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Nate Wooley

by Stuart Broomer
June 12, 2010

Nate Wooley Trumpet/Amplifier Smeraldina-Rima 2010 Nate Wooley & Paul Lytton Creak above 33 psi 2010 Nate Wooley somehow maintains a relatively low profile among younger trumpeters, a ...

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Wadada Leo Smith: Abbey Road Quartet; Spiritual Dimensions & Spirit Catcher

by Marc Medwin
June 12, 2010

Wadada Leo SmithAbbey Road QuartetTreader2009 Wadada Leo SmithSpiritual DimensionsCuneiform2009 Wadada Leo SmithSpirit CatcherNessa2009 There are few players that continue to be as ...

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Bill Charlap & Renee RosnesDouble PortraitBlue Note2010 Eric Reed & Cyrus ChestnutPlenty Swing, Plenty SoulSavant2010 The debate continues as to whether having two pianos is merely a novelty or something that ...

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Pianos in the Foreground: Six Modern Masters

by Eugene Holley, Jr.
June 11, 2010

Because of its huge range, the piano might be the most expressive and adaptable instrument in western music. And since jazz is a product of western culture, it's no surprise that jazz pianists have been the genre's foremost creators, interpreters and stylists. This has been true since the days of ragtime, New Orleans, stride and swing, ...

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Mads Vinding: Bubbles & Ballads / Bass & Bones

by Chris Mosey
June 10, 2010

With the death of Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen in 2005, the keys to the kingdom of double bass playing in Denmark passed at long last to Mads Vinding. Only two years separated the two men--Pedersen was born in 1946, Vinding in 1948--but “young" Vinding always found himself in the giant shadow cast by Pedersen. ...

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Robillard & Crownover / Samuel Torres / Andy Cotton: Let's Party!

by J Hunter
June 7, 2010

Memorial Day, 2010 has come and gone, which means summer is right on its heels. And with summer comes further--and louder--reasons to fire up the grill, cool down the beer (or whatever), and get friends and/or family together to celebrate...well, whatever occasion is handy, up to and including surviving the work week. A party without music ...

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John Butcher: duos with piano and harp

by John Eyles
June 4, 2010

Although his first release, Fonetiks (Bead, 1984), was a duo with pianist Chris Burn, in saxophonist John Butcher's large discography, duos are comparatively scarce. The majority are with drummers such as Gerry Hemingway, Paal Nilssen-Love, Eddie Prevost, Gino Robair, Mark Sanders and Dylan van der Schyff. Other notable partners include pianist Steve Beresford, bassist John Edwards, ...

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Nikola Kodjabashia: The Most of Now & Explosion of a Memory

by Nenad Georgievski
June 2, 2010

Nikola Kodjabashia, who is a British-based, Macedonian-born pianist and composer, blends classical and electronic music, field recordings and samples. His is a body of work that shows a tremendous musical curiosity, and which ignores boundaries in favor of haunting and strangely familiar sounds. Nikola Kodjabashia The Most of Now ...

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Frode Gjerstad: A Feral Storm from Norway

by Clifford Allen
May 31, 2010

In February 2010, Norwegian alto saxophonist and clarinetist Frode Gjerstad took the collective Circulasione Totale Orchestra to the United States for a few select performances, the first time the multinational group had been convened on American soil and a massive undertaking and feat of organization for the 62-year-old improviser. The orchestra consists of musicians from Norway, ...

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Keefe Jackson and Aram Shelton: Seeing You See and Two Cities

by Clifford Allen
May 29, 2010

The city of Chicago continues to find itself in a jazz renaissance well into the waxing years of the 21st century--a status that many of America's cities can't easily lay claim to. With the pedigrees of individual improvisers and composers like reedman Ken Vandermark and flutist Nicole Mitchell well established in the 1990s, a slightly younger ...