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Article: Multiple Reviews

James Moody & Moody And The Brass Figures

by Andrew Rowan
June 9, 2005

What a perfect name: James Moody. His playing has that fire and fluency honed in the bebop and post-bop eras, but there is also a haunting sound that tells the listener that his music is about feeling as much as it is about musical notation. James Moody James Moody Argo-Verve ...

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Article: Album Review

Tom Christensen: New York School

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by AAJ Staff
June 8, 2005

Modern jazz sometimes seems a bit schizophrenic, caught between the extremes of intellectual abstraction and spiritual seeking, and the more ambitious sort often fails because it can't find intuitive connections between the two. Horn multi-instrumentalist Tom Christensen's third release in six years is a pleasure from start to finish because it manages to simultaneously embrace thought ...

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SF Jazz Collective & Momentum

by Terrell Kent Holmes
June 7, 2005

SF Jazz Collective SF Jazz Collective Nonesuch 2005 Ever since saxman Joshua Redman chose jazz over law, he has been one of the most acclaimed, diverse and in-demand performers on the scene. He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the SFJazz Collective (SFJC), a stellar ensemble of players whose ...

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London Flat, London Sharp, Private Brubeck Remembers and Jazz at the College of the Pacific

by Brian P. Lonergan
June 7, 2005

Dave Brubeck Quartet London Flat, London Sharp Telarc 2005 There are not many jazz pianists who have actively gigged and recorded for 60 years. Dave Brubeck's clean living has allowed him to continue producing, at nearly 85 years old, such excellent albums as London Flat, London Sharp.

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A Nice Idea & Brand New

by Brian P. Lonergan
June 7, 2005

John Abercrombie and Andy LaVerne A Nice Idea SteepleChase 2005 There are several challenges with having a guitar and piano together in a small combo. One is to keep the music from getting too muddy due to overlapping, sustained chords. Another is to generate a sense of forward motion, without ...

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Reads with Jazz In Canada & 14 Love Poems

by Clifford Allen
June 7, 2005

Despite the fact that beat poets and their bohemian kin were entranced and influenced by jazz rhythms and improvisation (and vice versa), it seems as though the music and word idioms remained quite separate throughout the beat-heyday of the late '50s and early '60s. Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972), painter and poet who stood closer to Eliot than ...

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Article: Profile

Wayne Shorter: The Soothsayer

by A. Henkin
June 6, 2005

At over 70 years of age, with a career that began in 1959 and included celebrated stints with Art Blakey and Miles Davis, 12 albums for Blue Note during that label's most creative period, the founding of one of the more influential fusion groups and work with major jazz and pop musicians throughout the '80s, it ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Bush Dance & Pisces

by Russ Musto
June 6, 2005

These two new discs present three excellent Griffin sessions, one each from the '60's, '70s and '80s, documenting various aspects of his mastery of the tenor saxophone and the jazz idiom in remarkably diverse settings. Bush Dance combines a 1978 all-star date featuring the stellar rhythm section of pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Sam Jones and drummer ...

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Instant Party & Jerry Gonzalez y Los Piratas del Flamenco

by Javier AQ Ortiz
June 6, 2005

Poncho Sánchez Instant Party Concord Picante 2004Poncho Sánchez' Instant Party is part of a Concord series that includes similar compilations from Gene Harris, Tito Puente, Mongo SantamarÃ-a and Mel Tormé. “Just Add the willingness to have a good booty-shaking time and Poncho will bring the party home for ...

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Article: Book Review

Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond

by Brian P. Lonergan
June 5, 2005

Doug Ramsey Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond Parkside Publications ISBN: 0961726679 2005 Paul Emil Breitenfeld is better known by jazz fans as Paul Desmond and still more widely known as “the guy who wrote 'Take Five'". Desmond's distinctive alto sound and his inventive ...