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Article: Album Review

Sumi Tonooka: NOW: Solo Live at the Howland Cultural Center

Read "NOW: Solo Live at the Howland Cultural Center" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


There are some jazz players who suffer an unusually large gap between their credentials and their renown. Pianist Sumi Tonooka is a case in point. She studied with Mary Lou Williams, made her recording début with Detroit trumpeter Marcus Belgrave (of Motown/Tribe Records fame), and was part of Philly Joe Jones's band. Two especially strong albums--Long ...

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Sumi Tonooka: Now

Read "Now" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Sumi Tonooka is a resourceful jazz pianist who, along with alto saxophonist Chris Burnett and tenor saxophonist Erica Lindsay, started the Artists Recording Collective, offering up Initiation (2010), an excellent quartet outing which Tonooka co-led with Lindsay, and a more intimate Tonooka-led trio effort, Long Ago Today (2008). A former student of piano legend Mary Lou ...

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Patrick Brennan: Rhythms of Passion

Read "Patrick Brennan: Rhythms of Passion" reviewed by Ludwig vanTrikt


Since moving to New York City in 1975, one-time bassist/painter Patrick Brennan has crafted a musical path that is open in its candor and indebtedness to all facets of black music. Much like trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, the alto saxophonist brews a thicket of his own distinct musical language that “unlike much contemporaneous vanguard music is ...

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Lauren Sevian: Big Voice on the Big Horn

Read "Lauren Sevian: Big Voice on the Big Horn" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke


Swaying slightly, with eyes closed, Lauren Sevian pours a lot of heart and grit into the big, baritone saxophone--the largest of the most commonly played saxophones and an axe that looks even more considerable when seen against her small frame. She comes out with an imposing sound and welcoming style, put forth through a striking conception. ...

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Anthony Braxton: Trio & Quintet (Town Hall) 1972

Read "Trio & Quintet (Town Hall) 1972" reviewed by Troy Collins


Time has an ability to obscure certain details of the past. This notion is apparent when considering the multi-decade oeuvre of visionary composer Anthony Braxton, whose restructuralist Tri-Axium Theory is as unique as Ornette Coleman's Harmolodic Theory or Cecil Taylor's Unit Structures. Braxton's use of pulse structures and multiple logics has long encouraged a considerable amount ...

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Anthony Braxton: Trio & Quintet (Town Hall) 1972

Read "Trio & Quintet (Town Hall) 1972" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Maybe the world wasn't ready for the music of Anthony Braxton back in 1972, when this concert was recorded, and maybe it wasn't ready for him, when it was released twenty years later in 1992. Then again, is it really ready for him today? Certainly, and this music is very accessible. This beautifully remastered ...

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Take Five With Boris Kozlov

Read "Take Five With Boris Kozlov" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Boris Kozlov: Currently serving as a bassist, arranger and Musical Director for the Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty and The Orchestra, as well as leading his own projects, he has also been a first-call bassist for such important jazz acts as Michael Brecker, John Blake, Ray Barretto's New World Spirit, Lew Tabackin, David Kikoski, Alex ...

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Jeremy Monteiro: Golden Year Inaugural Volume 1

Read "Golden Year Inaugural Volume 1" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Jeremy Monteiro has come a long way since starting out as a professional jazz pianist when not quite seventeen, back in 1977. As a leader, he's recorded over twenty albums, though it wasn't until Homecoming (Jazznote, 2007) that he released one of all-original compositions. A fine interpreter of The Great American Songbook, Monteiro is also a ...

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Playdate: Playdate

Read "Playdate" reviewed by John Barron


Playdate brings together a trio of long time friends and musical collaborators. Guitarist Amanda Monaco, saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, and pianist Noah Baerman have known each other since high school, studying music together at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, Connecticut. The ensemble is rounded out by bassist Henry Lugo and drummer Vinnie Sperrazza ...

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News: TV / Film

New from Jazz Video Guy: John Stubblefield, Larry Willis, Bob Cranshaw, Freedom Suite

New from Jazz Video Guy: John Stubblefield, Larry Willis, Bob Cranshaw, Freedom Suite

Jazz Videos: John Stubblefield Tribute, Uncle Sonny Rollins, Larry Willis and Bob Cranshaw Check out the brand new featurettes from Bret Primack, a.k.a. Jazz Video Guy. Stubbs Clifton Anderson's upcoming Doxy Records release includes “Stubbs," which he dedicates to his dearly departed friend John Stubblefield. Uncle Sonny The latest edition of the ...


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