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Article: Album Review

Winard Harper: Come into the Light

Read "Come into the Light" reviewed by Russ Musto

by Russ Musto
July 25, 2004

Come into the Light is Winard Harper's first live recording as a leader and the disc captures all the excitement and diversity the drummer's band delivers in its regular engagements. Recorded live at Cecil's Place (the Jersey club opened by drummer/producer Cecil Brooks III), the date features Harper's regular band of talented players, none of whom ...

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Devorah Day/Dominic Duval: Standard

by Florence Wetzel
July 25, 2004

If you think nothing new is happening in the world of jazz vocalists, it's time to listen to Devorah Day. Her 2003 debut, Light of Day (Abaton Book Company), was a revelation, and now she follows up with the equally strong Standard. Day is gifted with a one-of-a-kind voice: her range is astounding, and her phrasing ...

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Dave Burrell Full Blown Trio: Expansion

Read "Expansion" reviewed by Clifford Allen

by Clifford Allen
July 25, 2004

It is interesting and somewhat surprising that, for Dave Burrell's second recording for a U.S. label (in almost 40 years) that he returns to the piano trio format. High , recorded in 1966 for Douglas Records (and reissued by Arista) featured Burrell, bassist Sirone and either Bobby Kapp or Sunny Murray in the percussion chair. To ...

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Howard Alden/Bucky Pizzarelli: In a Mellow Tone

Read "In a Mellow Tone" reviewed by Mitchell Seidel

by Mitchell Seidel
July 25, 2004

Good taste never goes out of style and knows no demographic, as this delicate album by two masters of the seven-string demonstrates. The 45-year old Alden and the 77-year old Pizzarelli may be a generation apart, but they are certainly cut from the same cloth. A great example of how their comping and strumming styles mesh ...

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Mongezi Feza: Free Jam

by A. Henkin
July 25, 2004

When South African trumpeter Mongezi Feza passed away in 1975 at age thirty, a mere eleven years after leaving the oppressive regime of his native country, jazz lost a musician who bridged the gap between Freddie Hubbard and Don Cherry. “Mongs," as he was affectionately called, was not an avant-garde player or a trad player--rather he ...

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Jimmy Smith: Prayer Meetin

Read "Prayer Meetin" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts
July 25, 2004

Jimmy Smith and the late Stanley Turrentine were one of the great organ-sax combos, collaborating on a series of albums for Blue Note in the early '60s that helped define the genre of soul jazz. The last of those efforts was 1963's Prayer Meetin' , made at the end of a flurry of recording activity by ...

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Keez Hazevoet: Pleasure

by A. Henkin
July 25, 2004

Pianist Keez Hazevoet is the Marzette Watts of Holland. The key behind this ridiculous statement is what propels Atavistic's Unheard Music Series (UMS). Knowing that many key documents of avant-garde jazz are unknown to the folks who would most like to hear them, the people in charge of the UMS have seen fit to reissue choice ...

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Klez Dispensers: New Jersey Freylekhs

Read "New Jersey Freylekhs" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
July 25, 2004

With their exuberance, musicianship and ability to have any audience get up and dance, The Klez Dispensers have become the house band for klezmer's newest wave. New Jersey Freylekhs draws inspiration from the experimental jazz/Jewish interchanges of the late '50s where bop added to klezmer's established relationship with swing. It is obvious throughout that the Dispensers ...

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Article: Profile

Steve Lacy: 1934-2004

by AAJ Staff
July 24, 2004

It was some time in 1956 playing with my college Dixieland band when our regular reed man could not make a gig. We were intrigued by what we heard about a rising new star on the New York jazz scene. Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy was gaining a reputation for playing the old music in a more ...

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Sonny Simmons

by Clifford Allen
July 24, 2004

Alto saxophonist Sonny Simmons was born on Sicily Island, Louisiana. At a young age, he moved to Oakland, California with his family, bringing the budding musician into contact with touring musicians like Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker as well as local modernists. By the early '60s, Sonny had moved to LA to record and work with ...