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Article: Multiple Reviews

Hod O'Brien Trio: Live at Blues Alley, Set 1 & 2

by Ernest Barteldes
December 18, 2005

It was a clear November night at Jazz Standard when Hod O'Brien's trio appeared, backing the pianist's wife, vocalist Stephanie Nakasian. The set opened with an instrumental theme in which Jimmy Wormworth sat in on drums. On the following number, Nakasian took the stage while Ron Vincent took his place behind his kit. The band quickly ...

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Article: Live Review

Charlie Peacock Band at the Jazz Standard

by Ernest Barteldes
December 18, 2005

Charlie Peacock Jazz Standard New York City November 9, 2005 The Jazz Standard was packed to see Charlie Peacock leading a group with Marc Ribot (guitar), Jeff Coffin (tenor sax, flute), Felix Pastorius (electric bass), Maurice Brown (trumpet) and Matt Wilson (drums) in support of his most recent CD, Love ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Donald Harrison: Free Style; New York Cool

by Russ Musto
December 17, 2005

Donald Harrison is one of the most confident and convincing improvisers in jazz today. The boundary leaping New Orleans alto saxophonist's distinctive broad toned sound is immediately recognizable as his own, regardless of the environment in which it is being heard, be it bebop, hard bop, New Orleans R & B or funk. Harrison has managed ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Joelle Leandre: Concerto Grosso / Mark Dresser: Unveil

by Kurt Gottschalk
December 17, 2005

Pity the poor bull fiddle. It's taken over from the tuba as the anchor of most jazz groups, yet when its turn comes to solo it's often seen as time to chat or go to the bathroom. It more than has the range of the saxophone or guitar, but the low tones demand greater concentration to ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Norman Simmons: In Private / Houston Person: All Soul

by Greg Thomas
December 17, 2005

Norman Simmons In Private HighNote 2005 Norman Simmons has been one of the most talented accompanying pianists for over fifty years, arranging and playing with instrumentalists Johnny Griffin and Eddie “Lockjaw Davis, Ramsey Lewis, and singers Dakota Station, Ernestine Anderson, Carmen McRae, and Joe Williams, among many others. This recording, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Free Association; Duologues; Indian Winter

by Francis Lo Kee
December 17, 2005

It's an accepted fact that Jim Hall is considered one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of jazz. In fact, December 4, 2005 is his 75th birthday and he is celebrating at the Village Vanguard that week. Two of Hall's most famous recordings are Undercurrent and Intermodulation, duets with pianist Bill Evans. Indeed, ...

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Article: Film Review

Peter Bernstein Trio: Live at Smoke

by Tom Greenland
December 14, 2005

Peter Bernstein Trio Live at Smoke Mel Bay Records 2005 Peter Bernstein is the ultimate guitar anti-hero. Without the usual prestidigitation and pyrotechnics of his ilk, without an incessant impulse to chart new stylistic frontiers, Bernstein is nevertheless a guitarist's guitarist and a musician's musician. On his first DVD release, ...

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Article: Album Review

Sepia Trio: Cleft

by A. Henkin
December 14, 2005

Cleft's genre comes up as “unclassifiable in iTunes. While this is a little bit of a stretch, the Sepia Trio's mix of disparate energy music traditions, most audibly The Fringe, is impressive. Seth Meicht (sax), Brendan Dougherty (drums, electronics), and a new bassist, the much older Akira Ando, recorded Cleft in Dougherty's adopted home of Germany, ...

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Article: Megaphone

Onaje Allan Gumbs: Music, The Rhythm of Life

by AAJ Staff
December 13, 2005

By Onaje Allan Gumbs This music we call “jazz" has represented the essence of who we are and who we can become. Music has always been the soundtrack to my life; from the time I was three, I could sing all of the lyrics to the old Eddie Fisher song “Oh My Papa" ...

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Article: Album Review

Jean-Michel Pilc: Live At Iridium, New York

Read "Live At Iridium, New York" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
December 13, 2005

If you have heard Jean-Michel Pilc live or on record, you will know that Live At Iridium, New York may bring goosebumps. Together, the tracks represent an excellent splicing job of tunes from sets over three nights in October 2004 to make up what sounds like one set. The record will almost certainly make you say, ...