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Article: Album Review

Ron Thomas / John Swana / Joe Mullen: Elysium

Read "Elysium" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

The sound of Elysium is, in a word, otherworldly. Then throw in the electro-industrial tinge and cold liquid submersion resonance--like the noise of a high tech blacksmith shop on a distant planet with a dense atmosphere and heavier than Earth gravity like Neptune--music of an alien culture, or songs played for cryogenically suspended astronauts slumbering their ...

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Take Five With Mark Alban Lotz

Read "Take Five With Mark Alban Lotz" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Mark Alban Lotz: Improviser and composer. Exponent of the new generation of truly European jazz musicians. Highly skilled and broadly informed heading for something new. Gained a lot international acclaim for his interpretations of Afro-Cuban religious folklore, quickly followed by his creations of: “Pygmee-Bop" and “Whisper Music." In his music Mark builds a bridge between ...

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Article: Album Review

Jon Alberts / Jeff Johnson / Tad Britton: Apothecary

Read "Apothecary" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

An Internet search for the Fu Kun Wu Lounge in Seattle, Washington's Ballard neighborhood, reveals one patron's assessment of it as “one of the best kept secrets of the Seattle Jazz Scene." Many of the city's dynamic Origin Records stars perform in the converted Chinese herbalist's shop; players like pianists Bill Anschell and Marc Seales, saxophonist ...

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News: Obituary

Jazz Composer George Russell Dies at 86

Jazz Composer George Russell Dies at 86

BOSTON--Jazz composer George Russell, a MacArthur fellow whose theories influenced the modal music of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, has died. His publicist says Russell, who taught at the New England Conservatory, died Monday in Boston at age 86 of complications from Alzheimer's. Russell was born in Cincinnati in 1923 and attended Wilberforce University. He played ...

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Article: Album Review

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Infernal Machines

Read "Infernal Machines" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert

What's a guy to do when he has aspirations to form a big band in this day and age? Certainly the odds are against him; for one thing, there isn't much of a market for it, and the cost of taking that many musicians on the road (much less paying them) can be cost prohibitive. But ...

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Take Five With Jim Miller

Read "Take Five With Jim Miller" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Jim Miller:Administrator of ElectroJazz Music (BMI, 1980); founded Encounter Records in 1986 and Dreambox Media in 1995, resulting in Philadelphia Magazine's choice award for 1999 Best of Philly Jazz Record Label; Produced Evelyn Simms' On My Own, awarded Best Jazz Recording of 1989 by the Philadelphia Music Foundation.Currently working and recording ...

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Take Five With Walter Beltrami

Read "Take Five With Walter Beltrami" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Walter Beltrami:Studied performance and jazz composition at Berklee College of Music. Graduated in performance at Musikhochschule Luzern, CH. Three released CDs as a leader with Philology, CamJazz and Re:think-art records. Won the Luca Flores Jazz Price as best Italian soloist at Barga Jazz 2004 and one of the eight finalists world-wide of the ...

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Article: Live Review

Molde Jazz: Day 6, July 18, 2009

Read "Molde Jazz: Day 6, July 18, 2009" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Break of Day in Molde / Crimetime Orchestra / Jaga Jazzist / Arve Henriksen Closing ConcertMolde Jazz Molde, Norway July 18, 2009 It's almost impossible to believe, that after the late nights ...

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Article: Album Review

Kat Edmonson: Take To The Sky

Read "Take To The Sky" reviewed by Holly Holmes

by Holly Holmes

Jazz vocalist Kat Edmonson summed up her musical philosophy best when she told journalist Joey Guerra, “I just think good music is good music." The Austin-based singer's album Take To The Sky draws half of its repertoire from America's most timeless Tin Pan Alley songwriters, including the Gershwins and Cole Porter. The other half of the ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Arve Henriksen: Cartography

Read "Arve Henriksen: Cartography" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

Arve Henriksen Cartography ECM 2008 Talking about the album Cartography, trumpeter Arve Henriksen says, “...I've been feeling uncomfortable with the idea of ending up playing 'improvised jazz.'" It's an unusual thing to say, particularly coming from a musician who has contributed vitally to a host of releases on ...


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