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Article: Album Review

Carmen Lundy: Jazz And The New Songbook

Read "Jazz And The New Songbook" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes
April 13, 2006

Unlike many singers, Carmen Lundy does not recycle standards on her latest album, which was captured live at the Madrid Theater in Los Angeles. Instead, the program of new material she wrote (or co-wrote) makes for an unexpected listening experience. Backed by an eighteen-piece ensemble, Lundy showcases her songs, many of which she ...

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Article: Interview

Billy Hart: A Hart of a Drummer

by AAJ Staff
April 11, 2006

Billy Hart is one of the unsung giants of jazz drumming. Appearing on classic recordings by Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner and Pharoah Sanders, Hart continues to push forward in performances and recordings with Charles Lloyd, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano and Don Byron's Ivey-Divey trio. If he's not in New York playing, he's either touring ...

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Article: Megaphone

Remembering Ray Barretto

by AAJ Staff
April 10, 2006

By David Amram When Ray and I first met and played together in the Fall of 1955 at the Monday night sessions at the 125 club in Harlem, Ray was the only conga player and I was the only French horn player who always showed up. We used to always ...

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Article: Live From New York

April 2006

by AAJ Staff
April 9, 2006

Scraping a bow across one vibraphone bar and tickling another with two mallets, Kevin Norton elicited a free improvisation to reacquaint his Bauhaus Quartet. The group unfortunately performs infrequently, comprised as it is of intensely active musicians: John Lindberg on acoustic bass, Dave Ballou on trumpet and the omnipresent Tony Malaby on saxophones. The improv was ...

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Article: Album Review

Dick Hyman and Randy Sandke: Now and Again

Read "Now and Again" reviewed by Andrew Velez

by Andrew Velez
April 9, 2006

The pairing of Dick Hyman's inventive keyboard with the golden tones of Randy Sandke's mellifluous trumpet make for a set permeated with admiration for Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke. Hyman, who long ago studied with Teddy Wilson, has been prolifically dedicated to preserving and promoting jazz repertory. Among his many outstanding recordings are classic outings with ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Harkit Records

by Elliott Simon
April 8, 2006

With their sponsorship of this month's Live from London festival in NYC and unsurpassed archive of classic performances, Harkit Records has rapidly become a worldwide voice for British jazz. Begun in 1999 by collector and jazz aficionado Michael Fishberg, Harkit is definitely the place to go for those impossible to find but wonderfully jazzy British film ...

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Article: Book Review

The Evolution of Jazz in Britain 1880-1935

by A. Henkin
April 8, 2006

The Evolution of Jazz in Britain 1880-1935 Catherine Parsonage Hardcover; 322 pages ISBN: 0 7546 5076 6 Ashgate 2005 Parsonage's eminently readable history of jazz in turn-of-the-centuries Britain debunks the notion that Europe has been a uniformly enthusiastic haven for jazz appreciation. Early during its development and ...

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Article: Film Review

Live at The Montreux Jazz Festival 1983

by A. Henkin
April 8, 2006

RMS with Gil Evans Live at The Montreux Jazz Festival 1983 Angel Air 2006 After having been part of Gil Evans' British Orchestra rhythm section, guitarist Ray Russell and bassist Mo Foster asked Evans to perform with their group RMS (S for drummer Simon Phillips) at Montreux. This is the ...

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Article: Album Review

Jason Kao Hwang: Edge

by Kurt Gottschalk
April 8, 2006

Violinist and composer Jason Kao Hwang has an unusual ability to create compositions that seem as if they're falling together by happenstance. Through the '90s he led the Far East Side Band, with Sang-Won Park, Joseph Daley and Satoshi Takeishi, working out a hybrid of Downtown improv and traditional Asian musics. The band never came off ...

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Article: Album Review

Christian Pincock: Reflections of the City

Read "Reflections of the City" reviewed by Ty Cumbie

by Ty Cumbie
April 7, 2006

Tasty melodies, strong arrangements and capable blowing are the main assets of this 2004 recording by Christian Pincock's quintet. The trombonist leads a young but seasoned-sounding group with solid valve trombone work and a book of pleasant modern jazz tunes that range from gently crooning ballads to slow-boiling jams. Pincock is known by ...