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Article: From Far and Wide

Remembering Jazz at the Brooklyn Paramount

by AAJ Staff
October 26, 2004

You get a few clues as soon as you enter the building. A glimpse of marble here, a bit of Baroque grillwork there, let you know you're not just in some run-of-the-mill, multi-purpose university hall. Duck through the doorway to the right and the cavernous student cafeteria, with its grand staircase, wrought iron Juliet balconies, huge ...

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Article: Album Review

Sean Jones: Eternal Journey

Read "Eternal Journey" reviewed by Russ Musto

by Russ Musto
October 25, 2004

Sean Jones is the new horn in town. The 25-year-old trumpeter makes his debut as a leader on Eternal Journey, and he's obviously already well on his way to becoming an important voice on his instrument. For his first album he has surrounded himself with a group of highly skilled compatible musicians who complement and inspire ...

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Article: Album Review

Ted Sirota: Breeding Resistance

Read "Breeding Resistance" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
October 25, 2004

From Billie Holiday's “Strange Fruit" to Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, jazz has played its part in the all too frequent struggles against oppression and despotism. Drummer Ted Sirota, with his band Rebel Souls, has written another page in this long and rich tradition of protest music with Breeding Resistance , designed to raise awareness of ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Jimmy Amadie: In a Trio Setting & Live at Red Rocks

by AAJ Staff
October 25, 2004

By Stephen McGrath Jimmy Amadie In a Trio Setting: A Tribute to Frank Sinatra TP Recordings 2002 Mr. Amadie has accomplished what some might call his “impossible dream." Once a promising pianist, Amadie was struck with severe tendonitis early in his professional career. Not to say Mr. Amadie didn't have ...

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Article: Profile

Clark Terry: Having Fun

by Mitchell Seidel
October 25, 2004

At a time in life when most musicians would be cutting back and enjoying elder statesman status, there seems to be no stopping trumpet and flugelhorn giant Clark Terry. He helped celebrate the Newport Jazz Festival's 50th anniversary in August, and followed that up last month with a week at the Blue Note in New York ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Ken Vandermark: Radiale, Gambit, and Elements of Style, Exercises in Surprise

by Jeff Stockton
October 23, 2004

Ken Vandermark continues to issue recordings at a wildly prolific rate, yet for all the similarities, each one of his projects offers something different. And while charting the genealogy of his collaborative relationships can be like figuring out who is brother to whom on a soap opera, the crucial member of the two trios under consideration ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Happy Birthday Newport: 50 Swinging Years

by Ken Franckling
October 23, 2004

Various Artists Happy Birthday Newport: 50 Swinging Years Columbia Legacy 2004 Other than going one more time, what better way to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of America's oldest continuing and best known jazz festival than by listening to 27 of its finest and most unusual moments? Festival ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Sonore; Ken Vandermark; The Thing

by A. Henkin
October 23, 2004

Sonore No One Ever Works Alone Okka Disk 2004 When the saxophone trio Sonore played Tonic last month, the moods evoked included a honky-tonk blues bar, a foggy Holmes-ian London complete with murdered prostitute and a pit filled with the screaming damned souls of hell. Their album, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

John Swana: On Target & New York-Philly Junction

by C. Andrew Hovan
October 20, 2004

It seems like a lot of up and coming trumpeters these days go for the bop stylings of Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw as their main influence. Far fewer look to players like Art Farmer or Kenny Wheeler for inspiration. That's what has made watching the development of Philadelphia trumpet man John Swana so fascinating over ...

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Article: Album Review

Bill Charlap: Somewhere: The Songs Of Leonard Bernstein

Read "Somewhere: The Songs Of Leonard Bernstein" reviewed by Celeste Sunderland

by Celeste Sunderland
October 20, 2004

This month Brooke Shields steps into the starring role of Broadway's Tony-Award winning Wonderful Town revival; 25 of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic are available on DVD; and radio listeners will have the pleasure of hearing an eleven-part documentary on the maestro's life and career, narrated by Susan Sarandon. Fourteen years ...