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Article: Live From New York

John Zorn, Cindy Blackman, Dhafer Youssef, Jon Hassell, The Necks & Kenny Werner

by Martin Longley
March 18, 2009

John Zorn Abrons Arts Center February 7, 2009 This is getting to be a habit, as composer and alto saxophonist John Zorn erects his tent at the Abrons Arts Center once more, for two weekend shows, both of them merging older material with fresh compositions, presented by two of his ...

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Article: Live From New York

March 2009

by AAJ Staff
March 7, 2009

Helen Sung and Ron CarterHelen Sung and Ron CarterRubin MuseumNew York City February 6, 2009To hear pianist Helen Sung and bassist Ron Carter in a duo setting at the Rubin Museum (Feb. 6th), in a small theater with no amplification, will surely rank as one of this year's ...

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Article: Album Review

Bill Frisell: The Best of Bill Frisell: Vol. 1 - Folk Songs

Read "The Best of Bill Frisell: Vol. 1 - Folk Songs" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
February 28, 2009

Despite decidedly left-of-center beginnings--on his own ECM discs Rambler (1985) and Lookout for Hope (1988), and in collaboration with artists including Jan Garbarek and John Zorn--guitarist Bill Frisell has always been a melodist at heart. Even at his most outré--his oblique yet stunningly constructed solo on “Next Love," from clarinetist Don Byron's minor classic, Tuskegee Experiment ...

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Article: Interview

Lola Danza: Free To Sing Free

by AAJ Staff
February 25, 2009

Free jazz has wound its way through many permutations since arriving in the early '60s. An important custodian of its new directions is vocalist and composer Lola Danza, of Brooklyn. Danza is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, Boston, and stayed in Boston for a few years after graduating, developing her ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Saxophonist John Zorn Headed West

February 10, 2009

As heard from one of the kindly clerks at Amoeba Records this weekend -- and confirmed on John Zorn's MySpace page (remember those?) on top of various blogs and message boards -- the ever-unpredictable saxophonist and downtown NYC fixture will venture out of the 212 and into the Pacific Time Zone for a run of shows ...

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Article: Album Review

John Zorn: The Rain Horse

Read "The Rain Horse" reviewed by Martin Longley

by Martin Longley
January 18, 2009

This is number XIX in Zorn's Filmworks series, his self-confessed outlet for accessible composition, at least throughout most of its editions. The saxophonist doesn't actually play on this soundtrack disc, concentrating on writing, arranging and conducting. The result is a sequence of what must surely be Zorn's most restful, reflective, melodic and lyrical music, performed by ...

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