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Article: Live From New York

January 2006

by AAJ Staff
January 17, 2006

At Makor (Dec. 14th), guitarist Joel Harrison premiered an extended five-movement composition titled “The Wheel", employing double-quartet instrumentation that bring Patrick Zimmerli's jazz/classical hybrids to mind. Harrison is more the Americana buff, however; violinists Todd Reynolds and Christian Howes conveyed that flavor early in the first movement “American Farewell". The suite involved dense interplay between strings ...

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Article: Book Review

Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius

by Ty Cumbie
January 16, 2006

Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius (10th Anniversary Edition)Bill Milkowski Backbeat Books 2005 Very rarely an exceptional artist emerges, dramatically altering the possibilitites in music. Jaco Pastorius was one of these, as Bill Milkowski's book (updated from the 1995 first edition) on the electric ...

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Article: Album Review

Robinson / Schuller / Bier: Children's Song

Read "Children's Song" reviewed by A. Henkin

by A. Henkin
January 15, 2006

In mathematics, there are three basic types of triangles: scalene (no congruent sides), isosceles (two congruent sides), and equilateral (all sides congruent). If the trio of clarinetist Perry Robinson, bassist Ed Schuller, and drummer Ernst Bier became the subject of a mathematical paper, they would create a new type of triangle, one whose congruency of sides ...

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Article: Album Review

Anderskov Accident: Unity of Action

Read "Unity of Action" reviewed by A. Henkin

by A. Henkin
January 14, 2006

On Unity of Action, Rhodes player and composer Jacob Anderskov has the enviable task of writing pieces for a front line that can at any time consist of trumpet, cornet, alto sax, clarinet, tenor sax, bass clarinet, and trombone. The colors at his disposal seem limitless. But many writers have become stymied by all this choice, ...

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Article: Opinion

More Music, Less Opportunity?

by AAJ Staff
January 12, 2006

By Joel Harrison We live in extraordinary times. Relatively recently a phenomenal number of types of music have taken form: blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll, country, reggae, soul/r&b, bossa nova, samba, soukous, salsa, gospel, hiphop, free improv (to name a few). Atonalism, noise, electronics, computer language are now a part of many musicians' ...

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Article: Profile

John Levy & Freddie Hubbard to Receive NEA Award at IAJE

by Ed Hamilton
January 11, 2006

Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and bassist John Levy will be honored as National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters at the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) Conference. The NEA has chosen two most worthy honorees whom you might say have been joined at the hip like father and son. Levy and Hubbard, manager and trumpeter will ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

A Trio of Solo Piano Releases

by Elliott Simon
January 9, 2006

A trio of solo piano releases showcases the unmatched versatility of the instrument while providing a platform for each player to make his own individual statement. Bill Carrothers Civil War Diaries Illusions Music 2005 Bill Carrothers, through other like-minded projects, has become known for his re-styling of songs ...

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Article: New York Beat

Paquito D

by Nick Catalano
January 7, 2006

The sound of Latin music reached well beyond the traditional salsa-based rhythmic stylings that jazz fans are used to in a unique, adventurous performance last week at Dizzy's Club Coca-cola. Paquito D'Rivera brought his latest aggregation “Panamericana to Gotham's hottest jazz room and scored a resounding triumph with music that dug deeply into classical-folk forms from ...

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Article: Live Review

Daryl Sherman's Park Avenue Whirl

by Daniel Kassell
January 7, 2006

Daryl Sherman's Park Avenue Whirl, 59 East 59th Theater, New York, New York December 17, 2005 “The greatest songs ever written, cabaret vocalist and jazz pianist Daryl Sherman concluded after the first weekend's performance of The Park Avenue Whirl on Saturday, December 17, 2005. Billed by Executive Producer Peter ...

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Article: Interview

Cedar Walton

by Russ Musto
January 5, 2006

Cedar Walton cut his chops with several great groups, including J.J. Johnson's Quintet and the Jazztet, before making a name for himself with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Since graduating from that venerable institution he's become one of the most in demand pianists in jazz. These days he spends most of his time traveling the ...