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Article: Album Review

Keith Tippett: Viva La Black Live At Ruvo

Read "Viva La Black Live At Ruvo" reviewed by Martin Longley

by Martin Longley
March 18, 2008

Viva La Black, on this occasion, is Keith Tippett (piano), Julie Tippetts (vocals), Louis Moholo-Moholo (drums, now mysteriously doubling-up his name) and the rather large Canto General ensemble, recorded live at the Ruvo Festival in southern Italy. Their repertoire might suggest a 1970s date, but in reality this was only 2004, with a bold mission to ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Manhattan School of Music Presents the Harvie S Trio

March 17, 2008

WITH ENRIQUE HANEINE AND WILLIAM 'BEAVER' BAUSCH Thursday, March 27 at 7:30 PM In the School's The Alan M. and Joan Taub Ades Performance Space On Thursday, March 27 at 7:30 PM, Manhattan School of Music faculty member Harvie S performs with his trio in the school's Ades Performance Space. Producer, bandleader, composer, and ...

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News: Event

Rhythm Relief: A Benefit Concert for Norman Hedman

March 17, 2008

“Norman is one of the greatest musicians of all time. Not only is he supremely talented and educated, but he is one of the kindest people I know by far! His passion and love for music, art and teaching inspire me endlessly. We're all lucky to know such a great man!" - Alicia Keys, 11 time ...

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Article: Live Review

Nik Bartsch's Ronin at Joe's Pub, NYC

by Budd Kopman
March 17, 2008

Nik Bartsch's Ronin at Joe's Pub, NYCJoe's PubNew York City, New YorkMarch 5, 2008 Simple complexity, complex simplicity; intellectual control, emotional abandon; individual details, organic wholeness; deep, deep bottom, floating highs; irresistible funky groove, phase-shifting rhythmic interaction; dramatic storytelling, propulsive drive; just a band, an artistic entity. ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Cellos: Erik Friedlander & Rufus Cappadocia

by Donald Elfman
March 17, 2008

Erik Friedlander Volac Tzadik 2008 Rufus Cappadocia Songs for Cello Velour 2008 “The cello is the most perfect instrument aside from the human voice." --Zuill Bailey

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Article: Album Review

Lonnie Gasperini Organ Trio: North Beach Blues

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by Elliott Simon
March 17, 2008

The Hammond B3 was originally developed to replace pipe organs and luckily for B3 jazz trio lovers it caught on as a less expensive alternative for African- American churches. Its power chords and subtle note caresses, built-in bass pedals and funky sound when combined with a guitarist and drummer eventually spawned the soul jazz genre. From ...

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Article: Album Review

Bobby Sanabria: Big Band Urban Folktales

Read "Big Band Urban Folktales" reviewed by Martin Longley

by Martin Longley
March 17, 2008

Born in the Bronx and hailing from a Puerto Rican background, percussionist Bobby Sanabria has mastered every conceivable form of AfroLatin music, from New York salsa to Cuban son and even down to Brazilian samba. This album comes across as a demonstration record for everything that he and his thrilling big band can accomplish.

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Joe McPhee: A Legend In Heavy Company

by Clifford Allen
March 16, 2008

Forty-one years after beginning his recording career on the day after John Coltrane's funeral in sessions led by trombonist Clifford Thornton (Freedom & Unity, Third World, 1967), saxophonist and trumpeter Joe McPhee is indeed the yeoman legend of the modern jazz-world. For many years a factory worker and sometime professor at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Adam Lane: Buffalo & Four Corners

by Marc Medwin
March 16, 2008

Adam Lane Buffalo CIMP 2007 Magnus Broo / Adam Lane / Paal Nilssen-Love / Ken Vandermark 4 Corners Clean Feed 2007 These two recent releases prove, if further proof ...

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Article: Album Review

Clifford Jordan: Glass Bead Games

Read "Glass Bead Games" reviewed by Robert Iannapollo

by Robert Iannapollo
March 16, 2008

Perennially underrated saxophonist Clifford Jordan recorded two of his best albums for the Strata East label and Glass Bead Games is arguably his greatest recording and one of the great albums of the 1970s. Everything is right about this date; Jordan never sounded so good, his tone rich and full, his improvisatory ideas taking the models ...