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Article: Multiple Reviews

Andrew Lamb: The Dogon Duo & Year of the Endless Moment

by Terrell Kent Holmes
July 10, 2005

Andre Lamb/Warren Smith The Dogon Duo Engine Studios 2005 Multi-reedist Andrew Lamb teams up with percussionist Warren Smith to form the Dogon Duo, whose self-titled disc is comprised of sources influenced by various types of world music that resonate in the spirit. The first song, “Shanty House, announces the duo's ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Dennis Gonz

by Jeff Stockton
July 10, 2005

Dennis González NY Quartet NY Midnight Suite Clean Feed 2005 After teaching for thirty years in the Dallas public school system, underground trumpeter Dennis González was asked in 2003 to participate in the FONT trumpet festival at Tonic. The back half of NY Midnight Suite is thirty minutes recorded live ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Eremite Records

by Robert Iannapollo
July 9, 2005

The story of record labels devoted to free jazz is largely one of dedicated admirers of the music taking the lead and means of production to disseminate to the world the music they love. Many are well-meaning, committed endeavors that rarely seem to make it past the five year mark. But a few stand out. One ...

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Article: Profile

Vijay Iyer

by Celeste Sunderland
July 9, 2005

Four years ago saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell needed a last-minute replacement to fill the piano seat on his European tour. He called Vijay Iyer.It was a breakthrough gig for the young pianist. When he got home to New York he played a tape recording for some friends. “I was like, 'Guess who this ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Billy Bang: Configuration & Vietnam: Reflections

by Jeff Stockton
July 9, 2005

Sirone/Bang Ensemble Configuration Silkheart 2005 The recently reactivated Swedish Silkheart label boasts of its track record for discovering and nurturing noteworthy young drummers, and it's found another one in Tyshawn Sorey. Recorded live at CB's Gallery in New York, the drummer opens this fabulous one-off (so far) with the first ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

William Parker: Sound Unity & Two Masters & Mass for the Healing of the World

by Jeff Stockton
July 9, 2005

William Parker Quartet Sound Unity AUM Fidelity 2005 Recorded live in Montreal and Vancouver during the William Parker Quartet's tour in the summer of 2004, Sound Unity doesn't pack the same startling punch as the the group's first release, 2001's O'Neal's Porch (AUM Fidelity), but this pianoless quartet, with its ...

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Article: Live Review

Susie Ibarra's Electric Kulintang with Roberto J. Rodriguez and Sean Lennon: Tonic, NYC

by Elliott Simon
July 8, 2005

An exciting and fruitful consequence of the openness engendered by the Downtown NYC avant/jazz community is a willingness to creatively draw on conventional ethnic dance formats to formulate new music. This has likewise allowed musicians to explore personal musical heritages from their current vantage point. The most successful of such undertakings define a new approach by ...

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Article: Live From New York

July 2005

by AAJ Staff
July 4, 2005

At the new and thoroughly spruced-up Smalls, tenor saxophonist J.D. Allen chaired a productive meeting with pianist George Burton, bassist Joseph Lepore and drummer Damion Reid (June 11; bassist Chris Lightcap subbed on June 10). This was fierce, hard-bitten stuff and when Allen blew, Burton usually gave him the field and did not comp. The tempos ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Peter Br

by A. Henkin
July 4, 2005

Since his first recordings in the mid '60s, German saxophonist Brötzmann can either be accused of being limited or extremely focused. Whatever the ruling, there has been no one player over the past decades who better encapsulates the upheaval of post-war Europe. Four “new discs with different groups, but with different sounds, are consistent with his ...

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Article: New York Beat

European Jazz Diary, Part 2

by Nick Catalano
July 3, 2005

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 A few years ago I was in France at the Vienne Jazz Festival near Lyon. After sojourning with other American jazz writers, sampling some spectacular provincal cooking along with fabulous vintages of Cote du Rhone and watching Tony Bennett, Diana ...