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Article: Album Review

Ryan Cohan: Another Look

Read "Another Look" reviewed by Alex Marianyi

by Alex Marianyi
October 4, 2011

Unlike many of his past releases, Ryan Cohan's Another Look focuses heavily on group interaction and improvisation. Penning all but two of the tunes on the album, the pianist's arrangements allow his musicians maximum flexibility. That the CD's main quartet has been playing together since 2003, and was on the road for six straight weeks before ...

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News: Recording

John Coltrane - The John Coltrane Impulse! Albums Volume 5 (Hip-O, 2011)

October 4, 2011

This fifth and presumably final boxed set from Hip-O and Impulse! tracks the original release formats for the posthumous albums released under John Coltrane's name during the late sixties and early seventies. They include some scalding free-jazz recorded both live and in the studio and a controversial album where strings and other instruments are overdubbed onto ...

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Article: Interview

Bunky Green: Urgency and Continuity

by Anil Prasad
October 3, 2011

Saxophonist Bunky Green bristles at the idea of playing by the rules. On more than one occasion, the Milwaukee, Wisconsin native was on his way to jazz stardom, but each time his principles guided him elsewhere. This is a significant reason why the highly influential musician has mostly remained unsung and out of the spotlight for ...

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Article: Reassessing

Free Jazz

by C. Michael Bailey
September 30, 2011

Ornette Coleman Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation by the Ornette Coleman Double Quartet Atlantic 1961 Alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman's masterpiece, Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation by the Ornette Coleman Double Quartet, is one of the hinges of jazz evolution. As a musical hinge, Free Jazz, heard from ...

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Article: Live Review

Matthew Shipp Quartet with Paul Dunmall: London, September 8, 2011

by John Sharpe
September 29, 2011

Matthew Shipp Quartet with Paul DunmallThe VortexLondonSeptember 8, 2011 For a growing number of American improvisers, London is becoming a home away from home. Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith is on record as saying how much he enjoys communing with the capital's finest, and reedmen Ken Vandermark and Joe McPhee have ...

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News: Recording

John Coltrane "The Impulse! Albums: Volume Five" On Hip-O Select / Verve

September 29, 2011

Saxophonist and composer John Coltrane died unexpectedly in July 1967, already a legend at the age of 40. Having recorded prolifically, Coltrane left behind in the Impulse Records vault a treasure trove of great music that demanded to be heard. The John Coltrane Impulse! Albums Volume 5 set picks up where Volume 4 left off, collecting ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: John Coltrane

September 23, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating John Coltrane's birthday today! John William Coltrane was born on September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina. At the age of three his family moved to High Point, NC, where young Coltrane spent his early years. His father, John Robert Coltrane, died in 1939, leaving twelve year-old John and his mother ...

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News: Radio

John Coltrane Radio on SiriusXM, hosted by Carlos Santana

September 22, 2011

In celebration of the legendary jazz saxophonist and composer's 85th birthday, John Coltrane Radio airs on Real Jazz from Thursday, September 22, the day before Coltrane's 85th birthday, at 9 am ET through Sunday, September 25 on channel 67. John Coltrane Radio will be hosted by Grammy Award-winning musician and Coltrane aficionado, Carlos Santana, as well ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Jake Hertzog

by AAJ Staff
September 22, 2011

Meet Jake Hertzog: Jake Hertzog's accomplishments as a jazz musician mesh with his love for the rock idiom, creating almost an entirely new musical language. His new album, Evolution, co- produced by the great jazz bassist Harvie S, the original compositions (except for Jake's version of Bruce Springsteen's “Streets of Philadelphia") have been mastered ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Miles Davis Quintet: Live In Europe 1967 - The Bootleg Series Vol. 1

by Doug Collette
September 20, 2011

The Miles Davis Quintet Live In Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1Legacy Recordings2011 With the compact disc in its waning stages of dominance as a medium for music, The Miles Davis Quintet: Live In Europe 1967--The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 restates the case for the archiving ...