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Annie Ross: Let Me Sing
by Marcia Hillman
She may be best known as member of seminal vocalese group Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, but septuagenarian singer Annie Ross has also enjoyed a long and successful career are a solo performer, with over a dozen releases to her name. All About Jazz caught up with Ross to discuss her new record on Consolidated Arts Productions, ...
Big Band Jazz: Live at MCG / Pag's Groove / A Faceless Place
by Ken Dryden
While large ensembles reached their heyday in the '40s, there are many still recording today, even if their ability to tour widely is limited. Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra Live at MCG MCG Jazz 2005 Of all the current big bands playing both bop and swing, the Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra is easily among ...
Paul Motian: At The Village Vanguard
by Abe Pollack
Paul Motian's longstanding trio is considered one of the greatest jazz bands of today, if not all time. With guitarist Bill Frisell and tenor man Joe Lovano working in symbiotic melody and harmony, Motian has the freedom to showcase his use of color and texture. These musicians approach a standard as if it were an original, ...
Jazz Flute: Flute on the Edge / Groove Yard / Ad Infinitum
by Ken Dryden
For a long time, jazz musicians who played the flute as their primary instrument were fairly rare. In recent years, the number of flutists has grown tremendously including three with new albums: Jeremy Steig, Bradley Leighton and François Richard. Jeremy Steig Flute on the Edge Steig Music 2005 Jeremy Steig ...
John Zorn / Mark Feldman / Sylvie Courvoisier: Malphas, Book of Angels Volume 3
by Kurt Gottschalk
The second book of Masada tunes--300 compositions John Zorn penned in 2004--is only revelatory for the most diehard of fans. What's more exciting over a decade into the Masada story is that new life has been breathed into the project. Following Book Two releases by Jamie Saft and the Masada String Trio, Malphas is a set ...
Denominators: Red Balloon
by Ernest Barteldes
Denominators is a new band comprised of three highly competent musicians who try to look outside the box in their approach to jazz, allowing classical, funky and tropical elements into their sound without being too eclectic. On Red Balloon they work exclusively through original compositions (mostly by flutist Michel Gentile), taking advantage of the quantity of ...
Mark Whitecage: BushWacked: A Spoken Opera
by Judith Insell
BushWacked takes a bold political stand, presenting a feeling through each track of anger, outrage and distrust of George W. Bush and his political regime. Joining Whitecage (alto sax and clarinet) are the members of the Bi-Coastal Orchestra: Rozanne Levine (alto and soprano clarinets), Bill Larimer (piano), Robert Mahaffay (drums) and Scott Steele (guitar), all of ...
Hank Jones: Complete Recordings / Hanky Panky / 'S Wonderful
by Ken Dryden
Since making his debut recording as a leader in 1947, Hank Jones has continued to impress jazz fans for over five decades. Not only is he still recording in his late 80s, but some of his long out of print sessions are beginning to reappear on the market. Hank Jones Complete Recordings ...
Sam Bardfeld: Periodic Trespasses (The Saul Cycle)
by A. Henkin
With his second release as a leader (and first for Fresh Sound), violinist Sam Bardfeld presents an album full of modern Jewish intellectual reflection, as practiced by such diverse artists as Saul Bellow and Woody Allen, but couched in terms owing more of a debt to Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage. But given those ...
Michael Attias: Credo
by Francis Lo Kee
Saxophonist Michael Attias has played a bunch of gigs as a sideman with some well known musicians over the years, but recently he has started to make releases as a leader. His singular effort Credo, recorded in 1999, is finally seeing the light of day. The music has a joyous positive energy from ...
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