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Clean Feed Records: Eat the Plate
by Mark Corroto
Clean Feed records, founded in 2001, has been the most prolific and adventurous label for jazz this new century. Based in Lisbon, Portugal their offerings have included many of jazz's old guard including reed players Evan Parker, Paul Dunmall, Charles Gayle, Vinny Golia and Anthony Braxton and trumpeters Dennis Gonzalez and Herb Robertson, along with current ...
No "Vanity" Here: Jackie Ryan, Denise Donatelli, Lisa Sokolov, Kat Edmonson
by J Hunter
One of the whinier columns ever to appear in a major jazz publication concerned “Vanity Projects"--that is, sessions bankrolled by rich men for their marginally talented spouses/girlfriends/siblings/whatever. Unfortunately, those kind of recordings do exist, and in far greater numbers than desirable. However, the author's implication was that most female vocal projects could be categorized in this ...
It's The Drummer, Stupid
by Mark Corroto
If you're a jazz misanthrope you probably think first to “shoot the pianist," a saying taken from the Francois Truffaut film of the same name, Tirez sur le pianiste. Truth be told, the most effective way to pull the plug on a jazz band, a very good jazz band, is to take out the drummer. An ...
Patty Waters: Sings / Erica Pomerance: You Used to Think
by AAJ Italy Staff
Patty Waters Sings ESP Records Erica Pomerance You Used to Think ESP Records Due leggendari dischi degli anni sessanta riemergono dal catalogo ESP dopo molto tempo: com'è noto l'etichetta di Bernard Stollman documentava un po' tutta l'avanguardia di quell'epoca, non solo il free jazz, e questi due lavori appartengono alla sperimentazione trasversale a più generi. Il ...
Evan Parker Solo 1975 & 1989
by Martin Longley
Evan ParkerSaxophone Solos Chronoscope-psi2009 Evan ParkerConic Sections ah um-psi2008 This pair of solo soprano saxophone releases reveals the evolution of Evan Parker's approach to the act of a lonesome recital. ...
Fred Frith: To Sail, To Sail, Pas de Deux & The Big Picture/Still Urban
by Marc Medwin
Fred FrithTo Sail, To SailTzadik2008 Fred Frith, Danielle Palardy RogerPas de deuxActuelle2008 Fred Frith and Arte QuartettThe Big PictureIntakt2009 Fred Frith and Arte Quartett
Cellar Live: Cory Weeds & Ross Taggart
by Graham L. Flanagan
For Canadians, it sure is a good time to be a jazz fan. Much of the reason can be attributed to Cory Weeds; he owns a popular Vancouver venue called the Jazz Cellar, runs record label Cellar Live and—on his “down time"—plays the tenor sax in his own ensemble.On Everything's Coming Up Weeds, the ...
Dizzy Gillespie: I'm Beboppin Too & The Cool World
by George Kanzler
Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big BandI'm BeBoppin' Too Half Note2009 Dizzy GillespieThe Cool WorldPhilips-Verve2009 The legacy of Dizzy Gillespie's pioneering bebop big band could not be served better than by the ...
Count Basie: Swiss Radio Days, Vol. 20: Mustermesse Basel 1956, Pt. 2; On My Way & Shoutin' Again! & Swinging, Singing, Playing
by George Kanzler
Count Basie OrchestraSwiss Radio Days, Vol. 20: Mustermesse Basel 1956, Pt. 2 TCB2009 Count BasieOn My Way & Shoutin' Again!Verve2009 Count Basie OrchestraSwinging, Singing, PlayingMack Avenue2009 ...
Charlie Mariano: Silver Blue, The Door Is Open & The Great Concert
by Fred Bouchard
Charlie Mariano with Cholet-Kanzig-Papaux Trio Silver Blue Enja2008 Julian F. Thayer / Charlie Mariano / Klaus Suonsaari The Door Is Open KSJazz2008 Charlie Mariano with Philip Catherine & Jasper van't Hof
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