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Jane Ira Bloom: Like Silver, Like Song
by Ernest Barteldes
If jazz experimentation is your cup of tea, this new album by soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom is an album to hear. In fourteen tracks (all but one written or co-written by Bloom) presented as one continuous suite, Bloom and her backing musicians play around with a mixture of sounds that doesn't make much sense to ...
European Jazz Diary, Part 3
by Nick Catalano
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Surely, Amsterdam is one of the leading jazz capitols of Europe. Upon arriving at Schipol airport (my favorite in Europe) and boarding the most convenient airport-to-downtown system on the planet, I checked into the Bema hotel across from the celebrated ...
Ronnie Burrage: In It
by Russ Musto
The multitalented Ronnie Burrage has shown himself to be one of the most exciting drummers in jazz as a sideman with McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Jerry Gonzalez's Fort Apache Band, and Sonny Fortune. As a leader he's also demonstrated his abilities as a composer, arranger, percussionist, and keyboard player. On In It he adds scat singing ...
Gary Bartz
by AAJ Staff
Gary Bartz has been active on the New York music scene and throughout the world since the '60s, working with such legends as Miles Davis and Art Blakey. To preface our interview, we began by a surprise phone call that I had arranged with Dr.Yusef Lateef, whom Mr.Bartz had not spoken with for some time. This ...
Eddie Palmieri
by Elliott Simon
Thelonious Monk once said, Jazz is New York. You can feel it in the air." This is an observation that can be easily recast to produce another truism: Salsa is New York. You can feel it in the streets." Both musics are integral to NYC culture and come together no more eloquently than they do in ...
Cecil Taylor: Almeda
by Russ Musto
In the nearly forty years since the recording of Unit Structures, Cecil Taylor has steadfastly developed his orchestral music as arguably the most unique musical expression of one of the (jazz) world's most intelligent and idiosyncratic minds. Recorded during the Total Music Meeting in Berlin on November 2, 1996, Almeda is an honest documentation of a ...
Wayne Horvitz: Intersection Poems & Live
by AAJ Staff
Wayne Horvitz has always succeeded in being an unclassifiable master, his music bordering the worlds of jazz, rock, experimental, and contemporary classical. With these two releases come two sides to the multifaceted pianist/keyboardist. Horvitz/Samworth/Lee/Clarke/van der Schyff Intersection Poems Spool 2005 With Intersection Poems, Horvitz collaborates for ...
Andrew Lamb: The Dogon Duo & Year of the Endless Moment
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Andre Lamb/Warren Smith The Dogon Duo Engine Studios 2005 Multi-reedist Andrew Lamb teams up with percussionist Warren Smith to form the Dogon Duo, whose self-titled disc is comprised of sources influenced by various types of world music that resonate in the spirit. The first song, Shanty House, announces the duo's ...
Dennis Gonz
by Jeff Stockton
Dennis González NY Quartet NY Midnight Suite Clean Feed 2005 After teaching for thirty years in the Dallas public school system, underground trumpeter Dennis González was asked in 2003 to participate in the FONT trumpet festival at Tonic. The back half of NY Midnight Suite is thirty minutes recorded live ...
Eremite Records
by Robert Iannapollo
The story of record labels devoted to free jazz is largely one of dedicated admirers of the music taking the lead and means of production to disseminate to the world the music they love. Many are well-meaning, committed endeavors that rarely seem to make it past the five year mark. But a few stand out. One ...

