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Article: Multiple Reviews

Dave Stryker: Live at The Jazz Standard & Big City

Read "Dave Stryker: Live at The Jazz Standard & Big City" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes

Dave Stryker/Steve Slagle Live at Jazz Standard Zoho 2005 On Live at The Jazz Standard, one can feel the intense chemistry that Dave Stryker and Steve Slagle, who have played together for several years, have in their first live recording, captured last March at the Manhattan club. The recording is ...

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Patrick Zimmerli: Phoenix

Read "Phoenix" reviewed by Andrew Velez

by Andrew Velez

The notes accompanying this sixth release from Patrick Zimmerli, a New York-based composer/saxophonist, give no hint of when he may have fallen to earth from parts unknown, bringing with him an unclassifiable mix of jazz, strings, and electronics.The set opens with the dreamlike landscape of “M, which is dramatically revisited later mid-set with Kevin ...

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Danilo P: Live at the Jazz Showcase

Read "Live at the Jazz Showcase" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz

by Javier AQ Ortiz

The Danilo Pérez Trio recorded Live at the Jazz Showcase in December 2003, ensconcing the trio in the longstanding history of this Chicago club.Pérez leads drummer Adam Cruz and bassist Ben Street from the piano as they interpret a repertoire covering mostly original material, although there are hard bop renditions of material by Rubén ...

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Kevin Norton: Quark Bercuse: Solo Percussion Vol. 1

Read "Quark Bercuse: Solo Percussion Vol. 1" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell

by Sean Patrick Fitzell

Solo music is perhaps the most challenging kind of all. With no place to hide, it's just the musician communicating to the listener. Percussion music presents additional challenges for both the performer and audience, since untuned instruments, like drums and cymbals, lack obvious melodic qualities and tuned instruments, like marimba and xylophone, are not inherently harmonic. ...

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Bobby Matos and His Latin Jazz Ensemble: Acknowledgement

Read "Acknowledgement" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes

It's too bad that the audience actually watching the show at Queens' Jamaica Jams Festival on August 6th wasn't as large as expected--most people there seemed to be more interested in shopping and eating than enjoying the music. Their loss, for those who did stop to listen to the short set presented by Bobby Matos and ...

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Cosmosamatics: Magnitudes

Read "Magnitudes" reviewed by Jeff Stockton

by Jeff Stockton

What started as a song title on a trio session for CIMP nearly ten years ago (Transcendence, 1996) has blossomed into one of the most consistent and fruitful partnerships in jazz. The Cosmosamatics (primarily alto elder statesman Sonny Simmons and multireedist Michael Marcus) dabble in bop, post bop, and free jazz, with tightly written and arranged ...

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Carla Bley: The Lost Chords

Read "The Lost Chords" reviewed by Brian P. Lonergan

by Brian P. Lonergan

Pianist Carla Bley's supple Lost Chords quartet is a bit like a group of longtime dance partners--the individuals move in sure step together, but leave each other ample freedom to move. The musical result is an airy, spacious feel that doesn't sacrifice groove or drive.Far from being strangers, the four notes in this chord ...

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Paul Motian: Sound in Motian

Read "Paul Motian: Sound in Motian" reviewed by Russ Musto

by Russ Musto

"Everything comes from the sound. It's in the sound. It's in the sound of my drums. It's in the sound of whatever I'm hearing, Paul Motian says describing his unique musical style. “I don't have any idea what I'm doing, what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I'm playing off of the other people I'm ...

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John Hollenbeck

Read "John Hollenbeck" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

By Chris DiGirolamo To take on the labels “composer , “drummer , “percussionist and “bandleader means being a busy man for John Hollenbeck. Maintaining his composition practices while leading The Claudia Quintet and his Large Ensemble, Hollenbeck this year alone has also toured and/or will soon be touring with vocalist Meredith Monk, pianist ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Baczkowski/Flaherty/Corsano: The Dim Bulb; Cold Bleak Heat: It's Magnificent, But It Isn't War; Jumala Quintet: Turtle Crossing

Read "Baczkowski/Flaherty/Corsano: The Dim Bulb;  Cold Bleak Heat: It's Magnificent, But It Isn't War; Jumala Quintet: Turtle Crossing" reviewed by Jeff Stockton

by Jeff Stockton

Baczkowski/Flaherty/Corsano The Dim Bulb Wet Paint 2005 Veteran underground alto/tenor saxophonist Paul Flaherty and his much-younger compadre, drummer Chris Corsano, have a bond. As a duo, they most often sound like a thundering herd of elephants, with Corsano cast as the thundering herd and Flaherty as the elephants, ...


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