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Article: Interview

Barre Phillips

by A. Henkin
May 12, 2004

Last year AllAboutJazz-New York had the chance to sit down with groundbreaking bassist Barre Phillips and discuss his myriad accomplishments in improvised music. This year, Vision Festival attendees will have the rare opportunity to see him in action. All About Jazz: You grew up in San Francisco and had a background in classical ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

Vision of the musicWitness

by AAJ Staff
May 9, 2004

Visual artist Jeff Schlanger has helped document some of jazz and improvisational music's most memorable moments of clarity ever since his music Witness® (mW®) project first took shape in 1975.Schlanger first got the “drawing bug" back in the mid to late '50s. He attended concerts by Sonny Rollins, Dizzy, Miles and Coltrane in Philadelphia ...

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Article: Live From New York

May 2004

by AAJ Staff
May 9, 2004

For a guitarist who keeps a fairly low profile, Rory Stuart drew a truly impressive crowd at Cornelia Street Café (April 10th). Stuart, who has taught at the New School since 1992, displayed a rare purity of tone and a smart compositional sense during an engaging and often heated set -- the heat coming mainly from ...

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Article: Profile

Jackie McLean: Destination Out

by Clifford Allen
May 7, 2004

Plagued as we are by historicism, it is not always easy to really hear the music of Charlie Parker as it was played in the clubs or even in studio rehearsals. In some ways, the importance of the artist is more through students and followers than in the firsthand practice of that artist: painter Hans Hofmann ...

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Article: Profile

Billy Bang

by Elliott Simon
May 7, 2004

Thirty years ago, violinist Billy Bang began to redefine his instrument?s place in jazz history. A singular voice, he soon joined that handful of individuals who have inventively adapted the violin?s timbre and super soprano range to demanding improvisational music. As such, it is easy to draw a straight evolutionary line from jazz pioneer Stuff Smith ...

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Article: Profile

Ben Dixon

by Russ Musto
May 6, 2004

Back in the ‘60s Ben Dixon was one of the busiest musicians on the soul jazz scene as house drummer in the legendary Blue Note Records’ rhythm section, with Big John Patton and Grant Green, that recorded with many of the decade’s funkiest players. Dixon performed on dozens of sessions led by the organist and guitarist ...

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Article: Megaphone

Giacomo Gates: The Five Spot - Zen and Now

by AAJ Staff
May 5, 2004

Submitted on behalf of Giacomo Gates On Sunday afternoon, February 8th, 2004, I did a performance at Wesleyan University, where I am part of the private lesson faculty. The gig was held at Russell House, a beautiful old mansion converted to performance spaces and Philosophy department offices. There was standing room only, with ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

SteepleChase Records

by Riel Lazarus
May 4, 2004

It seems that at the core of all independent jazz record labels, one finds an avid enthusiast aspiring, reaching, clinging at the opportunity to give back a small slice of the music they hold so dear. More often than not, the challenges prove too great for the individual to transcend, and the label folds. But sometimes--with ...

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Article: New York Beat

Spring CD Sampler

by Nick Catalano
May 3, 2004

Each month it seems to get worse... The piles of new CD’s on my shelf grow bigger and bigger and, each month it becomes more and more impossible to make a dent in the pile for even cursory listening not to mention writing reviews. I hesitate to complain because jazz fans everywhere keep reminding me how ...

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Article: Interview

Dave Liebman

by AAJ Staff
April 19, 2004

By Mitchell Seidel An accomplished performer and educator, saxophonist David Liebman is a man who can talk as passionately about music as he plays it. An avid follower of John Coltrane, he heard the saxophonist live while still a teenager in New York. Liebman went to perform with the likes of Elvin Jones, ...