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Article: Opinion

Either/Or (No More)

by Darcy James Argue
February 28, 2010

You know that party game where you present people with a forced choice that's actually a litmus test for distinguishing between two kinds of people? Here, let's play--pick one (and only one): Matisse or Picasso? Federer or Nadal? The Daily Show or The Colbert Report? Since I am a “jazz composer" by training ...

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Article: Live From New York

March 2010

by AAJ Staff
February 28, 2010

Gerald Clayton Village VanguardNew York, NY February 11, 2010To start, pianist Gerald Clayton ought to have won that Grammy for his solo on “All of You," from his debut Two-Shade, a burning 2009 trio album that was picked up by Emarcy (from ArtistShare) for wider release in 2010. Along with ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Larry Ochs: The Celestial Septet & We All Feel The Same Way

by Marc Medwin
February 28, 2010

ROVA Sax Quartet/Nels Cline SingersThe Celestial SeptetNew World Records2010 Jones JonesWe All Feel The Same WaySoLyd2010 The synchronicity and boundless energy that separate great groupwork from everything else pervades these ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Bill McHenry: Bloom & Narrow Margin

by Martin Longley
February 28, 2010

Ben Monder/Bill McHenryBloomSunnyside Records2010 Andrew GreenNarrow MarginMicrophonic2009 Brooklyn tenor man Bill McHenry can teeter on the lip of sonic extremity, but he's also well-versed in the art of post-Coleman Hawkins ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Marilyn Lerner: Arms Spread Wide & Ugly Beauties

by A. Henkin
February 28, 2010

Marilyn Lerner/Ken Filiano/Lou GrassiArms Spread WideNo Business2009 Marilyn Lerner/Matt Brubeck/Nick FraserUgly BeautiesActuelle2009 A quick perusal of Canadian pianist Marilyn Lerner's website presents a musician whose projects are both typically and ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Globe Unity: Holland

by A. Henkin
February 28, 2010

Ab Baars/Ig Henneman/Misha MengelbergSliptongWig2009 Wolter WierbosDeiningDolFijn2009 Michiel BraamNon-Functionals!BBB2009 Dutch jazz has been around since the 1920s and changed radically in the aftermath ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Piano & Violin: Jorge Lima Barreto/Carlos Zingaro; Borah Bergman/Stefano Pastor & Minamo

by Marc Medwin
February 28, 2010

Jorge Lima Barreto/Carlos ZingaroKits 2Numerica2009 Borah Bergman/Stefano PastorLive at TortonaMutable2009 MinamoKuroi Kawa--Black RiverTzadik2010 Here are three very different takes on the traditional ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Basoons: EA Silence; Patrick Bebelaar/Joe Fonda/Mike Rabinowitz; Katherine Young & Daniel Smith

by Fred Bouchard
February 28, 2010

EA SilenceCono di Ombra e LuceAmirani2009 Patrick Bebelaar/Joe Fonda/Mike RabinowitzThe Four O'Clock SessionDML2009 Katherine YoungFurther Secret OriginsPorter2009 Daniel SmithBlue BassoonSummit

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Vinny Golia: The San Diego Session; Mythology; Duets & Großes Messer

by Wilbur MacKenzie
February 28, 2010

Vinny Golia/Bertram TuretzkyThe San Diego SessionKadima Collective2009 Vinny Golia/Peter KowaldMythologyKadima Collective2009 Brad Dutz/Vinny GoliaDuetsself-published2009 Golia/Smith/WalterGroßes MesserugEXPLODE2009

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Article: From Far and Wide

Hot and Cool: 40 Years of Jazz at NEC

by Marcia Hillman
February 28, 2010

New England Conservatory (NEC) is celebrating the 40th anniversary of being America's first fully-accredited Jazz Studies Program at a music conservatory. The merriment kicked off in NEC's home of Boston with a week of events in October 2009, culminating in a performance by the Wayne Shorter Quartet accompanied by the school's Philharmonia, a merger between jazz ...