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Article: Album Review

Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts: Wake Up! (To What's Happening)

Read "Wake Up! (To What's Happening)" reviewed by Ken Franckling

by Ken Franckling
October 2, 2004

"Arts & Crafts" is the perfect name for versatile drummer Matt Wilson's band for this session. For the music they make is indeed an art--and it involves much musical craft. And then there's the title of this, the band's second recording. A title like Wake Up! (To What's Happening) could lead one to guess that Wilson ...

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Article: Live From New York

October 2004

by AAJ Staff
September 30, 2004

“Blind to our faults, we're subject to love's compounded assaults!/Each failed union engraved on our mind, defines the future lovers we find/and duplicity severs the ties that bind... “ This is from the preamble to Geof Loomis' Boperetta, playing the first Tuesday of every month at the Nuyorican Poets Café. Involving seven actor/singers ...

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Article: New York Beat

Gotham's Big Bash: The New Opening of Jazz at Lincoln Center

by Nick Catalano
September 30, 2004

Perhaps the greatest gala in jazz history will occur this month with the opening of the new home for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Located in the new Time-Warner building in Columbus Circle (site of the old New York coliseum), the new jazz world capitol contains the first-ever facility specifically designed for the acoustics of jazz. The ...

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Article: Live Review

Tanglewood Jazz Festival 2004

by Ken Franckling
September 29, 2004

Tanglewood's 15th annual Labor Day jazz festival weekend opened with two distinct sides of Latin jazz that together offered a shifting balm for a mild end-of-summer evening. Brazilian pianist Eliane Elias' quartet offered the cool and warm portions of the evening, with a long set that covered her lilting approach to the American Songbook and many ...

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Article: Album Review

Joe Pass: Virtuoso in New York

Read "Virtuoso in New York" reviewed by Derek Taylor

by Derek Taylor
September 29, 2004

When it comes to bountiful vault holdings, few musicians can compare with the oeuvre established by guitarist Joe Pass. As the Pablo label's plectral staple his tape stacks rival and possibly even surpass those of Norman Granz's other resident factotum, Oscar Peterson. The steady crop of titles (one or two each year) that continue to find ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Nagel Heyer Records

by Elliott Simon
September 28, 2004

The 26th of August marked twelve years since the Nagel Heyers: Frank, Sabine and Hans, celebrated George Gershwin's birthday. They did so with a concert that featured improvisational interpretations of some of “Mr. Music's" most famous tunes. The keepsake recording of that event, with trombonist George Masso, clarinetist Ken Peplowski, tenor man Danny Moss and trumpeter ...

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Article: Album Review

Wayne Escoffery: Intuition

Read "Intuition" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
September 25, 2004

I was all prepared to dislike Intuition , the new CD from tenor man Wayne Escoffery. I do admit though that it was my own prejudices coming out. I have a problem with 29-year-old, hazel-eyed, 200-pound, 6 foot 4 sax players with 34-inch waists. I mean someone who looks like they should be posing for the ...

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Article: Album Review

Rosa Passos: Amorosa

Read "Amorosa" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
September 25, 2004

Recent projects with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and bassist Ron Carter have given Brazilian vocalist/guitarist Rosa Passos wider and much deserved recognition. With the release of Amorosa, the long time queen of Brazilian bossa nova has offered up one of the most titillating CDs of the year. Amorosa features new arrangements of songs associated with Antonio Carlos ...

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Article: Album Review

Joe Locke & 4 Walls Of Freedom: Dear Life

Read "Dear Life" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
September 25, 2004

Consider the following: A musical concept that allows for total freedom within the context of the four walls of melody, rhythm, harmony and form is brought to fruition. Each player brings to this space instrumental virtuosity, a unique timbre, and a personal sense of dynamics and coloration. The first heady energetic foray into these circumscribed confines ...

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Article: Interview

Willem Breuker

by A. Henkin
September 17, 2004

Willem Breuker's music is an experience--part circus, part orchestra, part theater. The man himself is no less complex and some of his thoughts on being a musician bely his humour and good nature. At Joe's Pub this month with his long-standing Kollektief, Breuker spoke with All About Jazz. All About Jazz: Let's start ...