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Open Spaces

Label: Lunazure Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Open Spaces; Quo Vadis; You Don't Know What Love Is; Sno Peas; Gratitude; Blue Waters; Take It With Me; Mr. Shah.

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Article: Album Review

Michael Stephans / Spatial Edition: Open Spaces

Read "Open Spaces" reviewed by Chuck Koton


Michael Stephans--educator and published author of prose and poetry--also happens to be a master jazz drummer and percussionist. The Miami-born Stephans, who these days lives in the surprisingly jazz-heavy Pennsylvania Poconos, has performed with world renowned horn players like Pharoah Sanders, Dave Liebman and Bennie Maupin, as well as Grammy-winning pianist, Alan Broadbent, among others. On ...

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Article: Live Review

Alan Broadbent Trio: New York, NY, September 24, 2011

Read "Alan Broadbent Trio: New York, NY, September 24, 2011" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Alan Broadbent TrioKitanoNew York, NYSeptember 24, 2011 Park Avenue's Kitano briefly seemed like Bradley's in its heyday, as piano jazz royalty like Fred Hersch, Bill Mays and Andy Bey converged on a single location to take in the sounds of one of their own. While Alan Broadbent is rightly hailed ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Dave Liebman: Live / As Always and Quest for Freedom

Read "Dave Liebman: Live / As Always and Quest for Freedom" reviewed by John Kelman


Quite possibly the hardest-working saxophonist--if not the hardest working musician, period--these days, not a month goes by when there doesn't seem to be a new release from veteran jazzer Dave Liebman.In the twelve months since autumn 2009 alone, Liebman has been spotted in freer terrain, collaborating with another active saxophonist, Evan Parker, ...

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Article: Album Review

Matt Vashlishan: No Such Thing

Read "No Such Thing" reviewed by John Kelman


With more and more young players releasing their debuts, it's no small challenge to filter one's way to the top of the growing pile of CDs released each month. Saxophonist Matt Vashlishan couldn't have chosen a better route than on No Such Thing. Recruiting three-fourths of saxophonist Dave Liebman's stellar group--not just one of jazz's hardest ...

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Article: Album Review

Dave Liebman / Michael Stephans: Nomads

Read "Nomads" reviewed by John Kelman


If ever there was a title to best fit Dave Liebman, it would be Nomads. Stylistically, the reedman's life has represented an endless traverse of infinite musical landscapes, ranging from freely improvised music with Australia-based pianist Mike Nock on Duologue (Birdland, 2007), and modern, open-ended mainstream with longtime musical partner, pianist Richie Beirach--heard most recently on ...

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Article: Album Review

Dave Liebman / Michael Stephans: Nomads

Read "Nomads" reviewed by Chris Kompanek


Veteran saxophonist Dave Liebman is no stranger to experimentation, cutting his teeth playing with Elvin Jones and then Miles Davis' groundbreaking fusion group in the '70s. Drummer/poet Michael Stephans has played with everyone from Pharoah Sanders and John Patitucci to classic rock legends David Bowie and The Rolling Stones. On Nomads, the duo takes on many ...

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News: Recording

Dave Liebman and Michael Stephans Release Duets CD "Nomads"

Dave Liebman and Michael Stephans Release Duets CD "Nomads"

ITM Records, a division of Jazzwerkstatt Records has just released a unique series of duets by saxophonist Dave Liebman and drummer Michael Stephans; however, rather than recording a series of saxophone-drums duets, Liebman and Stephans sought to do something very different. They each play seven instruments in addition to their main voices, including piano, pocket cornet, ...

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Article: Profile

Charlie O the Jazz Man

Read "Charlie O the Jazz Man" reviewed by Randall Robinson


Charlie Ottaviano's biggest passion in life was jazz. He always dreamed of opening a jazz club and he did just that in August 2000, little by little converting the small neighborhood establishment into a real jazz venue. He started small with music one night a week with John Heard and Earl Palmer performing and soon it ...

Album

OM/ShalOM

Label: ENDemik Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Nigun #5; Let My People Go; And the Angels Sing; Avinu Malkeinu; Dayeinu; Shalom Alechim; Ich Hob Dich Tzufil Lieb; Om/Shalom; Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen; Kaddish for Elvin; Tumbalalaika; Hava Nagilah; Moon Over Miami; Adon Olam/Resolution/Hatikvah.


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