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Article: Album Review

Bobby Matos: Made by Hand

Read "Made by Hand" reviewed by Russ Musto

by Russ Musto
October 20, 2004

Transplanted New York timbalero Bobby Matos brings his hot New York style salsa to his adopted home state of California on Made By Hand , a live '03 Pasadena concert recording by his Afro Latin Jazz All Stars, a group of fine players who are relatively unknown to listeners here in New York. Matos, who is ...

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David Murray: Gwotet

by Russ Musto
October 20, 2004

David Murray has recorded more albums in a greater variety of settings than any musician of his generation, and he has done so with consistently astounding success. On this ambitious date the outstanding saxophonist displays his remarkable range in the company of Gwo-Ka master drummer/vocalists Francois Ladrezau and Klod Kiavue, guitarists Herve Sambe and Christian Laviso, ...

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Charnett Moffett: For the Love of Peace

Read "For the Love of Peace" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
October 19, 2004

Bassist extraordinaire Charnett Moffett has mined all his musical and familial influences in his latest release, For the Love of Peace, which enjoyed an official and successful CD release event at Jazz Standard a few months back. Joining him on the disc is the Moffett Family Band featuring brothers Codaryl Cody Moffett (drums/percussion) and Mondre Moffett ...

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Article: Interview

Marshall Allen's Muse

by Clifford Allen
October 18, 2004

Born May 25, 1924 in Louisville, KY, alto saxophonist Marshall Allen has been as much an institution of the Arkestra as Sun Ra himself. Joining the band in 1958 in Chicago, Allen became part of the most important saxophone section since Ellington's--for along with John Gilmore and Pat Patrick, Allen and the Arkestra offered an entirely ...

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Maria Schneider: Concert in the Garden

Read "Concert in the Garden" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
October 16, 2004

Lush harmonies evoking a sense of romance and dynamic rhythms alluding to dance abound on composer/arranger Maria Schneider's Concert in the Garden. She assuredly guides her 17-piece band through cinematic compositions that would feel at home in a Golden Age Hollywood epic. Schneider is more interested in exploring the melodic, harmonic and textural possibilities the instrumentation ...

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Frank Morgan: City Nights

Read "City Nights" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel
October 15, 2004

Jazz careers are predictably unpredictable. Some musicians shine young, some are late bloomers, and others maintain a steady flame for decades. Then there's that intriguing handful who come back after years of obscurity; contemporary examples include Henry Grimes, Sonny Simmons, and alto saxophonist Frank Morgan. Born in 1930, Morgan was fortunate to be part of the ...

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Russ Lossing: As It Grows

Read "As It Grows" reviewed by Ty Cumbie

by Ty Cumbie
October 14, 2004

Spacious, articulate, and artfully composed, the material heard on Russ Lossing's As It Grows --apparently some of it improvised and some composed--is consistently musical and satisfyingly rangy. Although there's a persistent strain of finespun moodiness that isn't for seekers of the heavy groove, there's enough heart-stopping beauty on this disc to make you forget, momentarily, that ...

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Scott Hamilton and Harry Allen: Heavy Juice

Read "Heavy Juice" reviewed by Ken Franckling

by Ken Franckling
October 13, 2004

Heavy Juice has been waiting to happen for twenty years. Back then, teenager Harry Allen, still in high school, joined Scott Hamilton on stage at the Newport Jazz Festival for a cameo performance with the George Wein-led Newport All-Stars. Allen spent his formative years growing up in Rhode Island, which also claims Hamilton as a native ...

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Dave Stryker: Rides Again & Shades Beyond

by Elliott Simon
October 12, 2004

Each built around a different celebrated drummer, these follow-ups from guitarist Dave Stryker maintain his partnership with saxophonist Steve Slagle and portray two sides of this many faceted player. Trio Mundo, created to underscore the potent percussive power of Manolo Badrena, definitely Rides Again while Shades Beyond continues Stryker's personal exploration of electric Miles Davis with ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall

by Russ Musto
October 10, 2004

When Jazz at Lincoln Center opens the doors to the Frederick P. Rose Hall this month it will welcome the jazz community to an impressive state of the art facility representing the greatest commitment of resources, both human and financial, to the presentation and preservation of the art of jazz in the music's hundred-year-old history. Located ...