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Article: Book Review

The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution"

by Francis Lo Kee
October 14, 2006

The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard Hardcover; 197 pages ISBN: 0876390599 Berklee A friend who is a computer wiz says “I don't think that I can ever get into simply downloading music. To which I ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

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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Article: Album Review

Jason Moran: Artist in Residence

Read "Artist in Residence" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts
October 14, 2006

While most jazz artists, even the great ones, tend to stick to the tried and true, Jason Moran has risen to the upper echelon of the jazz world by constantly challenging his audience. Listeners never really know what to expect from the 31-year-old pianist except that it's going to be fresh, intellectually rigorous, exceedingly of-the-moment music ...

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Article: Album Review

The Gauci Trio: We're Comin' Just One Time

Read "We're Comin' Just One Time" reviewed by Brian P. Lonergan

by Brian P. Lonergan
October 14, 2006

This trio recording led by tenor saxophonist Stephen Gauci comes across as a fifty-minute suite of nearly free jazz, rather than eight tracks with their own distinct personalities. Gauci's self-penned liner notes are a good reflection of the music--esoteric and a bit circular, conveying some interesting perspectives on the nature of freedom and form in improvisation, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

4 Upcoming Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters NYC shows

October 13, 2006

4 Upcoming NYC Shows for GARY LUCAS & GODS AND MONSTERS Gary Lucas, guitars and vocals; Jerry Harrison,keyboards and vocals; Ernie Brooks,bass and vocals; Billy Ficca, drums; Jason Candler, alto sax; plus special guests “An underground rock fan's dream team"--The New Yorker Just added! Friday, Oct. 13th--party celebrating the release of Steve Beeber's new book “The ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Mighty Quinn Records

by Donald Elfman
October 13, 2006

It is almost a truism that anyone who ever got into the jazz record business did it for the love of the music. Its practitioners and promoters do so despite the vagaries of the market and that market is, at this juncture, even tougher than previously. Yet, still, there are small and middling entrepreneurs that want ...

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Article: Profile

Marilyn Crispell

by Tom Greenland
October 13, 2006

Soft-spoken and unassuming in person, pianist Marilyn Crispell's modest mien belies her dynamic musical personality, a key force and central voice in modern jazz piano since the early '80s. A native of Baltimore, MD, Crispell had early training in classical music at the Peabody Music School, followed by tenure at the New England Conservatory of Music, ...

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Article: Album Review

Jim Ridl: Your Cheatin' Heart and Other Works

Read "Your Cheatin' Heart and Other Works" reviewed by George Kanzler

by George Kanzler
October 13, 2006

Jim Ridl, who's been with Pat Martino's bands for years, deserves to be better known. Not only is he a personal, forceful pianist, he's also a first-rate composer and arranger who knows how to put together a band and how to make thoroughly engaging albums like this one. Country songs like Hank Williams' title opus and ...

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Article: Album Review

Slava Ganelin / Ned Rothenberg: Falling Into Place

Read "Falling Into Place" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
October 13, 2006

The Ganelin Trio--probably the most recognized group of the Russian jazz scene during the last decade of the USSR--was officially disbanded at the end of the '80s. Both saxophonist Vladimir Chekasin and percussionist Vladimir Tarasov remained in now-independent Lithuania, keeping themselves busy in different projects mostly in Europe, while pianist Vyacheslav (Slava) Ganelin moved to Israel, ...

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Article: Album Review

Kris Davis: The Slightest Shift

Read "The Slightest Shift" reviewed by Brian P. Lonergan

by Brian P. Lonergan
October 13, 2006

The adjective that comes to mind again and again when listening to this quartet recording by pianist and composer Kris Davis is “refreshing. Much of The Slightest Shift sounds close to free improvisation, but there is also a recurring sense that one is listening to a modern chamber music ensemble. And the initial impression of at ...