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Roswell Rudd / Archie Shepp: Live in New York

Read "Live in New York" reviewed by John Stevenson

by John Stevenson
July 1, 2001

The year was 1994. The venue: the Eilat Red Sea Jazz Festival. Hundreds of sweltering Jazz aficionados waited in a huge converted cargo shed to witness reedman Archie Shepp and his quartet--a marquee coup for the Israeli festival. When Shepp swaggered onto the stage, the more discerning members of the audience (including this reviewer) could scarcely ...

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Chucho Valdes: Solo: Live in New York

by James Nichols
June 1, 2001

It’s a wonderful thing that Chucho Valdes has found such a healthy outlet for his aggression. Valdes demonstrates a dizzying exuberance at the piano during this 1998 solo date recorded at Lincoln Center's Kaplan Penthouse. Thoroughout the date it sounds like Valdes can barely contain his enthusiasm. Just when Valdes hits a repeating montuno and solicits ...

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Antoine Silverman

by Joel Roberts
May 10, 2001

Antoine Silverman's singular gifts as a musician, as well as his choice of the violin as his musical voice, lend his work both a freshness and a familiarity that reaches well beyond a traditional jazz audience. “The violin is such an unusual instrument for jazz that it almost inherently lends itself to new approaches ...

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Various: Jazz Live From New York

by Dave Nathan
May 1, 2001

What a bargain this 2-cd set is! More than two hours of music performed by Telarc's outstanding stable of jazz recording artists, all for the price of a single album. And the record company's stable reads like an honor roll of contemporary jazz performers, Dave Brubeck, Mel Tormé, Sweets Edison and Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, James ...

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Bunch, Pizzarelli & Leonhart: New York Swing

by Mike Neely
May 1, 2001

New York Swing is an exciting live trio recording featuring top-notch musicianship in an inspired performance. This is not “a pretty good recording for a live recording," this is an excellent recording, period. If you are not familiar with pianist John Bunch, this recording will place a new flicker in your musical sky. He is the ...

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Chucho Valdes: Solo-Live in New York

by James Nichols
May 1, 2001

Article: Interview

David Hazeltine: Milwaukee's Best Becomes One of New York's Finest

by C. Andrew Hovan
April 1, 2001

“Writing is not an easy thing for me. I spend a lot of time getting it exactly how I want it."New York is a tough town. To be seen and heard among the scores of would-be jazz musicians you have to possess talent that is beyond the everyday and a voice that sets you ...

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Various Artists: Jazz: Live from New York

by David Adler
April 1, 2001

This Telarc sampler pulls together material recorded live in New York and previously released throughout the course of the 1990s. Most of the tracks feature old masters at a late point in their careers, and in remarkably good shape. Some — Al Grey, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry “Sweets" Edison, Mel Torme, and Stéphane Grappelli — would soon ...

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Hendrik Meurkens: New York Nights

by C. Andrew Hovan
April 1, 2001

At the age of forty-four, Hendrik Meurkens really has no peers on the American jazz scene, with the possible exception of one. You see, Meurkens plays harmonica and the only other gentleman to make a name for himself in jazz with that instrument would be the ubiquitous Toots Thielmans. Born in Germany to Dutch parents, Meurkens' ...

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Various: Jazz: Live From New York

Read "Jazz: Live From New York" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
March 1, 2001

Improvisationally fed, jazz more often than not connects with the listener more effectively in live performances than in the studio. Even with the acoustical limitations of live recordings, not to mention such “annoyances" as crowd talk and the clinking of drink glasses, the to-the-heart communicative nature is instantly perceived.Such is the strength of Jazz: ...