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Article: Album Review

Joe McPhee / Peter Brotzmann / Kent Kessler / Michael Zerang: The Damage Is Done

Read "The Damage Is Done" reviewed by Mark Corroto


This live date features legendary free jazz pioneers Peter Brötzmann and Joe McPhee, and Chicago's leading rhythm section, bassist Kent Kessler and drummer Michael Zerang. The four also make up 4/10 of Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet, maybe the most successful large new music jazz ensemble ever assembled. As they have in the past while touring ...

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Umbrella Music Festival 2009

Read "Umbrella Music Festival 2009" reviewed by Andrey Henkin


Umbrella Music FestivalChicago, ILNovember 5-8, 2009 If jazz is to survive in a modern world without the support of major labels or corporate funding, it will be through the efforts of organizations like Umbrella Music, “a group of Chicago-based musicians and presenters working together to provide concert opportunities for creative and improvising musicians." ...

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The David Arner Trio: Out/In The Open

Read "Out/In The Open" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


David Arner has built a reputation as an innovative pianist and a proponent of spontaneous composition. He filters both skills into his music and adds a healthy dose of surprise through changes in tempo, dynamics and harmony, weaving one into the other with facile dexterity. His ability to shape progression has led to associations with other ...

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Article: Live Review

Joe McPhee & Fred Lonberg-Holm: Their First Duet, University of Chicago

Read "Joe McPhee & Fred Lonberg-Holm: Their First Duet, University of Chicago" reviewed by Lyn Horton


Joe McPhee and Fred Lonberg-Holm Bond Chapel, University of ChicagoChicago, IL November 9, 2009 Saxophonist Joe McPhee and cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm have long been bandmates in Peter Brötzmann's Tentet, as well as in McPhee's Survival Unit III and in other groups formed during their mutual acquaintance. But never have ...

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Article: Interview

Agustí Fernández: saber escuchar

Read "Agustí Fernández: saber escuchar" reviewed by Guillem Vidal


Agustí Fernández (Palma de Mallorca, 1954) comparece puntualmente a su cita con All About Jazz en una mesa del bar del Auditori de Barcelona contigua a la que ocupa en ese momento Horacio Fumero, el contrabajista de Tete Montoliu. Estamos entre el edificio donde el pianista imparte clases de improvisación en jazz y música contemporánea ("el ...

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Article: Interview

Bill Dixon: In Medias Res

Read "Bill Dixon: In Medias Res" reviewed by Clifford Allen


Trumpeter and composer Bill Dixon is one of those rare figures in creative music who was both there as it took its initial steps and currently remains at the forefront of contemporary improvisation. In the last two years, he has directed or co-led orchestral configurations and recorded and performed with hand-picked small groups of international renown. ...

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Article: Music and the Creative Spirit

Amiri Baraka: Perspectives on Music and Race

Read "Amiri Baraka: Perspectives on Music and Race" reviewed by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.


Amiri Baraka is the author of the insightful and comprehensive book, Blues People. It is a book that has opened many minds and readers to the African American Diaspora along with the history and roots of African American music. Baraka has now published a new book of essays titled, Digging (The Afro-American Soul of American Classical ...

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Article: Live Review

Vision Festival 2009: Day 7 Finale

Read "Vision Festival 2009: Day 7 Finale" reviewed by John Sharpe


Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 |Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Jason Kao Hwang's Spontaneous River / Trio X / Patricia Nicholson Dance / William Parker Quartet 14th Annual Vision Festival Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts New York City

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Vision Festival 2009: Day 6

Read "Vision Festival 2009: Day 6" reviewed by John Sharpe


Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Planet Dream / Fred Anderson Trio / Michelle Rosewoman and Quintessence / Whit Dickey/Eri Yamamoto/Daniel Carter / Peter Brotzmann's Full Blast Trio 14th Annual Vision Festival Abrons Arts Center ...

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Vision Festival 2009: Day 4

Read "Vision Festival 2009: Day 4" reviewed by John Sharpe


Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Miriam Parker's Corridor / Charles Gayle Trio / The Ras Ensemble / The Ayler Project / Zim Ngqawana and the Collective Quartet 14th Annual Vision Festival Abrons Arts Center New ...


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