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Matt Shulman: So It Goes
by Celeste Sunderland
Take a trumpet trio that could have waltzed through the revolving doors of a '50s supper club, add sparse vocals, multiphonics, and lightly perceptible electronics, and you have a jazz group for the 21st Century. Trumpet player Matt Shulman is among a group of young jazz composers who are unafraid to step beyond traditional constraints, still ...
Sedric Choukroun: In the Parlor
by Tom Greenland
Sedric Choukroun is one of New York's hidden treasures, a soulful man who speaks through his horn with gentle authority. An immigrant of French-Algerian heritage, Choukroun has been a central figure at Marjorie Eliot's intimate Parlor Entertainment, where an extended “family" gathers in her Harlem apartment every Sunday to enjoy a uniquely hospitable concert environment.
Jim Marshall: Jazz
by Joel Roberts
Jim Marshall: Jazz Photographs by Jim Marshall; Introduction by Phil Elwood Chronicle Books ISBN: 0811843548 144 pages; 115 B/W photos 2005 Though he's known mostly for his iconic photographs of '60s rock royalty like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and the Beatles, Jim Marshall was a jazz ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Kabell Years: 1971-1979
by Jeff Stockton
In 1971, four years after Coltrane's death, the hole that was left in jazz was intimidating. Ayler, Sanders, Taylor, et al. had pushed free music as loud and as far out as they could, and once dissonance and tumult had made themselves at home, the next generation responded not with more noise, but with silence. Trumpeter ...
Wynton Marsalis: Live at the House of Tribes
by Greg Thomas
The most exhilarating live date by Marsalis since his mammoth seven-CD release Live at the Village Vanguard in 1999, Live at the House of Tribes is a brilliant blowing session captured in 2002 at a tiny club in New York's Lower East Side that he frequents with a small group every winter. The ...
Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Europe
by Clifford Allen
Mike Heffley Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Europe's Reinvention of Jazz Yale University Press ISBN: 0300106939 400 pages 2005 While improvised music in Europe has certainly had a storied history, despite being decidedly more “condensed" temporally than its American counterpart, this history is something ...
Eric Dolphy: Last Date
by A. Henkin
Eric Dolphy Last DateInterakt 2005 Though jazz has its fair share of premature deaths, few were as tragic as that of Eric Dolphy, both because it was avoidable and that it cut off a monumental player in his prime. The DVD issue of Last Date, a loving ...
Chick Corea: Rendezvous in New York
by AAJ Staff
Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York (10-DVD box set) Image Entertainment ID1796IEDVD 2005 For three consecutive weeks, Chick Corea celebrated his 60th birthday. Nine different ensembles of his choosing held sway at New York's Blue Note two nights each week. Perhaps better to having been there, this ten-DVD/559-minute package not ...
Adam Lane 3: Zero Degree Music
by Clifford Allen
Reedman-composer Vinny Golia has found a home in playing scenarios of all stripes (orchestra, solo, and duets with collaborators from seemingly all walks of the improvisational spectrum), but the small-group format of the power trio is a favorite. Apparently the first in a two-volume set, Zero Degree Music, under the leadership of bassist-composer Adam Lane (who ...
December 2005
by AAJ Staff
Muhal Richard Abrams closed the AACM's 40th anniversary season with solo piano and large ensemble sets at the Community Church of New York (Nov. 11th). His solo piece, “Life One Prelude , was approximately 45 minutes of high abstraction. Sparse atonal clusters grew into enveloping waves of sound as Abrams roamed the keyboard, often with crossed ...
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