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Nilson Matta / Ze Luis / Paulo Braga: Green Heart
by Ernest Barteldes
"Antonio Carlos Jobim was concerned about the environment way before anyone else was talking about it," said Brazilian-born reedman Zé Luis halfway through his mini-set at New York's Joe's Pub, in December 2007, during the release concert for Green Heart, dedicated to the preservation of the Amazon Forest. With that thought in mind, ...
Warren Smith: WIS on Monk
by Francis Lo Kee
Warren Smith WIS on Monk (Warren Smith Solo Percussion) Freedom Art 2007 To say Warren Smith has broad experience as a percussionist would be quite the understatement. His ability to play ALL percussion instruments in any musical style--jazz, Motown, Broadway, classical, rock and pop-- makes the Chicago-born Smith one of ...
Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa
by Russ Musto
Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa Ingrid Minson Hardcover; 416 pages ISBN: 0195128257 Oxford University Press 2007 This is a long overdue overview of the complex and often contentious subject of jazz and race in America--a landmark academic work that peeks into ...
Matana Roberts: The Chicago Project
by Matthew Miller
Anyone who has ever seen Matana Roberts live knows the intensity and devotion that go into her music. The saxophonist rarely speaks before a Performance; the crowd enters and, from the moment the first note is sounded, a focused intensity pervades the room. This devotional quality carries over into her diverse catalogue as a leader, imbuing ...
Martin Bejerano: Evolution/Revolution
by Francis Lo Kee
Time will tell, but this may be one of those debut CDs that people will talk about for decades, one where people ask, “Do you remember when you first heard...? While the opening “Blues Evolution displays enough amazing piano chops to send the most accomplished musicians back to the woodshed, what this recording has is a ...
George Mraz / Iva Bittova: Moravian Gems
by Kurt Gottschalk
Over some twenty years of recording, the Czech violinist and singer Iva Bittova has done folk, classical and new music, recording with guitarist Fred Frith among others. What she hadn't done, by her own admission, was venture into jazz. That changed when she began working with her countryman, bassist George Mraz. Mraz worked ...
Bennie Wallace: Disorder at the Border, The Music of Coleman Hawkins
by Laurel Gross
Left New York's Jazz Standard last month barefoot because the band blew my socks (and even my boots) off. Baby it was cold outside, a December night threatening snow. But Bennie Wallace and the boys had played so hot I was warmed up inside and so immune to any chill. Wallace has been ...
McCoy Tyner: Quartet
by Jeff Stockton
It seems grossly unfair that the debonair, elegant elder statesman on the cover of Quartet, a document of the concerts McCoy Tyner and his band gave on Dec. 30th-31st, 2006 at Yoshi's in Oakland, would still be trying to live up to the reputation for excellence he established with the John Coltrane Quartet some forty-plus years ...
Ingrid Lucia: Don't Stop
by Suzanne Lorge
New Orleans blues singer Ingrid Lucia took four hours to record the bakers dozen of tunes on Don't Stop, the independent release with her band The Flying Neutrinos. Lucia and The Flying Neutrinos have been touring, writing and recording together for at least two decades (the group started as a family band) and such alacrity in ...
Jazz: More Than A Performing Art?
by AAJ Staff
By George Haslam Our classic vision of music is that of a performance by one or more musicians before an audience of music lovers where the music, as art and/or entertainment, is the sole element of the event, an event communicating the output of the music makers--composers, arrangers, players--with the receptive audience. Outside ...
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