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du Maurier Downtown Jazz Festival, Toronto

by Jerry D'Souza
March 12, 2004

Jazz in its varied permutations, the blues and world music all came together at the 15th du Maurier Downtown Jazz Festival in Toronto. This mix has been coming into the festival for some time now, for better or for worse. For better because it brings in an audience and for worse because some of that audience ...

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Freihofer's Jazz Festival 2002

by AAJ Staff
March 12, 2004

It was another spectacular jazz weekend at Saratoga Springs, NY as the Freihofer's Jazz Festival rumbled into town June 29-30. Coming hot on the heels of the JVC Jazz Festival in Manhattan, this sister event is a perennial favorite.Every year I try to treat myself to the upstate New York annual trek. The two-day celebration ...

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Paul Motian, Joe Lovano, and Bill Frisell

by AAJ Staff
March 12, 2004

The Village Vanguard Z New York City August 24, 2001 The anticipation of seeing and hearing this extraordinary trio perform live bordered on overwhelming. With everyone's expectations high, the Vanguard sold out again for a fourth consecutive night (with still two more nights to go in this series). A pre-dominantly ...

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The Mal Waldron Trio

by AAJ Staff
March 12, 2004

Mal Waldron TrioThe Blue Note New York, NY August 22, 2001The Blue Note jazz club in New York has presented some disparate double billings in recent memory. The Mal Waldron and Benny Green double feature is the latest in this unfortunate pairing trend. Benny Green performed his exclusively ballad ...

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Ethan Iverson/Mark Turner Duo

by David Adler
March 12, 2004

Cornelia Street Café Contemporary Classical Series The telepathic rapport of tenor saxophonist Mark Turner and guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel was recently the subject of a big story in Downbeat magazine. But in this installment of Cornelia Street Café’s Contemporary Classical Series, Turner’s equally incredible bond with pianist Ethan Iverson was on display. Although ...

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Stefon Harris Quartet

by AAJ Staff
March 12, 2004

Performance Space at the Wexner Center For The Arts The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio Stefon Harris may be the most athletic jazz vibraphonist performing today.Bobby Hutcherson? Well, he plays with a majestic assuredness as he presides over the instrument's beauty that he releases.Gary Burton? A vision of ...

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Stefon Harris Quartet Live at the Wexner Center

by C. Andrew Hovan
March 12, 2004

For this reviewer, my first exposure to 26-year-old vibraphone whiz Stefon Harris came through a hearing of Tim Warfield’s Criss Cross album Whisper in the Midnight. It seemed like a favorable beginning for a musician who was clearly on the rise. Jump forward a few years and Harris would find himself with a major record deal ...

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Newport Beach Jazz Festival May 2000

by AAJ Staff
March 12, 2004

Newport Beach Jazz Festival May 2000The Newport Beach festival is held on a golf course at the Hyatt Newport hotel, and this year it seemed to be having a few growing pains. We were initially put-off by a long line of people, spiraling all the way up the hill to the entrance ...

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Jason Moran Trio

by David Adler
March 12, 2004

The Jazz Standard Jason Moran’s 1999 debut album, Soundtrack to Human Motion (Blue Note), may have secured him rave reviews and a reputation as one of the most original musicians around, but the 25-year-old piano sensation shows no signs at all of resting on those laurels. His second album, Facing Left (Blue Note), is quite different ...

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3rd Annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival

by AAJ Staff
March 12, 2004

Submitted on behalf of Paul Combs Last year I got a call from old friends of mine in Healdsburg, CA, Maggie and Hank Skewis of Skewis Wines. They said I HAD to come to this wonderful, intimate festival in their beautiful little city in Northern California wine country. I started planning right away and managed to ...