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Montreal Jazz Festival 2005
by A. Henkin
Why would a New Yorker make the trip up the thruway for six hours to see jazz in another country? Maybe most performers will come through the city eventually but there is something about Montréal. Perhaps it is the easygoing vibe, almost European, of the city or its lovely weather. But the main reason to attend ...
Bill Charlap & Herbie Hancock: Plays George Gershwin & Gershwin's World
by Javier AQ Ortiz
The latest releases from Bill Charlap and Herbie Hancock add two terrific chapters to the reinterpretation of George Gershwin's music. They are, however, entirely different from each other. For the former, the sole justification for the project is, to paraphrase George Mallory and Sir Edmund Hillary: “Because he's there. For the latter, the self-avowed aspirations are ...
Frank London & Andy Statman: Haz
by Elliott Simon
In the '90s, the Klezmatics made klezmer hip; the latest from their trumpeter, Frank London, should likewise make cantorial music accessible to a new generation of listeners. Hazónos had its Golden Age during the '20s-40s as superstar cantors recorded popular versions of liturgical works. The signature songs of four such “hazzans are presented with newly recorded ...
Conte Candoli/Max Roach: Jazz Structures
by Rico Cleffi
The inclusion of Max Roach's name on the cover of Jazz Structures is somewhat disingenuous. Upon opening the CD insert, we're informed that Max Roach appears on only four out of eighteen tracks. This information was conspicuously absent from the back cover, where a potential buyer would look to see if a disc's worth spending hard-earned ...
Sasha Dobson: The Darkling Thrush
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Sasha Dobson is a JK, or jazz kid. Given her parental background, she was indubitably raised with the canonical repertoire of this recording. Accompanied by the Chris Byars Octet, the singer displays talents of her own nonetheless.On “I'm Beginning To See The Light, Dobson scats and swings at will with tonic clarity and frankness, ...
Miguel Zenon: Jibaro
by Brian P. Lonergan
Jibaro consists of ten original compositions by the young Puerto Rican alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón. The session's inspiration comes from the music of jibaros--Puerto Rican peasants--but there's nothing simplistic about the material Zenón has penned for his quartet, which includes pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Hans Glawischnig, and drummer Antonio Sánchez. The forms of Zenón's ...
Modern Jazz Criticism
by AAJ Staff
By Jeremy Pelt Some time ago I was having dinner with a musician friend of mine and we started talking about the state of modern jazz criticism. Ever since I can remember, I never understood the profession of criticism. I always thought that everyone's a critic in some way or another, so why ...
Re-Imagining "Ascension"
by AAJ Staff
By Bruce Ackley Some of us still remember record stores where one could ask to hear something they'd never heard before. Imagine, the hunger to hear undiscovered sounds... In 1966 I was living in Cincinnati and headed to my local record shop with some friends to get some Coltrane music. ...
Buster Williams: Griot Libert
by Brandt Reiter
All great jazz essentially tells the same story: “This is what it's like to be alive, right here, right now. First-call bass vet Buster Williams' latest disc, Griot Libertè, while no exception, tells an additional one: he loves his wife. Using her recovery from a serious illness as a jumping off point, Williams leads a crack ...
Dave Ballou: Regards
by Ken Franckling
The best bands create collectively. You can tell when that's truly happening by their comfort in subtle comping--or in laying out altogether. Which is not to say they can't play with combined fire when it is called for. That's the key, and what you'll hear throughout trumpeter Dave Balllou's latest recorded adventure. In ...
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