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Guelph Jazz Festival, September 8-12, 2010

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by Kurt Gottschalk

Guelph Jazz FestivalGuelph, CanadaSeptember 8-12, 2010 Some music festivals are holidays and some are expeditions. The annual Guelph Jazz Festival & Colloquium in Ontario has a way of being more safari than respite. The days are long, with lectures and panel discussions on some days beginning at 9:00am and concerts on others ...

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Article: Album Review

Dom Minasi String Quartet: Dissonance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

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by Raul d'Gama Rose

Although the titles of this set of miniature concerti are admittedly quirky it is this very character that gives the music of the Dom Minasi String Quartet's Dissonance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder startling precision as well as emotion. Often one or the other characteristic is largely absent from music of this nature: that which has ...

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Fay Victor At The Local 269 in New York

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by AAJ Staff

Fay VictorThe Local 269New York, NYSeptember 6, 2010 New York jazz and avant-garde/free vocalist Fay Victor performed two sets with a new jazz ensemble at The Local 269 on September 6, 2010. The Local 269 is a jazz and rock club/bar on East Houston Street, on New York's Lower East ...

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Vision Festival 2010: Day 4, June 26, 2010

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by John Sharpe

Prologue | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7Areni Agbabian, Lorenzo Sanguedolce, Go-Zee-Lah Reggie Nicholson, Borah Bergman, Ned Rothenberg Mark Helias, Tony Malaby, Charles GayleVision FestivalAbrons Arts CenterNew York CityJune 26, 2010Saturday was a ...

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Vision Festival 2010: Day 3, June 25, 2010

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by John Sharpe

Prologue | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Fay Victor, Sabir Mateen, John BlumVision FestivalAbrons Arts CenterNew York CityJune 25, 2010After the exceptional programs for the first two nights of the Vision Festival ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Fred Hess Big Band / Timucua Jazz Orchestra / Michael Treni

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by Jack Bowers

Fred Hess Big Band Hold On Dazzle Records 2010 When listening to Hold On, composer / arranger / saxophonist Fred Hess' fourteenth album as leader but first in front of a big band, one question immediately arises: What took him so long? As it turns out, recording his ...

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David S. Ware and Joe Rigby: Loft Jazz Soloists

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by Clifford Allen

In the void left by the deaths of saxophonists John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, among the cheap rents in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn offering space to artists and musicians, the presence of affordable loft spaces birthed an intersection of jazz scenes in the 1970s. The music itself favored a variety of approaches, mostly built on the ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Michael Jefry Stevens: What About...?; Memphis; A Scent in Motion; Remembering the Future

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by Clifford Allen

Conference CallWhat About...?Not Two2010 Fonda/Stevens GroupMemphisPlayscape2009 Harvey Sorgen-Steve Rust-Michael Jefry StevensA Scent in MotionKonnex2009 Jon HemmersamRemembering the FutureJSH Music

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Marilyn Lerner / Ken FIliano / Lou Grassi: Arms Spread Wide

Read "Arms Spread Wide" reviewed by Robert Iannapollo

by Robert Iannapollo

Canadian pianist Marilyn Lerner has garnered a name for herself as one of the most diverse and exciting pianists to emerge in the last ten years. Best known among her releases is a series of albums with the co-op Queen Mab Trio, with violist Ig Henneman and clarinetist Lori Friedman. But also included in her discography ...

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Curtis Clark, Marilyn Lerner and Chad Taylor: Chasing the Piano

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by Clifford Allen

November 15, 2010 will mark the 75th anniversary of the first recorded jazz piano-trio session, with pianist Jess Stacy, bassist Israel Crosby and drummer Gene Krupa recording for UK Parlophone ("Barrelhouse" and “The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise"). Certainly much has happened in jazz and improvised music since that date, but the piano ...


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