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Article: Album Review

Conte Candoli/Max Roach: Jazz Structures

Read "Jazz Structures" reviewed by Rico Cleffi

by Rico Cleffi
August 17, 2005

The inclusion of Max Roach's name on the cover of Jazz Structures is somewhat disingenuous. Upon opening the CD insert, we're informed that Max Roach appears on only four out of eighteen tracks. This information was conspicuously absent from the back cover, where a potential buyer would look to see if a disc's worth spending hard-earned ...

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Sasha Dobson: The Darkling Thrush

Read "The Darkling Thrush" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz

by Javier AQ Ortiz
August 17, 2005

Sasha Dobson is a JK, or jazz kid. Given her parental background, she was indubitably raised with the canonical repertoire of this recording. Accompanied by the Chris Byars Octet, the singer displays talents of her own nonetheless.On “I'm Beginning To See The Light, Dobson scats and swings at will with tonic clarity and frankness, ...

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Miguel Zenon: Jibaro

Read "Jibaro" reviewed by Brian P. Lonergan

by Brian P. Lonergan
August 16, 2005

Jibaro consists of ten original compositions by the young Puerto Rican alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón. The session's inspiration comes from the music of jibaros--Puerto Rican peasants--but there's nothing simplistic about the material Zenón has penned for his quartet, which includes pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Hans Glawischnig, and drummer Antonio Sánchez. The forms of Zenón's ...

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Article: Megaphone

Modern Jazz Criticism

by AAJ Staff
August 15, 2005

By Jeremy Pelt Some time ago I was having dinner with a musician friend of mine and we started talking about the state of modern jazz criticism. Ever since I can remember, I never understood the profession of criticism. I always thought that everyone's a critic in some way or another, so why ...

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Article: Megaphone

Re-Imagining "Ascension"

by AAJ Staff
August 15, 2005

By Bruce Ackley Some of us still remember record stores where one could ask to hear something they'd never heard before. Imagine, the hunger to hear undiscovered sounds... In 1966 I was living in Cincinnati and headed to my local record shop with some friends to get some Coltrane music. ...

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Buster Williams: Griot Libert

Read "Griot Libert" reviewed by Brandt Reiter

by Brandt Reiter
August 15, 2005

All great jazz essentially tells the same story: “This is what it's like to be alive, right here, right now. First-call bass vet Buster Williams' latest disc, Griot Libertè, while no exception, tells an additional one: he loves his wife. Using her recovery from a serious illness as a jumping off point, Williams leads a crack ...

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Article: Album Review

Dave Ballou: Regards

Read "Regards" reviewed by Ken Franckling

by Ken Franckling
August 15, 2005

The best bands create collectively. You can tell when that's truly happening by their comfort in subtle comping--or in laying out altogether. Which is not to say they can't play with combined fire when it is called for. That's the key, and what you'll hear throughout trumpeter Dave Balllou's latest recorded adventure. In ...

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Article: Interview

David "Fathead" Newman: Keeper of the Flame

by Gary Firstenberg
August 14, 2005

Saxophonist David “Fathead" Newman is best known for his many years playing in Ray Charles' bands from 1954 to the mid '60s and again in the early '70s. He got his start in Dallas and acquired his trademark nickname at Lincoln High, when band director J.K. Miller called him “Fathead" after he bungled a note in ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Paul Motian: I Have the Room Above Her & Motian in Tokio

by Rico Cleffi
August 14, 2005

Paul Motian I Have the Room Above Her ECM Records 2005 I Have the Room Above Her is an odd title choice, considering the title track is one of only two songs that drummer Paul Motian didn't write himself. Maybe Motian's too modest to go with one of his own ...

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David Rothenberg: Why Birds Sing & Evan Parker With Birds

by Kurt Gottschalk
August 14, 2005

David Rothenberg Why Birds Sing Terra Nova 2005 What higher compliment could be paid a singer than to say she (Sarah Vaughan, perhaps) sings like a bird. And certainly any saxophonist would be proud to be compared to Bird. The birds set the standard, perhaps outclass human musicians, which might ...