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Lonnie Plaxico: Live at the 5:01 Jazz Bar

Read "Live at the 5:01 Jazz Bar" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
July 25, 2003

After a brief stint with Blue Note, Lonnie Plaxico quietly released this fine live date in 2002 on his own label, PlaxMusic. It consists of highlights of two sets he cut with his band (featuring trumpeter Alex Norris, tenorist Marcus Strickland, pianist George Colligan, and drummer Nat Townsley) earlier that year while at the 5:01 Jazz ...

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M

By Lonnie Plaxico

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Squib Cakes 2. M

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Lonnie Plaxico: M

by Javier AQ Ortiz
April 12, 2002

Lonnie Plaxico’s maturity as a musician comes to the fore in his first release under the jazz banner label Blue Note as Mélange finds him putting together almost 30 years of professional musical experience in a recording that works well. Plaxico wisely allows the supporting cast of this flecked tale to make the most of their ...

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Melange

By Lonnie Plaxico

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: 1. Squib Cakes (4:43) 2. Melange (4:58) 3. Darkness (5:11) 4. Short Takes (7:20) 5. Miles II (5:29) 6. Paella (5:42) 7. Sunday Morning (5:31) 8. Beloved (5:35) 9. T.O.P. (6:37) 10. Patois (4:58) 11. Windy City (4:47)

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Eyes of the Elders

By T.K. Blue

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Wee; Village Council Interlude 1; Dance of the Nile; Frozen Mist; Eyes of the Elders; Village Council Interlude 2; Harold’s Theme; Nostalgia in Times Square; Village Council Interlude 3; Matriarch; Rites of Passage; South Side Samba; Wise One.

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Lonnie Plaxico: Melange

Read "Melange" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan
September 1, 2001

He was part of the crowd surrounding Wynton Marsalis’ jazz revival in the late ‘80s, yet bassist Lonnie Plaxico has been seen in the spotlight far too little during the past decade. Yet, with a resume that includes work as a musical director for Cassandra Wilson and an inclination for the genre-bending grooves of the M-Base ...

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Lonnie Plaxico: Melange

by David Adler
August 1, 2001

Lonnie Plaxico’s Blue Note debut is similar in thrust to last year’s Emergence (Savant). The emphasis is on funk, yet the frequent complexity of Plaxico’s writing harks back to his M-Base roots, especially on tunes like “Short Takes," “T.O.P.," “Patois," and the title track. Apparently the disc grew out of two different sessions — the first ...

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Lonnie Plaxico: Melange

by Jim Santella
August 1, 2001

Experience has taught Lonnie Plaxico that a tenor saxophone and trumpet front line works best. His 6th recording as a leader combines straight-ahead, modern mainstream, and Tower Of Power funk. At 40, the bassist has paused to reflect on which jazz styles are meaningful; his session includes variety with significance. Plaxico writes out the arrangements in ...

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Lonnie Plaxico: Melange

by AAJ Staff
July 1, 2001

The fine bassist Lonnie Plaxico, while still somewhat obscure to many, has now been a hard-working sideman on the jazz scene for some twenty years. He has quietly compiled an impressive resume via Dexter Gordon, Art Blakey, Von Freeman, Dizzy Gillespie and Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition band in earlier years, and M-BASE comrades Greg Osby, Steve ...

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Lonnie Plaxico: Melange

by AAJ Staff
July 1, 2001

Lonnie Plaxico is one of those in-demand bassists, like Peter Washington or Dwayne Burno, who shows up on album after significant album, but, like most bassists, stays in the background. Attempting to gain radio play in the early 1990's, Plaxico led some of his own CD's, but fell into the smooth-jazz format in an effort to ...