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Craig Handy: The Busiest Man In Jazz

by Robert Dugan
March 22, 2010

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

by Nick Catalano
February 5, 2010

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

By Kirk Lightsey

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).

Article: Album Review

Lightsey - Moye - Elekes: Estate

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 19, 2007

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

by Russ Musto
August 10, 2006

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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