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John Abercrombie: Timeless

by AAJ Staff
July 17, 2004

By Bill Milkowski Over the past 30 years, since the 1974 recording of Timeless , his groundbreaking debut for the ECM label, John Abercrombie has remained one of the most genuinely original guitar voices of his generation (which would include such heavyweight colleagues as John Scofield, Bill Frisell, Mike Stern and Pat Metheny). ...

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Frank Kimbrough and Ben Allison

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
July 11, 2004

Frank Kimbrough Lullabluebye Palmetto 2004 For more than ten years, pianist Frank Kimbrough and bassist Ben Allison have collaborated on numerous projects of the Jazz Composers Collective and their own. Despite their frequent appearances together, the two have different approaches as composers and leaders. On Lullabluebye, Kimbrough explores the classic ...

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Maneri Times Two

by Kurt Gottschalk
July 11, 2004

Mat Maneri For Consequence Leo 2004 Violinist and violist Mat Maneri has done much to put the small strings out front, with perhaps mixed but nevertheless assured results. He's run the emotive range from meditating monk to overamplified rock star, and on two recent dates-one with a trio and one ...

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The Bad Plus and Good For Cows

by Terrell Kent Holmes
July 11, 2004

The Bad Plus Give Sony-Columbia 2004 The Bad Plus, jazz's ground breaking trio, have followed up their acclaimed release These Are the Vistas with Give , a disc that reaffirms the band's intentions to do nothing conventional, and to shift the music's landscape. The format of the disc is similar: ...

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Bassists Together

by A. Henkin
July 11, 2004

Phillips/Léandre/Parker/Saitoh After You Gone Victo 2004 In May 2002, German bassist Peter Kowald played a remarkable duet with William Parker at the Victo Festival in Canada. Sadly, Kowald would pass away a short four months later; posthumously, a slew of new recordings with or for him have been released. One ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

Lukas Ligeti's Free Zone Series

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
July 11, 2004

There can never be enough venues for creative, improvised music. And there aren't any clubs on the upper west side serving this music and catering to the potential interest of Columbia students and the resurgence of Harlem.Enter the Free Zone Series: a weekly concert program curated by drummer/composer Lukas Ligeti and guitarist/promoter/designer Ty Cumbie. ...

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Mario Escalera Times Two

by Elliott Simon
July 11, 2004

Mario Escalera Ballads Blues and Boleros Vol 1 Phoenix Two very different discs from Mario Escalera highlight the breadth of his compositional skills and the inherent soulfulness of his playing regardless of format. From this tenor man who doubles on flute, Ballads, Boleros and Blues Vol 1, is a 1990 live date ...

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Pete Malinverni

by Mitchell Seidel
July 10, 2004

Pete Malinverni readily admits that when he was six years old, the thought of taking piano lessons “was a cool idea." “But it wasn't that long after that that I started to kind of battle my folks, unfortunately. But they prevailed, and, of course, I'm thankful," he added. “I guess I showed a ...

Article: Book Review

The New York Times Essential Library--Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings

by Colin Fleming
July 10, 2004

Jazz, like several twentieth century art forms, has for decades seemed to gain acceptance as a scholarly concern in part because of a number of renowned writers and critics heralding something that was once, remarkably, regarded as vulgar, base entertainment for the base masses, and now deemed America's indigenous artistic progeny. As with James Agee and ...

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Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville (FIMAV) 2004

by AAJ Staff
July 9, 2004

Driving up to Victoriaville (located 100 miles northwest of Montreal) with several other “respectable journalists", an approximate eight hour road trip from Manhattan to the Quebec city, I was introduced to an oasis and forum for unfettered improvisational music that annually visits this small town. It is known as the Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville (FIMAV). ...