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Bill Frisell's Big Ocean

by Celeste Sunderland
September 14, 2004

Sometimes music creates such an intense atmosphere that it begins to control the listener's breathing. The pulse connects to the tempo. Touch becomes intensely sensual, while the mind drifts to otherworldly realms. When Bill Frisell plays his guitar every wavering, undulating, sustaining note hangs in the air until the room fills with an invisible, dreamlike fog, ...

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Article: Live Review

Caramoor Jazz Festival

by David Adler
September 10, 2004

On the second Saturday of this year's Caramoor Jazz Festival (an hour north of the Apple), Sheila Jordan sang “Autumn in New York". That's how it felt, though it was early August. Enjoying the cool breeze, and Jordan's outsized personality, was one of Caramoor's main highlights. Pianist Steve Kuhn, with Cameron Brown on bass and Billy ...

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Trombonist Steve Swell

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
September 7, 2004

Forks in the road. Eternal moments harbor choices consciously made or Decisions instinctively followed. These lines, the opening stanza to trombonist Steve Swell's poem “Transitions", distill the essence of his professional career. In three decades, Swell has traveled many roads and been faced with many decisions. From his early days in “show ...

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Article: Book Review

Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela

by Joel Roberts
September 5, 2004

Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela By Hugh Masekela and Michael CheersCrown Publishers 2004 Subtitled the “The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela," this powerful autobiography of the veteran jazz/ world music trumpeter is much, much more: it's the story of a man's--and a nation's--journey through tragedy, turmoil and ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

Re: Sonny Simmons

by AAJ Staff
September 5, 2004

For too long I have read Sonny Simmons' disingenuous remarks (see interview ) about the labels that go to bat for him and offer an uncompromised canvas for his artistry. In July, he refers to his current labels as “little outhouse labels with no distribution in Europe." I am familiar with those labels (i.e. since 2002: ...

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Sir Charles Thompson

by Mitchell Seidel
September 3, 2004

The world of jazz is filled with royalty. Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman and Benny Carter were all dubbed “King" at one point or another, of jazz, swing and just plain, respectively. Ellington was Duke, Hines was an Earl and Basie held two titles, that of Count and King. When he was barely out of his teens, ...

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Article: Live From New York

September 2004

by AAJ Staff
September 3, 2004

After three years (on and off) of obscure gigs in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Big Band (BBB), co-led by alto saxophonist Craig Bailey and tenor man Tim Armacost, had its long-awaited Manhattan debut at Sweet Rhythm (Aug. 2nd). The band struck a balance between tight and loose, beginning with an off-the-cuff “Take the Coltrane" and ending with ...

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Article: Live Review

Newport at 50: A Golden Weekend

by Ken Franckling
September 3, 2004

Festival Productions Inc. knew how to throw a party Aug. 11-15 for the 50th anniversary of one of the great events in jazz. It was unfortunate that the host, founding producer George Wein, couldn't be present for most of it. Everywhere you turned, there was great music by high-caliber jazz artists at the 2004 edition of ...

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Article: Megaphone

Ken Peplowski: Taking Back Music

by AAJ Staff
September 2, 2004

Ken Peplowski We live in a time where virtually everything is available to everyone (anytime) at the touch of a fingertip. Because the computer age has revolutionized the speed at which we both process information and produce information, there are a significantly greater number of choices available to the “entertainment consumer". Along with ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Winter & Winter

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
September 2, 2004

Even as critics, and some musicians, continue to debate what is and isn't jazz, visionary artists defy the static definitions that categorize music, blurring the boundaries between composed and improvised, classical and jazz, and traditional and contemporary. The Winter & Winter (W&W) label reflects this aesthetic, and since its inception in 1997, has given voice to ...