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Jeremy Steig

by Celeste Sunderland
April 17, 2004

Artist/flutist Jeremy Steig colored some drawings in a cozy corner of his apartment one night last month, when he spilled a jar of ink. Not a pleasant mess, especially with Frac, Steig's gigantic cat pawing around. So the artist “banished" himself back to his drawing table covered with bamboo pens and Steig Ink (Uncle Arthur invented ...

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Hamiet Bluiett

by Clifford Allen
April 17, 2004

When one thinks of great baritone saxophonists, the list is relatively short: Harry Carney, Serge Chaloff, John Surman and Hamiet Bluiett are the names that come most quickly to mind. Compared to the vast number of tenor and alto players, or even the throngs of soprano-doublers, the baritone is a criminally underrepresented horn. Part of this ...

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Sam Rivers: High Octane Octogenarian

by Russ Musto
April 6, 2004

Sam Rivers is the jazz world’s high octane octogenarian. The energetic 81-year-old multi-instrumentalist may have left New York for Florida, but he’s far from settled and nowhere near retirement. His visionary conception of complex composition and spontaneous creation, unmistakably manifest in the imaginative music of his trio and orchestra, remains revolutionary and yet, unfortunately, largely underestimated ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Omnitone Records

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
April 5, 2004

At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be much commonality between the titles on the OmniTone record label. From piano-vibraphone duets to 18-piece big bands, the diversity of the catalog reflects the growing experimentation in modern, creative, improvised music. Like its name implies, OmniTone seeks “all the sounds”, reflecting founder and president Frank Tafuri’s notion of ...

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Article: Live From New York

March 2004

by AAJ Staff
April 2, 2004

In addition to several CD release concert events - including guitarist Dom Minasi's Time Will Tell (CDM), an already highly regarded turnabout project of strings (cellist Tomas Ulrich and bassist Ken Filiano) and drums at Tonic, and bassist Cameron Brown's Hear and Now group (featuring the ever musical vocalist Sheila Jordan) which celebrated the official release ...

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April 2004

by AAJ Staff
April 2, 2004

The Free Zone, curated by guitarist and man-about-town Ty Cumbie, transpires every Thursday night on the bottom floor of the Jazz on the Park youth hostel. The evenings usually revolve around a single artist who plays the first set, then joins in an impromptu collaboration with a handful of select guests. Free Zone #27 (March 11th) ...

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Article: Megaphone

Ken Hatfield: The Economics of Music

by AAJ Staff
April 2, 2004

By Ken Hatfield For the last quarter century jazz musicians have been increasingly marginalized by the shortsighted bottom line mentality that dominates the music industry. This same shortsighted approach in other industries is currently sending white-collar jobs overseas (to join the many blue-collar jobs that left over the past two decades), but that ...

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Article: New York Beat

Small Labels, Big Talent and Dedicated Producers

by Nick Catalano
March 31, 2004

Mark Feldman is a practicing physician in Kingston N.Y. but several times a month he trots down to recording studios in Gotham to don his other hat- Jazz CD producer. For many years Dr. Feldman and his gifted wife Kayla have painstakingly chosen talent, hired engineers, analyzed master recordings marketed product and in many other capacities ...

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In the Spirit: Alice Coltrane

by Kurt Gottschalk
March 16, 2004

Alice Coltrane walked out onstage, joining an ensemble led by her son Ravi on a recent and historic night at Joe's Pub. The bassist Darryl Hall played an immediately recognizable four-note line and the group (also featuring drummer E.J. Strickland) launched into the only reasonable song they could have chosen for the evening, if one that ...

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Houston Person

by Russ Musto
March 15, 2004

Houston Person is jazz' working class hero, a true man of the people. Person who was born in Newberry, South Carolina in 1934, first received moderate national attention with a series of soulful albums recorded for Prestige back in the '60s. In 1968 he began a sympathetic and successful musical partnership with the great Etta Jones ...