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Article: Interview

Don Friedman

by A. Henkin
March 14, 2005

Pianist Don Friedman's sessionography reads like a jazz encyclopedia. A favorite choice on the keys for his tasteful yet progressive playing, he has played with luminaries from Booker Little to Jimmy Giuffre to Clark Terry. Friedman now leads a piano trio and we spoke with him after a successful engagement at the Kitano in February.

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Article: Film Review

Nothing But A Man

by AAJ Staff
March 13, 2005

Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln Nothing But a Man New Video Group 1964/2005 Beautifully shot in crisp black and white with especially excellent close-ups (thanks to co-producer/ co-writer/and cinematographer Robert Young), this 40-year old classic stars the young beautiful Abbey Lincoln (wigged over her black nationalist Afro of the time) as ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

Italian Jazz in New York

by AAJ Staff
March 11, 2005

This month past, present and future generations of Italian jazz will parade throughout Manhattan. Besides having some of the most famous jazz festivals such as Umbria, Pescara, Roccella, and Rome's Villa Celimontana -many Italian towns and cities host smaller jazz festivals and celebrate the music in coffee houses and pubs, a phenomenon of only the past ...

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Article: Profile

Nathan Davis

by Russ Musto
March 11, 2005

Nathan Davis remembers it like it was yesterday. Sitting in his office at the University of Pittsburgh in the '70s reading a Downbeat magazine. “It said, 'Dexter Gordon returned back, Woody Shaw returned back to great ovations. What ever happened to Nathan Davis?' And boy, a big tear came to my eye, he recalls laughing. “Because ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

Guernsey's Jazz Auction

by A. Henkin
March 11, 2005

Much has been made in the popular press of the once-in-a-lifetimeness of this auction. More coverage was given to the event, held Sunday, Feb. 20th at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater, than jazz usually gets in a year. The son of Thelonious Monk, T.S., made the opening remarks and spoke optimistically about history and what ...

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Article: Interview

James Moody: Timeless

by Terrell Kent Holmes
March 10, 2005

In this era of disposable culture and accepted mediocrity, it's gratifying to applaud the life and accomplishments of someone who has managed to transcend evanescence. James Moody, sax master and flutist, one of America's most enduring and beloved musicians, turns 80 this month. Born in Savannah, GA, Moody started with the alto sax but fell in ...

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Article: Profile

Joe Fonda: Forever Real

by Robert Iannapollo
March 9, 2005

Talk to bassist Joe Fonda for even a short time and you get caught in the whirlwind. Conversation flows easily from one topic to another: from Anthony Braxton to Duke Ellington to Marvin Gaye or from Paul Wolfowitz to the best wine that goes with salmon. Fonda's one of those incessantly curious people who seems to ...

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Article: Book Review

Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

by Joel Roberts
March 9, 2005

Ray Charles and David Ritz Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story Da Capo ISBN: 0306814315 2005 If the widely heralded and Oscar-nominated biopic Ray wrapped Ray Charles' extraordinary life in somewhat too neat a Hollywood package, Charles' newly reissued 1978 autobiography pulls no such punches. It's a raw, ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Justin Time Records

by Riel Lazarus
March 8, 2005

Over 20 years ago, Justin Time Records built a comfortable home for itself on what is commonly considered to be shaky ground. Not only was the label one of dozens fighting for a slice of jazz' dwindling market share, but it was also Canadian. To some it was a recipe for disaster, but for this band ...

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Article: Megaphone

Cooper-Moore: A Journey on the Road

by AAJ Staff
March 8, 2005

By Cooper-Moore Confucius said, “To learn and to practice what is learned is pleasure, is it not? To have friends come from afar is happiness, is it not? To be unperturbed when not appreciated by others is gentlemanly, is it not?" My 58th birthday, 4 am on a Sunday morning and ...