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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Mike Lee

Read "Take Five With Mike Lee" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Mike Lee:Mike Lee is a tenor saxophonist originally from Cleveland, OH and now living in Northern New Jersey. He's currently leader of the Cecil's Monday Night Big Band at Cecil's Jazz Club in West Orange New Jersey and co-leader of the acclaimed jazz quartet, New Tricks. He has released five albums as leader ...

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Article: Album Review

Diego Urcola Quartet: Appreciation

Read "Appreciation" reviewed by Charles Walker

by Charles Walker

Subtlety seldom brings rewards in the life of a journeyman jazz musician. In a field overcrowded with competent colleagues, plagued by spotty media coverage and half-starved by the problems facing the music industry more generally, a gimmick is often required to garner even scant attention. Argentinian-born, New York-based trumpeter Diego Urcola--a long-time member of Paquito D'Rivera's ...

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News: Recording

Miles Davis "Bitches Brew Live"

Miles Davis "Bitches Brew Live"

Many years ago when there was evolution and revolution in music, change was palpable. Today, too much music is just churned out by the latest technology. Only the faces change. The music machine is fueled by “product" and (or) stuff that sounds too much like something that's already been done before. But as the 1970s dawned, ...

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Article: Interview

Roberta Piket: Making a Difference

Read "Roberta Piket: Making a Difference" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer

by Victor L. Schermer

Roberta Piket is a jazz pianist, composer, and arranger with an exceptional range of expression. In the same tune or performance, she moves fluidly between bebop, hard bop, blues, soft and mellow, up-tempo, contrapuntal, and advanced harmonic motifs, making it all come together in meaningful, coherent statements of ideas and emotions. She thinks hard when she ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

John Williams: Guitar Recital

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by AAJ Staff

John WilliamsGuitar RecitalDecca Records1996 (1959) In 1958, guitar virtuoso John Williams was a gifted teenager, and had studied with Andres Segovia. In that year he recorded an album of primarily Segovia-inspired (or themed) compositions from the growing classical guitar repertoire. The album, Guitar Recital (originally released on ...

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Article: Album Review

The David Liebman Trio: Lieb Plays the Blues a la Trane

Read "Lieb Plays the Blues a la Trane" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

There are few artists who can channel the spiritual fervour of John Coltrane better than Dave Liebman. Liebman was so deeply moved by Trane, that it took him two decades to renew a commitment to revisiting the legendary saxophonist's work. Liebman was so completely under Trane's spell that, by his own admission, it was like having ...

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Article: Album Review

Chad McCullough / Bram Weijters: Imaginary Sketches

Read "Imaginary Sketches" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Seattle-based trumpeter Chad McCullough certainly isn't letting any dust settle on his horn, or on his equipment in the recording studio, following up his sophomore effort, The Sky Cries (Origin Records, 2010), with his third CD for Seattle's Origin Records, Imaginary Sketches.McCullough's debut, Dark Wood, Dark Water (Origin Records, 2009), had a straight-ahead, joy ...

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Article: Live Review

Jimmy Cobb's So What Band: Albany, February 10, 2011

Read "Jimmy Cobb's So What Band: Albany, February 10, 2011" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke

by R.J. DeLuke

Jimmy Cobb's So What BandThe Egg, Albany, USAFebruary 10, 2011 It's well documented that the music of Miles Davis' seminal Kind of Blue (Columbia) has captivated music fans and musicians since it was born in 1959. The lone surviving member of that legendary band, drummer Jimmy Cobb, has been bringing the music ...

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Article: Album Review

Miles Davis: Bitches Brew Live

Read "Bitches Brew Live" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

Bitches Brew Live documents Miles Davis, as he moved off the cusp of acoustic and electric jazz. The hour-long disc contains two live performances that constitute concert corollaries to the studio albums of their time, with which The Man With The Horn revolutionized modern jazz. The three recordings from the Newport Jazz Festival in ...

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Article: Interview

Stanley Clarke: Path Maker

Read "Stanley Clarke: Path Maker" reviewed by Esther Berlanga-Ryan

by Esther Berlanga-Ryan

Innovation is a cherished quality in any art form and, truth be told, some follow greatness while others create the patterns that make that same greatness possible. There are teachers, and then, there are students. In jazz, musicians skilled in all sorts of instruments tend to look at their older peers in amazement, and challenges within ...


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