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Article: Live From New York

August 2003

by David Adler
September 29, 2003

David S. Ware/Henry Grimes — Much has already been said and written about the return of veteran bassist Henry Grimes, found living in poverty in California after a three-decade disappearance. Grimes returned to a New York stage for the first time at the Vision Festival in May, but it was at Iridium, during a three-night double ...

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Article: Live From New York

July 2003

by David Adler
September 29, 2003

Schedule overload and a poorly timed bout of illness forced me to miss Carla Bley’s big band fun at Iridium, as well as tenorist Bill McHenry’s Village Vanguard debut, playing trio alongside Charlie Haden and Paul Motian (and on a different night, fronting his sextet with Motian, Ethan Iverson, Duane Eubanks, Reid Anderson, and Ben Monder). ...

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Article: Live From New York

June 2003

by David Adler
September 29, 2003

Vision Festival — Pressing family matters kept me away throughout Memorial Day weekend, including the widely heralded return of Henry Grimes. But the annual festival got off to a strong start with the pulsating abstractions of Joe and Mat Maneri with drummer Randy Peterson, and live improv dancing by Christine Coppola. DJ Spooky and the deep-voiced ...

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Article: Album Review

Barry Harris: Live in New York

Read "Live in New York" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
September 25, 2003

Do they give Grammy Awards for the best performance by an underrated jazz performer? If they do, last year's winner would have to have been saxman Von Freeman's The Improvisor. This year the top nominee would have to be pianist Barry Harris, for Live in New York. Harris has been playing jazz in the mode of ...

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Barry Harris: Live In New York

Read "Live In New York" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
September 25, 2003

It is funny (strange) how the mainstream press “rediscovers" jazz musicians in the golden years of their careers. Not that Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, or Dexter Gordon had ever really been missing. As with these hall of famers, prepare for the mainstream press to rediscover pianist Barry Harris. Marketing departments might favor twenty-somethings over bespeckled white-haired ...

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Pat Daugherty: New York Electric Piano

Read "New York Electric Piano" reviewed by Rod Sibley

by Rod Sibley
September 25, 2003

There was a time when you couldn't swing a dead cat in New York without hitting a Rhodes player, including a first tier of Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Jan Hammer, etc. The Fender Rhodes electric piano was developed by Harold Rhodes (his partnership with electric guitar pioneer Leo Fender lasted only six years), and it has ...

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Article: Album Review

Mel Torme: The London Sessions

Read "The London Sessions" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 25, 2003

Professionalism, I suppose, implies the ability to perform to the best of one's ability in spite of whatever obstacles are placed in one's path. In June 1977, when the late Mel Tormé recorded the songs that comprise The London Sessions, he relates that he was nervous, apprehensive, and nearly exhausted after a long flight from New ...

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Chick Corea: Rendezvous in New York

Read "Rendezvous in New York" reviewed by Steven Robinson

by Steven Robinson
June 25, 2003

If there was one place in the jazz world to be in December 2001, it was at the Blue Note in New York, where in a three-week long celebration of his 60th birthday, pianist Chick Corea performed in multiple configurations with vocalist extraordinaire Bobby McFerrin, vibraphone legend Gary Burton, drummer Roy Haynes and many other world-class ...

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Article: Album Review

Pete Malinverni: Autumn in New York

Read "Autumn in New York" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan
June 25, 2003

Remaining just a bit below the radar scans of all but the most astute jazz followers, New Yorker Pete Malinverni has recorded a total of four albums now for the Reservoir label and each one has spoken eloquently for a greater appreciation of his gifts. His most recent is Autumn in New York (Reservoir 171) and ...

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Article: Megaphone

Gunter Hampel: Bringing Music to the People

by AAJ Staff
May 17, 2003

By Gunter Hampel As a composer, arranger, bandleader and now the owner of BIRTH Records, I have been undergoing changes in publishing my music on LPs, CDs, cassettes and video. As a new carrier, the DVD has arrived and seems to be the new way of bringing music to the people.