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Article: Album Review

Dexter Gordon: American Classic

Read "American Classic" reviewed by Chris May


Reissued as part of the Warner Jazz Elektra Masters series, tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon's American Classic was originally released in 1982. It was part of a late-period American renaissance enjoyed by Gordon, who, after 15 years in Europe, had made a much lauded return to the New York club scene in the mid 1970s. Gordon's renaissance ...

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Article: Interview

Craig Handy: The Busiest Man In Jazz

Read "Craig Handy: The Busiest Man In Jazz" reviewed by Robert Dugan


Saxophonist Craig Handy is a musician's musician. Those “in the know" know about him, which is why he's been a first call player in New York for over two decades. He is a careful, thoughtful improviser—expansive and precise. His solos build on a rich knowledge of the tradition at the same time as they often set ...

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Article: New York Beat

Copenhagen JazzHouse: The Evolution of a Jazz Club

Read "Copenhagen JazzHouse: The Evolution of a Jazz Club" reviewed by Nick Catalano


On a recent visit to Denmark I was able to spend a couple of evenings at the Copenhagen JazzHouse and digest some of the cutting edge ideas of the club's artistic director composer/ bassist Lennart Ginman. Years ago I had initially encountered the Danish jazz scene at Cafe Monmartre and found it thriving as Thad Jones ...

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Estate

Label: Balance Point Acoustics
Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. Estate (B. Martino); 02. You And The Night And The Music (A. Schwarz); 03. Heaven Dance (K. Lightsey); 04. Infant Eyes (W. Shortet); 05. One Finger Snap (H. Hancock); 06. Goodbye Mr. Evans (P. Woods); 07. Kutala (D. Moye/T. Elekes); 08. Vappalia (K. Jarrett).

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Article: Album Review

Lightsey - Moye - Elekes: Estate

Read "Estate" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Tre grandi, differenti, personalità musicali firmano questo bel disco, interagendo liberamente su due principali terreni d’elezione: la fervida inventiva ed un approccio estremamente mimetico, che porta i tre musicisti a riappropriarsi della sensibilità nonchè dei principi formali più cari ai compagni di viaggio. Ecco Don Moye piegarsi sinuosamente alle suadenti, morbide armonie di “Estate” con un ...

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Article: Profile

Kirk Lightsey

Read "Kirk Lightsey" reviewed by Russ Musto


When Kirk Lightsey walked into Harlem's St. Mark's United Methodist Church in May, to attend funeral services for his friend John Hicks, it was the first time that most of the considerable cross section of the New York jazz community there had seen the once ubiquitous pianist in more than a dozen years. A native of ...

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Nights Of Bradley's

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2004

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Kirk 'N Marcus

Label: Inner Gun
Released: 1987

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Everything Is Changed

Label: Inner Gun
Released: 1987

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Isotope

Label: Inner Gun
Released: 1983


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