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Chris Potter: Follow The Red Line & Song For Anyone

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by Martin Longley

Chris PotterFollow the Red Line: Live at the Village VanguardSunnyside2007 Chris PotterSong for AnyoneSunnyside2007 These two albums were released simultaneously, thereby making a deliberate feature of the contrast in their ...

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Article: Album Review

David "Fathead" Newman: Diamondhead

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by Martin Longley

It's quite possible that David “Fathead" Newman is a soulster at heart. All three of his original compositions for this session are heavily weighed towards a breezing 1960s retro sound, awash with R&B fluids. For the rest, though, he's emphatically a jazzman, as can be heard whenever Diamondhead (to give David his new nickname) plays a ...

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Pete Cosey

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by Martin Longley

The aging process has not compromised Pete Cosey's approach to the guitar. This veteran of the mid-1970s Miles Davis band has resurfaced again on a new two-disc project created by saxophonist, arranger, producer and conceptualist Bob Belden. The Miles From India mission is to re-invent that brooding advocate of synthesis' compositions as a meeting between jazz ...

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Article: Album Review

Muhal Richard Abrams: Vision Towards Essence

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by Martin Longley

This is a live solo piano set from 1998's Guelph Jazz Festival, in Canada. Chicagoan-cum-New York pianist Muhal Richard Abrams performs the album's title piece, which is around an hour long and is divided into three parts. Ultimately, there are only the tiniest breaks in this improvisation and these demarcations only exist for listening convenience. Once ...

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Article: Live From New York

Oliver Lake Big Band, Jimmy Heath Big Band, Lee Konitz, Lock 10, Jason Miles & DJ Logic, Dave Douglas & Keystone...

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by Martin Longley

The Oliver Lake Big Band/Joe GiardulloRouletteApril 3, 2008This gig was set to be an example of complete polar opposites, from the bands of two veteran saxophonists. The Brooklynite soprano (and sopranino) player Joe Giardullo was leading a chamber septet, performing a selection of works that he terms 'G-2,' the 'g' ...

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Article: Live From New York

Buffalo Collision, Ravi Coltrane, Charles McPherson, Ray Anderson and Bob Stewart

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by Martin Longley

Buffalo CollisionRoulette 24 March 2008They call their band Buffalo Collision, giving no small hint of their wiry-maned intentions. Two generations of improvisers meet at Roulette, the experimental music space in SoHo. Pianist Ethan Iverson and drummer Dave King are two-thirds of The Bad Plus, who in their youth, were prone to gazing ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Herb Robertson: Real Aberration & The Perfume Comes Before The Flower

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by Martin Longley

Herb Robertson NY Downtown Allstars Real Aberration Clean Feed 2007 Alípio C Neto Quartet The Perfume Comes Before the Flower Clean Feed 2007 Year Trumpeter ...

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Article: Live Review

Jazzelectro Sounds: Live from Birmingham, England

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by Martin Longley

Birmingham, EnglandMarch 2008Electric Kulintang at the CBSO CentreNew York percussionist Susie Ibarra last came to the CBSO Centre with trumpeter Dave Douglas, when he was premiering his Blue Latitudes piece with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. That gig found her in both composed and improvised states, but this time Ibarra's been asked back ...

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Article: Album Review

Keith Tippett: Viva La Black Live At Ruvo

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by Martin Longley

Viva La Black, on this occasion, is Keith Tippett (piano), Julie Tippetts (vocals), Louis Moholo-Moholo (drums, now mysteriously doubling-up his name) and the rather large Canto General ensemble, recorded live at the Ruvo Festival in southern Italy. Their repertoire might suggest a 1970s date, but in reality this was only 2004, with a bold mission to ...

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Article: Album Review

Bobby Sanabria: Big Band Urban Folktales

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by Martin Longley

Born in the Bronx and hailing from a Puerto Rican background, percussionist Bobby Sanabria has mastered every conceivable form of AfroLatin music, from New York salsa to Cuban son and even down to Brazilian samba. This album comes across as a demonstration record for everything that he and his thrilling big band can accomplish.


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