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Article: New York Beat

Barbara Carroll: Vintage Wine

by Nick Catalano
December 1, 2004

There are evenings in a reviewer's life when the mind is replenished, the soul is uplifted and the blood sings. You've just witnessed an ingenious performance and can't wait to get home and write about it, even though you feel you cannot possibly capture the spirit of the evening with your feeble prose. Such an event ...

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Article: Album Review

Frank Jackson: New York After Dark

Read "New York After Dark" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
December 1, 2004

San Francisco's Frank Jackson has an impressive musical resume. At age 78, he has 60 years of musical experience as a singer/pianist. He dates back to Bay Area jazz clubs like Jimbo's Bop City and Slim Gaillard's Voute City and has been associated with some of the jazz masters of the Twentieth Century (e.g. Parker, Webster, ...

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Article: Interview

Warren Smith

by Clifford Allen
November 30, 2004

Drummer, percussionist and composer Warren Smith has arguably had one of the most varied careers of any improvising drummer, working with artists as diverse as Sam Rivers, Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, Bill Cole and Harry Partch. Though originally trained in modern classical percussion, jazz and improvised music became paramount after moving to New York in the ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Bill Mays: Going Home & On The Road Again

by Elliott Simon
November 28, 2004

Well traveled pianist Bill Mays has chosen to pay respect to the two disparate but coexisting worlds of the working musician: home and the road. For Mays and his top trio, which consists of drummer Matt Wilson and bassist Martin Wind, Going Home can mean different things while On the Road Again teams him with guitarist ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Ian Hendrickson-Smith: Smokin' at Smoke

by Elliott Simon
November 28, 2004

Live recordings tend to be from established leaders who are either stretching out previously released studio performances or making a new statement. However, the young altoist, Ian Hendrickson-Smith, has not only chosen to debut as a leader through a live recording but has also continued in this vein for his sophomore offering. A regular at NYC's ...

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Article: Album Review

Red Holloway: Coast to Coast

Read "Coast to Coast" reviewed by Andrew Rowan

by Andrew Rowan
November 27, 2004

Two-tenor groups are not new to jazz. They have been a little stream in the music's progression, from pairings like Lester Young and Herschel Evans in the seminal '30s Basie band to small groups like the popular one once led by Johnny Griffin and Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis, tenors have mixed it up on stage and, of ...

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Article: Album Review

Ellery Eskelin: Ten

Read "Ten" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
November 26, 2004

Saxophonist Ellery Eskelin's trio has always defied conventional expectations. The unusual match of his powerful, melodic tenor with the experimental accordion, piano and sampler playing of Andrea Parkins and the inimitable drumming of Jim Black is now in its tenth year. To commemorate this milestone, Eskelin surprises again on Ten by throwing out composition and inviting ...

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Article: Album Review

Judy Bady: Blackbird

Read "Blackbird" reviewed by Andrew Rowan

by Andrew Rowan
November 20, 2004

A generation ago, there were widespread lamentations that jazz singing was dying. Even legends like Betty Carter and Carmen McRae concurred. However sparse the field may have been then, it has rebounded today. In this current bumper crop of singers, how does one stand out? Enter Judy Bady, who applies her smoky alto ...

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Article: Album Review

Freddy Cole: I'm Not My Brother, I'm Me

Read "I'm Not My Brother, I'm Me" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts
November 13, 2004

Despite its unfortunate title, I'm Not My Brother, I'm Me is much more a tribute to Nat “King" Cole from younger brother Freddy Cole than a declaration of Freddy's independence. A fine singer and pianist in his own right, Freddy has spent his career in the shadow of his much better-known sibling - ...

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Article: Profile

Abdullah Ibrahim: African Magic

by A. Henkin
November 8, 2004

Much is made of jazz as the music of African-American experience, one that is sadly pockmarked with racism, prejudice and struggle. These labors give jazz legitimacy and relevance as well as an opportunity for many to say that only jazz' black practitioners are bona fide. The 10th Anniversary of free elections in South ...