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Article: Album Review

Bobby Gordon: Bobby Gordon Plays Joe Marsala: Lower Register

Read "Bobby Gordon Plays Joe Marsala: Lower Register" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes
March 15, 2008

The first impression one gets when listening to this well-crafted tribute to the 100th birthday of Joe Marsala (and available now, thirty years after his death) is the feeling of having been transported to the past, albeit with clear digital technology. The CD is traditional jazz at its best with none of the hiss so common ...

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Article: Book Review

Playing The Changes: Milt Hinton's Life In Stories And Photographs

by AAJ Staff
March 14, 2008

Playing The Changes: Milt Hinton's Life In Stories And Photographs Milt Hinton, David G. Berger and Holly Maxson Hardcover; 364 pages ISBN: 0826515746 Vanderbilt University Press 2008 Perhaps no one captured jazz in as much of its candid glory as bassist Milt Hinton, who seemed to ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Elliott Sharp: pi:k (2004/5) & Breaking News

by Kurt Gottschalk
March 14, 2008

Elliott Sharp/Charlotte Hug pi:k (2004/5) Emanem 2007 Simone Massaron Breaking News Long Song 2007 For two relatively similar instruments, the guitar and the viola have very different sounds. At ...

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Article: Album Review

The Willie Williams Trio: Comet Ride

Read "Comet Ride" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
March 14, 2008

To this program of eight original compositions, saxophonist Willie Williams adds a medley of two tunes each by Eddie Harris and Jimmy Heath as well as a closing romp on the ever-faithful “Caravan." His combination of fresh originals and familiar standards gives this trio album its vitality, demonstrating a love for past generations of the jazz ...

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Article: Album Review

Oliver Lake: Zaki

by Jeff Stockton
March 14, 2008

Jazz music continually tries to outpace the long shadow cast by its past. On the one hand, it's the music of the vanguard, an art form built on a spirit of risk-taking and experimentation. On the other, the progressive spirit started with Charlie Parker and extended by Ornette Coleman (and several others) seemed to have stopped ...

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Article: Album Review

Melody Breyer-Grell: Fascinatin' Rhythms: Singing Gershwin

Read "Fascinatin' Rhythms: Singing Gershwin" reviewed by Marcia Hillman

by Marcia Hillman
March 14, 2008

Melody Breyer-Grell and the Gershwin songbook make a good combo on this, her second release, ably abetted by Don Braden (sax), Jim Rotondi (trumpet), Gloria Cooper (piano), Dean Johnson (bass), Matt Wilson (drums), John Hart (guitar) and Kahil Kwame Bell (percussion). The vocalist's classical and musical theater training blends well with the richness of George's harmonies ...

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News: Event

Ray Charles & Betty Carter Celebrated at the Blue Note

March 13, 2008

On Sunday, April 20th, soulful duo Dwight & Nicole (Dwight Ritcher & Nicole Nelson) will help celebrate the lives of legends Ray Charles & Betty Carter with an afternoon of music in their honor at the Blue Note, 131 W 3rd St, New York, NY for two shows 12:30pm & 2:30pm. For tix (212) 475-8592 or ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Loren Stillman: Trio Alto Volume 2 & Blind Date

by Tom Greenland
March 13, 2008

Loren Stillman Trio Alto Volume 2 SteepleChase 2007 Loren Stillman Blind Date Pirouet 2007 Loren Stillman's latest projects, Trio Alto Volume 2 and Blind Date, both give evidence of ...

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Article: Album Review

William Hooker: The Seasons Fire

Read "The Seasons Fire" reviewed by Laurel Gross

by Laurel Gross
March 13, 2008

There's that iconic story about Elvin Jones, the man who altered the course of jazz drumming by seeking new sounds. Once at a gig in a bar as a young man, a customer came up to him and said, “Hey, make some noise." Relating the incident to Lewis Nash in a 1977 interview, Jones added: “People ...

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Article: Album Review

Salim Washington: Live at St. Nick's

Read "Live at St. Nick's" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
March 13, 2008

Long a Friday night fixture at St. Nick's Pub in New York's Sugar Hill section, Salim Washington's Harlem Arts Ensemble--the leader on tenor, flute and oboe, pianist Donald Smith, violist Melani Dyer, bassist Aaron James, drummer Mark Johnson and trombonist Ku-Umba Frank Lacy, who also plays a mean flugelhorn--shares fresh ideas with an aware audience on ...