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Carl Maguire's Floriculture: Sided Silver Solid
by Nic Jones
It's been three years since Floriculture (Between the Lines, 2006), but it's been worth the wait. Maguire has one of those talents which manifest itself in singularity of vision, as opposed to prodigious technique that is analytically applied. What's happened in the period between his first release and this one is that his gifts have coalesced ...
Steve Snyder: Standards Of Giants
by Edward Blanco
The music of legendary composers has stood the test of time, becoming standards which have been rearranged and re-recorded by many jazz artist through decades. Alto saxophonist Steve Snyder pays humble tribute to these giants of music and the immortal tunes they have scored with his debut, Standards of Giants, fashioning creative interpretations of classic pieces ...
John di Martino: Piano Man In/On Demand
by Marcia Hillman
John di Martino is a New York area based pianist, composer, arranger and Venus recording artist. He is a sought after musical director and is in demand by many singers as an accompanist, having accompanied such singers as Jon Hendricks, Sylvia Sims, Diane Schuur and Billy Eckstine. His talents as a pianist and arranger can be ...
Curtis Clark, Connie Crothers, and Joe Bonner: Exploring the World of Piano in Northampton, MA
by Lyn Horton
Curtis Clark, Connie Crothers, Joe Bonner World of Piano Series Northampton Center of the Arts Northampton, Massachusetts Sitting at the piano before playing it is somewhat like sitting at a drawing table in front of a blank piece of paper before drawing on it. The keyboard is like the piece ...
March 2009
by AAJ Staff
Helen Sung and Ron CarterHelen Sung and Ron CarterRubin MuseumNew York City February 6, 2009To hear pianist Helen Sung and bassist Ron Carter in a duo setting at the Rubin Museum (Feb. 6th), in a small theater with no amplification, will surely rank as one of this year's ...
Jochen Pfister: Touring with Sheila Jordan
by AAJ Staff
German pianist Jochen Pfister had played in workshops with Sheila Jordan in Germany and, at her invitation, in the United States. In 2008, while in Cologne, he asked her if she might be interested in a German tour. “Yes" was the answer, and now it's about happen The first gig is Friday Match 6, 2009, in ...
Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings
by Clifford Allen
Anthony BraxtonThe Complete Arista RecordingsMosaic2008 Few artists in the realm of improvised music can claim as important or varied a series of recordings as reedman-composer Anthony Braxton did during his contract to Arista Records in the 1970s. With the financial backing provided by what was then an upstart ...
Abstraction & Improvisation
Label: FiveFour
Released: 2007
Track listing: Untitled Blues; Blue Boy; Atonement; Coolin
Berlin Jazz Piano Workshop 1965
By Bill Evans
Label: Impro-Jazz
Released: 2007
Track listing: Intro ; Memories Of You ; I've Got The World On A String ; Love; All Of Me; Django ; Cool Boogie; Beautifull Love; Free Improvisation ; Rosetta;
Lennie Tristano: Jazz Visions & Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music
by Francis Lo Kee
In 1949 Lennie Tristano (1919-78) recorded “Intuition and “Digression , two of the earliest examples of freely improvised jazz. Though the approaches and content differ greatly, authors Peter Ind and Eunmi Shim agree on the following: Tristano best represents how a non-commercial artist can be “air-brushed out of jazz history as an extremely influential teacher.
