. Skillful courses of composition and/or conferences with André Richard, Daniel Catán, Mario Lavista, Manuel de Elí¬as, Helmut Lachmann, Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Has made concerts in Mexico, United States, Italy, Instrument(s):Guitars, ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Chico Hamilton Quintet: Three Classic Albums

Read "Chico Hamilton Quintet: Three Classic Albums" reviewed by David Rickert


Chico Hamilton QuintetThree Classic AlbumsAvid Records2010 The first thing the Chico Hamilton Quintet had going for it was unusual instrumentation. The quintet built its sound around the cello, and featured guitar, bass, either flute or clarinet (with the occasional sax), and Hamilton on drums, forgoing the sticks for ...

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News: Recording

CTI 40th Anniversary Celebration Continues With 6 More Classic Reissues by Sony Masterworks

CTI RECORDS 40th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CONTINUES! SONY MASTERWORKS JAZZ RELEASES CLASSIC REISSUES FROM GEORGE BENSON, DEODATO, MILT JACKSON, PAUL DESMOND, JIM HALL AND RON CARTER: Available January 25, 2011 Also available: Critically acclaimed CTI Records: The Cool Revolution deluxe 4-CD box and California Concert: The Hollywood Palladium 2-CD set featuring previously unreleased tracks Masterworks Jazz continues ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Eric Vloeimans: V-Flow

Read "Eric Vloeimans: V-Flow" reviewed by John Kelman


Eric VloeimansV-Flow Challenge Records2010 Still on the shy side of fifty, but looking considerably younger--in no small part due to a distinctive image with colorful clothing and funky shoes--it might appear premature to be releasing a five-disc box set that takes a retrospective look at the career of Dutch ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Daniel Humair in the Lions' Dens

Read "Daniel Humair in the Lions' Dens" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Drummer Paul Motian is well-known for his “melodic" percussion, in which he skits and dodges arrhythmically, letting the guitars and saxophones mark the pulse of the composition. But for all the praise breathlessly--and deservedly--heaped upon Motian for this approach, the number of drummers who follow his example somewhere on this side of the free-jazz frontier, is ...

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Article: Year in Review

2010: The Year in Jazz

Read "2010: The  Year in Jazz" reviewed by Ken Franckling


The jazz scene in 2010 was marked by a bit of cultural thaw between the U.S. and Cuba, royal honors for Marian McPartland that led honors galore for living jazz musicians, and significant acknowledgments for late jazz greats across North America. Efforts continued to expand jazz into new realms--or to hold on during the aftershocks of ...

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Article: Old, New, Borrowed and Blue

John Williams' Jazz

Read "John Williams' Jazz" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


The idea for this edition of Old, New, Borrowed and Blue isn't new. The seeds were actually sown with an experience I had a few years back. About four years ago, I was writing for a different jazz publication and I received a package of recordings in the mail. This parcel contained the usual mixture of ...

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Conversations

Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2010
Track listing: Bag's Groove: Reinhardt; Pollock; Conversations; Ballad Painting; What If?; In Repose; Uncle Ed; Safari; Monet; Travelogue; At Sea; St. Thomas; Pocketful Of Change; Time.


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