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Article: Live From New York

August 2005

by AAJ Staff
August 10, 2005

In a glass-enclosed second-floor atrium at Scandinavia House (Jul. 6th), bassist Eivind Opsvik did his best to rise above loud conversations fueled by flowing drinks. The bandmates - Tony Malaby on tenor, Jacob Sacks on keyboard and Gerald Cleaver on drums - have played on one or both of Opsvik's superior Fresh Sound-New Talent discs, Overseas ...

Article: Live Review

FIMAV 2005

by AAJ Staff
August 10, 2005

By Mathieu Bélanger If historically the music and artists the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV) featured played a crucial role in the establishment of “musique actuelle as a genre - think of the Montréal-based Ambiances magnétiques collective - the FIMAV has always favored a broad perspective on so-called experimental music that ...

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Article: Album Review

Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker: Town Hall, New York City 1945

Read "Town Hall, New York City 1945" reviewed by Norman Weinstein

by Norman Weinstein
August 8, 2005

This is absolutely a find, a well-recorded (for 1945) live concert of Bird and Diz and Max Roach in peak form. The numbers were quite familiar to these artists at the time ("A Night in Tunisia," “Salt Peanuts," “Groovin' High"), but these are slashingly brilliant versions to be treasured.Gillespie sounds unusually florid and assured, ...

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Article: Album Review

Jane Ira Bloom: Like Silver, Like Song

Read "Like Silver, Like Song" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes
August 6, 2005

If jazz experimentation is your cup of tea, this new album by soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom is an album to hear. In fourteen tracks (all but one written or co-written by Bloom) presented as one continuous suite, Bloom and her backing musicians play around with a mixture of sounds that doesn't make much sense to ...

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Article: New York Beat

European Jazz Diary, Part 3

by Nick Catalano
August 3, 2005

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Surely, Amsterdam is one of the leading jazz capitols of Europe. Upon arriving at Schipol airport (my favorite in Europe) and boarding the most convenient airport-to-downtown system on the planet, I checked into the Bema hotel across from the celebrated ...

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Article: Album Review

Ronnie Burrage: In It

by Russ Musto
July 16, 2005

The multitalented Ronnie Burrage has shown himself to be one of the most exciting drummers in jazz as a sideman with McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Jerry Gonzalez's Fort Apache Band, and Sonny Fortune. As a leader he's also demonstrated his abilities as a composer, arranger, percussionist, and keyboard player. On In It he adds scat singing ...

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Article: Interview

Gary Bartz

by AAJ Staff
July 15, 2005

Gary Bartz has been active on the New York music scene and throughout the world since the '60s, working with such legends as Miles Davis and Art Blakey. To preface our interview, we began by a surprise phone call that I had arranged with Dr.Yusef Lateef, whom Mr.Bartz had not spoken with for some time. This ...

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Article: Profile

Eddie Palmieri

by Elliott Simon
July 14, 2005

Thelonious Monk once said, “Jazz is New York. You can feel it in the air." This is an observation that can be easily recast to produce another truism: “Salsa is New York. You can feel it in the streets." Both musics are integral to NYC culture and come together no more eloquently than they do in ...

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Article: Album Review

Cecil Taylor: Almeda

by Russ Musto
July 12, 2005

In the nearly forty years since the recording of Unit Structures, Cecil Taylor has steadfastly developed his orchestral music as arguably the most unique musical expression of one of the (jazz) world's most intelligent and idiosyncratic minds. Recorded during the Total Music Meeting in Berlin on November 2, 1996, Almeda is an honest documentation of a ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Wayne Horvitz: Intersection Poems & Live

by AAJ Staff
July 11, 2005

Wayne Horvitz has always succeeded in being an unclassifiable master, his music bordering the worlds of jazz, rock, experimental, and contemporary classical. With these two releases come two sides to the multifaceted pianist/keyboardist. Horvitz/Samworth/Lee/Clarke/van der Schyff Intersection Poems Spool 2005 With Intersection Poems, Horvitz collaborates for ...