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Article: Album Review

Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra: Not In Our Name

Read "Not In Our Name" reviewed by Ken Franckling

by Ken Franckling
October 12, 2005

Bassist Charlie Haden and pianist Carla Bley, two of the more eclectic and versatile people in jazz, make a great team as musical conceptualists as a they draw on a shared vision and Bley's knack for sometimes off-kilter large ensemble arranging. It has been 37 years since Charlie Haden and Carla Bley formed ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Tierney Sutton: I'm with The Band; Kelley Johnson: Live at Birdland

by Ernest Barteldes
October 11, 2005

Tierney Sutton I'm with the Band Telarc 2005 “There's something in our live set that doesn't come through on a studio recording," Sutton said during a phone interview about her recently released album I'm With The Band, which was captured live at Birdland last spring, “so we ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Helen Merrill: Lilac Wine; Andrea Wolper: The Small Hours

by Andrew Velez
October 11, 2005

Helen Merrill Lilac Wine Sunnyside 2005 Listen carefully to Helen Merrill's phrasing as she revisits “Lilac Wine , a song she first recorded in the '50s. “...I think I'm ready for my love... It's her ever-so-delicate emphasis of “ready which makes the impassioned state she's in so clear. Always at ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Randy Sandke: Outside In, The Mystic Trumpeter, Trumpet after Dark

by Andrew Velez
October 11, 2005

Randy Sandke Outside In Evening Star Records 2005 The pleasures of Outside In should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with trumpeter Randy Sandke. Adventurous and forward thinking, he also incorporates the best of traditional jazz. The opener, “Ganjan, is an opportunity for him and bandmates Wycliffe Gordon, Marty ...

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Article: Profile

Noah Howard

by A. Henkin
October 11, 2005

A move to Europe can often take a successful musician out of the tight focus of American listeners. Though the cross-pollination of Europe and America is now well established, ex-pat Americans often give up their native renown for the increased work and appreciation to be found across the pond. Though Noah Howard, once ...

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Dizzy Gillespie: Town Hall, New York City; Dizzy

by Ernest Barteldes
October 10, 2005

Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker Town Hall, New York... Uptown Jazz 2005 On a new release on Uptown Records, we hear a long-lost recording made at the Manhattan music hall 60 years ago. The digital transfer is mostly untouched, so as a result some of the crack and hiss ...

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Article: Film Review

Faust: A Silent Movie (1926)

by A. Henkin
October 10, 2005

F.W. Murnau Music by Willem Breuker Faust (1926) BVHaast 2005 F.W Murnau was one of the giants of the Silent Film Era. His most famous work is 1922's Nosferatu but his interpretation of the Faust legend was his most expansive work, also his last ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Eric Dolphy: Iron Man / Live at the Five Spot, Vol.1; Nathan Davis: The Other Side of Morning

by Clifford Allen
October 10, 2005

In many ways, the fence-line between avant-garde and mainstream jazz was towed by Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy, two reedmen whose influence crossed as many boundaries as Coltrane and who might be said to be among the true leaders of the front-line soldiers, paving the way for aspects of a sonic revolution that, ubiquitous as it ...

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Article: Album Review

Armen Donelian: Full Moon Music

Read "Full Moon Music" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
October 10, 2005

The third chapter in pianist Armen Donelian's Grand Ideas trilogy, Full Moon Music, stands alone in its ability to allow the listener to bond with the artist on a most personal level. Consisting of fourteen freely improvised solo piano portraits, the program masterfully tip-toes, walks, and runs along the thinnest of lines separating jazz and classical ...

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Article: Book Review

Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie

by Joel Roberts
October 9, 2005

William L. Maggin Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie Harper Collins ISBN: 0-688-17088-9 2005 With the exception of Louis Armstrong, there's probably been no major artist in jazz as beloved as Dizzy Gillespie. A brilliant musician and innovator who helped launch two of the music's ...