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Article: Album Review

Dexter Gordon: Bopland

Read "Bopland" reviewed by Ken Franckling

by Ken Franckling
February 20, 2005

Despite its mixed sonic quality, Bopland is a historic three-CD treasure. It contains as much as could be gleaned from surviving acetates of a July 6, 1947 jazz summit featuring some of the West Coast's finest emerging musicians at the time. It was a mere two to three years after Charlie Parker and his collaborators began ...

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Article: Album Review

Claire Daly: Heaven Help Us All

Read "Heaven Help Us All" reviewed by Ken Franckling

by Ken Franckling
February 20, 2005

An artist's mood as he or she goes into the studio can shape the music in ways usually not shared with listeners. Rarely do we get to know what's going on in the mind or heart. But Daly lays it all out there on her newest recording with her quartet Solar and guests Warren Smith, Kirpal ...

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Article: Album Review

NOJO with Sam Rivers: City of Neighbourhoods

Read "City of Neighbourhoods" reviewed by Brandt Reiter

by Brandt Reiter
February 17, 2005

Led by pianist-tubaist Paul Neufeld and guitarist-conductor Michael Occhipinti, the Toronto-based Neufeld/Occhipinti Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) has been wowing audiences up North for a decade now, but has received scant attention here in the States. City of Neighbourhoods , the group's fourth recording and its first to get an American release, ought to change that. The ensemble, ...

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Article: Book Review

Jazz Expose: The New York Jazz Museum and the Power Struggle That Destroyed It

by David Rickert
February 17, 2005

Howard E. Fischer Jazz Expose: The New York Jazz Museum and the Power Struggle That Destroyed It Sundog Ltd. ISBN: 1-932203-87-7 134 pages In 2002 Congress provided one million dollars for the development of a jazz museum in Harlem. What many people may not recall is ...

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Article: Profile

Henry Threadgill Makes A Move

by Kurt Gottschalk
February 14, 2005

Henry Threadgill isn't hesitant to state his place in music. He has, he said quite plainly, “changed music both horizontally and vertically." His work isn't “strident," he said. “It doesn't strike you. You might think you know what's going on, but try to analyze it." And he states it, perhaps, ...

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Article: Profile

Edgar Bateman Jr.

by Andrew Rowan
February 13, 2005

Drummer Edgar Bateman Jr. has been around music his entire life. An aunt played piano, her husband played trumpet in jazz bands, and, ironically, his sister introduced him to the drums. Because of a childhood illness (rheumatic fever and an enlarged heart), he was not allowed strenuous activity. But his sister was in the drum corps, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Love Songs: Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne & Nina Simone

by Andrew Rowan
February 12, 2005

Many jazz purists shy away from collections, opting for the artists' original CDs. But collections have their purpose. My first vocal jazz recording was on Columbia Records: Billie, Ella, Lena, Sarah. It led to my lifelong affection for jazz singers. These Love Songs collections present three of the most distinctive American singers of ...

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Article: Film Review

Derek Bailey: Playing For Friends on 5th Street

by A. Henkin
February 11, 2005

Derek Bailey Playing For Friends on 5th Street Straw2Gold Pictures 2004 This DVD is dedicated to the late Irving Stone and his wife Stephanie, once ubiquitous at NYC avant-garde concerts. Sadly, it can also be considered a dedication to Bailey himself, now retired due to ill health. But is also ...

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Article: Interview

Lou Grassi: Joining Two Worlds

by Rico Cleffi
February 11, 2005

Drummer Lou Grassi has appeared on over two dozen sessions in addition to serving up over a half dozen of his own CDs, many at the helm of his Po Band group which has featured such special guests as Sun Ra Arkestra saxophonist and bandleader Marshall Allen, the legendary Danish saxophonist John Tchicai and Art Ensemble ...

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Article: Profile

Matt Wilson: Connecting with the People

by Celeste Sunderland
February 10, 2005

Two sticks beat incessantly on a snare and a tom while a third rests snuggly in Matt Wilson's armpit. Poised on his steed of a stool, arched foot tapping methodically on the high-hat pedal, the bespectacled, mock turtleneck wearing, just-turned-forty-year-old resembles a Revolutionary War hero. In reality he's a New York jazz musician on stage at ...