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Sonny Fortune: Continuum

by A. Henkin
October 5, 2004

For those that only know Sonny Fortune through his work with the Three Altos or his duo with Rashied Ali, his new self-released album Continuum will present a very different musician. The aforementioned groups feature Fortune solely on alto and as a firebreather playing on standards. Not that there is anything wrong with that (a set ...

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Larry Ochs/Jean Jeanrenaud/Miya Masaoka: Fly Fly Fly

Read "Fly Fly Fly" reviewed by Clifford Allen

by Clifford Allen
October 5, 2004

Culled from the ranks of the Rova Saxophone Quartet, the Kronos Quartet and the ever-increasing pool of improvising koto players, the trio of tenor saxophonist Larry Ochs, cellist Joan Jeanrenaud and kotoist Miya Masaoka is a formidable ensemble in the annals of creative “chamber" music. The group's formation was, in fact, a natural progression of Maybe ...

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Bill McHenry: Bill McHenry Quartet Featuring Paul Motian

Read "Bill McHenry Quartet Featuring Paul Motian" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel
October 5, 2004

Saxophonist Bill McHenry's latest CD is a successful meeting of three of jazz's finest younger talents with one of the music's most venerated players. McHenry, who produced the CD and composed all nine selections, has a beautiful tone, strong and clear with an open freshness. He has a fluent sense of melody, but he can also ...

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Donald Harrison: Heroes

by Jeff Stockton
October 5, 2004

Ron Carter, one of altoist Donald Harrison's heroes and the primary bassist on this recording, makes the point that Harrison comes from New Orleans, but doesn't insist that he does. Harrison approaches his tradition with a pure heart, and from his apprenticeship with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in the mid '80s through his own ...

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David Sanchez: Coral

by Joel Roberts
October 5, 2004

If he's not already there, David Sanchez's new album should secure the Puerto Rican-born tenor saxophonist's place among the very top younger jazz artists working today. Blending bebop, Latin and classical elements, Coral is the most ambitious, mature, genre-stretching musical statement of the 35-year-old's already noteworthy career. Recorded in the Czech Republic with the ...

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Frank Gratkowski Quartet: Facio

Read "Facio" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
October 4, 2004

Veteran German saxophonist/multi-clarinetist Frank Gratkowski's latest offering, Facio , is an ambitious nine-part suite covering a swath of musical territory--from composed ensemble sections to free improvisation, delicate whispers to ferocious sonic assaults. But the different facets are skillfully joined together--the composition offers a hint of structure to the improvisations and the free playing adds spontaneity to ...

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Malachi Thompson & Africa Brass: Blue Jazz

Read "Blue Jazz" reviewed by Jeff Stockton

by Jeff Stockton
October 4, 2004

Malachi Thompson's Africa Brass project embodies all the variety and complexity of his Chicago home base: the urban experience of African Americans transplanted from the rural south; the blending of blues and jazz as musicians stepped out of juke joints and onto the stages of supper clubs; the respect for tradition tempered by the desire for ...

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Ray Brown: Walk On

Read "Walk On" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
October 4, 2004

Ray Brown (1926-2002) played the bass the same way he lived: with style, a peerless vivacity and a boundless generosity of spirit. Unlike most bass players, when Brown was at the helm the listener always had the sense of his being a true leader, not merely a timekeeper and occasional soloist. The final testament to his ...

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Mark Murphy: Bop for Miles

Read "Bop for Miles" reviewed by Andrew Rowan

by Andrew Rowan
October 4, 2004

Simply put, Mark Murphy is one of the great jazz singers. His musical gifts remain prodigious, his depth of expression a model for all who practice this art, his recordings reside in the treasure trove of vocal jazz. On his current recording, Bop for Miles , Murphy is in top form, ebullient and able ...

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Eric Wyatt: The Blueprint: Family Business

by Andrew Rowan
October 4, 2004

Boasting a mixture of some of the best young players around, many from the burgeoning Brooklyn jazz scene and mixing in veteran alto saxophonist master James Spaulding, Eric Wyatt has fashioned a sprawling, energetic, raw-boned recording, at times bringing to mind the cooking era of Blue Note Records. Wyatt, a big-toned tenor saxophonist who ...