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Article: Live Review

"Escalator Over The Hill" by The New School Studio Orchestra and Vocal Ensemble

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by Paul Reynolds

The New School Studio Orchestra and Vocal Ensemble The Tishman Auditorium at The New School “Escalator Over The Hill" New York, NY May 2, 2025 Ask greying jazz-rock fans about long-lost projects they never saw live and Escalator Over The Hill by Carla Bley is likely to come up. Released ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

The Sun Rises Again on Strata-East Records

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by Joshua Weiner

Fans of classic post-bop, avant-garde, and spiritual jazz rejoiced at the news of Mack Avenue Music Group's partnership with Strata-East Records, a pioneering independent label founded in 1971 by trumpeter Charles Tolliver and pianist Stanley Cowell. Many Strata-East releases are being reissued on CDs, deluxe all-analogue vinyl LP packages, and digitally through streaming services, many for ...

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Article: Album Review

Phil Haynes: Return to Electric

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by Dan McClenaghan

The band Return to Forever was a seminal jazz fusion group led by pianist Chick Corea. The eponymous first album, on ECM Records, was released in 1972, opening doors for scores of other like-minded ensembles. Electricity was a main aspect of the move away from acoustic jazz. The Fender Rhodes piano and plugged-in bass and guitars ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Nels Cline: The Shape of Sound

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by Leo Sidran

For nearly two decades, Nels Cline has been best known as the mercurial, shape-shifting guitarist of Wilco, a role that has introduced his name to legions of fans and placed him at the center of a beloved and influential American band. But to reduce Cline's career to his work with Wilco would be to miss the ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Music From Andy Timmons, Anthony Papamichael, Samuel Halkvist, Frank Gambale And Yellow Jackets

Read "New Music From Andy Timmons, Anthony Papamichael, Samuel Halkvist, Frank Gambale And Yellow Jackets" reviewed by Len Davis

by Len Davis

New releases with Andy Timmons Recovery, Anthony Papamichael, Project Oracle, Mark Hartsuch withMohini Dey and The Haas Company featuring Swedish guitarist Samuel Halkvist. Yellow Jackets latest Fasten Up, French drummer Antoine Cara with bassist Kevin Revyrand and Frank Gambale from Celestial Latitude Vol 2. Steve Khan with The Suitcase-Live bassist Tom Kennedy, Indian pianist Lydian Nadhaswaram, ...

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Article: Album Review

John Lamkin: Hot

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by Tony Poole

Best known as a dedicated music educator, Dr. John Lamkin II has spent decades shaping the next generation of musicians as Director of Bands at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. But in 1984, he stepped into the spotlight with Hot, a dynamic blend of fusion, R&B, and straight-ahead jazz-funk that showcased his prowess as a ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Clarinet And Composer Kinan Azmeh

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by AAJ Staff

Meet Kinan Azmeh Hailed as a “virtuoso, intensely soulful" by The New York Times and “spellbinding" by the New Yorker, Syrian-born, Brooklyn-based genre-bending composer, clarinetist and improvisor Kinan Azmeh has been touring the globe with great acclaim. He has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, John McLaughlin, Daniel Barenboim and the New York Philharmonic, among others. Azmeh is ...

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Article: Interview

Kenny Garrett Speaks Through The Soul of His Jazz

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by Dean Nardi

Mental bungee-jumping may not be their sport of choice, but a cerebral ledge exists that sooner or later every jazz musician must leap off. One day, ready or not, tuning up or shaking down their instrument, they will glance in a mirror, hug a pregnant mother-to-be, second-line a funeral, walk in the deepest, dark woods, chance ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Zakir Hussain, Billy Mohler & Random Pickin’s

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by Maurice Hogue

This is the second 3-hour holiday joint with music selected from newer releases back to some archival stuff and lots in between. Sampled new releases include music from bassist Billy Mohler and a new quartet featuring guitarist Jeff Parker, Italy's BSDE 4Tet, Finnish pianist Joona Toivanen's trio, and some archival music from Minneapolis/Los Angeles bassist and ...

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Article: Play This!

Courtney Pine: In the Garden of Eden (Thinking Inside Of You)

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by Ian Patterson

Minimalist groove, a melodic hook that does not quit and spiraling saxophone that builds to a crescendo of dervish-like intensity. From the Mercury Prize-nominated album Modern Day Jazz Stories (Verve, 1995), “In the Garden of Eden (Thinking Inside Of You)"'s mantra-like guitar motif is sampled from Stanley Clarke's hypnotic “Desert Song." Pine also clearly found inspiration ...


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