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Let's Do It!: Recordings by Mark Egan, Carl Fischer and Terje Lie
by Martin Gladu
The great Miles Davis did it. Chick Corea did it with different groups. Michael Brecker did it with family. Even the educated John Scofield did it. Not to mention Mike Stern. They all did it and we lauded them for it. Most college big bands in America reserve some time in their sets to do it. ...
High Octane Free Improv: Adam Caine Trio & Vinny Golia/Damon Smith/Weasel Walter
by Clifford Allen
History paints an image of high energy rock music and free improvisation as having very little to do with one another--which isn't surprising considering the fact that heavily-amplified rock power trios were marketed as improvisation-heavy blues for mostly white audiences (giving saxophonist Albert Ayler short shrift). When jazz musicians like drummer Tony Williams and guitarist John ...
For Latin Lovers: Mark Weinstein, Claudio Roditi, Emilio Solla
by J Hunter
In many ways, the description Latin jazz" is no more useful than the umbrella description jazz." There are sub-genres inside the sub-genre, all of them with subtle color changes that provide different flavors, even though it all can lead to the same satisfying result. Here are three early 2010 entrants into this musical conversation.
Piano and Saxophone Duets: Untying The Standard, A Memory Of Vienna & Live At Saint Stephens
by John Sharpe
Joel Press & Kyle Aho Untying The Standard Cadence Jazz Records 2008 Joel Press & Kyle Aho Ran Blake & Anthony Braxton A Memory of Vienna hatOLOGY Records 2009 Charles Evans & ...
Craig Taborn: A Study in Contrasts
by Tom Greenland
Jonathon Haffner Life On Wednesday Cachuma Records 2009 Lotte Anker Floating Islands ILK 2009 Craig Taborn's seemingly innocuous musings have a way of sneaking up on you, ...
Two to Tango: Bien Sur & Rollo Coaster
by Marcia Hillman
Emilio SollaBien SurFresh Sound-World Jazz2009 Chris Cheek/Victor PrietoRollo Coasterself-published2009 The Argentinean tango has formed a strong connection with jazz not unlike the Brazilian samba and bossa nova. As developed by ...
Dreyfus Tributes to Django Reinhardt
by Stuart Broomer
Various Artists Generation Django Dreyfus Records 2009 Dorado Schmitt Family Dreyfus Records 2009 Biréli Lagrène Gipsy Trio Dreyfus Records 2009 Biréli Lagrène/ Sylvain ...
Open Secrets: A Triumvirate of Israeli Guitarists
by Tom Greenland
Gilad Hekselman Words Unspoken LateSet Records 2009 Oren Neiman Frolic & Detour Noyman Music 2009 Yotam Silberstein Next Page Posi-Tone 2009 ...
Mingus Tributes: Normand Guilbeault & Dok Wallach
by Kurt Gottschalk
Normand Guilbeault Ensemble Hommage a Mingus: Live at Upstairs 2008 Ambiances Magnetiques 2009 Dok Wallach Live in Lisbon Jazzwerkstatt 2009 It's common, although not common enough, for the great bassist ...
Brothers in Jazz
by Elliott Simon
Curtis Brothers Quartet Blood, Spirit, Land, Water, Freedom Truth Revolution Records 2009 Derrick Gardner & The Jazz Prophets + 2 Echoes of Ethnicity Owl Studios 2009 Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Honesst Jons Records 2009 While in a metaphorical sense we are all brothers ...


