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Article: Album Review

Jon Weber: Simple Complex

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by Elliott Simon
June 4, 2005

The story behind pianist Jon Weber's Simple Complex stretches credulity, but the music speaks for itself. From the age of three or so, Weber has been an instrumental and compositional wunderkind. A real life Schroeder practicing on a toy organ, he possessed absolute pitch and a phenomenal song memory. Learning piano from his grandmother's collection of ...

Article: Album Review

Z: A Jazzar No Zeca

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by Elliott Simon
June 4, 2005

Internationally renowned bassist, composer, and musical director Zé Eduardo has been a seminal figure and a long-time fixture on the Portuguese jazz landscape. To coincide with the 30th anniversary of the end of Portuguese rightist rule, he pays tribute to the songs of José Afonso with A Jazzar No Zeca. To begin to ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

Obituary: Artie Shaw

by AAJ Staff
June 4, 2005

Artie Shaw died December 30th at the age of 94. It seems almost befitting that Shaw, the musician that despised fame, would pass on after all the magazines and newspapers went to press with their year-end tributes to the entertainers who died in 2004. “The public and I have nothing to do with each other," Shaw ...

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Article: Live From New York

June 2005

by AAJ Staff
June 3, 2005

Randy Weston launched Year Two of the Lost Jazz Shrines series, this year a tribute to the Village Gate, at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (May 6th). He began with an unaccompanied Ellington mélange, summoning luxurious tones from the grand piano. Weston's Duke is always refreshing: “C Jam Blues was dark and brooding; “Mood Indigo was ...

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Article: Album Review

Marian McPartland & Friends: 85 Candles - Live in New York

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by Samuel Chell
June 3, 2005

As might be expected, this is a quite uneven collection, capturing the festive occasion that was Marian McPartland's 85th birthday party. There are no truly “low" points, but a few are inessential. Norah Jones reprises Hoagy Carmichael's “The Nearness of You," the single standard from her gold record “Come Away with Me" (Karrin Allyson, despite having ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Alexander von Schlippenbach: Compression & Monk's Casino

by A. Henkin
June 2, 2005

The career of most artists follows one of two paths: linear (Pablo Picasso or Gato Barbieri) or circular (Chick Corea). Few can or wish to maintain multiple personalities creatively. In music, there are more instances of this kind of multi-tasking and German pianist Alex von Schlippenbach has proven himself especially adept. In the ...

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Article: Profile

Ted Curson: Atypical Ted

by Clifford Allen
June 2, 2005

“Journeyman is often applied to those in the jazz business, but “stevedore might be more apt. After all, both individuality and slow recognition are the result of impossibly hard work, and Curson is the rule rather than the exception. Born June 3rd, 1935 in Philadelphia, Ted Curson came to music early on, playing saxophone from age ...

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Article: Book Review

Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century

by Joel Roberts
June 1, 2005

Gary Giddins Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century Oxford University Press ISBN: 0-19-515607-2 2004 Gary Giddins' “Weather Bird column in the Village Voice was required reading for New York jazz buffs for years. Equal parts critic, booster and history teacher, as well as a ...

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Article: Megaphone

Bill Dixon: The Benefits of the Struggle

by AAJ Staff
June 1, 2005

By Bill Dixon I appreciate your interest in having me say some things that you can present in your paper to interested readers, readers that may be interested in my work, how I go about it, how I have existed, what my work means, how that work is arrived at and my general ...

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Article: Live Review

Joe Lovano Quartet at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

by David Miller
May 29, 2005

Joe Lovano with Paul Motian, George Mraz and Mulgrew Miller Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola New York City There's nothing like accompanying a musician to see a show. As well as the constant barrage of, “Hey, that's one of Bird's licks! and “You think that pianist likes Monk, they provide great company. Musicians are ...