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Jeremy Pelt Threefer: Caution! Hard Hat Area!; Relentless & Twilight & Blues

by George Kanzler
December 12, 2009

Gasper BertoncelkCaution! Hard Hat Area!Arabesque2009 Sharel CassityRelentlessJazz Legacy Productions2009 Lisa HiltonTwilight & BluesRecord Label #3Year Jeremy Pelt has become a sought-after sideman ...

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Globe Unity: France

by Fred Bouchard
December 12, 2009

European TV Brass TrioWunschklang Yolk2009 PassagesLes Fées du RhinSans Bruit2009 Gérard SiracusaDrums Immersion Signature/Radio France 2009 Seine scenes unfold as a brass ...

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Oscar Peterson: The Quintessence & Oscar Peterson and Nelson Riddle

by Graham L. Flanagan
December 12, 2009

Oscar PetersonThe QuintessenceFremeaux2009 Oscar Peterson and Nelson RiddleOscar Peterson/Nelson RiddleRecord Label #2Year This month marks the two-year anniversary of Oscar Peterson's passing. The jazz legend continued to perform live until ...

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Steve Davis: Eloquence & Jam Session, Vol. 28

by George Kanzler
December 12, 2009

Steve DavisEloquenceJazz Legacy Productions2009 Various ArtistsJam Session Vol. 28SteepleChase2009 If today's jazz mainstream is anchored in bebop and hard bop, trombonist Steve Davis has superb credentials, from tenures with the ...

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The Art of the Trio: John Patitucci, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Marcus Strickland

by J Hunter
December 9, 2009

Pianist Brad Mehldau got flak for naming a series of discs “The Art of the Trio." But it really is an art, and no more so than when the lead instrument is not a piano, or any member of the keyboard family. Think about it. Without the myriad capabilities of Mehldau's instrument, a trio's leader must ...

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McCoy Tyner: alone and (in spirit) with SFJAZZ Collective

by J Hunter
December 4, 2009

Usually, the kind of passionate tribute SFJAZZ Collective delivers annually is reserved for artists who are either no longer on the scene, or whose productivity has seriously tanked. However, current honoree McCoy Tyner fits neither of those definitions. The pianist's winter 2009 disc follows the remarkable CD/DVD package Guitars (Half Note, 2008), and is Tyner's third ...

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Verve Originals: Gato Barbieri / Paul Desmond / Gerry Mulligan / Wes Montgomery

by Chris May
December 3, 2009

Verve's admirable, no frills, reissue series, “Originals," includes a mixture of masterpieces and also-rans from its own and its associated labels' archives. This trio of albums from the September 2009 batch includes one near masterpiece, saxophonist Gato Barbieri's Chapter Three: Viva Emiliano Zapata; an outstanding blowing session, saxophonists Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond's Blues In Time; ...

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John Funkhouser, Angelica Sanchez, David Arner: 3 x Piano 3

by Mark Corroto
December 2, 2009

It's unclear why anyone would desire the end result, but as the saying goes, “there are many ways to skin a cat." Setting aside the vivisection angle for a moment, there are countless approaches to the classic jazz piano trio. Ever since ragtime, boogie-woogie and stride pianists caught the attention of popular music listeners, jazz pianists ...

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Vlatko Stefanovski & Miroslav Tadic: Live in Zagreb

by Nenad Georgievski
December 1, 2009

Vlatko Stefanovski & Miroslav TadicLive in ZagrebHarma2009 (CD & DVD) Creativity is something that cannot be forced and the most distinctive and rewarding artistic fellowships are those that follow a natural path to fruition. What brought together guitarists Vlatko Stefanovski and Miroslav Tadic 15 years ago was ...

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NYNDK / Steffen Schleiermacher: Two-Way Jazz-Classical Traffic

by Chris May
November 28, 2009

The interface between jazz and classical music is long, diverse, sometimes overblown and sometimes rewarding. Here are three albums in the rewarding category. The fall 2009 release of NYNDK's The Hunting Of The Snark, putting into a jazz context compositions by Charles Ives, Arne Nordham, Edvard Grieg, George Perle, Carl Neilsen and Per Norgard, is complemented ...