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Article: Film Review

Live at The Montreux Jazz Festival 1983

by A. Henkin
April 8, 2006

RMS with Gil Evans Live at The Montreux Jazz Festival 1983 Angel Air 2006 After having been part of Gil Evans' British Orchestra rhythm section, guitarist Ray Russell and bassist Mo Foster asked Evans to perform with their group RMS (S for drummer Simon Phillips) at Montreux. This is the ...

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Article: Album Review

Jason Kao Hwang: Edge

by Kurt Gottschalk
April 8, 2006

Violinist and composer Jason Kao Hwang has an unusual ability to create compositions that seem as if they're falling together by happenstance. Through the '90s he led the Far East Side Band, with Sang-Won Park, Joseph Daley and Satoshi Takeishi, working out a hybrid of Downtown improv and traditional Asian musics. The band never came off ...

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Article: Album Review

Christian Pincock: Reflections of the City

Read "Reflections of the City" reviewed by Ty Cumbie

by Ty Cumbie
April 7, 2006

Tasty melodies, strong arrangements and capable blowing are the main assets of this 2004 recording by Christian Pincock's quintet. The trombonist leads a young but seasoned-sounding group with solid valve trombone work and a book of pleasant modern jazz tunes that range from gently crooning ballads to slow-boiling jams. Pincock is known by ...

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Article: New York Beat

Scott Joplin: The Evolution

by Nick Catalano
April 5, 2006

Although his work has received attention since his death in 1916, the full scope of Scott Joplin's genius has not been revealed. His enormous popularity as a Ragtime king from the 1890's through the 1st decade of the 20th century has been chronicled from time to time and his rag composition The Entertainer is still hummable ...

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Article: Album Review

Stefano Bollani / Jesper Bodilsen / Morten Lund: Gleda: Songs From Scandinavia

Read "Gleda: Songs From Scandinavia" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
April 5, 2006

Italian pianist Stefano Bollani has again partnered with the top-flight Danish rhythm section of bassist Jesper Bodilsen and drummer Morten Lund to create something very precious: an hour of emotive music that culminates in the blissful title cut, “Gleda (Joy). While their previous release, Mi Ritorni In Mente (Stunt, 2004), featured standards with Bodilsen as leader, ...

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Article: Live Review

The Allman Brothers Band: Live at The Beacon Theatre NYC 2006

by Doug Collette
April 2, 2006

The Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre New York, NY March 10-11, 2006 Let us now praise famous men... Because it's probably not fair to expect the Allman Brothers Band to enact a miraculous reinvention of themselves every year. From the sounds and sights of two shows from the two-week run ...

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Article: Book Review

Florence Mills: Harlem Jazz Queen

by Florence Wetzel
March 31, 2006

Florence Mills: Harlem Jazz QueenBill EganHardcover; 368 pagesISBN: 0-8108-5007-9Scarecrow Press2006 Singer Florence Mills (1896-1927) is known to most jazz fans as a name in the footnotes, the woman who inspired Duke Ellington's marvelous composition “Black Beauty." Mills' obscurity is due mostly to the ...

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Article: Album Review

Steve Swell: Fire Into Music

Read "Fire Into Music" reviewed by A. Henkin

by A. Henkin
March 29, 2006

The fascinating thing about this album is that trombonist Steve Swell, ostensibly the leader of the Fire Into Music Quartet with saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc, bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake, didn't know this record (an LP) was being made until he received a copy. Business issues subsequently were worked out and the release is official ...

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Article: Album Review

Buffalo Suicide Prevention Unit: Buffalo Suicide Prevention Unit

Read "Buffalo Suicide Prevention Unit" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
March 29, 2006

Buffalo Suicide Prevention Unit takes free playing to its outer limits on this self-titled release, improvising the tunes in the studio and letting everyone's collective musical instincts work toward creating a coherent whole. Because the tunes were improvised during recording, the disc sounds closer to a live performance than a studio session, underscoring the concept.

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Article: Interview

George Wein: A Life in Music

by George Kanzler
March 28, 2006

No matter what you think of the jazz festival, you can't think of it without thinking of George Wein. In 1954 he presented the first Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, and it became the template for the modern jazz festival. Wein went on to bring the jazz festival concept to New York, where it has ...