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Article: Interview

McCoy Tyner: Nothing ventured, nothing gained

by AAJ Staff
December 17, 2003

For the better part of nearly five decades McCoy Tyner has remained the most pervasively influential, highly acclaimed, widely imitated jazz pianist in the world ' universally acknowledged for the invention of a style that continues to be uniquely personal, powerfully passionate and consummately creative. From his early association with the great John Coltrane, through his ...

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Article: Profile

Buell Neidlinger: From Taylor to Zappa to the Carpenters

by Clifford Allen
December 16, 2003

Bassist Buell Neidlinger, born March 2, 1936, has had in many respects a genre-defying career. A child prodigy on cello, Buell graduated to bass and playing Dixieland in New York during the early ‘50s. It wasn’t long, however, before he joined the bass chair of the first Cecil Taylor quartet (including soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

CIMP (Creative Improvised Music Projects)

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
December 14, 2003

The music doesn't sound like anything you've heard before. The art and packaging doesn't look like other CDs either. And that's exactly the point. Since 1995, founder and executive producer Robert Rusch has been recording and releasing music on his label CIMP--Creative Improvised Music Projects--with a personal touch. “I put my stamp on it ...

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Article: Opinion

Min Xiao-Fen: Prove, Improve, Improvise

by AAJ Staff
December 7, 2003

By Min Xiao-Fen I still remember when I was ten years old, my father, Min Ji-Qian - a professor, educator and pipa* master at Nanjing Normal University in China - was teaching one of my classmates. He lent one of his pipas to her, and I immediately got so jealous. Ever since then, ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Miroslav Vitous - Universal Syncopations

by A. Henkin
December 4, 2003

Miroslav VitousUniversal Syncopations ECM 2003 Bassist Miroslav Vitous, veteran of the bands of Miles Davis, Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd, Chick Corea and numerous others had a dream decade after coming to the states in 1966 on a music scholarship. Within years, he would record one of the seminal ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Andrew Hill: Passing Ships

by A. Henkin
December 3, 2003

Andrew Hill Passing Ships Blue Note 2003 The history of Blue Note Records is in many ways the history of the golden age of jazz. When Blue Note changed, the whole face of jazz changed. After releasing classic sides one after another for much of the '60s, Blue ...

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Article: Profile

Dr. Lonnie Smith: The Doctor is In...

by Terrell Kent Holmes
December 2, 2003

Dr. Lonnie Smith, a pillar in the jazz pantheon, is one of the most influential organists to ever man the helm of the Hammond B-3, an instrument he refers to paradoxically as both “the monster" and “the love of my life". His dynamic playing and prolific composing is featured on over 70 recordings, and he has ...

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Article: Album Review

Sathima Bea Benjamin: Musical Echoes

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by AAJ Staff
December 1, 2003

Sathima Bea Benjamin can't recollect her last New York City gig, but she imagines it was well over a half dozen years ago. For some odd reason her talents have inexplicably been kept under wraps for most of her career. Married for over 40 years to pianist and fellow South African Abdullah Ibrahim, a member of ...

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Article: Profile

Mario Pavone

by Celeste Sunderland
December 1, 2003

Bassist Mario Pavone holds a picture up to the light. It looks like a collage of geometric graphics, with strong hues, shadows, and text. “You won't notice a guy standing here," he says, rotating the picture. “It's our driver in Europe. This is a performance space in Munich, and this is our driver but you would ...

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Article: Profile

Michael Blake

by AAJ Staff
November 29, 2003

Submitted on behalf of Sean Patrick Fitzell With his eyebrows tightly knit, saxophonist Michael Blake played with intensity and assurance, absorbed in the musical moment he created at a recent gig. True to the group's name, Free Association, he led it through the new composition “Conquistador", based on an old Chico Hamilton vamp, ...