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Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble / Reflections of the Road

by Elliott Simon
March 4, 2006

This past month's curation at The Stone by Basya Schechter was noteworthy for new projects by young creative artists; one such event was the double bill of violinist Meg Okura's Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble and accordionist/pianist Uri Sharlin's Cardamon Quartet. Both Okura and Sharlin's groups played selections from debut CDs that elegantly intertwine elements of ...

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Black Awareness / Half Moon

by Francis Lo Kee
March 4, 2006

The vibraphone is a relatively new instrument, introduced to the US in 1916 as the “steel marimba. Red Norvo, one of the very first musicians to play it, came to the vibes after playing a lot of xylophone and marimba. Vibraphonists Lionel Hampton, Milt Jackson, Bobby Hutcherson and Gary Burton all made important contributions to the ...

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Kaivalya Volume 1 / Live at the 'Bottle' Fest

by Francis Lo Kee
March 4, 2006

John Coltrane and Elvin Jones are probably the unknowing progenitors of these two CDs (and many more like them). At a certain point in performances of the Coltrane quartet, McCoy Tyner and Jimmy Garrison dropped out--avoiding superfluousness--because Trane and Elvin had so much to say. A few years later Coltrane recorded the pivotal sax/drum duo Interstellar ...

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Magic Numbers / The Distance

by Ty Cumbie
March 4, 2006

A new pair of releases teams New York edge-cutters with their north-of-the-border counterparts. Quinsin Nachoff Magic Numbers Songlines 2006 Toronto-based reed player Quinsin Nachoff has one foot in jazz performance and the other in classical composition. While this combination can sometimes lead to a musical no-man's ...

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4inObjects / Bright

by Ty Cumbie
March 4, 2006

4inObjects 4inObjects Yeah Yeah 2006 4inObjects' debut recording introduces a full-bodied new voice in jazz singing, backed up by a superb band studded with some of the most talented players to be found anywhere. Yoon Sun Choi's singing is strong and direct. She has good ...

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Paul Motian Band: Garden of Eden

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by Sean Patrick Fitzell
March 4, 2006

For about the last fifteen years, drummer Paul Motian has explored the possibilities of two guitars, two saxophones, bass and drums with his Electric Bebop Band. Always drawing from a revolving cast of younger, emergent musicians, he augments the lineup with another guitar on Garden of Eden. Though a septet with this instrumentation ...

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Erik Friedlander: Prowl

Read "Prowl" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
March 4, 2006

One of the most highly regarded cellists in today's creative improvised music scene, Erik Friedlander has been integral to projects led by saxophonist John Zorn, pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and a host of others. But his prolific yield as a sideman has at times overshadowed his own work. Prowl, a testament to Friedlander's talents as a composer ...

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Rev-elation / I Can't Give You Anything But Love

by Russ Musto
March 3, 2006

Joe Locke Rev-elation Sharp Nine2005 Few tribute albums released these days do justice to the music of the honoree, or the artistry of the player acknowledging the influence of the venerated figure, on the high level that Joe Locke reaches on Rev-elation, easily one of the hardest swinging ...

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Article: Live From New York

March 2006

by AAJ Staff
March 3, 2006

At the Blue Note (Feb. 3rd), pianist Kenny Werner led a quintet called Cosmocentric, with Kenny Wheeler on trumpet, David Sanchez on tenor, Scott Colley on bass and Antonio Sanchez (in for Brian Blade) on drums. It must be said that Wheeler, now 76, was not firing on all cylinders - at least not this set. ...

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Paul Bollenback: Brightness of Being

Read "Brightness of Being" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes
March 3, 2006

Jazz guitar fans will not be disappointed by Brightness of Being, an offering of rich harmonics and octave-based solos in a collection of originals, covers of Stevie Wonder and Neil Young, adaptations from Puccini and Garcia de Leon, and a couple of songs immortalized by Ray Charles. The original “Together finds Bollenback on ...