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Article: Album Review

Joe Friedman: Cup O'Joe

Read "Cup O'Joe" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes

From the opening riffs of guitarist Joe Friedman's up-tempo arrangement of “Pure Imagination (taken from the soundtrack of Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory), it is clear that this is a new talent who deserves quick recognition. He plays electric guitar cleanly, with little or no reverb or other electronic effects, and turns many clever phrases, ...

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Article: Album Review

Edward Simon: Unicity

Read "Unicity" reviewed by Ken Dryden

by Ken Dryden

Pianist Edward Simon's seventh CD as a leader is his best effort to date. On display are his gifts as an improviser, composer and arranger with two sympathetic partners--bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade. The entire CD has the feeling of a suite, rather than separate unrelated tracks that just happened to be recorded during ...

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Article: Live Review

Aga Zaryan at Joe's Pub

Read "Aga Zaryan at Joe's Pub" reviewed by Suzanne Lorge

by Suzanne Lorge

Aga Zaryan Joe's Pub, New York City, New York January 11, 2007 Fans stood in the aisles at Joe's Pub on January 11, 2007 to hear Aga Zaryan, a Warsaw-based singer currently touring in the US to promote her second CD, Picking Up The Pieces. The biggest criticism to levy ...

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Article: Album Review

Agusti Fernandez / Barry Guy / Ramon Lopez: Aurora

Read "Aurora" reviewed by A. Henkin

by A. Henkin

It would be a fallacy to think that any musician who inhabits the world of free improvisation wishes that world to be a noisy chaotic place. Indeed, one cannot make any assumptions these days about free players, whether it be based on age, background or collaborators. Though Spain has not produced the avant-garde swarms of other ...

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Article: Album Review

Grant Stewart: In the Still of the Night

Read "In the Still of the Night" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon

Grant Stewart has an athletic able-bodied style on tenor that can best be described as muscular. It is no surprise that he lists Sonny Rollins as a major influence but what makes him a standout in the large crowd of hard bop tenorists is his ability to sprint across the keys without sacrificing an ounce of ...

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Article: Album Review

Gino Sitson: Bamisphere

Read "Bamisphere" reviewed by Marcia Hillman

by Marcia Hillman

For his third solo album, Cameroonian vocalist Gino Sitson is joined by bassist Ron Carter, drummer Jeff “Tain Watts, bassist Essiet Essiet and pianist Helio Alves for twelve originals all sung in Medumba, a dialect of his native Bamileke language. Because of this, it is difficult to discern the meaning of each song but, according to ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Frank London's CD Release Concert Monday, March 26th at the Barrow Street Theatre

Frank London's CD Release Concert Monday, March 26th at the Barrow Street Theatre

Soundbrush invites you to celebrate its newest release FRANK LONDON'S “ A NIGHT IN THE OLD MARKETPLACE" Featuring Ron Caswell, tuba, bass Brandon Seabrook guitar, banjo, mandolin Art Bailey keyboards, accordion Aaron Alexander, drums And vocalists... La Tanya Hall, Manu Narayan (star of Broadway's Bombay Dreams), Craig Wedren ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Julie Hardy at Sweet Rhythm, Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Julie Hardy at Sweet Rhythm, Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

On Tuesday, March 27th (one set only at 9:30pm) Brooklyn-based vocalist and composer, Julie Hardy returns to Sweet Rhythm as a part of the Vocal Series. She will perform new pieces off her upcoming release The Wish which will be released this year by New York based label World Culture Music featuring some of New York's ...

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Article: Album Review

Andy Biskin Quartet: Early American: The Melodies of Stephen Foster

Read "Early American: The Melodies of Stephen Foster" reviewed by George Kanzler

by George Kanzler

Stephen Foster was America's first pop songwriter, his music widely sung and played, as well as reproduced on music boxes (this album begins and ends with examples) in the last half of the 19th Century. But Foster is not the only uniquely American musician clarinetist Andy Biskin takes inspiration from in this idiosyncratic album. The spirit ...

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Article: Album Review

Frank Hewitt: Fresh from the Cooler

Read "Fresh from the Cooler" reviewed by Christopher Shoe

by Christopher Shoe

There are few things in this world that the jazz lover can compare to that of hearing a live performance. There is a type of audience participation that is lacking when he sits at home and listens to the album. Perhaps he even finds himself wondering what it would be like to be left alone with ...


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