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Article: Record Label Profile

Concord Records

by AAJ Staff
October 29, 2003

Submitted on behelf of Steven Robinson From Concord, Concord Jazz, Concord Picante, and The Jazz Alliance, to its joint ventures and alliances with Stretch Records, Feinery, Peak Records, and Playboy Jazz - Concord Records is presently in midst of its 30th Anniversary celebration. In 1973, Carl Jefferson, car dealer and local ...

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Saxophonist Tony Malaby

by Matt Rand
October 28, 2003

Tony Malaby is wearing running pants and sandals. His window is wide open to the street out front and the chilly air that the sunset is bringing in. He has just gotten off the phone with the Knitting Factory, working out the particulars for the June 30th CD release party for his upcoming album, Apparitions.

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Legends of the Clarinet: Buddy DeFranco & Tony Scott

by AAJ Staff
October 28, 2003

Submitted on behalf of Russ Musto When the JVC Jazz Festival presents Legends of the Clarinet at the Iridium from June 17th-22nd it will mark the return of the bebop era's two greatest innovators of that instrument, now largely neglected in jazz, to the place where they both began to develop as the ...

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A World of Trombone: Slide Hampton & Bob Brookmeyer

by AAJ Staff
October 28, 2003

Submitted on behalf of Jonathan Davidson Ask any lay listener to list the most influential jazz saxophonists of the 20th Century and you're likely to come up with a short list including Coltrane, Bird and a few others. But, ask an educated musician the same question and that list would expand to dozens. ...

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HighNote/Savant Records

by Celeste Sunderland
October 28, 2003

In the mid '60s, when HighNote/Savant president Joe Fields was a young record executive at the Prestige label, he recognized talent in a young saxophone player called Houston Person. “I felt if I were to have a record company, he'd be the kind of artist I'd want," said Fields. Last month Person released his seventh album ...

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Finding Carla Bley

by Celeste Sunderland
October 28, 2003

Some people store their collections in cigar boxes. Others display them in glass cases. Pianist/composer Carla Bley buries her collection in the ground behind the upstate New York home she shares with bassist Steve Swallow. It's a collection of treasures culled from exotic locales she tours. Bley collects seeds. Little bunches of lettuce, wild rashes of ...

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Steven Bernstein

by Celeste Sunderland
October 28, 2003

Prince can heat up a Detroit night with his slippery tongue and quivering guitar vamps. Trumpet player Steven Bernstein can do as much for a New York jazz club with his slide trumpet and an eight-piece band. On one of his Monday night residency performances last month at the Jazz Standard, Bernstein's group the Millennial Territory ...

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Chicago Jazz Festival 2003

by Gary Firstenberg
October 28, 2003

One of the aspects of Chicago's annual jazz festival is its family-friendly atmosphere, which provides children of all ages a chance to learn about jazz, as well as the opportunity to tap their feet to it. Tents lined the main aisle around the stage, offering food and drink, as well as classic videos of historic jazz ...

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Steve Lacy: Straight from the Horn

by A. Henkin
October 28, 2003

“I wanted to come back. You can't stay away forever. I'm from here, I'm from New York and it was time to come home." Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, whose career began inauspiciously in 1954 on an instrument which would lose its main progenitor in Sidney Bechet five years later, made this statement recently during ...

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Bassist Steve Tintweiss

by A. Henkin
October 28, 2003

At the end of the summer, Steve Tintweiss, best known as bassist for Albert Ayler and Patty Waters, performed at the renovated bandshell in Forest Park in Queens. The performances, which featured a group including clarinetist Perry Robinson and drummer Lou Grassi, marked five decades in which Tintweiss had been producing grant-funded concerts in New York ...