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Article: Record Label Profile

RKM Music

by Elliott Simon
October 7, 2003

Label founder, Ravi Coltrane, passionately defends the “Music without filters" ethos that underpins the first three releases from RKM Music; “The major labels are falling apart and restructuring into bigger companies with bigger overhead. There is pressure to put out a product that conforms to formulas that sell: all star records, theme records, whatever...If Charlie Parker ...

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Article: Live Review

RKM Music: Jazz Gallery, NYC

by Elliott Simon
October 7, 2003

With original artwork depicting great jazz virtuosos gracing the walls, between set wine with the musicians, and superior acoustics, NYC's Jazz Gallery is a cozy venue that caters to a hip clientele. As such, Ravi Coltrane could not have chosen a better “space” for the live premiere of his new label. With eager anticipation, I took ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Dyer and Dearie: Two Sides of the Same Coin

by Elliott Simon
October 6, 2003

Blossom Dearie Live in London Harkit Records 2003 Blossom Dearie’s special appeal lies in a sweet and seductive girlish voice that yields unique interpretations of popular tunes. When she innocently suggests on the opener of her Live in London CD to “Go Where the Grass is Greener,” it's ...

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Article: Album Review

Positive Knowledge: Live In New York

Read "Live In New York" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
October 6, 2003

The performance documented here was recorded at the 2001 Vision Festival, a stage that serves as a window for artists whose persuasion is the expression of free jazz. Sometimes when things are free, there is a price to pay. Does the musician communicate with the listener? Are the impulses strictly personal or do they also have ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Two From Ted Rosenthal

by Elliott Simon
October 4, 2003

Pianist Ted Rosenthal's latest releases reveal an expert craftsman and an inventive artist who is most capable when expanding and interweaving circumscribed genres and styles. Witness the 3 B's , a solo endeavor that reprises Bill Evans, Bud Powell, and Beethoven. Rosenthal makes use of the piano's full scope adding inspired innovations to well-known pieces. The ...

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Article: Interview

Elevate Me: Michael Blake's New York World-Jazz

by Todd R. Brown
October 1, 2003

Imagine Duke Ellington's orchestra swinging by camelback caravan through the marketplace of Tangier, Morocco, or Miles Davis and crew funky-tonkin' up the Mekong River in Southeast Asia, and you'll get an idea of what saxophonist and composer Michael Blake's approach to jazz is. Blake, who plays this year's JVC Jazz Festiva in New York ...

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Article: Book Review

Good Vibes: A Life in Jazz

by Joel Roberts
October 1, 2003

Good Vibes: A Life in Jazz Terry Gibbs with Cary Ginell Scarecrow Press ISBN: 0810845865 2003 Terry Gibbs' style as a storyteller is a lot like his style as one of the top vibes players in jazz history – spirited, frenetic, quirky and highly entertaining. And ...

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Article: Live From New York

October 2003

by David Adler
October 1, 2003

Circumstances conspired to keep me away from the month-long 50th birthday celebration of September’s AAJ-NY cover icon, John Zorn, at Tonic. I was counting on catching Derek Bailey’s performance with Zorn and Ikue Mori toward the end of the month, only to find out that Bailey, afflicted with bronchitis, bailed. All the same, happy birthday, Mr. ...

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Article: New York Beat

Rosa Passos: Brazilian Guitarist, Composer, Vocalist

by Nick Catalano
October 1, 2003

It has been forty years since the extraordinary samba jazz of Brazil was first introduced to mass audiences in the United States. Great composer/instrumentalists like Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, and Milton Nascimento have given way to another generation of spectacular talents like Ivan Lins, Dori Caymmi, Ary Barroso and Elis Regina. Leading American performers from ...

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Article: Live From New York

September 2003

by David Adler
September 29, 2003

Blackout! — The massive power failure that darkened cities from New York to Michigan on August 14 took a healthy chunk out of the month’s jazz calendar. As part of Tonic’s FONT series (Festival of New Trumpets, co-curated by Dave Douglass and Roy Campbell, Jr.), Bill Dixon was to have played a solo concert, marking his ...