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Article: Extended Analysis

Mystery to Me-Live in New York

by Phil DiPietro
February 4, 2005

Janek Gwizdala roars out of 2005's gate with a debut CD that not only handily establishes him, at 26, as 2005's best new talent on electric bass but more importantly, should garner him serious consideration for the debut jazz recording of the year. Self-released, self-financed, self-produced and self-penned, there's not an element of this project that's ...

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Article: Book Review

Living with Jazz: A Reader

by Joel Roberts
February 2, 2005

Dan Morgenstern Living With Jazz, A Reader Pantheon Books 736 pages ISBN: 037542072X Living With Jazz is an apt title for this long overdue first published collection of Dan Morgenstern's writings. The veteran scribe - a former Down Beat editor, current head of Rutgers University's respected Institute of ...

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Article: New York Beat

Marlena Shaw at Jazz Au Bar

by Nick Catalano
February 1, 2005

Of all the references that reviewers use to describe jazz performances perhaps the most common is the term “swing." We are all familiar with it and yet it is one of the most difficult expressions to define precisely. Its essence involves subtle and artistic variations of established rhythms but the many techniques involved in this subtlety ...

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Article: Album Review

Eri Yamamoto Trio: Colors

Read "Colors" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
January 31, 2005

Colors , the newest offering by pianist and Arthur's Tavern regular Eri Yamamoto, is comprised primarily of striking originals, entitled with Chaplinesque brevity and marked by an eloquent use of understatement, giving Yamamoto, drummer Ikuo Takeuchi, and bassist Ben Street generous space in which they can all work effectively. The funky “Orange Juice" starts things off, ...

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Article: Album Review

Makanda Ken McIntyre: In The Wind: The Woodwind Quartets

Read "In The Wind: The Woodwind Quartets" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

by Kurt Gottschalk
January 31, 2005

In his final years, multi-reedist Makanda Ken McIntyre was fond of saying in concert that a piece was off his last album, which came out more than twenty years prior. He would laugh, but the joke pointed out how criminally underdocumented he was during his life. In June 2001, that industry oversight was finally corrected with ...

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Article: Album Review

Enrico Pieranunzi/Paul Motian: Doorways

by Ty Cumbie
January 31, 2005

Not long ago I heard the excellent pianist Russ Lossing's fine recording As It Grows with Paul Motian on drums. Now comes another excellent, very different pianist, Enrico Pieranunzi, also with Motian and a new record that recalls the glory of Jarrett's time on ECM. Doorways covers wide territory, both charted and uncharted. Pieranunzi ...

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Article: Album Review

Claudio Roditi: Three for One (341)

Read "Three for One (341)" reviewed by Rico Cleffi

by Rico Cleffi
January 31, 2005

While listening to the first track on Three for One (341) by Claudio Roditi, Klaus Ignatzek, and Jean-Louis Rassinfosse, I stopped to check the credits to find out the name of the drummer who was playing so delicately. I quickly remembered that there was no drummer, but I thought I heard some slight brushwork, anyway. And ...

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Article: Album Review

Soweto Kinch: Conversations with the Unseen

Read "Conversations with the Unseen" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
January 30, 2005

Shortly after he released the RH Factor last year, trumpeter Roy Hargrove said, “They had me figured for a jazz guy. But I have roots in hip-hop and R&B. This album is just the opening of a door." On Dec. 7th at the Jazz Gallery, British alto player/rapper Soweto Kinch opened that door a little wider. ...

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Article: Album Review

Carter/Blumenkranz/Zubek: Chinatown

by Ty Cumbie
January 30, 2005

This début recording by Chinatown, an unusual trio made up of downtown's wildly diverse music scene, finds the venerable free player Daniel Carter still doing his thing, this time with a young, unique rhythm section. Bassist Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz's playing is muscular and gutteral, and his bowing is turgidly pleasing. On this outing he also shows ...

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Article: Album Review

Alex Skolnick: Transformation

Read "Transformation" reviewed by A. Henkin

by A. Henkin
January 29, 2005

Despite his best efforts, guitarist Alex Skolnick remains a novelty in the exclusive jazz community. Why he should care though is another question, given that as a thrash metal guitarist, he probably sold more records than Miles Davis. His decision to be reborn as a jazz player has been well documented, as has his movement to ...