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Paul Motian: Voices and Portrait in Jazz

by Francis Lo Kee
November 22, 2008

Marc CoplandNew York Trio Recordings Vol. 2: VoicesPirouet2008 Bill EvansPortrait in JazzRiverside-Concord2008 Paul Motian is a catalytic musician. His imaginative playing shapes the sound of a project in a way ...

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Rob Mazurek's excellent adventures in Brazil and France

by Mark Corroto
November 17, 2008

Like bassist Williams Parker or fellow midwesterner, reed player Ken Vandermark, trumpeter and cornetist Rob Mazurek is a hub around which much creative activity revolves. He is a musician, musical organizer and visual artist whose hunger for invention is seemingly limitless. After his early (1990s) foray into bebop, he began to realize the possibilities of modern ...

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Matthew Shipp: Multiplication Table, Abbey Road Duos, Un Piano & Cosmic Suite

by Kurt Gottschalk
November 16, 2008

Matthew Shipp Multiplication Table hatOLOGY 2008 Evan Parker / Matthew Shipp Abbey Road Duos Treader 2007 Matthew Shipp Un Piano RogueArt 2008 Matthew Shipp ...

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Mike Clark, Billy Harper, Donald Bailey: Blueprints of Jazz

by Woodrow Wilkins
November 14, 2008

Three discs, three creative artists, one concept--Blueprints of Jazz presents some of jazz music's eminently worthy but less widely known innovators. Tenor saxophonist Billy Harper and drummers Mike Clark and Donald Bailey have been fixtures on the jazz scene from 1950s through the 1970s, and they still produce fresh sounds. Mike Clark ...

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Riscoprendo Sahib Shihab e altre gemme nelle ristampe Rearward

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 10, 2008

Quella di Sahib Shihab è certamente tra le figure più interessanti e sottovalutate della storia di jazz: nato a Savannah, Georgia nel 1925, Edmond Gregory [questo il nome del jazzman prima della conversione all'Islam] è stato musicista di grande versatilità, dapprima a fianco di Fletcher Henderson, poi, dopo la rivoluzione bop, collaborando con Thelonius Monk, Art ...

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Van Morrison: Remasters Redux

by Doug Collette
November 8, 2008

Inasmuch as the six titles range from the sublime to the pedestrian, the latest batch of Van Morrison remasters constitutes a microcosm of The Belfast Cowboy's entire discography. Because Morrison is such an uncommonly gifted artist, it's possible to excuse the oversights in the overall archiving process, including lack of details in the remastering preparation and ...

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Free Improvised Music from East to West

by Mark Corroto
November 8, 2008

This recent batch of freely improvised music assures us that there is no shortage of imaginative and highly skilled musicians applying their craft all over the world. Even though the music is challenging to make, and sometimes listen to, it does offer great rewards to those with patience and the fortitude to submit themselves to new ...

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Mark O'Leary: Flux and Shamanic Voices

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 1, 2008

These two releases by the exceptional Irish guitarist Mark O'Leary feature him at his best. On two undated sessions, O'Leary paired himself with singular yet highly collaborative musicians. The meetings which followed recalibrated O'Leary's playing away from its usual avant-fusion inclination and towards a new form of freer expressive articulation. Mark O'Leary/Dylan Van Der ...

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Jeremiah Cymerman, John Butcher, Andy Haas: Solo Reed Albums

by Wilbur MacKenzie
November 1, 2008

Jeremiah Cymerman In Memory of the Labyrinth System Tzadik 2008 Jeremiah Cymerman's first solo CD, In Memory of the Labyrinth System, focuses on the solo artist's craft through the lens of endless refinement. Cymerman's meticulous recording, overdubbing, engineering and editing processes are essential to communicate his unique approach ...

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Quincy Jones / Onzy Matthews / Woody Herman: Big Bands Done the Mosaic Way

by C. Andrew Hovan
October 31, 2008

Even though the winds of change headed by be-bop and hard bop had begun to change the musical landscape during the 1950s and 1960s, the big bands were still riding a good wave of popularity. For this survey of the genre, as seen through the eyes of three individualists, we discover a whole lot of music ...