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Article: Album Review

Sidney Bechet: Mosaic Select

Read "Mosaic Select" reviewed by Ken Dryden

by Ken Dryden
April 14, 2006

Sidney Bechet was one of the first jazz virtuosos, dominating nearly every recording session in which he took part. Though his Blue Note and RCA Victor recordings are better known due to frequent reissues, there is a lot of rare, valuable material here. This limited-edition compilation collects many of his recordings (plus fourteen previously unissued selections) ...

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Ras Deshen: Ras Deshen: From Ethiopian Music to Contemporary Jazz

Read "Ras Deshen: From Ethiopian Music to Contemporary Jazz" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
April 13, 2006

Given the considerable number of African Jews living in Ethiopia, it makes perfect cultural sense for Israeli pianist Yitzhak Yedid to team up with Ethiopian sax man and vocalist Abatte Barihun to explore the music of Ethiopia on Ras Deshen, a work which mines the common musical ground shared by their countries. Yedid and Abatte performed ...

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Gerald Wilson Orchestra: In My Time

Read "In My Time" reviewed by Marcia Hillman

by Marcia Hillman
April 13, 2006

The Gerald Wilson Orchestra comes out swinging on this CD, recorded in New York with an all-star cast. From the opening “Sax Chase, Wilson and orchestra wend their way through eight Wilson originals and reworkings of two standards, Miles Davis' “So What and Cole Porter's “Love For Sale. The octogenerian leader pays no ...

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Article: Album Review

Carmen Lundy: Jazz And The New Songbook

Read "Jazz And The New Songbook" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes
April 13, 2006

Unlike many singers, Carmen Lundy does not recycle standards on her latest album, which was captured live at the Madrid Theater in Los Angeles. Instead, the program of new material she wrote (or co-wrote) makes for an unexpected listening experience. Backed by an eighteen-piece ensemble, Lundy showcases her songs, many of which she ...

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Article: Interview

Billy Hart: A Hart of a Drummer

by AAJ Staff
April 11, 2006

Billy Hart is one of the unsung giants of jazz drumming. Appearing on classic recordings by Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner and Pharoah Sanders, Hart continues to push forward in performances and recordings with Charles Lloyd, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano and Don Byron's Ivey-Divey trio. If he's not in New York playing, he's either touring ...

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Article: Megaphone

Remembering Ray Barretto

by AAJ Staff
April 10, 2006

By David Amram When Ray and I first met and played together in the Fall of 1955 at the Monday night sessions at the 125 club in Harlem, Ray was the only conga player and I was the only French horn player who always showed up. We used to always ...

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Article: Live From New York

April 2006

by AAJ Staff
April 9, 2006

Scraping a bow across one vibraphone bar and tickling another with two mallets, Kevin Norton elicited a free improvisation to reacquaint his Bauhaus Quartet. The group unfortunately performs infrequently, comprised as it is of intensely active musicians: John Lindberg on acoustic bass, Dave Ballou on trumpet and the omnipresent Tony Malaby on saxophones. The improv was ...

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Article: Album Review

Dick Hyman and Randy Sandke: Now and Again

Read "Now and Again" reviewed by Andrew Velez

by Andrew Velez
April 9, 2006

The pairing of Dick Hyman's inventive keyboard with the golden tones of Randy Sandke's mellifluous trumpet make for a set permeated with admiration for Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke. Hyman, who long ago studied with Teddy Wilson, has been prolifically dedicated to preserving and promoting jazz repertory. Among his many outstanding recordings are classic outings with ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Harkit Records

by Elliott Simon
April 8, 2006

With their sponsorship of this month's Live from London festival in NYC and unsurpassed archive of classic performances, Harkit Records has rapidly become a worldwide voice for British jazz. Begun in 1999 by collector and jazz aficionado Michael Fishberg, Harkit is definitely the place to go for those impossible to find but wonderfully jazzy British film ...

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Article: Book Review

The Evolution of Jazz in Britain 1880-1935

by A. Henkin
April 8, 2006

The Evolution of Jazz in Britain 1880-1935 Catherine Parsonage Hardcover; 322 pages ISBN: 0 7546 5076 6 Ashgate 2005 Parsonage's eminently readable history of jazz in turn-of-the-centuries Britain debunks the notion that Europe has been a uniformly enthusiastic haven for jazz appreciation. Early during its development and ...