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In Love With Voices: A Jazz Memoir

Read "In Love With Voices: A Jazz Memoir" reviewed by Ken Dryden

by Ken Dryden

In Love With Voices: A Jazz Memoir Brian Torff Softcover; 236 pages ISBN: 1440112851 iUniverse 2009 Brian Torff is a widely experienced jazz bassist who has recorded and played with numerous greats, including violinist Stephane Grappelli, clarinetist Benny Goodman, singers Frank Sinatra and Mel Torme, and ...

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Piano and Saxophone Duets: Untying The Standard, A Memory Of Vienna & Live At Saint Stephens

Read "Piano and Saxophone Duets: Untying The Standard, A Memory Of Vienna & Live At Saint Stephens" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Joel Press & Kyle Aho Untying The Standard Cadence Jazz Records 2008 Joel Press & Kyle Aho Ran Blake & Anthony Braxton A Memory of Vienna hatOLOGY Records 2009 Charles Evans & ...

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Craig Taborn: A Study in Contrasts

Read "Craig Taborn: A Study in Contrasts" reviewed by Tom Greenland

by Tom Greenland

Jonathon Haffner Life On Wednesday Cachuma Records 2009 Lotte Anker Floating Islands ILK 2009 Craig Taborn's seemingly innocuous musings have a way of sneaking up on you, ...

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Article: Album Review

The Story: The Story

Read "The Story" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes

From its opening notes to the stop-on-a-dime ending, this debut album is an exhilarating shot in the solar plexus. A talented quintet serves up a diverse roster of tunes daring in both imagination and execution. Pianist John Escreet uses his repeated eight-note figure in the song “Misconception of Life and Death" as a ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Two to Tango: Bien Sur & Rollo Coaster

Read "Two to Tango: Bien Sur & Rollo Coaster" reviewed by Marcia Hillman

by Marcia Hillman

Emilio SollaBien SurFresh Sound-World Jazz2009 Chris Cheek/Victor PrietoRollo Coasterself-published2009 The Argentinean tango has formed a strong connection with jazz not unlike the Brazilian samba and bossa nova. As developed by ...

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Gunter Baby Sommer / Manfred Schoof / Gianluigi Trovesi / Barre Phillips: Peitzer Grand Mit Vieren

Read "Peitzer Grand Mit Vieren" reviewed by A. Henkin

by A. Henkin

This 1981 live set, taken from the Jazzwerkstatt Peitz at one time the biggest jazz festival in Germany outside of Berlin, organized by Ulli Blobel and Peter Metag, is a discographist's dream. It presents the earliest official recording of bassist Barre Phillips playing with trumpeter Manfred Schoof (predating Gunter Hampel's Jubilation (Birth, 1983) by over two ...

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Dreyfus Tributes to Django Reinhardt

Read "Dreyfus Tributes to Django Reinhardt" reviewed by Stuart Broomer

by Stuart Broomer

Various Artists Generation Django Dreyfus Records 2009 Dorado Schmitt Family Dreyfus Records 2009 Biréli Lagrène Gipsy Trio Dreyfus Records 2009 Biréli Lagrène/ Sylvain ...

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Article: Album Review

Tineke Postma: The Traveller

Read "The Traveller" reviewed by David Adler

by David Adler

On Dutchwoman Tineke Postma's fourth outing, The Traveller, the young saxophonist leads a top-tier American lineup of Geri Allen (piano), Scott Colley (bass) and Terri Lyne Carrington (drums). Far from being overwhelmed, Postma holds her ground and even challenges the band with a set of strong original material, plus “Adagio 13," an adaptation of a string ...

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Open Secrets: A Triumvirate of Israeli Guitarists

Read "Open Secrets: A Triumvirate of Israeli Guitarists" reviewed by Tom Greenland

by Tom Greenland

Gilad Hekselman Words Unspoken LateSet Records 2009 Oren Neiman Frolic & Detour Noyman Music 2009 Yotam Silberstein Next Page Posi-Tone 2009 ...

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Mingus Tributes: Normand Guilbeault & Dok Wallach

Read "Mingus Tributes: Normand Guilbeault & Dok Wallach" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

by Kurt Gottschalk

Normand Guilbeault Ensemble Hommage a Mingus: Live at Upstairs 2008 Ambiances Magnetiques 2009 Dok Wallach Live in Lisbon Jazzwerkstatt 2009 It's common, although not common enough, for the great bassist ...


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