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Remembrance: Paying Tribute Through The Art Of Jazz Composition

by Dan Bilawsky
Paying tribute to the dearly departed is simply a part of life. We honor them with words and we pay our respects through our actions as we help to keep their memory alive. In music, we pay tribute to the dead through the medium that we know best...sound. Whether we use requiem," threnody," ode," elegy," or ...
James Zollar Debuts at #17 on the CMJ National Jazz Radio Chart

After a twelve year recording hiatus as a leader, Zollar re-emerges with Zollar Systems, a refreshingly sharp hard bop recital, bristling with energy and sonic acuteness. Tired of that old Blue Note '50s-'60s blowing session model? Think again. Zollar breathes new life into the old form, tightening it up and repackaging it for the 21st Century. ...
James Zoller: Zollar System

by C. Michael Bailey
James Zollar is a musical treasure hidden in plain sight. He has played and recorded as a sideman for a variety of artists, including Cecil McBee, Tom Harrell, Weldon Irving and Sam Rivers, as a member of Wynton Marsalis' brass section in the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, The Duke Ellington Orchestra and several of Don Byron's ...
Bill Dixon: Excerpts from Vade Mecum

by AAJ Staff
Introduction by AAJ Contributor Clifford Allen. It is rare in the climate of this music to be presented with a view of an artist that is truly multifaceted, even though the collected works of most artists operate at a number of levels and, on occasion, in a number of media. Bill Dixon is probably best known ...
'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia

By Kenny Dorham
Label: Music Matters
Released: 2009
Track listing: 45#1: Monaco; 'Round About Midnight; Mexico City. 45#2: A Night in Tunisia; Autumn in New York; Hill's Edge.
Panos Vassilopoulos / Costa Anadiotis / Pericles Trivolis: The Acoustic Sessions

by Bruce Lindsay
The Acoustic Sessions is the brainchild of drummer and producer Panos Vassilopoulos. The CD/DVD package offers some straight-ahead interpretations of jazz standards, played with skill and energy by the Athens-based trio. The album features arrangements of 7 familiar--indeed, over-familiar--tunes. There's no denying the quality of the selected tunes, but they have been recorded ...
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins: Celebrating Prestige's 60th Anniversary

by Chris May
In fall 2009, the Prestige label is celebrating its 60th Anniversary with a series of compilations and remasters. In October, the Side Steps box set was released, chronicling saxophonist John Coltrane's sideman legacy with the label. In November, there's a compilation of sessions recorded by trumpeter Miles Davis with saxophonist Sonny Rollins, The Classic Prestige Sessions ...
Bobby Bradford: Self-Determination in the Great Basin

by Clifford Allen
Born in Cleveland, Mississippi in 1934 and raised between Dallas and Los Angeles, trumpeter Bobby Bradford began playing with Ornette Coleman in Los Angeles in the 1950s, and replaced Don Cherry in an unrecorded Coleman quartet during the early 1960s. However, the most significant partnership in Bradford's musical life was with the clarinetist and composer John ...
Bill Dixon: In Medias Res

by Clifford Allen
Trumpeter and composer Bill Dixon is one of those rare figures in creative music who was both there as it took its initial steps and currently remains at the forefront of contemporary improvisation. In the last two years, he has directed or co-led orchestral configurations and recorded and performed with hand-picked small groups of international renown. ...