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Article: Album Review

Shot x Shot: Shot x Shot

Read "Shot x Shot" reviewed by Tom Greenland

by Tom Greenland
July 18, 2006

Shot x Shot is a group of four young musicians from Philadelphia--Bryan Roger (tenor sax), Dan Capecchi (drums), Dan Scofield (alto sax) and Matt Engle (bass)--who play with a free-roaming, exploratory spirit coupled to a precociously mature sense of pacing and restraint. Recorded in St. Mary's Church, this self-titled disc emits an ethereal ambiance, from the ...

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Toru Dodo: Dodo 3

Read "Dodo 3" reviewed by Brian P. Lonergan

by Brian P. Lonergan
July 18, 2006

Toru Dodo's name may not be at the top of people's lists of riveting jazz pianists--yet--but with recordings like Dodo3, such recognition could come soon enough. The album is full of catchy compositions that showcase Dodo's individual, unique and modern voice; his acrobatic trio mates--Joseph Lepore on bass and Rodney Green on drums--fly around complicated structures ...

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Lew Tabackin: Tanuki's Night Out

Read "Tanuki's Night Out" reviewed by Ken Dryden

by Ken Dryden
July 17, 2006

Lew Tabackin is in terrific form throughout this November 2001 trio concert from Studio F in Kasahara in the Gifu Prefecture of Japan, a recurring fall concert for the saxophonist/flutist since 1996. Joined by bassist Boris Kozlov and drummer Mark Taylor, Tabackin begins on flute with a decidedly Far Eastern approach to John ...

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Herb Robertson and the Space Cadets: Sketches from the Other Side, For A.I.

Read "Sketches from the Other Side, For A.I." reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
July 17, 2006

Despite his identifiable, idiosyncratic sound and highly creative output, trumpeter Herb Robertson is often overlooked. Perhaps this is a consequence of the seeming paucity of leader releases since his days on JMT. But this may change, as he forays into the realm of artist-run labels with Sketches from the Other Side, For A.I., the inaugural release ...

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The Harry Allen-Joe Cohn Quartet: Hey, Look Me Over

Read "Hey, Look Me Over" reviewed by Marcia Hillman

by Marcia Hillman
July 17, 2006

As written in the liner notes, Harry Allen and Joe Cohn “fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Joined by Joel Forbes (bass) and Chuck Riggs (drums), Allen's tenor sax and Cohn's guitar play their way through several originals and a collection of standards that have not been overexposed. Both Allen and ...

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Article: Live Review

Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2006

by Mathieu Belanger
July 16, 2006

On paper, the line-up of the 23rd edition of the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV) looked audacious: a predominance of voice-oriented projects, some questionable meetings, three concerts with Mike Patton, etc. This suggested an unpredictable outcome. Yet, a recurring complaint was the lack of jazz and related forms of improvised music. Considering that ...

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Article: Live Review

Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival 2006

by Mathieu Belanger
July 16, 2006

The annual Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival took place in Montréal from Jun. 1st-25th. The philosophy behind this key event of the city's musical life is to present liberated music, that which questions the status quo and pushes the boundaries. This stance sends any hierarchy among genres to the background in so far as liberated music ...

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Article: Live From New York

July 2006

by AAJ Staff
July 16, 2006

Now that Guillermo Klein lives in Barcelona, his 11-piece Los Guachos ensemble appears in New York all too infrequently. The Village Vanguard (Jun. 15th) was just the place to host this spine-tingling enterprise, the fruit of extended Smalls and Jazz Standard residencies with the city's best and brightest - including tenorists Bill McHenry and Chris Cheek, ...

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Article: Book Review

Fusion Books: Running the Voodoo Down & Power, Passion and Beauty

by A. Henkin
July 15, 2006

Philip Freeman Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis Backbeat Books ISBN 0-87930-828-1 2005 Some 35 years after fusion's meteoric rise, scholars can approach the movement with some measure of academic gravity. Two books discuss in great depths the father and one son of this ...

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