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Live at Birdland

By Marvin Stamm

Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2005
Track listing: Svensson; Samba du Nancy; In Her Arms; Waltz for Mia; Two as One; When She Smiles Upon Your Face; Gemma

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Alone Together

By John Abercrombie

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 2004

Album

Rarum XIV: Selected Recordings

By John Abercrombie

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Timeless, Sorcery I, Avenue, Memoir, Stray, Big Music, Ma Belle Helene, Carol's Carol, Homecoming, Convolution

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Class Trip

By John Abercrombie

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Dansir; Risky Business; Descending Grace; Illnoise; Cat Walk; Excuse My Shoes; Swirls; Jack and Betty; Class Trip; Soldier's Song; Epilogue

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Live At The Village Vanguard

By John Abercrombie

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 2004

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John Abercrombie: Class Trip

Read "Class Trip" reviewed by A. Henkin

by A. Henkin

When guitarist John Abercrombie connected with violinist Mark Feldman for Open Land (ECM, '99), he continued a tradition, albeit in an updated fashion, that stretched back to Reinhardt and Grappelli. Introducing drummer Joey Baron in to the fold for the followup, Cat n' Mouse (ECM, '02), continued the lineage down to the triumvirate of John McLaughlin, ...

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Article: Profile

John Abercrombie: Timeless

Read "John Abercrombie: Timeless" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

By Bill Milkowski Over the past 30 years, since the 1974 recording of Timeless , his groundbreaking debut for the ECM label, John Abercrombie has remained one of the most genuinely original guitar voices of his generation (which would include such heavyweight colleagues as John Scofield, Bill Frisell, Mike Stern and Pat Metheny). ...

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Article: Interview

John Abercrombie: Extending the Tradition

Read "John Abercrombie: Extending the Tradition" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Guitarist John Abercrombie is arguably the guitarist of his generation who pushes the boundaries of improvised music while still relating, most directly, to the jazz tradition. While others dabble with electronica, jam band sensibilities, world music and Americana, Abercrombie, no matter how forward-reaching his music has become, is always first and foremost a jazz guitarist. Even ...

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John Abercrombie: Class Trip

Read "Class Trip" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Followers of guitarist John Abercrombie were taken aback by 2002's Cat 'n' Mouse , featuring violinist Mark Feldman, bassist Marc Johnson, and drummer Joey Baron. Maybe it was the personnel, maybe the right time and place, or maybe a moment of clarity on everyone's account, but the group resonated as well as any Abercrombie has ever ...

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John Abercrombie: Class Trip

Read "Class Trip" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Guitarist John Abercrombie's last record, 2002's Cat 'n' Mouse , as good as it was, was as much an announcement, a promise, a consolidation and move in a new direction that was hinted at by 1999's Open Land. Signalling the arrival of a new quartet featuring violinist Mark Feldman, bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Joey Baron, ...


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