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Andy Bey: Experience and Judgement

Read "Experience and Judgement" reviewed by Larry Grogan

by Larry Grogan
April 1, 1999

When Andy Bey's 1996 album, 'Blues Ballads and Bey' appeared on the scene, the first impression was of a genius, cut from whole cloth. Like Kaspar Hauser, he appeared as if from nowhere, fully formed. But Andy Bey was no newcomer. He had a recording and performing history that stretched back almost 40 years. He recorded ...

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Perdido

By Ernie Krivda

Label: KOCH International Jazz
Released: 1998

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The Atlantic Sessions

By Kirk MacDonald

Label: KOCH International Jazz
Released: 1998

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Kirk MacDonald: The Atlantic Sessions

by John Sharpe
August 1, 1998

Kirk MacDonald was raised in Nova Scotia and now resides in Toronto. On this date, his third as a leader, he has assembled a fine group of Canadian jazz stars that includes Lorne Lofsky (guitar), Neil Swainson (bass) and Jerry Fuller (drums). They perform a program split between MacDonald originals and some well-known standards. Kirk is ...

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Ernie Krivda & The Fat Tuesday Big Band: Perdido

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 1998

As spring slowly runs its course and summer's warmth entices us, here's an early front-runner in the competition for Big Band Album of the Year. Ernie Krivda's Cleveland-based Fat Tuesday Band is a monstrous fire-breathing dragon with great charts, excellent soloists and, above all, a charming un-dragonlike personality all its own. There are, of course, a ...

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Music Speaks Louder Than Words "Plays The Music Of Ornette Coleman"

By James Blood Ulmer

Label: KOCH International Jazz
Released: 1997

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James Blood Ulmer Artists: Music Speaks Louder Than Words "Plays The Music Of Ornette Coleman"

by Glenn Astarita
August 1, 1997

The latest and perhaps most satisfying James Bllod Ulmer release since his 70's classic Odyssey, finds the harmolodic guitarist taking on six Ornette Coleman tunes and three originals. Ulmer's interpretations of “Lonely Woman," “Elizabeth" and “Skies of America" stay true to the original thematic developments and trademark Coleman harmolodic invention. Ulmer's deeply embedded blues roots and ...