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Article: Profile

Gerry Hemingway: Following His Muse

by Kurt Gottschalk
April 6, 2005

Without naming names, it seems safe to say that its the rare drummer who can step up as a bandleader or composer, who can move out of the realm of percussion and work with a variety of instrumental voices. Looked at from another angle, it could be worthwhile to name names of drummers who go beyond ...

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Article: Interview

Frank Wess: The Message of Swing

by Riel Lazarus
April 5, 2005

The genetic makeup of sax and flute legend Frank Wess is pure jazz. What else could explain over 60 years on the bandstand, dozens of cities seen and conquered, the message of swing spread to all within earshot? Though perhaps best known for his years with Count Basie, bookending those are decades of vigorous development and ...

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Article: Album Review

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

Read "85 Candles: Live in New York" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
April 4, 2005

On the day after Marian McPartland turned 85, this large group of her jazz friends got together at Birdland in New York to celebrate with her. She played piano with them in an endearing program of love songs that belie their affection for each other. Everybody loves Marian McPartland and respects her for her many accomplishments.

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Article: New York Beat

Pat Metheny Group 2005

by Nick Catalano
April 3, 2005

I was in south Florida last week and decided to catch the beginning of Pat Metheny's new tour, a multi-city affair in support of his new CD The Way Up. The CD, which is No. 2 on Billboard magazine's contemporary jazz chart, is a single 68-minute opus reprising Metheny's jazz-rock-pop-folk-fusion musical evolution. At the concert, held ...

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Article: Live Review

The Allman Brothers Band at the Beacon Theatre

by David Miller
April 3, 2005

The Allman Brothers Band The Beacon Theatre New York City March 2005 The Allman Brothers Band once again set up camp at New York's Beacon Theatre for nine shows in the past two weeks in what has become an annual rite of passage. The Beacon has become a home away ...

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Article: Megaphone

Anthony Coleman: Ambiguity is a Richness

by AAJ Staff
April 2, 2005

By Anthony Coleman Tradition. Sometimes I really don't like that word. It feels so limiting, conservative. And so much current discourse revolves around it. And we've seen something many of us hoped for: “jazz", or whatever you want to call it, put on the pedestal with the other great music of the world. ...

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Article: Live From New York

April 2005

by AAJ Staff
April 2, 2005

Over the course of six nights, the “JazzItaliano in New York" festival brought seldom-seen faces to a number of New York bandstands. At Smoke (Mar. 4th), alto and soprano saxophonist Rosario Giuliani teamed with pianist Pietro Lussu, bassist Gianluca Renzi and drummer Marcello Di Leonardo and made a huge sound, playing music from 2002's Mr. Dodo ...

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Article: Album Review

Dizzy Gillespie: Salt Peanuts

Read "Salt Peanuts" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
March 31, 2005

Ted Williams could go one for four. Maria Callas wasn't always in perfect voice. Words sometimes failed Hemingway. Even legends have normal days. Salt Peanuts is a recently discovered recording of a Dizzy Gillespie concert date in Montréal in 1981 and although his playing was still strong, it frankly isn't one of his better moments.

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Article: Album Review

Joey DeFrancesco with Jimmy Smith: Legacy

Read "Legacy" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
March 31, 2005

With the passing of organ legend Jimmy Smith on February 8th, the jazz world lost a boundless innovator and a good old friend. His final recording, the appropriately titled Legacy, proves that, even in his seventies, he was still the man on the B3. He shares the bill with disciple Joey DeFrancesco, once hailed as the ...

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Article: Album Review

John Ellis: One Foot in the Swamp

Read "One Foot in the Swamp" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts
March 30, 2005

If, as the title of his new album suggests, saxophonist John Ellis has one foot in the swamp--meaning the Southern-fried funk of New Orleans, where he spent his formative musical years and recorded his new disc--his other foot is firmly planted in the more adventurous modern jazz scene of his current base here in New York. ...