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Neal Smith: Some of My Favorite Songs Are...

Read "Some of My Favorite Songs Are..." reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
January 28, 2006

Debut recordings can give a deceptively strong impression of a leader, since his or her best hour of material is showcased. Many an artist can't match that initial effort and fall prey to the dreaded sophomore jinx. Drummer Neal Smith has confounded that scenario by releasing his second recording along with his first--and when they are ...

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Zebulon Cafe Concert: This Is It: Live at Zebulon Vol. 1

Read "This Is It: Live at Zebulon Vol. 1" reviewed by Brian P. Lonergan

by Brian P. Lonergan
January 27, 2006

A pure joy of harmonious cacophony, oxymoronic as that may be, best describes the opening few minutes of This Is It--a raucous twelve-bar blues by Butch Morris' improvising orchestra, Butchland Band. Titled “BCW and built on a simple blues riff, the thirteen-minute orchestral party is a fine example of why the Williamsburg jazz cafe has in ...

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Sonny Rollins: Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert

Read "Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel
January 27, 2006

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Sonny Rollins was in his home, located six blocks from the World Trade Center. His evacuation the next day happened to be filmed by CNN. Despite the travel restrictions, Rollins and his band managed to make their September 15 gig at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston. Rollins was ...

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Article: Profile

Ken Vandermark

by A. Henkin
January 26, 2006

"Chicago is kind of like this island out in the middle of a bunch of land, says multi-reedman Ken Vandermark. The Rhode Island-born musician settled in the Windy City in the early '80s after college in Montreal and a stint living and working in Boston. But in Chicago Vandermark has thrived, making countless musical friendships that ...

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Herb Robertson NY Downtown Allstars: Elaboration

Read "Elaboration" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

by Kurt Gottschalk
January 25, 2006

Dubbing a band the “NY Downtown Allstars" is certainly bold, but it would be hard to argue against this lineup: the band, led by under-recognized trumpeter Herb Robertson, features Tim Berne on saxophone, Mark Dresser on bass, Tom Rainey on drums, and relatively-new-kid-on-the-block Sylvie Courvoisier on piano. The group was brought together at the invitation of ...

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Yusef Lateef: Roots & Routes

by Tom Greenland
January 24, 2006

Yusef Lateef is one of the first practitioners of “our music" to embrace “the other", those peoples and cultures far removed geographically and often ideologically from the sounds and sensibilities of North America. A renaissance man for the new millennium, Lateef is a philosopher, organologist, composer/arranger/performer, educator, author and acoustic Argonaut. He'll be in town in ...

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Article: Live Review

David Aaron's Short Memory at 55 Bar, NYC

by Budd Kopman
January 23, 2006

David Aaron's Short Memory 55 Bar New York City January 19, 2006 Jazz is more than a musical language that can be learned in school. It is more than playing “this" scale over “that" chord when it is “this" part of a progression to get “that" sound. Jazz ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Milt Jackson: Soul Pioneers / Tommy Flanagan: The Cats

by Greg Thomas
January 22, 2006

Milt Jackson Soul Pioneers: The Milt Jackson Quartet featuring Horace Silver Concord Music Group 2004 From the opening tag of the first tune on this 1955 recording, one relaxes on the axis of the steel vibes of Milt Jackson, joined by his Modern Jazz Quartet mates Percy Heath ...

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Jay Rosen: Songs for Samuel / Michael Bisio: Composance

by Robert Iannapollo
January 22, 2006

Jay Rosen Songs for Samuel CIMP 2005 Drummer Jay Rosen is an imaginative musician and he set for himself what some would consider a monumental task: an homage to his recently deceased father played on drums and percussion. However, Rosen is one of the most accomplished drummers around and his ...

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Stephen Gauci: Long Night Waiting / First, Keep Quiet

by AAJ Staff
January 22, 2006

It's a rare pleasure to hear a musician warming up their instruments preceding a live performance. How magical to eavesdrop on a saxophonist breathing out unaccompanied scales and unguarded creative lines in an empty club as the notes echo off the walls. Stephen Gauci Trio Long Night Waiting Cadence 2005 ...