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Article: Album Review

Tom Graf: Grafitti

Read "Grafitti" reviewed by Bridget A. Arnwine

by Bridget A. Arnwine

There's a familiarity to the songs on composer Tom Graf's Grafitti, that makes the disc feel like an old favorite even though it goes from funk and cha-cha to bop and straight-ahead jazz. There's such an air of familiarity, in fact, that if Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane could hear Grafitti in heaven, they ...

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Article: Album Review

Daniel Smith: Blue Bassoon

Read "Blue Bassoon" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

When many people hear discussions about the bassoon, they are far more likely to think of “Peter And The Wolf" than Charlie Parker and Wayne Shorter tunes. While jazz is open to any-and-all-comers in every instrument family, the technical demands of the bassoon--an unwieldy double reed instrument that rarely leaves the confines of classical music--and its ...

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Article: Live Review

2010 Playboy Jazz Festival: A Swingin' Party At The Hollywood Bowl

Read "2010 Playboy Jazz Festival: A Swingin' Party At The Hollywood Bowl" reviewed by Chuck Koton

by Chuck Koton

Hear the name Playboy and in an instant, a parade of “hot" images race involuntarily across the mind's eye. There's Dizzy, bent over and blowin' the hippest sounds through his misshapen horn; Stan Getz' tenor sax pourin' forth cool samba; Benny Goodman and Count Basie leadin' their bands through swing history; Art Blakey and his band ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

hatOLOGY Reissue Bonanza Continues

Read "hatOLOGY Reissue Bonanza Continues" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Begun in 1975, Hat Hut Records was to become the model for adventurous, independent, new music labels such as Okka Disk, AUM Fidelity and Clean Feed. From the start, founder Werner X. Uehlinger sought out challenging and innovative musicians and music that might have been too risky for major labels to produce. This very small Swiss ...

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Article: Interview

Manu Katche: Play As You Are

Read "Manu Katche: Play As You Are" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Manu Katché is one of the most original drummers anywhere, defying categorization and straddling musical genres with ease and flair. A French national of Ivorian background, he has turned his hand to pop, rock, fusion and jazz, and his exposure to all these elements, plus his classical training, is indelibly stamped in a playing style all ...

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Article: Album Review

Steve Lacy: November

Read "November" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Even without the back story of November, the music of soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy exists on its own merits. Compare this live recording to the two dozen-plus solo sessions by this master, and it stands up to any of them. Not that Lacy was in his finest form here, having been diagnosed with liver ...

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Article: Book Review

I Walked With Giants

Read "I Walked With Giants" reviewed by Russ Musto

by Russ Musto

I Walked with GiantsJimmy Heath/Joseph McLarenSoftcover; 344 pagesISBN: 1439901988Temple University Press2010 The title alone of Jimmy Heath's marvelous memoir speaks volumes about the man. The NEA Jazz Master is himself an acknowledged giant among his peers and his choice to name the book ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Terje Lie

Read "Take Five With Terje Lie" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Terje Lie:Saxophonist Terje Lie, ("Terry Lee"), started his career as a musician during high school in Norway with his blues/rock band with which he appeared as a lead vocalist on Norwegian television at seventeen years of age. Over time, he became a part of that country's scene of young ...

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Article: Film Review

Masters of American Music: The Story of Jazz

Read "Masters of American Music: The Story of Jazz" reviewed by Ken Dryden

by Ken Dryden

Various Artists Masters of American Music: The Story of Jazz Naxos Jazz 2009 Various documentaries have been made about jazz over the years with mixed results. While the 1993 DVD Masters of American Music: The Story of Jazz is only 98 minutes long, it ends up being far more wide-ranging, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Steve Lacy: Let’s Call This…Esteem; Hall Egg Farm 2000.10.16; November and Ideal Bread's Transmit

Read "Steve Lacy: Let’s Call This…Esteem; Hall Egg Farm 2000.10.16; November and Ideal Bread's Transmit" reviewed by A. Henkin

by A. Henkin

Steve Lacy/Mal WaldronLet's Call This...EsteemSLAM-Silta2010 Steve LacyHall Egg Farm 2000.10.16Suigyu2010 Steve LacyNovemberIntakt2010 Ideal BreadTransmitCuneiform2010


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