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Roy Haynes and Friends: Truly Birds of a Feather

by Lee Fury
March 25, 2003

Kimmel Center Philadelphia, PA March 23, 2003 Leave it to Roy Haynes to do the unexpected. On the night of March 23, 2003 at the beautiful Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall, he sends out the Heath Brothers to play a tribute to Charlie Parker and bebop in general – the tribute he was ...

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John Scofield Quartet - Sco' N' Ribs

by AAJ Staff
March 25, 2003

John Scofield Quartet Black-eyed Sally's BBQ & Blues Hartford, CT March 20, 2003 In a driving rainstorm on the first night of Spring, I guided my vehicle in the darkness towards the light...the John Scofield Quartet! The venue: Black-eyed Sally's , a funky little place in Hartford, Connecticut that's known ...

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A Night With the Heath Brothers: The Opening Act That Closed the Show

by Lee Fury
March 25, 2003

Picture this: The Heath Brothers in Philly on a crystal clear early spring evening at the premier, acoustically perfect venue of the Kimmel Center. Three of the jazz world’s living legends in one place at one time and in total command of the music. What more is there to say? Nothing. This article is done... see ...

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Tribute To Wes Montgomery

by AAJ Staff
March 18, 2003

Santa Rosa Jazz Club Camarillo, CA March 8, 2003 This performance was as hot as a bowl of baked grits. It smoked, it steamed and it simmered with three of the top guitarists in the jazz world cooking up a storm, and when you add Kendall Kaye on drums and Chuck ...

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Kenny Garrett Assaults Connecticut

by AAJ Staff
March 17, 2003

Kenny Garrett Quartet Cheney Hall - Manchester, CT March 15, 2003 For my money, there's not an alto player around today that can touch Kenny Garrett. He is perhaps the most prolific saxophonist to come along since Cannonball Adderly. And he proved it to me again last night at a smokin' performance ...

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Billy Cobham's Art of 5

by Christopher Jones
March 11, 2003

Billy Cobham and The Art of 5 Jazz Alley; Seattle March 6th, 2003 I came to Billy Cobham not through Mahavishnu, but through video footage of him playing with Horace Silver’s group in the late 60s. Initially I mistook him for Roger Humphries, who of course had appeared on some of Silver’s ...

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Classic Self-Crasher: Gogol Bordello at North Six

by AAJ Staff
March 10, 2003

Gogol Bordello, the gypsy-punk cabaret band, is the perfect tonic to a war prone post-9/11 world. In my opinion this is one of the most unique and intense live bands touring right now. Their music is rich with irreverent lyrics and is accompanied by a unique mix of old world Slavic instrumentation with very new world ...

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2003 East Coast Jazz Festival, Feb. 13-16, 2003

by Sandy Ingham
March 5, 2003

Neither the drumbeats of war nor the warnings about terrorism could stay Washington, D.C.-area jazz lovers from the 12th annual East Coast Jazz Festival Feb. 13-16. Nor could the lurching economy, or the forecast calling for a snowy holiday weekend - a forecast that proved all too accurate. No, in spite of these potential pitfalls or ...

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Egberto Gismonti in Ann Arbor

by C. Andrew Hovan
March 3, 2003

Michigan Theater-Ann Arbor, Michigan February 1, 2003 To say that Brazilian legend Egberto Gismonti’s art is of a rare nature is really only hitting at half the story. For those in attendance during his recent performance at Ann Arbor’s Michigan Theater, it was a rare treat to even have the opportunity to see ...

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Dave Holland Quintet/New York Big Band

by C. Andrew Hovan
March 1, 2003

Michigan Theater- Ann Arbor, Michigan February 15, 2003 Now the man of the hour, due to his Grammy-winning ECM release What Goes Around, bassist Dave Holland has consistently been one of the most dynamic performers to experience in a concert sitting with the string of consummate ensembles that he has chosen to front ...