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Globe Unity: Japan
by Tom Greenland
Akira SakataFriendly PantsColumbia-Family Vineyard2009 Itaru OkiPhantom NoteRecord Label #2Year The Miyumi ProjectLive in PolandSouthport2009 Japanese culture has historically championed jazz and, not ...
Flutes: Jeremy Steig, Krzysztof Popek & Anne Drummond
by Fred Bouchard
Jeremy SteigHowlin' for JudySolid State-Blue Note2009 Krzysztof PopekEstatePower Brothers2009 Anne DrummondLike WaterObliqsound2009 Full-time flutists don't get much respect in the male-dominated, hard-driving ...
Brooklyn Jazz Underground: Randy Ingram & Rob Garcia
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Randy IngramThe Road AheadBrooklyn Jazz Underground Records2009 Ron GarciaPerennialBrooklyn Jazz Underground Records2009 Pianist Randy Ingram's fine new recording, The Road Ahead, exemplifies smooth jazz, though thankfully not in the sense ...
Miles Revisited: Sketches of Spain (50th Anniversary Edition) & Miles Ahead Live
by George Kanzler
Miles DavisSketches of Spain (50th Anniversary Edition)Columbia-Legacy2009 MSM Jazz OrchestraMiles Ahead LiveJazzheads2009 Third Stream, an attempt to meld aspects of jazz and European classical and world musics, as a term ...
Transit: Quadrologues & Nate Wooley: The Seven Storey Mountain
by Clifford Allen
The work of trumpeter Nate Wooley falls into a number of camps: free improvisation, experimental noise or restructuralist post-bop. It would be easy to lump him in with a young trumpeters/ extended techniques setting but Wooley is decidedly an individual. And while brass players tend to elicit an expected bravura, Wooley is very much at home ...
Three with Chris Speed/Skirl Records: Big Choantza; Smell The Difference; Esopus Opus
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
The New Mellow Edwards Big Choantza Skirl Records 2009 Tyft Smell The Difference Skirl Records 2009 Ben Perowsky Quartet Esopus Opus Skirl Records 2009
Chris McGregor: Our Prayer
by Stuart Broomer
Chris McGregor (1936-1990) is best known as the pianist/leader of the Brotherhood of Breath and its small band antecedent the Blue Notes, the group that he formed in South Africa in 1963. The inter-racial band elected for a voluntary European exile from their homeland and its policies that would ban their very right to assemble. In ...
Edgar Van Asselt Quartet and Quintet: A Smooth Journey
by Elliott Simon
Pianist Edgar van Asselt teams his fine trio with tenor saxophonist David Schnitter and trumpet player Nico Schepers for A Smooth Journey, an album that both swings hard and lovingly embraces. Schnitter is perhaps best known for his stint with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the '70s and as a hard bopper who can carry a ...
Tim Kuhl's Doomsayers - Live at Bar 4 on November 9th
Hello AAJ Readers, At Bar 4 on, Monday November 9th @ 7pm I will be playing with my very fun experimental group called the DOOMSAYERS. This night features some VERY VERY exciting musicians... DOOMSAYERS: Ben Gerstein - Trombone Jonathan Moritz - Tenor ...
"Clawing at the Limits of Cool" Book Discussion at Columbia University on November 11, 2009
Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever - A Book Reading and Signing with Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University) and Salim Washington (Brooklyn College) Professors Griffin and Washington will discuss aspects of their recent collaboration on the book Clawing at the Limits of Cool (Thomas Dunne Books, ...

