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Article: Album Review

Sam Newsome: Blue Soliloquy

Read "Blue Soliloquy" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 25, 2010

The soprano saxophone is one mean mistress; temperamental, demanding, and unforgiving. Few have mastered her, with Sidney Bechet, John Coltrane, and Steve Lacy coming to mind. Saxophonist Sam Newsome,late of the Terence Blanchard Quintet, has stepped up to provide his Das Wohltemperierte Klavier of the instrument in Soliloquy--Solo Works for Soprano Saxophone. Strongly recalling Bobby Watson's ...

News: Interview

Hawkwind's Nik Turner Interviewed at AAJ

February 24, 2010

Nik Turner is perhaps best known as the founding saxophonist and flautist for pioneering “space rock" band Hawkwind. As well as contributing to the profound influence that this band has had on rock and punk with its focus on community and grassroots movements--including its many benefit shows and long-standing support of England's free festivals, Turner may ...

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Nik Turner: Bringing the Music to the People

by Jack Gold-Molina
February 24, 2010

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Article: Album Review

Johnny Butler: Solo

by Mark F. Turner
February 23, 2010

On any street corner or venue it's possible to hear a musician playing solo saxophone, its reed-song beckoning down thoroughfares to anyone that will listen. But by putting a spin on things, it's quite another matter to hear and see that horn wired into a laptop computer, as it provides multiphonic voices and looped patterns, fed ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Sol6: Sol6

by Chris May
February 19, 2010

Sol6 Sol6 Red Note 2010 When All About Jazz first interviewed saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, in 2005, she said: “The older I get the weirder I feel the music is going to be. I have a feel of where it's going and I know it's going to get less ...

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Article: Bailey's Bundles

The State of Harry Allen 2010

by C. Michael Bailey
February 16, 2010

Tenor saxophonist Harry Allen is a keeper of the flame. His understated and well- studied saxophone style covers everyone from Frankie Trumbauer to Coleman Hawkins. He is a scholar of melody and vibe, and has the keen ability to interpret standards with an uncanny and swinging precision that should be used as the standard for jazz ...

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Take Five With Thomas McElroy

by AAJ Staff
February 15, 2010

Meet Thomas McElroy:Started playing at the age of 16 with classical lessons. Studied at Cornish Institute from 1979-1981. Left Cornish to go on the road. Moved to Dallas Texas and gigged with James Clay Marshall Ivery and Red Garland. Moved back to Seattle and have worked with everyone in town at one point or ...

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Article: Album Review

Stephane Spira & Giovanni Mirabassi: Spirabassi

Read "Spirabassi" reviewed by Guy Zinger

by Guy Zinger
February 15, 2010

Lyrically singing with his soprano sax, telling his story in an album dedicated to his departed father, Stephane Spira and his accomplice, pianist Giovanni Mirabassi, embark on a dreamy and introspective road trip, soaked with melancholy. Spira's father was a colorful character and antiquarian with a mad passion for music, and Spirabassi is imprinted with that ...

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Eric Alexander: Eric Alexander Quartet: Chim Chim Cheree

Read "Eric Alexander Quartet: Chim Chim Cheree" reviewed by Sean Coughlin

by Sean Coughlin
February 14, 2010

Chim Chim Cheree has been dubbed “a tribute to John Coltrane." Returning with usual sidemen Harold Mabern at the piano, Joe Farnsworth on drums, and bassist John Webber, this album represents a thorough examination of Coltrane's music made up of Coltrane originals and tunes Coltrane ostensibly owned throughout his career. While George Coleman, Dexter Gordon, and ...

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Article: Film Review

Masters of American Music Series: Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday

by Eugene Holley, Jr.
February 14, 2010

The Story of Jazz Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker Thelonious Monk: American Composer The Many Faces of Billie Holiday Naxos 2010 These four DVDs--separate broadcasts of the Masters of American Music TV series, originally released in eighties--seem by today's standards, like some ...