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Hayes Greenfield: Music for a Green Planet

Read "Music for a Green Planet" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
May 5, 2008

Celebrating Earth Day all year round, saxophonist Hayes Greenfield combines tasteful jazz with an environmental message through fifteen original songs and more than forty cast members. It's a welcome thought: save the world, recycle, car pool, conserve power, seek alternate energy sources and make responsible behavior a part of the daily routine. He delivers this bright ...

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JD Allen Trio: I AM I AM

Read "I AM I AM" reviewed by Laurel Gross

by Laurel Gross
May 5, 2008

JD Allen can be a powerhouse, hard-driving tenor, but he is also capable of great subtlety and versatility. All three qualities are amply in evidence on I AM I AM, and were also front and center in a performance of his piano-less trio in March, 2008 at New York's Jazz Standard to mark the release of ...

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Mark Helias: The Struggle Continues, Dance of the Soothsayer

by Stuart Broomer
May 4, 2008

Dewey Redman The Struggle Continues ECM 2007 Dennis Gonzalez Dance of the Soothsayer's Tongue (Live at Tonic) Clean Feed 2007 Open Loose Strange Unison Radio Legs ...

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Elliott Sharp: Concert in Dachau & Octal

by Marc Medwin
May 4, 2008

Elliott Sharp Concert in Dachau Intakt 2007 Elliott Sharp Octal Clean Feed 2007 Guitarist Elliott Sharp adds two more entries to his lengthy and diverse discography with ...

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Jackie McLean: 4, 5 and 6 (RVG) & New Wine in Old Bottles

by Graham L. Flanagan
May 4, 2008

Jackie McLean 4, 5 and 6 (RVG) Prestige-Concord 2007 Jackie McLean New Wine In Old Bottles East Wind-Test of Time 2007 Although the late Jackie McLean might ...

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Phil Woods: American Songbook II & Swingchronicity

by George Kanzler
May 4, 2008

Phil Woods American Songbook II Kind of Blue 2007 Phil Woods / DePaul University Jazz Ensemble Swingchronicity Jazzed Media 2007 More than other surviving members of the ...

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Muhal Richard Abrams: Vision Towards Essence

Read "Vision Towards Essence" reviewed by Martin Longley

by Martin Longley
May 4, 2008

This is a live solo piano set from 1998's Guelph Jazz Festival, in Canada. Chicagoan-cum-New York pianist Muhal Richard Abrams performs the album's title piece, which is around an hour long and is divided into three parts. Ultimately, there are only the tiniest breaks in this improvisation and these demarcations only exist for listening convenience. Once ...

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Terumasa Hino & Masabumi Kikuchi: Edges & Counter Current

by A. Henkin
May 4, 2008

Terumasa Hino/Masabumi Kikuchi Edges Sony Japan 2008 Terumasa Hino/Masabumi Kikuchi Quintet Counter Current Sony Japan 2008 The similarities between two new releases by Japanese legends Terumasa Hino ...

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Ibrahim Electric, Ray Anderson: Ibrahim Electric Meets Ray Anderson Again

Read "Ibrahim Electric Meets Ray Anderson Again" reviewed by Laurel Gross

by Laurel Gross
May 4, 2008

Ray Anderson can make a trombone sound like a hive of bees or just about anything else. That means he's a good match for Ibrahim Electric's Ibrahim Electric Meets Ray Anderson Again, recorded live at Copenhagen's JazzHouse and Pakhuset in ?rhus in February 2007, the second meeting between these two forces of nature. ...

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Solo Percussion: Ibarra, Bennington, Centazzo & Drury

by Matthew Miller
May 4, 2008

Susie Ibarra Drum Sketches Innova 2008 Jimmy Bennington Jazz Kaleidoscope: Solo Drums Live at On The House That Swan! 2006 Andrea Centazzo Fragments 2 Ictus 2007 ...