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Take Five with Julian Waterfall Pollack

Read "Take Five with Julian Waterfall Pollack" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Julian Waterfall Pollack:At the age of twenty-one, New York pianist Julian Waterfall Pollack has the jazz community abuzz with his mature, technically ferocious, and dynamic piano playing. Among his many accomplishments, Pollack was featured on Marian McPartland's renowned NPR show, Piano Jazz, at age eighteen. He has performed internationally ...

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Article: Album Review

Mark Levine and the Latin Tinge: Off & On The Music of Moacir Santos

Read "Off & On The Music of Moacir Santos" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


If a record could be like a comet streaking across the musical stratosphere, then Mark Levine's Off & On: The Music of Moacir Santos would be just that. Moreover, in personifying this album like comets are given names, this one would be named after comet Kohoutek because it is a rare gem of a record.

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News: Recording

New Mark Levine CD, Due 9/15, Features the Music of Moacir Santos

New Mark Levine CD, Due 9/15, Features the Music of Moacir Santos

Grammy-nominated pianist Mark Levine was introduced to the music of Moacir Santos in the late 1960s, when he had the good fortune to work with the Brazilian composer. Now Levine is preparing to release a tribute album in Santos’s memory on his own Left Coast Clave label. The new CD, Off & On: The Music of ...

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Isla

Label: Left Coast Clave Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Black 2. Ain't Nothing But The Blues 3. Corta Ese Bonche 4. A Free Man 5. Seis Pa' Chuito 6. Hindsight 7. Con Alma 8. Te Para Dos (Tea For Two) 9. You Don't Know What Love Is 10. You Know I Care 11. Isla

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Article: Album Review

Mark Levine and the Latin Tinge: Isla

Read "Isla" reviewed by Forrest Dylan Bryant


Pianist/educator Mark Levine is a master of straight-ahead Latin jazz. The members of his Latin Tinge quartet all share his orientation towards modern bop, enhanced by a remarkable ability to lay down a pretty mean clave beat. On Isla , the group tackles compositions by Cedar Walton and Kenny Garrett as well as standards of both ...

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Mark Levine & The Latin Tinge

Label: W.E.R.F.
Released: 2001

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Serengeti

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2001
Track listing: 1. Cha Cha Cha Para Mi Alma 2. Effendi 3. Angola 4. Serengeti 5. Danzon Rio Sumida 6. A Shade Of Jade 7. Assum Branco 8. Mr. Natural 9. Inner Urge 10. Tres Palabras 11. You're My Everything 12. Sugar

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Article: Album Review

Mark Levine & The Latin Tinge: Serengeti

Read "Serengeti" reviewed by Jim Josselyn


The rhythms of Latin music are some of the most challenging in jazz. To play this music convincingly, mastery of its syncopation, odd groupings, accents, grooves and poly-rhythms are absolutely required, and this is no easy task. On Serengeti, Mark Levine and the Latin Tinge prove not only are they masters of the groove, but tasteful, ...

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Live at Pearl's - Contemporary Jazz Orchestra

Label: JazzNation
Released: 1996
Track listing: Tomorrow's Blues Today: Invitation: Angel Eyes: Dolphin Dance: Night in Tunisia: Basic-ally Yours

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For Those Who Chant

Label: Blue Thumb Records
Released: 1972
Track listing: Street Dude; La Raza; Spanish Gypsy; Little Mama.


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