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Versatile Big Bands: American Agonistes and Worth the Wait

by Elliott Simon
September 7, 2008

The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra American Agonistes: Music in Time of War Leo Records 2007 Peter Erskine Tim Hagans & The Norrbotten Big Band Worth The Wait Fuzzy music 2008 If your idea of a big band begins ...

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Jeremy Pelt: November & Chillin' Live

by Jim Santella
September 6, 2008

Jeremy Pelt November MaxJazz 2008 Pete Zimmer Quartet Chillin' Live Tippin' 2008 After a century of development that has involved splitting off into varied branches, each with its own complement of dedicated listeners, straight-ahead or mainstream jazz ...

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Rich Perry: SteepleChase Jam Session Vol. 24 & e*motion

by Francis Lo Kee
September 6, 2008

Various Artists SteepleChase Jam Session Vol. 24 #1 SteepleChase 2008 Rich Perry e*motion #2 SteepleChase 2008 At a relatively early age - though playing professionally since the mid '70s--tenor saxophonist Rich Perry is ...

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Marcus Printup: Jazz at Prague Castle 2007, Street Expressionism & Bird of Paradise

by Ken Dryden
September 6, 2008

Marcus Printup/Emil Viklicky Trio Jazz at Prague Castle 2007 Multisonic 2007 Paradigm Shift Street Expressionism Nagel Heyer 2007 Marcus Printup Bird of Paradise: The Music of Charlie Parker Steeplechase 2007

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Clean Feed: Between Shadow and Space & Drunk Butterfly

by A. Henkin
September 6, 2008

Michael Dessen Trio Between Shadow and Space Clean Feed 2008 Adam Lane / Lou Grassi / Mark Whitecage Drunk Butterfly Clean Feed 2008 The Portuguese label Clean ...

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Prose Inspired Projects: Scott Fields/Henning Sieverts

by Elliott Simon
August 26, 2008

Scott Fields Ensemble Beckett Clean Feed 2007 Henning Sieverts Symmetry Pirouet 2007 Both of these releases have prose as their muse and include drummer John Hollenbeck as a sideman. ...

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Helen Merrill: The Helen Merrill-Dick Katz Sessions and Casa Forte

by Samuel Chell
August 25, 2008

Music-making, from conception to realization, is contaminated by the rhetoric of personality. And even more than instrumental music, vocal performances are often poorly served by language focused on the desires and disappointments, frustrations and satisfactions of the artist's “self" rather than on the “art." But quite apart from the self-expression (since the Romantic era, a birthright ...

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Grilli, India, Africa e Jazz, ma siamo sicuri sia la Svezia? I sogni "globali" della Country & Eastern

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 25, 2008

Cos’hanno in comune i grilli, il jazz contemporaneo, la musica classica indiana e le percussioni africane? La risposta a questa domanda sta nel catalogo dell’etichetta svedese Country & Eastern, eclettico e davvero “globale" nell’accezione più positiva del termine. Non a caso nume ispiratore della label - e presente anche nel catalogo - è il nome di ...

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Elton Dean / Steve Miller Trio / Soft Heap: British genre-benders

by Clifford Allen
August 24, 2008

Though non-idiomatic is a term often thrown around when referring to post-1960s British improvisation, the more apt one might be cross-idiomatic, insofar as significant players have worked across genres with regularity. Take alto saxophonist Elton Dean, for example. He was part of the three-horn front line of pianist Keith Tippett's group, which was co-opted by the ...

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There Would be No Jazz without Louis Moreau Gottschalk

by C. Michael Bailey
August 21, 2008

Jazz as an American artform would never have evolved without Louis Moreau Gottschalk. A phenomenon in his lifetime but relegated to the status of parlor pianist today, Gottschalk nevertheless was the complete package: talented, good looking, highborn. Educated at the Paris Conservatoire and a peer of Fredrick Chopin, Gottschalk carved an impressive pedigree when he hit ...