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John Abercrombie: Rarum XIV: Selected Recordings

Read "Rarum XIV: Selected Recordings" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
March 15, 2004

Through its Rarum series, initiated in 2002, ECM has encouraged its artists to select among their own recordings to best illustrate their ECM years. Guitarist John Abercrombie has wisely chosen to represent his 30 year career with the label by offering ten tracks arranged in chronological fashion. Abercrombie, Keith Jarrett, and Jan Garbarek are probably the ...

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Noisy Old Men

By John Abercrombie

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 2002

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Cat 'N' Mouse

By John Abercrombie

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: A Nice Idea; Convolution; String Thing; Soundtrack; Third Stream Samba; On The Loose; Stop and Go; Show of Hands.

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John Abercrombie: Cat 'n' Mouse

Read "Cat 'n' Mouse" reviewed by Celeste Sunderland

by Celeste Sunderland
August 1, 2002

Contradiction has its claws wrapped around John Abercrombie's latest recording Cat 'n' Mouse. Somber, weeping melodies offset rolling, jubilant solos. Wild improvisation fades into shifting, dark-ening sonic landscapes. Delicate brushes on drums churn into steady rock beats. The fifth track “Third Stream Samba" doesn't venture anywhere near Brazil. Even the title of the album, naming the ...

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Rez Abbasi: Reziliently Brilliant

by Phil DiPietro
June 1, 2002

At 36, Rez Abbasi is the latest accomplished and proven musician with a few solo releases and a few sideman appearances in his discography to choose the independent jazz route. Born in Pakistan, raised in the USA since the age of three, and having gone east from west internationally as well as domestically, Abbasi is known ...

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John Abercrombie: Cat 'n' Mouse

Read "Cat 'n' Mouse" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
March 1, 2002

First and foremost, Cat 'n' Mouse is a game among equals. The members of this quartet are each powerful musicians in their own right, and somehow they've made a treaty to serve a common cause. Guitarist John Abercrombie takes the lead on the opening track, “A Nice Idea," with an extended lyrical melody seeping with melancholy. ...

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Dave Holland: A Weekend of Bass

by Dave Roberts
May 1, 2001

There may be no instrument that is more vital yet less heralded in a jazz group than the bass. The bass provides much of the rhythmic and harmonic foundation as well as outlining the form. If the bassist is solid, locking in with the drums and piano, everyone else in the group can relax. And often, ...

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The Hudson Project

By John Abercrombie

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2000

Article: Interview

Charles Lloyd: Crossing the Waters Wide

by C. Andrew Hovan
September 1, 2000

From the time of “love-ins" and tie-dyed shirts to today's current jazz renaissance, Charles Lloyd has played a part in the multifaceted history of the music. His series of Atlantic sides in the '60s transfixed a young and impressionable audience by way of an intoxicating fusion of mysticism, rock rhythms and jazz improvisation, while also launching ...

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Abercrombie/Erskine/Mintzer/Patitucci: The Hudson Project

by Ed Kopp
May 1, 2000

In 1998, the D’Addario Company hired four respected jazz veterans -- Bob Mintzer (tenor sax), John Abercrombie (electric guitar), John Patitucci (acoustic and electric basses) and Peter Erskine (drums) -- to conduct a series of concerts/clinics together. The four adopted the group name the Hudson Project, and their final engagement was recorded and is now available ...