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Article: Multiple Reviews

Graham Collier & John Surman: Workpoints & Way Back When

by A. Henkin
July 3, 2005

England in the late '60s was an exciting place for music and musicians. After years of accomplished, though derivative, jazz, the British scene was beginning to produce conceptualists with larger visions and to have the players in droves willing and able to play them. Around the same time that Mike Westbrook was developing his ideas, bassist ...

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Article: Album Review

Wayne Shorter: Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter

Read "Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter" reviewed by Riel Lazarus

by Riel Lazarus
July 2, 2005

Want a challenge? Try cramming nearly fifty years of music into a two-CD set. And if that isn't hard enough, try having it make the slightest lick of sense. Though hardly an enviable task, this is precisely what Columbia/Legacy has endeavored to do with Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter. Compiled here ...

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Nina Simone: Fodder on My Wings & Baltimore

by Celeste Sunderland
July 1, 2005

Had Nina Simone not gotten so fed up with the music industry and been so disgusted by racism in America that she left for Barbados, Liberia, the Netherlands and France, we may never have had the incredible songs that pulse and hark and lament through two landmark albums, Fodder on My Wings and Baltimore. However, destiny ...

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Eugene Chadbourne: The Hills Have Jazz

Read "The Hills Have Jazz" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

by Kurt Gottschalk
July 1, 2005

Since starting his homegrown label a few years back, Eugene Chadbourne has had no end of opportunities to digitize his whims and send them to market. Among the many projects on his Chadula label has been a series (eight at present) of “horror CDs that run the gamut from arrangements of horror movie themes to unnerving ...

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Geri Allen: The Life of a Song

Read "The Life of a Song" reviewed by Francis Lo Kee

by Francis Lo Kee
June 29, 2005

It's great to hear Geri Allen cut loose and play with abandon on this mostly trio effort (Mal Waldron's “Soul Eyes has trumpet, sax, and trombone briefly added). Hailing from Detroit and admittedly influenced by the Motown sound and feel, Allen plays with a refreshingly honest direction and immediacy. This particular trio, with Jack DeJohnette and ...

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Article: Interview

Fred Anderson: On the Run

by Jeff Stockton
June 18, 2005

Tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson has seen it all in his 75-plus years. One of the founders of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the '60s, Anderson has been tireless in his mission to nurture young jazz talent in his hometown of Chicago, Ill.. With his first club in the '70s, The Birdhouse ...

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Jimmy Smith: Home Cookin'

Read "Home Cookin'" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
June 18, 2005

"The Incredible Jimmy Smith cemented his reputation as the king of jazz organ during his prolific residency at Blue Note from 1956-63, as both a leader and collaborator with labelmates. His popularity and record sales helped the label grow and foster new talent. When he returned to Blue Note later in his career, it was only ...

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Kitty Margolis: Heart and Soul: Live in San Francisco

Read "Heart and Soul: Live in San Francisco" reviewed by Andrew Rowan

by Andrew Rowan
June 18, 2005

Kitty Margolis has a solid reputation and an enthusiastic fan base, and this recording shows why. A rock-solid singer with great chops, Margolis ranges through the Great American Songbook, throwing in a couple of curves on this live session. In her notes, Margolis states that improvisation is at the core of her art. ...

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Steve Lacy: The Way

by AAJ Staff
June 16, 2005

By Francis Lo Kee The great Steve Lacy, recently departed, made many records, but this one captures a great ensemble at the peak of its creative powers. It's a two-CD set from one concert in Basel in 1979, and it's hard to believe that so much great music was played in one sitting. ...

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Anthony Braxton: Charlie Parker Project & Shadow Company

by Ty Cumbie
June 16, 2005

Bespectacled, tweedy, bristling with intelligence, one could easily mistake him for a professor from some obscure, brainy university (which would be correct), of science or mathematics or philosophy (actually music, though he has an impressive command of those other fields). Anthony Braxton, the musician, is renowned primarily for three traits: fearless experimentation, mountainous technique and a ...