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Article: Multiple Reviews

Bill Stewart: Keynote Speakers; Larry Goldings: Quartet

by Terrell Kent Holmes
March 5, 2006

Bill Stewart Trio Keynote Speakers Bill Stewart Music 2006 The trio of instruments on Keynote Speakers is quite unconventional, with keyboardists Larry Goldings and Kevin Hays bookending Bill Stewart's drums. On the opening tune, “Good Goat, Goldings sprints on the Hammond and Hays grooves on the electric piano ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

The Move / Gross Motor Music

by Marc Medwin
March 5, 2006

Superficially, these two trombone dates couldn't be more different, but both exhibit a startling and refreshing attention to microdetail and prodigious technique from all involved. Both also attest to the perpetually tasty fruits born of long-term collaboration. Nils Wogram/Simon Nabatov The Move Between the Lines 2005 Trombonist Nils ...

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Article: Album Review

Evan Parker / September Winds: Short Stories

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by Kurt Gottschalk
March 5, 2006

For British saxophonist Evan Parker, as well as for the horn quintet September Winds, Short Stories is an unexpected record. Parker has excelled in long-form explorations for decades and with September Winds he has focused on site-specific journeys. The band plays in museums, industrial buildings, exposition halls and even a thermal bath in Switzerland. Their first ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Kresten Osgood: Violet Violets & When I Have You

by Jeff Stockton
March 5, 2006

Sam Rivers / Ben Street / Kresten Osgood Violet Violets Stunt Records Stunt 2005 As he enters his 80s, Sam Rivers has accomplished the remarkable feat of remaining creatively viable over the course of a 45-plus year career. A free jazz improviser before free jazz improvisation ...

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Article: Album Review

Poncho Sanchez: Do It!

by Joel Roberts
March 5, 2006

Poncho Sanchez is the Energizer Bunny, or maybe the Cal Ripken Jr., of Latin jazz. Since 1982, the veteran conga player and bandleader has turned out consistently excellent, high-octane albums on an annual basis for Concord Picante, some two dozen so far. His latest, Do It!, doesn't mess with the formula that's made ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

Cobi Narita's 80th Birthday

by Celeste Sunderland
March 5, 2006

One afternoon in 1978 throngs of spectators clogged the sidewalks at the corner of Broadway and 52nd Street, while musicians and caterers set up in front of the club Casablanca, for the third day of the third annual Women In Jazz festival. A greedy club owner, wowed by the crowds, unexpectedly raised his fee and chained ...

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Article: Opinion

Jazz and Milk

by Roni Ben-Hur
March 4, 2006

Choosing a career as a jazz musician, from an economic stand point, is the same as making a high risk investment. The returns could practically be a dream come true or a disastrous state of affairs. For most of us, it is some of both. To make sure we don't end up with unpaid ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble / Reflections of the Road

by Elliott Simon
March 4, 2006

This past month's curation at The Stone by Basya Schechter was noteworthy for new projects by young creative artists; one such event was the double bill of violinist Meg Okura's Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble and accordionist/pianist Uri Sharlin's Cardamon Quartet. Both Okura and Sharlin's groups played selections from debut CDs that elegantly intertwine elements of ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Black Awareness / Half Moon

by Francis Lo Kee
March 4, 2006

The vibraphone is a relatively new instrument, introduced to the US in 1916 as the “steel marimba. Red Norvo, one of the very first musicians to play it, came to the vibes after playing a lot of xylophone and marimba. Vibraphonists Lionel Hampton, Milt Jackson, Bobby Hutcherson and Gary Burton all made important contributions to the ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Kaivalya Volume 1 / Live at the 'Bottle' Fest

by Francis Lo Kee
March 4, 2006

John Coltrane and Elvin Jones are probably the unknowing progenitors of these two CDs (and many more like them). At a certain point in performances of the Coltrane quartet, McCoy Tyner and Jimmy Garrison dropped out--avoiding superfluousness--because Trane and Elvin had so much to say. A few years later Coltrane recorded the pivotal sax/drum duo Interstellar ...