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Album

Symphonica

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Emperor Jones; Eternal Joy; Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love; Alexander The Great; His Dreams; The Dawn Of Time; I'm All For You.

Album

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: 1. Transitions; 2. The Thirteenth Floor; 3. Reneda; 4. All About You; 5. Message to Mike; 6. Alpha and Omega; 7. Our Daily Bread; 8. Cosmos; 9. Seraphic Light; 10. Expression.

Album

Quartet

By McCoy Tyner

Label: Half Note Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit; Mellow Minor; Sama Layuca; Passion Dance; Search for Peace; Blues on the Corner; For All We Know.

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Article: Profile

Kenny Burrell: Mr. Good Notes

by Russ Musto
October 3, 2008

“I'm just trying to play the good notes," says Kenny Burrell, lighthearted laughter accompanying his response to the question of how he would characterize his style of guitar playing. The reply betrayed the genial humility that has long distinguished him as one of the music's truly gracious gentlemen. Burrell has been playing the “good notes" for ...

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Article: Album Review

Joe Lovano: Symphonica

by Chris May
August 25, 2008

Sumptuous and cinematic, a retrospective with a spin, Symphonica is the first album saxophonist Joe Lovano has recorded in its entirety with a full symphony orchestra. Playing mainly tenor, he revisits six of his favorite original compositions (and Charles Mingus' “Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love"), written over the last 20 years, with the massed strings, woodwinds ...

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News: Recording

Blue Note Records Presents Joe Lovano's "Symphonica"

July 17, 2008

The saxophone maestro Joe Lovano has enjoyed a stellar career recording for Blue Note Records, launching into new territory with different sized ensembles from album to album while rarely retreading the steps of his past musical adventures. Whether he's been in a trio fascination, a quartet marvel or a killer nonet setting, Lovano has upped the ...

Article: Album Review

Saxophone Summit: Seraphic Light

Read "Seraphic Light" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 30, 2008

Cambia l'organico (la dolorosa scomparsa di Michael Becker ha portato all'inserimento del più giovane Ravi Coltrane), ma non la formula del Saxophone Summit, nucleo di strumentisti di eccelsa qualità che propone un post-bop contemporaneo di ottima fattura. Certo, qualche perplessità c'è. Ci si chiede, ad esempio, se sia proprio necessario riunire tre dei maggiori sassofonisti al ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Photonality Jazz Series Publishes New Book "Against the Grain" with Joe Lovano and Us 5

June 4, 2008

"Against the Grain" with Joe Lovano and US 5 is a highly experimental visual music composition in which the composer, T.E. Priemon, forms a musical texture with the camera to create a tension between the performers and the visual music lines, all coming together to create a visual off- beatness within the structure of the composition. ...

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News: Music Industry

The New Yorker's 100 Essential Jazz Albums

May 15, 2008

While finishing “Bird-Watcher," a Profile of the jazz broadcaster and expert Phil Schaap, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the uninitiated than as a source of quarrelling for the collector. First, I asked Schaap to assemble the list, but, after a ...

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News: Education

Joe Lovano on the Beat in Improvisation

May 10, 2008

As part of a new collaboration with Berklee Press, DownBeat.com will be posting music lessons from the site BerkleeShares.com. Here's the first lesson that Down Beat is featuring from this exciting series. Many critics consider Joe Lovano a legitimate successor to John Coltrane. He has worked with top musicians, such as Woody Herman, Chet Baker, Elvin ...