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Article: Multiple Reviews

Gebhard Ullman: The Big Band Project / Desert Songs and Other Landscapes / Spirals

by Kurt Gottschalk
October 8, 2005

Gebhard Ullmann The Big Band Project Soul Note 2005 In 2001, German saxophonist Gebhard Ullmann had the opportunity to record with the 20-piece NDR (North German Radio) Big Band, a project which he - a confessed non-fan of big band music - was hesitant to take on. It turns out ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Dave Liebman: Picture Show / Different but the Same

by Donald Elfman
October 8, 2005

Dave Liebman, on two very different recordings, shows himself to be both a master of his instruments and a sonic explorer of the deepest intensity. Of course, this is no new revelation--from his work with Miles Davis and Elvin Jones to his own often brilliant recordings, he has played with expanding the role of the reed ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Nate Wooley: Wrong Shape to be a Story Teller: Blue Collar; Lovely Hazel

by Ty Cumbie
October 8, 2005

Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt has, in these very pages, called into question the legitimacy of jazz criticism, suggesting this line of work is merely an excercise in egocentric exhibitionism and control freakishness. Well, he may have a point, but not every jazz critic is charged with the formidable task of absorbing and attempting to come up with ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

James Ilgenfritz: Trio Caveat / Sound Infusion

by Kurt Gottschalk
October 8, 2005

Bassist James Ilgenfritz, it would seem, has been doing everything right in New York. He's been playing a lot, recording and organizing concert series at the downtown Elixir Smart Bar and The Tank in midtown. In a few years, the young player has built something of a community around him, which is what musicians in New ...

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Article: Live From New York

November 2005

by AAJ Staff
October 6, 2005

The Brian Blade Fellowship has a way of reminding one why music (not just jazz) matters. Gigging and recording infrequently, the group has nonetheless moved many with its cathartic mini-symphonies, so this Village Vanguard engagement was hotly anticipated. With saxophonist Chris Cheek standing in for Melvin Butler, Blade's lineup was otherwise close to that of the ...

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Article: Album Review

Adam Rogers: Apparitions

Read "Apparitions" reviewed by Francis Lo Kee

by Francis Lo Kee
October 6, 2005

Though the liner notes, which contain plenty of quotes by Rogers, try to explain in a technical way what's going on in the music, Apparitions is music you can feel. “The Tyranny of Fixed Numbers, the second track, is indeed a very original composition, though you're hit in the gut with guitar and tenor saxophone (Chris ...

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Article: Film Review

Keith Jarrett: The Art of Improvisation

by Ty Cumbie
October 4, 2005

Keith JarrettKeith Jarrett: The Art of ImprovisationEuroarts 20541182005 When Keith Jarrett is “in the zone his face takes on an expression of sublime agony reminiscent of a woman in the throes of childbirth. Creating music live for him is an act of profound, physical intensity: his entire body is tense ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Marian McPartland: Piano Jazz with Teddy Wilson & Lionel Hampton

by AAJ Staff
October 4, 2005

By Chris DiGirolamo Over 25 years ago South Carolina Educational Radio gave us Marian McPartland's “Piano Jazz , the long-running public radio program in which McPartland invites guest artists into her studio for candid one-on-one chats about music. Over 500 programs later we continue to be blessed with releases from some of the select sessions, such ...

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Article: Megaphone

Mark Samuels: Basin Street In and Out of New Orleans

by AAJ Staff
October 4, 2005

By Mark SamuelsWhen I was invited to have one of our many artists write for All About Jazz's Megaphone column, I envisioned sitting down on the phone with one of them and typing as they talked. What has happened in the two or three weeks since has been amazing and has kept us from ...

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Article: Album Review

Peter Br: FMP 130

Read "FMP 130" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

by Kurt Gottschalk
October 4, 2005

22 years hence, these European masters have pretty well cemented themselves in their own corners of the free improv universe: the fury, sometimes restrained, of Peter Brötzmann; the madness of Han Bennink; and the elegant wandering of Fred van Hove. But when they got together in Bremen on February 25, 1973, it was with a sense ...