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Article: Album Review

Gloria Lynne: From My Heart To Yours

Read "From My Heart To Yours" reviewed by Marcia Hillman

by Marcia Hillman
September 8, 2008

What a pleasure it is to hear an artist sing a song simply with no frills and a heartfelt and warm delivery. This is what Gloria Lynne has done on her new album, a collection of standards and a couple of surprise choices with a superb band of David “Fathead" Newman (flute), John di Martino (piano), ...

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Article: Book Review

Miles, Ornette, Cecil

by Terrell Kent Holmes
September 7, 2008

Miles, Ornette, Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz Howard Mandel Hardcover; 288 pages ISBN: 0415967147 Routledge 2007 The music and personalities of Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor inspired taxis and tropism. Each is endearing, maddening, mercurial, confounding, innovative and timeless. Howard Mandel has written ...

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Article: Live From New York

September 2008

by AAJ Staff
September 7, 2008

Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins has a long tradition with New York's outdoors--from the famed Williamsburg Bridge woodshedding 49 years ago to his pretty much annual summer concerts of recent years. Rollins has so much music under his belt that he can take the music in most any direction on any given night. Playing a benefit at ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Chris McGregor: Very Urgent, Up to Earth & Eclipse at Dawn

by A. Henkin
September 7, 2008

Chris McGregor Group Very Urgent Fledg'ling 2008 Chris McGregor Septet Up to Earth Fledg'ling 2008 Brotherhood of Breath Eclipse at Dawn Cuneiform 2007

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Article: Album Review

Giacomo Merega / David Tronzo / Noah Kaplan: The Light and Other Things

Read "The Light and Other Things" reviewed by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
September 7, 2008

This is an impressive record composed of ten improvised tracks whose titles are inspired by the work of Paul Klee. Klee, a Swiss cubist painter, may be relatively unknown--as is gifted guitarist David Tronzo--and what the artfully omitted subordinate clause of the album's first track might say is unclear, but it's helpful to know the first, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Trombone Solos: Wolter Wierbos & Denis Beuret

by Fred Bouchard
September 7, 2008

Wolter Wierbos 3 Trombone Solos DolFijn 2008 Denis Beuret Alone Leo 2008 Though the vocalizing of jazz lines and effects on wind instruments is famously attributed to ...

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Article: Album Review

Sophie Milman: Make Someone Happy

Read "Make Someone Happy" reviewed by Donald Elfman

by Donald Elfman
September 7, 2008

It's truly a treat to witness the growth of an artist. Vocalist Sophie Milman confesses that she didn't know much about music when she made her first record but her natural talent and lovely grace has helped her get through. So this Russian native--now a resident of Canada with time in Israel in between--has released Make ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Michael Moore: Sweet Ears, Holocene & Fragile

by Kurt Gottschalk
September 7, 2008

The Persons Sweet Ears Ramboy 2008 Michael Moore Trio Holocene Ramboy 2008 Michael Moore Fragile Ramboy 2008 As a ...

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Dave Liebman: Renewal, Depth of Emotion, Music from the KOPAFestival 2006, Vol. 1 & Negative Space

by Terrell Kent Holmes
September 7, 2008

Dave Liebman/Ellery Eskelin Renewal hatHUT 2008 Depth of Emotion Depth of Emotion World Improvised Music 2008 Various Artists Music from the KOPAfestival 2006, Vol. 1 Kopasetic ...

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