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Article: Live Review

The TAO Saxophone Quartet on Tour

Read "The TAO Saxophone Quartet on Tour" reviewed by Gilles Laheurte

by Gilles Laheurte

The TAO Saxophone Quartet UNIS Theatre / Bowery Wine Company / Zebulon's New York, NY April, 2011 After an absence of eight years--last appearing in the USA at the legendary Knitting Factory in 2002--the TAO Saxophone Quartet returned to New York. Formed in 1991 by reedman Noël Pelhate--a devoted fan of ...

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Article: Profile

The Devil and Gil Scott-Heron

Read "The Devil and Gil Scott-Heron" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush

Live long enough and you'll either be disappointed by your heroes or you'll bury them.Did I say “heroes"? Sorry. I meant to say Gil Scott-Heron wasn't my hero. He was an innovator, a trailblazer, a pioneer and an inspiration, but he wasn't my hero.He was just one of the coolest brothers I ...

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Article: Album Review

Aquarium: Aquarium

Read "Aquarium" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Aquarium's self-titled debut is strong on melody and displays a welcome combination of ability and enthusiasm from each of the London-based quartet's members. Led by pianist Sam Leak, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, who formed Aquarium in 2008, he's an inventive composer, crafting tunes that enable the quartet to stretch out while retaining ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Eric Dolphy Graphic Novel Seeks Funding

Eric Dolphy Graphic Novel Seeks Funding

Keith Henry Brown, illustrator, writer and occasional contributor to AllAboutJazz.com campaign through Kickstarter is nearing an end. It will be concluded on June 16. The novel, about influential multi-instrumentalist Dolphy, who's known for his work with John Coltrane, Charles Mingus and Chico Hamiliton as well as his own incomparable recording efforts as a leader. Through colorful ...

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Article: Album Review

Denny Zeitlin: Labyrinth

Read "Labyrinth" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

To Denny Zeitlin the piano is several instruments rolled into one. It is a percussion instrument, struck by fingers and all manner of objets d'art. Together with his feet, which depress the pedals as if they were instrumental peripherals in themselves, Zeitlin makes masterful use of them to split, carve, bend and hang notes. Zeitlin might ...

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Article: Live Review

TD Toronto Jazz Festival, Days 4-10: June 27-July 3, 2011

Read "TD Toronto Jazz Festival, Days 4-10: June 27-July 3, 2011" reviewed by Alain Londes

by Alain Londes

TD Toronto Jazz Festival 2011Toronto, CanadaJune 24-July 3, 2011 Monday, June 27, 2011On Monday evening, fans had a few hard choices to make among the headliners. At Koerner Hall, award-winning Dee Dee Bridgewater paid tribute to Lady Day, Billie Holiday. Meanwhile at the Enwave Theatre, Kurt Elling ...

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Article: Live Review

Montreal Jazz Festival, Days 4-6, July 2-4, 2011

Read "Montreal Jazz Festival, Days 4-6, July 2-4, 2011" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Montréal, Canada June 25-July 4, 2011 Montréal is a city in transition, and in a move that's absolutely uncharacteristic of other Canadian cities, is planning a downtown renovation driven, in no small part, by the arts. Place des ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

H2 Big Band / Tempest Little Big Band / Deutsch Oper Berlin Big Band

Read "H2 Big Band / Tempest Little Big Band / Deutsch Oper Berlin Big Band" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

The H2 Big BandYou're It!Jazzed Media2010 Big-band album of the year? There have been a number of worthy aspirants in the first half of 2011, and now comes another strong contender: the Denver-based H2 Big Band, whose debut recording, You're It!, is a paragon of straight-ahead blowing pleasure ...

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Article: Album Review

David Binney: Barefooted Town

Read "Barefooted Town" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Saxophonist David Binney broke new ground with Graylen Epicenter (Mythology, 2011), which was a world unto itself, and shortly before that, he delivered Aliso (Criss Cross, 2010)--a jagged set of music featuring original works and some compositions from visionaries like Sam Rivers, Wayne Shorter and John Coltrane. With Barefooted Town, Binney returns for another outing on ...

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Article: Jazz and the Net

The Grand Unified Field Of Harmony Part 1

Read "The Grand Unified Field Of Harmony Part 1" reviewed by Catrina Daimon Lee

by Catrina Daimon Lee

A Wordy Introduction A “Grand Unification" type of harmonic theory, to be useful, has to be transportable over the entire terrain of authentic musical activity, covering as many stylizations and idioms as in existence. It must be diagnostic, generative and predictive. All harmonic and melodic systems past and present are idiomatically bound to ...


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