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Article: Profile

Andrew Hill: Time Lines and Full Circles

by Paul Olson
March 11, 2006

Andrew Hill's a busy man. “I'm playing in New York in March and after that, I'm going to Europe for a European promo for a few days with the quintet, he smiles. “The next month, I'm touring Europe then touring Europe again a bit after that. I have a commitment to do a ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

American Roadwork / Sound on Survival Live

by Jeff Stockton
March 11, 2006

Lisle Ellis/Marco Eneidi/Peter Valsamis American Roadwork CIMP 2004 According to Robert Rusch's liner notes for American Roadwork, the Sound on Survival trio (alto saxophonist Marco Eneidi, bassist Lisle Ellis and drummer Peter Valsamis) played 21 shows in 21 days and logged an estimated 8,000 miles on the road ...

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Article: Album Review

Cooper-Moore: Outtakes 1978

Read "Outtakes 1978" reviewed by Jeff Stockton

by Jeff Stockton
March 9, 2006

About ten years ago, Cooper-Moore was a bona fide man of mystery. He had a reputation as a formally trained, creatively inspired master improviser who was fluent on just about any instrument he touched (particularly the piano), but he was also in possession of a notoriously maverick heart. It was said he would only perform and ...

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Article: Album Review

Derek Bailey: Carpal Tunnel

Read "Carpal Tunnel" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

by Kurt Gottschalk
March 9, 2006

In 1977, suffering complications from a stroke that paralyzed the left side of his body, Rahsaan Roland Kirk made his way to Regent Sound Studios in New York to record what would become his final album, Boogie Woogie String Along For Real. Having long since devised a way to play saxophone with one hand (the technique ...

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Article: Album Review

Ryan Kisor Quintet: This is Ryan

Read "This is Ryan" reviewed by Judith Insell

by Judith Insell
March 9, 2006

This is Ryan continues to confirm that trumpeter Ryan Kisor is more than a “young lion, a label he received after winning the Thelonious Monk Competition back in 1990. At the still young age of 32, he is continuing in the tradition of the modal-minded trumpet players who preceded him, sounding like he comes from the ...

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Article: Album Review

Jay Clayton: All Out

Read "All Out" reviewed by Marcia Hillman

by Marcia Hillman
March 8, 2006

This reissue of All Out, Jay Clayton's 1980 debut, is a well-done exercise in the voice as instrument. Clayton occupies her own niche, exploring a freestyle, improvisational approach to vocals. She collaborates with Jane Ira Bloom (soprano and alto sax), Larry Karush (piano), Harvie S (bass), Frank Clayton (drums) and Bill Buchen (kalimba), as well as ...

Article: Album Review

Sweet Sue Terry: Gilly's Caper

Read "Gilly's Caper" reviewed by Russ Musto

by Russ Musto
March 8, 2006

Saxophonist Sweet Sue Terry's second self-released album is a soundtrack of sorts for the accompanying short story from which the date takes its title. The music, a tale of international intrigue, is similarly worldly. The opening “Terra Incognita (titled after a bar in the story) is a curious samba with Michael Rabinowitz's bassoon and T. Ice's ...

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Article: Album Review

Gloria Cooper: Dedicated to You

Read "Dedicated to You" reviewed by Marcia Hillman

by Marcia Hillman
March 7, 2006

This very pleasing offering came as a result of Gloria Cooper's editing of the Second Floor Music publication Sing Jazz. She was not familiar with many of the songs covered in the publication, prompting her to record a new disc featuring some of this material. A large number these songs started out as ...

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Article: Album Review

Gregory Tardy: The Truth

Read "The Truth" reviewed by Matthew Miller

by Matthew Miller
March 7, 2006

Of the many stars to have emerged on the jazz horizon during the '90s, one of the most disciplined, emotive and perhaps underrated is the multifaceted Gregory Tardy. The Truth finds him leading a stellar quintet with trumpeter Marcus Printup, pianist Helen Sung, the propulsive bassist Sean Conly, and the talented drummer Jaimeo Brown.

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Article: Album Review

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Live at Slug's, NYC

Read "Live at Slug's, NYC" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert
March 6, 2006

Many of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers left the group to build successful careers of their own. However, in between Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter and the Marsalises was this curious 1968 band, made up largely of talented unknowns. This particular version of the band never made it into the studio, and this live recording from Slug's ...