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Article: Live From New York

New York's Fat Cat Jazz Club

by AAJ Staff
August 28, 2004

Shooting pool is fun. Some might consider it strange to pair a jazz club with a poolhall. But that's what happened at the Fat Cat in Greenwich Village, close to world famous Christopher Sheridan Square.Manager Mitch Borden has built a club with its own personality in the middle of a recession, and is once ...

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Article: Album Review

Steve Swallow/Ohad Talmor Sextet: L'Histoire du Clochard (The Bum's Tale)

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by Ty Cumbie
August 23, 2004

Steve Swallow's music for the new L'Histoire du Clochard is mostly soft watercolor, ranging from subtle pastels to more complex, light shades, but nothing much stronger. Writing for brass, reeds and strings, Swallow shows off his mastery of harmony here, but doesn't try to leave us with any infectious melodies. He's more interested in putting us ...

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Article: Profile

Mark Dresser

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
August 22, 2004

It started as a three-week vacation to New York City in 1975, but turned into two years. Despite his car's rear-window being smashed the first day, bassist Mark Dresser knew the city was the place for him. “There's no reason to go back to San Diego," he remembers thinking, “there's stuff happening here." ...

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Article: Profile

Sonny Rollins: Jazz Cleric

by Riel Lazarus
August 20, 2004

Sonny Rollins is his own man, plain and simple. His heart thumps to a singular beat - a tempo we all tune into occasionally with reverence and wonder. For nearly 60 years now, the tenor saxophonist has brandished a long and heavy horn - contributing to several movements in jazz; setting new standards for improvisation; relentlessly ...

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Article: Profile

Kent Carter

by Clifford Allen
August 13, 2004

There are those improvisers who find Europe both a financially more stable climate as well as an aesthetic challenge. Steve Lacy and his regular bassist for almost 20 years, Kent Carter, are a prime example. Carter, while certainly his own musician with a unique conception, is in some ways inextricably tied to Lacy, for the path ...

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Article: Live From New York

August 2004

by AAJ Staff
August 13, 2004

Tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery rushed in from an outerborough gig to lead his quintet in a CD release event at Smoke (July 8th), and had to contend with the hassle of a self-serve sound system. As a result, the first of three sets was not what it might have been, but players like trumpeter Eddie Henderson, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Pierre Favre on Intakt

by A. Henkin
August 12, 2004

One of the most important skills contributing to the longevity of an improvising musician's career is versatility. A look at several successful examples demonstrates a commitment to adaptability: Evan Parker, William Parker, Kenny Wheeler, Anthony Braxton. Two new albums by venerable Swiss drummer Pierre Favre, one an improvised duet and the other a carefully sculpted quasi-sextet ...

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Article: Interview

Frank Morgan

by Brandt Reiter
August 9, 2004

A young acolyte of Charlie Parker, the Minneapolis-born alto saxophonist Frank Morgan saw his first leader's disc, the eponymous Frank Morgan (GNP), released in 1955; three decades would pass until he cut his second. Much of the time in between--20 years, by his own estimation--was spent in prison, on various drug-related charges (unfortunately Morgan had absorbed ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Mack Avenue Records

by Elliott Simon
August 8, 2004

When artistic freedom is coupled with the synergy that can develop between “old heads and new", the best jazz can result. In that regard, no young independent label boasts a more impressive mix of big names and young Turks than Detroit-based Mack Avenue Records. Begun by drummer Stix Hooper to release newly recorded music from legendary ...

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Article: Live Review

2004 Festival of New Trumpet Music

by Steve Robinson
August 8, 2004

The 2004 Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT) will be held throughout the month at various participating Manhattan venues. As the name implies, this festival will feature new compositions and innovative musical configurations and musical settings, intended to constitute as a whole what trumpeter Roy Campbell (trumpeter, co-founder and co-curator of the festival) terms the “United ...