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Spirit Song; Cityscape

by Andrew Rowan
April 16, 2006

Ernie Watts Spirit Song Flying Dolphin 2006 Ernie Watts radiates such warmth and lyricism throughout Spirit Song that even a fast-paced, angular tune like “ASFEW ('A Song for Ernie Watts'), where his keening upper register is on display, ends up singing. While he's an ebullient, energetic player, Watts does not ...

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Essence; Live at Vision Festival X, NYC

by Jeff Stockton
April 16, 2006

Don Ellis Essence Mighty Quinn 2005 Trumpeter Don Ellis was at the nexus of West Coast jazz in the late '50s and early '60s, a veteran of several big bands who appeared on Mingus Dynasty before recording Essence in 1962 (here reissued for the first time). The styles ...

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Waltz Again; Solitude

by Jeff Stockton
April 16, 2006

David Murray 4tet & Strings Waltz Again Justin Time 2005 Because he has been so prolific, David Murray's greatest challenge has been facing up to his own recorded legacy. But recording with strings is as much a rite of passage for tenor players as recording “Body and Soul, ...

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The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings; The Traveller

by Jeff Stockton
April 16, 2006

Sonny Simmons The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings ESP-Disk 2005 Clifford Allen's informative and revealing interview with Sonny Simmons, included with ESP's two-disc reissue of Simmons' first efforts as a leader (Staying on the Watch and Music From the Spheres) clears up much of what happened to the master alto ...

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Van Gogh By Numbers; One Step Closer

by Ken Dryden
April 16, 2006

The vibraphone is in good hands with two veterans and a rising player featured on a pair of small group sessions. Joe Locke & Christos Rafalides Van Gogh By Numbers Wire Walker Records 2006 The pairing of vibes and marimba is not unprecedented, but this meeting ...

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Quartier Du Faisan; Flamingos

by Ty Cumbie
April 16, 2006

Some music frustrates stylistic pigeonholing. Max Nagl's is not that kind, but just the opposite, flitting from style to style with such facility and straight-faced fidelity that, in the end, it almost eludes categorization by simultaneously hugging several categories nearly to death. A steady gaze, however, makes no error: this is jazz. One ...

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The Distance Runner; World Sonic

by Abe Pollack
April 16, 2006

Dave Liebman The Distance Runner Hatology 2005 The Distance Runner is a record of expectations, or rather lack thereof. If you're familiar with Liebman's approach to composition and improvisation, you would think that 55 minutes of saxophone solos would sound like a re-recording of late-Coltrane works mixed with early 21st ...

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Whispers, Grins, Bloodloss & Handshakes; Pandemonium; Phenomena of Interference

by Celeste Sunderland
April 16, 2006

Pianos, horns, strings, drums, wind their way around the human voice on three recently released records where words are not sung, but spoken. A vessel for the most direct form of communication in this country, the English language is delivered in so many ways. David Greenberger Whispers, Grins, Bloodloss & Handshakes Meester-Pel ...

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Mario Pavone: Deez To Blues

Read "Deez To Blues" reviewed by Matthew Miller

by Matthew Miller
April 15, 2006

Throughout his forty-year career as a professional musician and on seventeen recordings under his leadership, bassist Mario Pavone has shown himself to be a musical maverick whose only concern is pushing himself and his contemporaries. On Deez To Blues, a sextet featuring acerbic trumpeter Steven Bernstein, violinist Charles Burnham and the consummate reed/tuba doubler Howard Johnson, ...

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Bobo Stenson/Anders Jormin/Paul Motian: Goodbye

Read "Goodbye" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
April 14, 2006

The title of this release has a type of finality to it, especially considering the somberness of the tunes therein. This is meticulously crafted jazz, atmospheric and full of spare landscapes. Pianist Bobo Stenson, bassist Anders Jormin and the wonderfully restless drummer Paul Motian play with imagination and economy, Stenson with a facility and tenderness that ...