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Article: Profile

Albert Mangelsdorff: A Legend at 75

by A. Henkin
October 28, 2003

In the center of Frankfurt, Germany is the stately Old Opera House, Die Alte Oper. Its dignified classical fa'ade houses a remarkably modern interior. The same can be said for trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz star who celebrated his 75th Birthday at the Opera House on Sept. 12th, 2003. A resident of Frankfurt ...

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Article: Opinion

Jazz and Social Protest

by AAJ Staff
October 28, 2003

Submitted on behalf of Russ Musto The timeliness of Lincoln Center's Jazz and Social Protest panel discussion was ominously appropriate, convening the evening following Bush's prime time delivery of his St. Patrick's Day Iraq manifesto. All of the members of the gathered group of educator-speakers - revolutionary writer-poet-performer Amiri Baraka, activist playwright-poet Sonia ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Steve Lacy: With Mal Waldron and the Beats

by Clifford Allen
October 28, 2003

Steve Lacy / Mal Waldron Live at Dreher Paris 1981 hatOLOGY 2003 According to Steve Lacy, playing Monk's music offered the improviser a way to see what was on “the other side," not just of an individual tune's possibilities, but to a certain sort of harmonic and rhythmic ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Sunnyside Records

by Celeste Sunderland
October 28, 2003

A girl in a sailor dress skips rope. She's pretty, she's free, she's having fun. She's the logo for Sunnyside Records. Founder Francois Zalacain discovered her on a rubber stamp in a Greenwich Village shop 21 years ago. “It says everything we want to say. Music is about bouncing' dancing. And my wife liked it."

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Article: Profile

Benny Carter (1907-2003)

by AAJ Staff
October 28, 2003

Submitted on behalf of Michael Anthony During 2003 we lost the last survivors of a hardy and influential generation. They were men and women who were born at the turn of the last century. They influenced the culture of the 20th Century. These tireless artists via the new mediums that were available to ...

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Article: Profile

Butch Morris

by AAJ Staff
October 28, 2003

A solitary Butch Morris took the stage Saturday, July 5th at Tonic to perform a tribute to music aficionado Irving Stone at a memorial concert featuring some of the greatest players of New York's downtown music community. Taking a seat center stage, the bearded, bespectacled Morris reached into a shopping bag, appearing more like a philosophy ...

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Article: Interview

Hank Jones

by AAJ Staff
October 27, 2003

One of the first records I ever owned was Cannonball Adderley's Somethin' Else with Miles Davis, Sam Jones, Art Blakey, and the veritable Hank Jones. The fact that Jones was on that session didn't register with me completely - he was on so many records I just became used to seeing his name, not realizing at ...

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Article: Live Review

Jazz Portraits: 1970-2003 by Hank O'Neal

by Daniel Kassell
October 27, 2003

Billed as “A photographic retrospective of the jazz heroes who created the golden age of jazz" this exhibit was presented in the Weill Art Gallery in conjunction with Dick Hyman's 19th Season of JAZZ IN JULY at the 92nd Street Y from 21st to the 31st, 2003. Stanley Blum actually curated this ...

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Article: Interview

Michel Camilo: Live From New York

by R.J. DeLuke
October 16, 2003

Pianist Michel Camilo is excited. Those who know this virtuoso pianist might think: what else is new? Camilo is not a brooding artist. He's vivacious and upbeat. He's talkative and joyous as a rule. And well he should be, with a dynamite trio and recordings that are garnering both sales and critical praise. He's ...

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Article: Album Review

D.D. Jackson: Suite For New York

Read "Suite For New York" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
October 15, 2003

The musical evocation of New York is nothing new. Julius Hemphill and Laura Nyro have done it before, and for all of the dissimilarities between their works their powers of evocation leave Jackson with a lot to live up to. He does so here with aplomb, producing music with no modest personality of its own. His ...