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Article: Album Review

James Carney: Ways & Means

Read "Ways & Means" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
September 5, 2009

Pianist James Carney takes the parameters involved in scoring films and applies them with the discipline of a jazz composer on the ambitious Ways & Means, the kind of challenging and cohesive work that listeners have come to expect from this exemplary musician. Carney's band is as great a gathering of talent as ...

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John O'Gallagher: Dirty Hands

Read "Dirty Hands" reviewed by David Adler

by David Adler
September 5, 2009

Saxophonist John O'Gallagher and bassist Masa Kamaguchi have a history. They documented their intense, ruminative interplay on O'Gallagher's two-volume CIMP session of 2004, Rules of Invisibility, featuring Jay Rosen on drums. Dirty Hands, recorded in Portugal during a 2007 European tour, is a continuation of that history, although this time we hear the leader and Kamaguchi ...

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Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Infernal Machines

Read "Infernal Machines" reviewed by Ted Gordon

by Ted Gordon
September 5, 2009

From the first listening of this album, it is clear that Darcy James Argue intends to make a strong statement about the boundaries of musical genres--of jazz and new music--as well as about musical aesthetics and technology. This album consists of Argue's compositions for “big band" (or “large ensemble," depending on whom you ask) with a ...

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Violin Twofer: Stefano Pastor & Mark Feldman

by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
September 5, 2009

Stefano Pastor Chants SLAM Productions2009 Mark FeldmanMusic for Violin AloneTzadik2009 The liner notes for Chants describe the record as being “a dialogue of Stefano Pastor with the other part of ...

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Joey Baron: Secrets, I Believe & Live at the Vortex

by Kurt Gottschalk
September 5, 2009

Mark Feldman / Uri Caine / Greg Cohen / Joey Baron Secrets Tzadik 2009 Daniel Zamir I Believe Tzadik 2008 Julian Siegel Trio Live at the Vortex Basho ...

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Global Unity: Belgium

by Tom Greenland
September 5, 2009

Brussels Jazz Orchestra The Music of Michael Herr W.E.R.F. 2008 Nicolas Thys Virgo Pirouet 2009 Fred Van Hove Journey Emanem 2008 ...

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Jessica Lurie: Shop of Wild Dreams & Laws of Motion

by Kurt Gottschalk
September 5, 2009

Jessica Lurie Ensemble Shop of Wild Dreams Zipa!/Spoot Music 2008 The Tiptons Sax Quartet Laws of Motion Zipa!/Spoot Music 2008 Jessica Lurie came to many people's attention through the Billy ...

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Baritone Sax: Chalie Kohlhase & Lauren Sevian

by Jeff Stockton
September 5, 2009

Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club Adventures Boxholder 2009 Lauren Sevian Quartet Blueprint Inner Circle Music 2009 Baritone saxophonist Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club got its start as ...

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Solo Piano: 5 by 4

by Ken Dryden
September 5, 2009

Fred Hersch Fred Hersch Plays Jobim Sunnyside 2009 Richie Beirach Jazz Adagio Venus 2009 Hal Schaefer How Do You Like This Piano Playing? Summit 2009

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Dan Block: Solid Sideman

by Ken Dryden
September 5, 2009

The Andrew Scott Quartet Meets Jon-Erik Kellso & Dan Block Nostalgia Sackville 2009 Marty Grosz Hot Winds, The Classic Sessions Arbors 2009 Dan Block has worked in a variety of musical settings during his long career and has been a ...