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Article: Multiple Reviews

Branford Marsalis: Eternal & The Steep Anthology

by Russ Musto
February 9, 2005

Taken together these two CDs chronicle Branford Marsalis' 20-year recording career as a leader, documenting his ascent as one of the most recognized artists of his generation. There is much excellent music on both discs, but because they are so fundamentally different in temperament it is very likely that many fans who are totally enthralled with ...

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Article: Album Review

Rick Parker Collective: New York Gravity

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by AAJ Staff
February 9, 2005

New York Gravity is an object lesson in how hard bop may be kept applicable to the 21st Century. There isn't a false or dishonest note on the entire album. Instead of recycling the improvisational or compositional strategies of the early 1960s, these musicians dance through a rigorous array of changing time signatures and hip chord ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

HatHut Records: Expanding Scope and Vision

by Kurt Gottschalk
February 8, 2005

Over three decades and 300 releases, HatHut has been on top of not just the changing styles in improvised music--what the label has termed “music of the future"--but innovative ways to market the fluctuating form. From the red-box LP covers to the orange-spined CD sleeves and under the rubrics hatMUSICS, hatART, hatOLOGY, hat[now]ART and hatNOIR, Hat ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

David Murray: Circles Live in Cracow & We Is

by Kurt Gottschalk
February 8, 2005

In the years since his exile to Paris, David Murray has positioned himself as a champion of jazz history and music of the African diaspora, a sort of Wynton Marsalis of the avant-garde. His projects - from arranging John Coltrane and Duke Ellington to working with musicians from Cuba and Guadaloupe - have been professional and ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Vinny Golia: Birdology & On The Cusp Of Fire And Water

by Clifford Allen
February 8, 2005

Reedman Vinny Golia is to the Los Angeles new music scene today what clarinetist John Carter was in the 30 years following Ornette's West Coast debut. Golia was co-conspirator in one of the most invigorating and versatile reeds-bass-percussion trios on the modern music map, with bassist Roberto Miguel Miranda and California “Sun Percussionist"? Alex Cline. He ...

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Article: Live From New York

February 2005

by AAJ Staff
February 7, 2005

To a sold-out house at the 55 Bar (Jan. 7th), tenorist Chris Potter showcased his new band Underground, featuring Craig Taborn on Rhodes, Nate Smith on drums and, in a rare sideman role, Wayne Krantz on guitar. In this room, where Krantz is a weekly draw, Potter's music seemed decidedly Krantzian - raw and groove-oriented, harmonically ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

George Cables: Looking for the Light & Portal

by Andrew Rowan
February 6, 2005

George Cables is a personal pianist. His harmonic sense, as well as the way he touches the keyboard, the way he comps and the way he phrases, raises him above the pack of competent yet generic players. In his own words, impressed by Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, but influenced by John Coltrane and Miles Davis, ...

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Jay Leonhart & John Sheridan: Trios

by Brian P. Lonergan
February 5, 2005

Jay Leonhart Trio Cool Sons of Sound 2004 In the liner notes to his new trio album, Cool , bassist Jay Leonhart writes, “I'm afraid 'Cool' isn't nearly as laid back as the title might imply," and he's right. Rather than the style of jazz, the name refers to the ...

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New Orleans: Then and Now

by Joel Roberts
February 4, 2005

The Putumayo catalog generally focuses on the rather amorphous genre of world music, with titles like Brazilian Groove, Women of Africa and Greece: A Musical Odyssey. Two new Putumayo collections, however, cover somewhat less exotic, though no less musically fertile territory: New Orleans. The first disc is devoted to Kermit Ruffins, the trumpeter, ...

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Article: Megaphone

Anat Fort: Make It Happen

by AAJ Staff
February 4, 2005

By Anat Fort Confusing place, New York City. I may be planning on an early night (you know, going to bed around 12-1 am) when I get an email from a burning group that's playing somewhere. Soon enough, my phone rings and it's a friend, going to see this “really amazing band, you ...