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Article: Album Review

Claire DeBrunner / Ken Silverman / Daniel Carter / Tom Zlabinger: Macroscopia

Read "Macroscopia" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
February 17, 2011

Multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter may be the best known constituent part of NYC collective quartet Macroscopia, but based on its eponymous debut, he's not the only reason to listen. Although the bassoon hasn't figured largely in jazz history to date, an increasing number of able modern practitioners specializing in the large double reed woodwind seek to change ...

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News: Festival

2011 Playboy Jazz Line-Up Announced

February 11, 2011

By Chuck Koton There are many reasons for Americans to express their collective gratitude to Hugh Hefner. He played a fundamental role in sophisticating society's senses in the1950s. And there are the women. There is the ground breaking path Hef carved in transcending the puritanical sexual mores of the Eisenhower era. And there are the women. ...

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Article: Album Review

Grace Kelly / Phil Woods: Man With the Hat

Read "Man With the Hat" reviewed by Larry Taylor

by Larry Taylor
January 22, 2011

Jazz veteran Phil Woods carries the alto sax torch from Charlie Parker, following in the footsteps of Art Pepper, Cannonball Adderley and Lee Konitz. Now he bestows the honor on 18-year-old altoist/vocalist Grace Kelly, its light shining on Man With A Hat. Woods, 80, with over a half-century of playing, first met Kelly ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Daniel Humair in the Lions' Dens

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 17, 2011

Drummer Paul Motian is well-known for his “melodic" percussion, in which he skits and dodges arrhythmically, letting the guitars and saxophones mark the pulse of the composition. But for all the praise breathlessly--and deservedly--heaped upon Motian for this approach, the number of drummers who follow his example somewhere on this side of the free-jazz frontier, is ...

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Article: Interview

Dave Liebman: A New York Story

by John Kelman
January 10, 2011

A few months shy of 65, saxophonist Dave Liebman may be having the busiest time of his career, now in its fifth decade. In the past 12 months, nearly a dozen releases have demonstrated the tremendous stylistic breadth of a musical oeuvre that kicked into high gear early, when, in the short span of three years, ...

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Thingin'

By Lee Konitz

Label: Blue Note
Released: 2010

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Jugendstil II

By Lee Konitz

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2010
Track listing: Odysseus Returns Home; Tomorrow I Shall Dance For You; A Music of Tranquility; Float West On A Slender Current; A L'ile De Fressanges (...Nuit d'Été...); Les Mains De Pénélope (...Le Jour, Elle Tissait...); Phongsaly; Local Heroes.

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The Complete 1956 Quartets

By Lee Konitz

Label: Blue Note
Released: 2010

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Duos with Lee

By Lee Konitz

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: 01. Elande 1; 02. Elande 2; 03.Elande 3; 04. Elande 4; 05. Elande 5; 06. Elande 6; 07. Merka Tikva; 08. Elande 7; 09. Elande 8; 09. Elande 8; 10. Elande 9; 11. Elande 10; 12. No Lee; 13. Trees.

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Article: Record Label Profile

Storyville Records: A Treasure Trove of Swinging Jazz

by Chris May
December 22, 2010

Since its foundation during the European revivalist movement of the early 1950s, Copenhagen-based Storyville Records has grown into a major repository of New Orleans, big band and mainstream recordings. With something approaching 600 releases in its back catalogue, the label is a treasure trove of jazz that swings. Founded in 1952 by Danish jazz ...