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Article: Album Review

Ken Wheeler & The John Dankworth Orchestra: Windmill Tilter

Read "Windmill Tilter" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones

It's easy to forget how long Canadian-born Kenny Wheeler has been making music. This, the first of his infrequent large ensemble recordings, was originally released back in 1969, and some thirteen years prior to that he was working in the quintet of baritone saxophonist Buddy Featherstonhaugh. Windmill Tilter offers the best of both ...

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Article: Album Review

Ken Wheeler & The John Dankworth Orchestra: Windmill Tilter

Read "Windmill Tilter" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Long considered a holy grail of British jazz, trumpet legend/iconic composer Kenny Wheeler's classic 1969 Fontana leader debut, Windmill Tilter, has remained curiously out of print--never, in fact, appearing legitimately on CD.Until now. Thanks to Andy Gray and BGO Records--a label responsible for a wealth of 1960s and '70s British jazz reissues--Windmill Tilter is ...

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Ranjit Barot to Release Debut Record on Abstract Logix

Ranjit Barot to Release Debut Record on Abstract Logix

Visionary composer, drummer, producer, and improviser explores his own personal hybrid of East and West New York, NY: After decades spent honing his craft in a staggering array of roles, from composing award-winning music for films (including 2009's Yeh Mera India and 2004's Main Hoon Na) to producing other artists, to working as a sideman in ...

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News: Recording

John McLaughlin's Out of Print "The Promise" to be Reissued November 2

JOHN McLAUGHLIN: THE PROMISE Now available exclusively at www.Hip-OSelect.com and available to all retailers November 2 John McLaughlin is universally recognized as one of the world's greatest guitarists. His pioneering recordings range from his landmark work with Miles Davis and Tony Williams, his own fusion recordings with The Mahavishnu Orchestra and his dazzling solo work in ...

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Article: Live Review

Bill Frisell At The Stone

Read "Bill Frisell At The Stone" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Bill FrisellThe StoneNew York CitySeptember 7, 2010 Bill Frisell has captured the imagination of music fans of many types, since his first records in the 1980s. He is the world's favorite alternative take on guitar. Yet, he may be, instead, the next step in guitar rather than another side of ...

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Article: Album Review

Tomasz Stanko Quartet: Dark Eyes

Read "Dark Eyes" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

As a trumpeter, Tomasz Stanko clearly owes a debt to Miles Davis; yet, after four decades making some of the most arresting small ensemble jazz music in Europe, the Polish veteran perhaps deserves to be considered in the same category as the iconic legend. As a trumpeter, composer and leader, Stanko has few peers, past or ...

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Article: Interview

Nobu Stowe: Beyond Free

Read "Nobu Stowe: Beyond Free" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

The music of NS (Nobu) Stowe is synonymous with the musical storytelling characterized with spontaneity and melodic romanticism--a true rarity in the field of fully improvised music. Stowe has not only mastered the art of total improvisation--a method of fully improvised music that embraces song-like melody, tonal harmony and rhythmic propulsion as well as more commonly ...

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Article: Interview

Lenny White: Jazz/Rock Collides Again

Read "Lenny White: Jazz/Rock Collides Again" reviewed by Carl L. Hager

by Carl L. Hager

When that cool, overcast dawn arrived in Bethel, New York, neither the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair's expired permit, nor the rain, mud, and technical problems could have kept Jimi Hendrix and his Band of Gypsys from playing. It was destiny. Believe it. A hundred miles south on that same morning of August ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Various Artists: Into the Light - Korean Music III - Traditional Music & Korean Jazz

Read "Various Artists: Into the Light - Korean Music III -  Traditional Music & Korean Jazz" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Various Artists Into the Light: Korean Music III: Traditional Music & Korean Jazz KAMS 2010 Although the differences in beat, rhythm and harmony that separate traditional Korean music and jazz may partially explain why jazz has been approached only relatively recently in Korea, in fact Korean traditional musicians ...

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Article: Album Review

Suresh Singaratnam: Lost In New York

Read "Lost In New York" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Born in Zambia but brought up in Toronto, Canada, trumpeter Suresh Singaratnam is formally trained in both jazz and classical music, latterly at the Manhattan School of Music. Lost In New York is an album of original compositions that chronicles the young musician's early years in the city. It's a mix of experiences and emotions that ...


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