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Article: Album Review

Joe Giglio & Jimmy Halperin: Sound Scape

Read "Sound Scape" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
March 16, 2008

Guitarist Joe Giglio and saxophonist Jimmy Halperin are part of the current, albeit small, group of musicians that are keeping pianist Lennie Tristano's singular approach to improvisation alive. Halperin studied with Tristano and both musicians had a long association with pianist and Tristano pupil Sal Mosca. Sound Scape is an effective meeting that intimately documents the ...

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Article: Album Review

Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette: My Foolish Heart

Read "My Foolish Heart" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts
March 16, 2008

Listeners have come to expect several things from the trio of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette in the 25 years that the group's been engaged in its extended modernist exploration of the Great American Songbook: remarkable musicianship, extreme seriousness and a fairly predictable repertoire. That's what makes the trio's 18th release ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Joe Chambers & His "Outlaw Band" at the Lenox Lounge

March 15, 2008

The Lenox Lounge, the Uptown haven for Jazz located @ 288 Lenox Avenue (124th & 125th St.) is proud to present a World renowned Composer, Arranger, Educator, a 'Percussionists Percussionist', who is one of the most recorded Drummers ever, on the “Blue Note" Record Label. The recordings he made, with the likes of Wayne Shorter, Freddie ...

News: Festival

Blue Apple Blues (B.A.B.) Festival Poised to Crash the Mansion in Downtown Manhattan on April 3rd

March 15, 2008

The Big Apple, a long ways from the Mississippi delta, is not often associated with the blues. But the city is home to a number of blues bands that bring a fresh approach to traditional blues The Blue Apple Blues (B.A.B.) Festival aims to crash beyond tried and true formulas by offering the blues scene fresh ...

News: Performance / Tour

Sten Hostfalt, Melissa Kassel & Matt Renzi at Abc No Rio NYC March 16

March 15, 2008

LIVE IN CONCERT sunday MARCH 16 2008 at 8 pm / $7 at ABC NO RIO, NEW YORK CITY STEN HOSTFALT - guitar MELISSA KASSEL - voice MATT RENZI - saxophones and clarinets “Melissa Kassel is among the ...

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Article: Film Review

SFJAZZ Collective: Live at Jazz a Vienne

by Russ Musto
March 15, 2008

SFJazz CollectiveLive at Jazz à VienneSFJazz2008 The SFJazz Collective is arguably the most perfectly conceived formation ever to deal with the seemingly contradictory forces in jazz of tradition versus innovation and composition versus improvisation. The DVD Live At Jazz à Vienne, recorded in France during the band's 2007 ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

William Parker: Blue Shadows & The Last Dances

by Kurt Gottschalk
March 15, 2008

Charles Gayle Blue Shadows Silkheart 2007 Hamid Drake/Anders Gahnold/William Parker The Last Dances Ayler 2007 Over the last decade (this year marks the 10th anniversary of his brilliant Peach ...

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Article: Profile

Joelle Leandre

by Kurt Gottschalk
March 15, 2008

Joelle Leandre has a huge voice. Not just a formidable singing voice, which can be friendly and frightening, charming and vulgar. And not only on her instrument which can be firmly grounded one moment and soar the next. Leandre's voice unabashedly carries conversation, carries it to unexpected places, making quick turns, never slowing down or backing ...

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Article: Album Review

Steve Kuhn Steve Swallow: Two by 2

Read "Two by 2" reviewed by Stuart Broomer

by Stuart Broomer
March 15, 2008

Few musicians possess anything like the lyrical capacity of Steve Kuhn and Steve Swallow, whether as composers or performers and this album of duets recorded in 1995 achieves an ideal of empathy. With the compositions roughly divided between the two, there's as much emphasis on the construction of durable melodic material as spontaneous interaction.

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Article: Album Review

Andrew Sterman: The Path To Peace

Read "The Path To Peace" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
March 15, 2008

Set against a sparse percussive backdrop, long bluesy notes come from saxophonist Andrew Sterman's tenor and harmonize with Todd Reynolds' emotive violin for the “Opening" of The Path To Peace. For this concept album that presents original music motivated by Mahatma Gandhi's spiritual path, Sterman has taken on the difficult task of musically representing not only ...