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Historic Quartet: Cecil Taylor and Anthony Braxton at Royal Festival Hall, London

by John Sharpe
August 1, 2007

Cecil Taylor with William Parker, Tony Oxley and special guest Anthony Braxton Royal Festival Hall London, England July 8, 2007 Given that both Cecil Taylor and Anthony Braxton have both lasted the course and been almost promiscuous in their wide-ranging associations, it was something of a surprise that they ...

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William Parker

by John Sharpe
May 27, 2007

William Parker's Raining On The Moon Bimhuis Amsterdam April 27, 2007 A beautiful Friday evening in Amsterdam drew to a close with William Parker's Raining On The Moon taking the stage in the fading light at the Bimhuis. Parker is the pre-eminent free jazz bassist on the New York downtown ...

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Harris Eisenstadt: Simultaneous Juxtapositions

by John Sharpe
May 22, 2007

Upcoming Canadian drummer and composer Harris Eisenstadt has rung the changes with each successive release so far. His sixth outing as leader, All Seeing Eye + Octets (Poobah, 2007), is not a departure in that sense only. Intriguingly, it combines a re-imagining of the Wayne Shorter Blue Note suite of the same name, with two of ...

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Anthony Braxton Sextet +1 at the Iridium, NYC

by John Sharpe
May 22, 2007

Anthony Braxton Sextet+1The IridiumNew York CityMarch 28-April 1, 2007 Democracy is alive and well, or at least it was on the stage of the Iridium under the beneficent gaze of maestro Anthony Braxton at the end of March 2007. While Braxton is responsible for choosing the primary compositions for his ensemble ...

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Taylor Ho Bynum: Spontaneous Yet Focused

by John Sharpe
April 30, 2007

Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum is at the forefront of a younger generation of creative musicians in New York. He combines thrilling improvisation with stealthy composition, unconfined by genre. Best known for his association with Anthony Braxton, Bynum has played a leading role in the realization of the saxophonist's recent oeuvre. There has been a deserved upsurge ...

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Hamid Drake at the Sons d'hiver Festival, Paris

by John Sharpe
February 20, 2007

Hamid Drake & Bindu Sons d'hiver Jazz Festival Theatre Romain Rolland, Villejuif, Paris February 2, 2007 Good things come to those who wait, and Hamid Drake has waited longer than most. After over 30 years in creative music, Bindu is not the first band to be led by Drake, ...

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An Anglo/US Convergence: Harris Eisenstadt and Taylor Ho Bynum in Cambridge

by John Sharpe
January 3, 2007

Harris Eisenstadt and Taylor Ho Bynum Bateman Auditorium Cambridge, UK November 6, 2006 Collaborations between British and American musicians have a long history, but if the format of the Convergence Quartet promised nothing out of the ordinary, the same could not be said of the content. But ...

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Steve Swell/Gebhard Ullmann Live at Leeds, Nov. 1

by John Sharpe
December 20, 2006

German reed player Gebhard Ullmann is a busy man, splitting his time between Berlin and New York. Like an increasing number of jazz musicians he minimizes the down time by running a series of parallel projects ranging from trios to his ten piece Ta Lam ensemble. Tonight's grouping found him in the front line alongside one ...

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Other Dimensions in Music at the JVC Jazz Festival in Paris, Oct. 19-20

by John Sharpe
December 17, 2006

The Missing Link. That was the title of a 1990s Fred Anderson session, but it could be applied with even greater veracity to the NYC collective Other Dimensions in Music, for this tour encompassing the talents of William Parker, Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter and Hamid Drake, subbing for regular drummer Rashid Bakr. The quartet members have ...

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Vision Festival XI, Angel Orensanz Foundation For The Arts, NYC - Day Six, 18 June 2006

by John Sharpe
November 11, 2006

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 Afternoon | Day 5 Evening | Day 6 The Vision Festival is an artist-organized and run event which depends on a small but dedicated staff augmented by volunteers and well-wishers. It differs from other jazz festivals in its inclusivity, representing a ...