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Article: Album Review

James Weidman: Three Worlds

Read "Three Worlds" reviewed by Donald Elfman

by Donald Elfman
November 12, 2009

Three Worlds is the product of a thoughtful musical soul. Pianist James Weidman is well-versed in the traditional and modern jazz vocabulary and has found ways of deftly incorporating what's he's heard into his playing and composing. And here he adds color to his pianistics with melodica and the exotic xaphoon, a single-reed keyless bamboo wind ...

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Article: Interview

Bobby Bradford: Self-Determination in the Great Basin

by Clifford Allen
October 28, 2009

Born in Cleveland, Mississippi in 1934 and raised between Dallas and Los Angeles, trumpeter Bobby Bradford began playing with Ornette Coleman in Los Angeles in the 1950s, and replaced Don Cherry in an unrecorded Coleman quartet during the early 1960s. However, the most significant partnership in Bradford's musical life was with the clarinetist and composer John ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Clean Feed Records: Eat the Plate

by Mark Corroto
October 20, 2009

Clean Feed records, founded in 2001, has been the most prolific and adventurous label for jazz this new century. Based in Lisbon, Portugal their offerings have included many of jazz's old guard including reed players Evan Parker, Paul Dunmall, Charles Gayle, Vinny Golia and Anthony Braxton and trumpeters Dennis Gonzalez and Herb Robertson, along with current ...

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Marty Ehrlich: Things Have Got To Change

Read "Things Have Got To Change" reviewed by Stuart Broomer

by Stuart Broomer
October 12, 2009

The clarity that's so immediately apparent in Marty Ehrlich's alto sound permeates his work, so that there's a quality at once naked and luminous in the music heard here. The quartet with trumpeter James Zollar, cellist Erik Friedlander and drummer Pheeroan akLaff and the concept harkens back to the early Ornette Coleman Quartet, each member committed ...

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Marty Ehrlich Rites Quartet: Things Have Got To Change

Read "Things Have Got To Change" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
October 11, 2009

One of the seminal artists of the New York Loft jazz scene, composer and multi-instrumentalist Julius Hemphill (1938-1995) left a diverse legacy that lives on through the tireless efforts of saxophonist Tim Berne and multi-instrumentalist Marty Ehrlich. Hemphill's earthy forays with cellist Abdul Wadud in the early seventies broke new stylistic ground, unapologetically drawing inspiration from ...

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Article: Profile

In Memoriam: George Russell 1923-2009

by AAJ Staff
September 6, 2009

George was such an inspiration to all of us in his sextet. He encouraged us to go beyond our limitations by introducing and suggesting fresh new concepts. As band members (students) he gave us the encouragement we needed to go further and deeper into our musical improvisations.Playing in his band was a turning point ...

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News: Radio

Baby, It's Hep Jazz on Freedom Jazz Dance

August 7, 2009

This Sunday from 5 PM 7 PM EST 90.1 FM WDCE Richmond Listen online via live webcast Archived shows uploaded at freedomjazzdance.net two days after each live broadcast. Pacify your jazz pleasure by tuning in to Freedom Jazz Dance this Sunday... the unstoppable sound of freedom in the groove with the latest, ...

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Article: Album Review

Michael Musillami Trio + 3: From Seeds

Read "From Seeds" reviewed by Lyn Horton

by Lyn Horton
June 1, 2009

Following guitarist's Michael Musillami's The Treatment (Playscape, 2007), in which his trio featuring bassist Joe Fonda and drummer George Schuller worked with violinist Mark Feldman, From Seeds weds his trio with trumpeter Ralph Alessi, alto saxophonist Marty Ehrlich and vibraphonist, Matt Moran. The definition between Musillami's core trio and the other trifecta is ...

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Michael Musillami Trio +3: From Seeds

by Nic Jones
May 13, 2009

If there are inherent risks in tinkering with the tried and trusted then this release is a refutation of the idea. Guitarist Michael Musillami's trio, with bassist Joe Fonda and drummer George Schuller, is some seven years old and thus a thing of great musical closeness, but in this case a doubling in the size of ...

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Michael Musillami Trio + 3: From Seeds

Read "From Seeds" reviewed by Robert Iannapollo

by Robert Iannapollo
May 12, 2009

Connecticut-based Michael Musillami is a guitarist firmly rooted in the modern post-Coltrane jazz tradition but not above applying a rock-ish tone and aggression at times to good effect, as heard on the title track to From Seeds. His early work with the late saxophonist Thomas Chapin is worth seeking out but he really came into his ...