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Article: Megaphone

Ellery Eskelin: Twenty Years in New York City - A Short Reflection

by AAJ Staff
April 5, 2003

This article was submitted on behalf of Ellery Eskelin. The year was 1979 and I was nineteen. It had been my intention to become a jazz musician ever since I was ten. So with New York being the jazz capital of the world and all, I decided it was time to see it ...

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Article: Profile

Encore: Teddy Charles

by AAJ Staff
April 5, 2003

Over a post blizzard mid-February brunch just off Central Park West, one of jazz' neglected masters, Teddy Charles (who turns 75 this month) recalled one of his first recordings - clarinetist Buddy DeFranco's 1949 sextet featuring drummer Max Roach and guitarist Jimmy Raney. Six months prior was the vibraphonist's recording debut which was with Chubby Jackson's ...

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Ray Barretto: Homage to Art Blakey

by AAJ Staff
April 5, 2003

By Russ Musto As he approaches his 74th birthday, Ray Barretto is the world's most famous conga player, the elder statesman of salsa. Unlike most other septuagenarians Barretto is neither looking forward to retirement or back on his career. Instead, he is reveling in a new role--that of leader of a jazz band. ...

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Pianist Dave Burrell

by Matt Rand
April 5, 2003

"I just played at the Philadelphia Art Museum ," says pianist Dave Burrell. “It was a white tablecloth kind of night. It was right after the big snowstorm, and everybody was just wanting to relax. So I played ballads. I knew from the clientele that it wasn't a kind of audience that wanted to go into ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Intakt Records

by Kurt Gottschalk
April 5, 2003

“We didn't want to have a label. We told people we would do one record, maybe two." So says Patrik Landolt, executive director and one of the founders of the highly regarded Swiss label Intakt. Landolt was working as a journalist at the leftist weekly he founded (and still edits) 17 years ago ...

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Article: Live From New York

April 2003

by David Adler
April 2, 2003

Dave Douglas’s 40th Birthday Celebration — A special week-long event at the Jazz Standard, featuring just about every formation the trumpeter/composer has documented over the last decade. The week opened with a Tiny Bell Trio/Four In One double bill. Guitarist Brad Shepik and drummer Jim Black joined Douglas for a riotous set that ...

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Article: New York Beat

Jazz Elder Statesmen

by Nick Catalano
April 2, 2003

This month we’re listening to recordings made by two jazzers who’ve been at it since the 1940’s. Everyone knows that jazz recordings account for less than 2% of the American market and anyone who can keep selling CD’s these days must be special. Dave Brubeck is eighty-two. His post-war recordings identified an era in jazz. The ...

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Article: Interview

Rashied Ali

by Hank Shteamer
March 31, 2003

Rashied Ali is a survivor. Best known for replacing Elvin Jones as John Coltrane's drummer of choice in the mid-sixties, Ali has sustained himself as a working, thriving musician right through to the present day. Since his stint with Trane, Ali has founded a label, Survival Records, and a club, Ali's Alley; led countless groups in ...

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Article: Interview

Meet Roy Haynes

by AAJ Staff
March 19, 2003

Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie have many things in common--one of which is Roy Haynes. The drummer has played with these and other jazz giants during his 77 years as a percussive powerhouse. He turns 78 on March 13th, and the jazz world celebrates at New York City's Blue Note for a ...

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Article: Megaphone

Different Generations, Same Realizations

by Ben Allison
March 14, 2003

In the summer of 1992, I was reading a biography about Alban Berg that described his and Arnold Schoenberg's frustration over the lack of adequate performance opportunities for their music and the gap that seemed to exist between them and the public. This situation inspired Schoenberg to look for alternatives to the usual channels that composers ...