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Hard Chesky Boppin': Mysterious Shorter & New York Time
by Greg Thomas
Payton/Belden/Yahel/ Hart/Drummond Mysterious Shorter Chesky 2006 McBride/Jackson/Cobb/Walton New York Time Chesky 2006 To me, music has a sense of velocity," Wayne Shorter once said. There's also a ...
Gary Versace: Many Places & Organic-Lee
by Matthew Miller
Gary Versace Many Places SteepleChase 2006 Lee Konitz/Gary Versace Organic-Lee Going Places SteepleChase 2006 For those who've yet to hear the multifaceted Gary Versace in ...
Microscopic Sextet: Seven Men in Neckties & Surrealistic Swing
by Ty Cumbie
Microscopic Septet Seven Men in Neckties Cuneiform 2006 Microscopic Septet Surrealistic Swing Cuneiform 2006 The Microscopic Septet's founder Phillip Johnston frequently posits that the band's music, much ...
John Hollenbeck: Joys & Desires & Sequence
by Ty Cumbie
John Hollenbeck & Jazz Bigband Graz Joys & Desires Intuition 2005 Jorrit Dijkstra + John Hollenbeck Sequence Trytone 2006 Jazz' tradition police may have a necessary role ...
Tony Bennett: Perfectly Frank & Greatest Hits of the '60s
by Ernest Barteldes
As Tony Bennett celebrates his 80th birthday, his ability to carry a song and work a crowd has not diminished since he began his recording career over 50 years ago.In addition to his new disc, Duets: An American Classic (Columbia), which maintains a solid position on the charts, his label is having much of ...
Oliver Jones: One More Time / Serenade
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo l’inarrivabile Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones è il pianista più conosciuto ed apprezzato sulla scena jazz canadese. Ciò che più lo caratterizza, sulle orme del maestro sopra citato, è una ragguardevole vena bluesy accompagnata da un raffinato quanto disteso senso dello swing. Jones è anche un artista duttile - anche se discontinuo - , che si ...
Mosaic Boxed Set Bonanza
by C. Andrew Hovan
While it might seem possible that after so many years in the reissue business Mosaic Records would have a hard time drumming up interesting ideas for new projects, the fact is that the label has continued to prosper by identifying and funding viable releases. All the while it has maintained a commitment to the first-class presentation ...
Percorsi di Ricerca
by AAJ Italy Staff
Percorsi di Ricerca Le avanguardie artistiche hanno consumato rapidamente molta della strada da percorrere per giungere all’infinito. Lo hanno fatto con l’esaltante folle corsa che ha segnato il percorso delle arti (ma non solo) per buona parte del ventesimo secolo. Ora il problema è quello di ripercorrere con passo più attento, magari a ritroso, quelle lunghe ...
One By One: The Musical Arithmetic Of Mort Weiss
by Samuel Chell
If it isn't a first, it's certainly not a common occurrence for a musician to take his axe out of storage after a forty-year lay-off without a missing a beat. And if Hammond B3 trios featuring tenor saxophonists with Selmer Mark 6s are a well-established instrumentation, the same can hardly be said about the combination of ...
Two Degrees of Separation: Mitchel Forman, Stu Goldberg and Gary Husband
by Walter Kolosky
There are three outstanding piano albums now in release that need your immediate attention. Each is the product of a fertile imagination, unique approach and virtuosic skill. Mitchel Forman, Stu Goldberg and Gary Husband are among the strongest voices on piano in the last 25 years. Each has taken a different and exciting journey to the ...


