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Article: Album Review

Gary Bartz Ntu Troop: Harlem Bush Music

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by AAJ Staff
December 29, 2004

Recordings like Gary Bartz' Harlem Bush Music are often lost to time and neglect. Because it addresses heady social issues (racism and war in this case), it is not an album for sipping wine or for just “chillin'." Just there, plenty of sales are lost to hipsters and trendsetters. Excluding this fickle crowd, though, it is ...

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Article: Year in Review

Best of 2004

by AAJ Staff
December 28, 2004

Winding down a memorable 2004, we at AAJ:NY would like to share some of what sticks out in our ears and minds from this past year in jazz. Not easy being an indie... The predominance and growth of independent labels continues. Kudos to the small in budget but immense in quality labels ...

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Steven Bernstein: Diaspora Hollywood

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by Celeste Sunderland
December 22, 2004

Picture a couple of Jewish grandpas sitting around cracking jokes. Now imagine a Hollywood starlet from the '50s sauntering into a dimly lit club and you've got Diaspora Hollywood , the third installment of trumpet player Steven Bernstein's Diaspora series on John Zorn's Tzadik label. An ode to pioneering geniuses like Franz Waxman and Max Steiner, ...

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Article: Album Review

Jeff "Tain" Watts: Detained at the Blue Note

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by Russ Musto
December 22, 2004

On Detained at the Blue Note , Jeff “Tain" Watts' first live outing as a leader, the effusive drummer lets loose with one of the most unrestrained performances he's ever released. Watts' uninhibited style of drumming is best heard in the intimate club setting in which this disc was recorded. The outgoing Tain is inspired by ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Steps to the Desert & Midrash Mish Mosh

by Elliott Simon
December 19, 2004

In Swing Era NYC, drummer Shelly Manne's sense of time and melody gained sufficient notice that when bop arrived, he played with both Dizzy and Bird. Stints with the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton bands provided national exposure and in the '50s he took these influences to California and became a linchpin in the new West ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Tzadik's 50th Birthday Celebration Vol. 2 & 7

by Kurt Gottschalk
December 18, 2004

The avant-savvy marketing of Tzadik came to a head with the 10th anniversary of Masada coming on the 50th birthday of the band's leader (the band premiered as the Thieves Quartet during John Zorn's 40th birthday monthlong love-in at the old Knitting Factory). Special series of CDs have marked each anniversary, all coming to a head ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Kevin Norton: Time-Space Modulator & No Definitive

by Kurt Gottschalk
December 18, 2004

Vanity labels and the digital age have perhaps resulted in an effluvia of recordings that will likely be enjoyed by fans in the single digits at best, but on occasion the DIY ethos in jazz allows documentation of remarkable work by artists who might otherwise be forever relegated to sideman status. Kevin Norton ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Django Reinhardt 1933-1952

by Ty Cumbie
December 18, 2004

Django Reinhardt Django Reinhardt 1933-1952 BD Jazz 2004 On “Blues Clair," a terrific up-tempo piece I'd not heard before the welcome arrival of this 2-CD set, Django Reinhardt delivers one of the greatest solos you'll hear on any instrument, in any style of music. Right away we hear all the ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Klaus Suonsaari: Portrait in Sound & Offering

by Jeff Stockton
December 18, 2004

Klaus Suonsaari Portrait in Sound Focus Records 2003 Portrait in Sound is a brilliantly programmed hour of music that builds on the foundation of the bluesy sax-and-drum swing of “Semblance," winds its way through fairly straight-ahead quartet workouts such as the piano-driven “Whack!" and the soprano-led “Offering" and dabbles in ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Lee Konitz Past and Present

by Jeff Stockton
December 18, 2004

You'd think that by now the influence and relevance of someone present at the Birth of the Cool might be frozen in time, but for Lee Konitz, after sixty years of alto innovation and excellence, reissues, first-time releases and new projects continue to appear at a steady clip. Lee Konitz Peacemeal Milestone ...