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Article: Profile

Vijay Iyer

by Celeste Sunderland
July 9, 2005

Four years ago saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell needed a last-minute replacement to fill the piano seat on his European tour. He called Vijay Iyer.It was a breakthrough gig for the young pianist. When he got home to New York he played a tape recording for some friends. “I was like, 'Guess who this ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Billy Bang: Configuration & Vietnam: Reflections

by Jeff Stockton
July 9, 2005

Sirone/Bang Ensemble Configuration Silkheart 2005 The recently reactivated Swedish Silkheart label boasts of its track record for discovering and nurturing noteworthy young drummers, and it's found another one in Tyshawn Sorey. Recorded live at CB's Gallery in New York, the drummer opens this fabulous one-off (so far) with the first ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

William Parker: Sound Unity & Two Masters & Mass for the Healing of the World

by Jeff Stockton
July 9, 2005

William Parker Quartet Sound Unity AUM Fidelity 2005 Recorded live in Montreal and Vancouver during the William Parker Quartet's tour in the summer of 2004, Sound Unity doesn't pack the same startling punch as the the group's first release, 2001's O'Neal's Porch (AUM Fidelity), but this pianoless quartet, with its ...

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Article: Live Review

Susie Ibarra's Electric Kulintang with Roberto J. Rodriguez and Sean Lennon: Tonic, NYC

by Elliott Simon
July 8, 2005

An exciting and fruitful consequence of the openness engendered by the Downtown NYC avant/jazz community is a willingness to creatively draw on conventional ethnic dance formats to formulate new music. This has likewise allowed musicians to explore personal musical heritages from their current vantage point. The most successful of such undertakings define a new approach by ...

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Article: Live From New York

July 2005

by AAJ Staff
July 4, 2005

At the new and thoroughly spruced-up Smalls, tenor saxophonist J.D. Allen chaired a productive meeting with pianist George Burton, bassist Joseph Lepore and drummer Damion Reid (June 11; bassist Chris Lightcap subbed on June 10). This was fierce, hard-bitten stuff and when Allen blew, Burton usually gave him the field and did not comp. The tempos ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Peter Br

by A. Henkin
July 4, 2005

Since his first recordings in the mid '60s, German saxophonist Brötzmann can either be accused of being limited or extremely focused. Whatever the ruling, there has been no one player over the past decades who better encapsulates the upheaval of post-war Europe. Four “new discs with different groups, but with different sounds, are consistent with his ...

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Article: New York Beat

European Jazz Diary, Part 2

by Nick Catalano
July 3, 2005

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 A few years ago I was in France at the Vienne Jazz Festival near Lyon. After sojourning with other American jazz writers, sampling some spectacular provincal cooking along with fabulous vintages of Cote du Rhone and watching Tony Bennett, Diana ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Graham Collier & John Surman: Workpoints & Way Back When

by A. Henkin
July 3, 2005

England in the late '60s was an exciting place for music and musicians. After years of accomplished, though derivative, jazz, the British scene was beginning to produce conceptualists with larger visions and to have the players in droves willing and able to play them. Around the same time that Mike Westbrook was developing his ideas, bassist ...

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Article: Album Review

Wayne Shorter: Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter

Read "Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter" reviewed by Riel Lazarus

by Riel Lazarus
July 2, 2005

Want a challenge? Try cramming nearly fifty years of music into a two-CD set. And if that isn't hard enough, try having it make the slightest lick of sense. Though hardly an enviable task, this is precisely what Columbia/Legacy has endeavored to do with Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter. Compiled here ...

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Nina Simone: Fodder on My Wings & Baltimore

by Celeste Sunderland
July 1, 2005

Had Nina Simone not gotten so fed up with the music industry and been so disgusted by racism in America that she left for Barbados, Liberia, the Netherlands and France, we may never have had the incredible songs that pulse and hark and lament through two landmark albums, Fodder on My Wings and Baltimore. However, destiny ...