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Rob Mazurek and Tortoise: New Chicago

by Mark Corroto
June 19, 2009

The “Chicago sound" may be a misnomer when used to describe the music of cornetist Rob Mazurek and the band Tortoise, but the unpretentious experimentalism of both sits foursquare in the city's musical tradition. Chicago has nurtured innovative artists from trumpeter Louis Armstrong through keyboardist Sun Ra. The Chicago-based AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative ...

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Brooklyn Jazz Underground: Revolution on the F Train

by J Hunter
June 16, 2009

Some of 2009's jazz is being made far from Manhattan Island, home to a number of the genre's biggest labels. However, the revolution is also happening on the other side of the East River, where the artist collective Brooklyn Jazz Underground is making its own breaks and its own discs. BJU just released their second brace ...

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Bill Bruford: The Summerfold and Winterfold Collections

by Phillip Woolever
June 16, 2009

Drummer Bill Bruford announced his retirement from live performance in March 2009, and coincident with the release of his autobiography, Bill Bruford: The Autobiography (Jawbone Press, 2009), he has provided a treasure of remarkable composition and improvisation with these intriguing time-capsule tidbits. Another name for the collections, which chronicle the majority of Bruford's musical exploits from ...

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Dalla Labirinti Sonori conferme, sorprese e piccoli gioielli

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 11, 2009

Seconda uscita discografica della Labirinti Sonori, l'etichetta creata dal polistrumentista siciliano Stefano Maltese per promuovere la “sua" musica, senza scendere a compromessi [per la recensione dei primi quattro dischi clicca qui]. Questo secondo lotto non fa che confermare l'autorevolezza di Maltese come compositore, arrangiatore, improvvisatore di rango, oltre a presentare piacevoli sorprese e a tirar fuori ...

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Brubeck / Mingus / Davis: Columbia 50th Anniversary Releases

by David Rickert
June 9, 2009

These three CDs are flagship releases from the Columbia catalog (remember those old blue Columbia Jazz Masterpieces editions?) and it's worth contemplating how fertile and varied a jazz scene existed in the late 1950s when you look as these albums as a trio, and perhaps throw in trumpeter Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue (Columbia, 1959) as ...

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I mondi di Satoko Fujii, tra Giappone e Stati Uniti, tra orchestra e duo

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 8, 2009

Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York Summer Suite Libra Records 2008 Valutazione: 4 stelle Tra le musiciste che con maggiore intensità stanno esplorando le differenti forme della ricerca improvvisativa e compositiva contemporanea, la pianista giapponese Satoko Fujii dimostra disco dopo disco una sensibilità in grado di ottenere il meglio da ciascuna situazione. Se questa riflessione può apparire ...

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Two by Tessa Souter: Listen Love and Nights Of Key Largo

by Victor L. Schermer
June 7, 2009

There are two types of fine jazz singers. On the one hand, there are those who take a tune, swing it and play with it in various ways, whether with scat, shifts in accent and harmony, or even with deconstructions that re-interpret the song entirely. The man who started all that was, of course, Louis Armstrong. ...

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Rashied Ali: Meditations, Live in Europe and Art-Work

by Kurt Gottschalk
June 6, 2009

John Coltrane Meditations Impulse! 2009 Rashied Ali Live in Europe Survival Records 2009 Hal Galper Art-Work Origin Records 2009 The eight years ...

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Solo Septuagenarian/Octogenerian Piano: Abdullah Ibrahim, Ran Blake, Paul Bley & Martial Solal

by Ken Dryden
June 6, 2009

Abdullah Ibrahim Senzo Sunnyside 2008 Ran Blake Driftwoods Tompkins Square 2009 Paul Bley About Time Justin Time 2008 Martial Solal Live at ...

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Sun Ra

by Stuart Broomer
June 6, 2009

Sun Ra and his Arkestra New Horizons Fresh Sound 2009 Sun Ra Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold ESP Disk 2009 Sun Ra Live at the Electric Circus/Newport Jazz Festival ...