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Miles Davis: The Complete Concert 1964 / Fred Lonberg-Holm: Other Valentines

by Florence Wetzel
February 5, 2006

Miles Davis The Complete Concert 1964 Sony 2005 On February 12th, 1964, Miles Davis played a benefit concert at Lincoln Center to help register black voters in Louisiana and Mississippi. Davis and his luminous sidemen--George Coleman on tenor sax, Ron Carter on bass, Herbie Hancock on piano and eighteen-year-old Tony ...

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Marc Johnson: Shades of Jade / Neal Caine: Backstabber's Ball

by Elliott Simon
February 5, 2006

Although both these CDs from top bassists contain primarily newly composed material and feature strong tenor men, Marc Johnson's Shades of Jade immerses one in a remarkably warm and pensive musical world, while Neal Caine's Backstabber's Ball is a coolly swingin' twin-tenor treat. Marc Johnson Shades of Jade ECM ...

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Exploding Customer: Live at Tampere Jazz Happening / Badland: The Society of the Spectacle

by Jeff Stockton
February 4, 2006

Exploding Customer Live at Tempere Jazz Happening Ayler Records 2006 There was a reason Eric Dolphy, Albert Ayler and others gravitated to Scandinavia to practice their art: Norwegians, Finns and Swedes seem to love our music. Exploding Customer, a piano-less quartet from Sweden which recorded this disc live at a ...

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Agust

by Eyal Hareuveni
February 3, 2006

Barcelona-based pianist Agusti Fernández, the late German master bassist Peter Kowald and the nomadic Swedish reedman Mats Gustafsson are true representatives of the European tradition of free improv. All three are passionate investigators of their instruments in a way that so often transcend their idiomatic properties. These two releases chronicle two duo meetings at the home ...

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Assif Tsahar: Tells Untold / Fragments

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 30, 2006

Assif Tsahar/Cooper-Moore Tells Untold Hopscotch 2005 Residente a New York da una quindicina d'anni, Assif Tsahar si e' inserito autorevolmente nella fertile scena locale della musica improvvisata. Il 36enne sassofonista e polistrumentista israeliano vanta al suo attivo collaborazioni significative con William Parker (essendo infatti membro della Little Huey Creative Orchestra), Susie Ibarra, Hamid Drake, il compianto ...

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Mike Rud: Live from Lotusland / The Oliver Gannon Quartet: That

by Bill Bennett
January 30, 2006

This pair releases by Canadian plectrists covers lots of territory, both literally and figuratively. Oliver Gannon has been active on the Vancouver scene since the early 1970s, has performed throughout Europe and North America, and made three concert tours of the former USSR. His long association with the late tenor saxophonist Fraser MacPherson included a Juno ...

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Assif Tsahar: Lost Brother & Solitude

by Jerry D'Souza
January 25, 2006

Assif Tsahar/Cooper-Moore/Hamid Drake Lost Brother Hopscotch 2006 Variety spices this collaboration between three musicians whose creativity takes the music to delightful and exciting heights. There is never a dull moment; even in the calm of their expositions comes a centrifugal force that fills the compositions with intense dynamism. Assif Tsahar ...

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Milt Jackson: Soul Pioneers / Tommy Flanagan: The Cats

by Greg Thomas
January 22, 2006

Milt Jackson Soul Pioneers: The Milt Jackson Quartet featuring Horace Silver Concord Music Group 2004 From the opening tag of the first tune on this 1955 recording, one relaxes on the axis of the steel vibes of Milt Jackson, joined by his Modern Jazz Quartet mates Percy Heath ...

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Jay Rosen: Songs for Samuel / Michael Bisio: Composance

by Robert Iannapollo
January 22, 2006

Jay Rosen Songs for Samuel CIMP 2005 Drummer Jay Rosen is an imaginative musician and he set for himself what some would consider a monumental task: an homage to his recently deceased father played on drums and percussion. However, Rosen is one of the most accomplished drummers around and his ...

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Stephen Gauci: Long Night Waiting / First, Keep Quiet

by AAJ Staff
January 22, 2006

It's a rare pleasure to hear a musician warming up their instruments preceding a live performance. How magical to eavesdrop on a saxophonist breathing out unaccompanied scales and unguarded creative lines in an empty club as the notes echo off the walls. Stephen Gauci Trio Long Night Waiting Cadence 2005 ...