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Deep Throat: New Voices From Israel

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 29, 2006

Israel's small jazz and improvised music community includes a high proportion of scholars from the country's music academies. They study jazz and improvisation as part of the curriculum, but have access to few off-campus venues where they can experience the music live, either as audience members or as musicians. The upside is that the absence of ...

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Satoko Fujii: Kobe Yee!! & Undulation

by Karl A.D. Evangelista
October 28, 2006

The Japanese-American axis of improvisation has a long and eventful history, further complicated in an age of confused identities. Satoko Fujii, one of Japan's brightest and most forward thinking musicians, wears this story on her sleeve, emerging from the bedrock of cultural confusion with, at last, the hope of progress. Born in 1958, Fujii has cultivated ...

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Satoko Fujii: Undulation, Live!!, Maru & Kobe Yee!!

by Bill Bennett
October 28, 2006

This cornucopia of pianist Satoko Fujii's large ensemble work is a daunting package. It's heavy in more ways than one. Four full-length CDs, three of them over an hour in length and one clocking in at 52:31, plus a simultaneously released concert DVD, add up to one heck of a portion of adventurous music to digest ...

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New Exit From Brooklyn: Chris Speed's Skirl Records

by Troy Collins
October 27, 2006

In April of 2006, Brooklyn resident and multi-instrumentalist Chris Speed launched his new artist-run independent label, Skirl Records. Six months in and the label already boasts four titles, with at least another one or two tentatively planned for release before the end of the year. As a document of the fertile Brooklyn scene, Skirl has few ...

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John Tchicai: Two New Trios

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 23, 2006

The Danish-American saxophonist John Tchicai, now resident in France, should need no introduction. He began building his reputation forty years ago on John Coltrane's Ascension (Impulse!, 1965), and even now, at over seventy years old, he's still going strong. On two fine new releases--Witch's Scream, recorded in New York in September 2004, and Good Night Songs, ...

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Prestige RVG Remasters, Part 2 of 2

by C. Andrew Hovan
October 20, 2006

Part 1 | Part 2 It's no surprise that following the success of his retooling of the classic Blue Note catalog that Rudy Van Gelder would eventually be asked by other labels to bring his touch to classics from vaults. Earlier this spring, the Concord Music Group decided to have Van Gelder take a ...

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Prestige RVG Remasters, Part 1 of 2

by C. Andrew Hovan
October 20, 2006

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Ray Brown: The Final Concerts & The Three

by Francis Lo Kee
October 14, 2006

Oscar Peterson/Ray Brown/Ed Thigpen The Final Concerts Limelight/Moon-Gambit 2006 Joe Sample/Ray Brown/Shelly Manne The Three East Wind-Test Of Time 2006 To even merely mention all of Ray ...

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The Jazz Crusaders: At The Lighthouse / The Cannonball Adderley 5tet: Why Am I Treated So Bad! / Stan Kenton: Sophisticated Approach

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 13, 2006

The Jazz Crusaders At The Lighthouse Capitol Records (2006 - distr. EMI) Valutazione: 3 stelle Prima di divenire uno dei migliori gruppi in assoluto del panorama soul-jazz, i Crusaders vantavano una ragguardevole discografia sul piano strettamente jazzistico. La strada intrapresa dal quintetto andava nella direzione di un hard-bop frizzante e ritmicamente vivace ma scarsamente originale. La ...

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Fusion Guitar: Joel Newton Situation & Green Light

by Mark F. Turner
October 12, 2006

These two releases are good examples of groups that are shedding the stereotypical techno-wizardry image of guitar-based fusion bands. Sure, there's instrumental virtuosity, but there's also something for listeners who want more than that. Joel Newton Situation Crying And Laughing Self Produced 2006 The ...